1. Natalie and I went to see High School Musical 3: Senior Year Saturday night - and loved it!
2. The Seahawks’ season is a constant source of depression. You may wonder why I keep watching every game. I’m nothing if not loyal.
3. I can’t believe it’s time to start working on the Christmas program for church already! I’m singing in the choir at our new church, and we’re doing some fun music - Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir style.
4. I’m very. very. angry at NBC for cancelling My Own Worst Enemy.
5. Life is one of the best shows on television right now. Are you watching it?
6. A woman came to look at our house today. First person interested in months. She seemed very interested, but we’ll see. If she is, we have no idea where we would move to - right now there aren’t any 4-bedroom houses available in our […]
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SPOILER ALERT
Oh my gosh, House and Cuddy totally kissed! Really, really kissed. And then, biggest surprise of all, House did the gentlemanly thing and said, “Goodnight” and left, instead of taking advantage of her depressed state of mind.
I cried when the birth mother changed her mind about letting Cuddy adopt the baby.
On a completely unrelated note, I won’t be posting about politics anymore, nor will I be answering comments on any of my previous political posts. I’m more than ready for the election to be over, and I’m tired of talking about it, reading about it, and hearing about it.
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I think I’m recovered from our day-long Silverwood extravaganza. Did I mention that we left at 8:30 am and didn’t return until 10 pm? I’m looking forward to Tuesday, which - in spite of being our fifth day of school - will feel like our first day of school and life will begin to return to normal. Whatever that is.
Lots of exciting things happening in the news lately. Obama gives a darn good speech; McCain announces a surprise VP pick. And me? I’m still ambivalent about the whole thing. I’m musing over a post - that will probably be very long - about the whole presidential thing. Probably sometime this week, if I find the time to get the thoughts out of my head and into some kind of organized format.
But, for now, I promised you links - and do I have a bunch!
~ Entertainment Weekly counts down […]
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Head over to Books and Movies and tell me which TV character you would date - in the hypothetical, if you were single, and if it were possible to date a character from a TV program sense of the word “date” - and see who my picks are.
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…to movies, books, and TV programs. That’s what I’m discussing at Books and Movies today.
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Fiona: Sing that song what Papa sang last morning!
Mama: ?
Mama: What song did he sing?
Fiona That song what Papa sang last morning!
Mama: Uh, do you mean T! E! E! N! T-I-T! A-N-S! Teen Titans! Teen Titans!
Fiona: YEAH!
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Last month, Michelle and I had our very own all-girl getaway. We headed south to Spokane Valley; stayed in a wonderful hotel suite; spent about seven hours (and lots of $) at Barnes & Noble; ate at restaurants - food that we didn’t have to cook or clean up after; drank good wine; watched a sentimental, romantic movie; and talked ourselves nearly hoarse. We have since decided that our Moms’ Weekend will be an annual tradition.
We all need time away from home: the routine, the chores, the kids. I love my annual getaway with Kevin, too - but there are times when you just need to be with your best friend. Right?
Well, Fine Living Network has a new television program called All-Girl Getaways, hosted by Stephanie Oswald. This YouTube video gives you an idea of what the show is like. I wish we had that channel, because it looks like […]
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Low-rated Jericho axed by CBS.
Sob.
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We are on our first day of Spring Break - and I am being very lazy today. I did make the kids read, but that’s it. We have all of next week off of homeschooling, and I am very ready for a break. And to top it off, Michelle and I are heading to Spokane tomorrow for our Mom’s Overnighter. Woo hoo! No kids, no husbands — just two friends, Barnes & Noble, and lots of chocolate. What could be better?
Kevin and the boys will be heading over to play Wii and GameCube with Don and their boys. Natalie begged Grandma and Papa for a sleepover so she could avoid a whole day with 7 guys - who can blame her?
If you haven’t watched last night’s episode of Lost yet, scroll right past this part of the post - scroll down until you see a sentence in bold again. […]
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The Giants beat the Patriots, and then a great episode of House - with a surprise ending! Anyone figure out who Wilson’s new flame was? I had no idea!
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(Medabots: The Complete First Season was provided to me by Special Ops Media for the purpose of review.)
Enter the world of Medabots, where kids have the ultimate power — and supercharged robots. Fueled with artificial intelligence and a specialized arsenal of high-powered weapons, the Medabots compete against each other in exciting Robattles, with the winners acquiring Medaparts from the defeated Medabot. But more than anything else, these challenges are about courage and mind power, where the soul of the Medafighter and Medabot combine to emerge victorious.
The kids never watched Medabots on TV, but it looked like something they would be interested in, so I said we would review the first season DVDs. Medabots: The Complete First Season contains 26 half-hour episodes on four discs. The show is basically another attempt to duplicate the success of Pokemon, with the kids training Medabots instead of Pokemon. Since the boys LOVE Pokemon, […]
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…there is a new episode of House - finally!
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- The good news? It’s not 10 degrees outside anymore. On the other hand, it’s snowing, and has been all morning. The forecast reads like this: Monday - snow; Tuesday - snow; Wednesday - cloudy; Thursday - snow; Friday - snow; Saturday - snow - well, you get the idea. I know I’ve only lived here 11 years, but this has got to be some sort of snowfall record. It has to be - because I’d hate to think this is just a normal winter, and the last few have been abnormal. When is spring, again?
- Remember how I said we had discovered a great Sci-Fi channel series through Netflix called The Dresden Files? Well, it turns out it only ran one season. Phooey. On the plus side, we’re really enjoying the Tom Hanks / HBO-produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
- National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets is […]
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It’s been a week, that’s all I have to say. We started back to school this week, and, boy, did I feel the three weeks off. Plus, Kevin is mostly working from home now, and with our little house and my freaking out if our schedule gets interrupted - well, let’s just say we all have some adjusting to do. Here are a few highlights:
Snow, snow, and more snow. I don’t know how many inches we have had since Thanksgiving, but I am praying for an early spring. The extended forecast for the next ten days? Snow, snow, snow showers, snow - with a few cloudy days thrown in for good measure. This is the time of year I always start to feel like a grouch about the weather.
Abcess on a tonsil. No, not mine - I don’t have any tonsils anymore. Kevin seemed to be getting over the […]
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It’s been an interesting week in our house, plumbing wise. First, we thought our hot water heater had sprung a leak and we would need a new one. Thankfully, it turns out to simply be a leaky valve that is easily replaced. Then, we had water backing up into our basement drain. In the middle of Natalie’s slumber party. All the extra flushing didn’t help. We had a guy out Saturday, who cleared our line all the way out to the street. He removed the manhole cover and found standing water in the city line. He thought we would be okay until Monday, but he was wrong. After two showers and washing dishes, it happened again today. He came out again - this time not charging us, wonderful man - and cleared it. He said that the water is still sitting in the main city line, and draining very, very […]
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(Sonic Underground: The Series was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
Our review copy of Sonic Underground: The Series could not have come at a better time. Two of the boys were down with a nasty cold or mild flu-like virus, complete with fevers and low appetite and stuffy nose. The weekend was spent with the boys lounging around on the couches, watching one episode of Sonic Underground after another. After another. After another. If they hadn’t been sick, I would have hollered at them to get off the couches and do something creative, but since they had an excuse, they laid around and watched all twenty episodes.
The heroic hedgehog is back! As told in an ancient prophecy, Sonic is reunited with his two siblings, Sonia and Manic, to form a band – Sonic Underground – using their electric guitar, keyboard, and drumset (which seamlessly transform […]
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(High School Musical 2 was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
Okay, I admit it. I’m 35 years old, and I think Zac Efron is just about the cutest thing around. Does that make me completely weird - or a little freaky? I hope not. Not cute in a George Clooney-sexy kind of way, cute as in I’d like to bring him home and feed him mashed potatoes and gravy. We are huge High School Musical fans in our house - well, mostly Natalie and I - and we were waiting with baited breath for the release of High School Musical 2. And, surprisingly, it did not disappoint, in spite of how high our expectations were.
High School Musical 2 picks up at the end of the school year during which the events of the first film took place. Troy and Gabriella and the whole gang are […]
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Since we got rid of our DirecTV, I asked my mom to record Shrek the Halls on ABC last night. We watched it this evening. In the beginning, Shrek has no interest in Christmas. When he discovers that it is important to Fiona, he storms into town to find out how to give her a Christmas. He’s given a book called “Christmas for the Village Idiot” that explains, step-by-step, how to have Christmas. The last step is “tell the Christmas story.” I thought, Wow! A modern holiday special that actually includes the Christmas story? Cool! I should have known better.
You want to know what the Christmas story was? ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Now, I love the classic Christmas poem as well as the next person, but calling this the Christmas story? Later, when Shrek admits that he has never had a Christmas before and he doesn’t know what it […]
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(Wish Gone Amiss was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
Natalie’s review:
This DVD, Wish Gone Amiss, has episodes from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Hannah Montana, and Cory in the House. On each show, they make a wish on a shooting star and they aren’t careful of what they wish for. In each episode, something goes berserk.
On The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, they make a wish that they have super-powers. The hotel manager in the movie wishes the same thing, but he becomes a super-villain. Zack and Cody have to defeat him.
On Hannah Montana, Mylie wishes that she was Hannah all the time. Her life flips upside-down and she starts a whole new life. Mylie never existed, her friends Lily and Oliver were never her friends, and her dad was re-married. Jackson, her brother, got tired of all his friends wanting to […]
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(Captain N and the New Super Mario World was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
Talk about a blast from the past!
“Before the Wii! Before PS3! Before X-Box! (yet after Atari, Amiga and the Commodore 64)
CAPTAIN N & THE NEW SUPER MARIO WORLD featured all of the favorite Nintendo characters form the late 80’s and early nineties. Mario! Luigi! Princess Toadstool! Yoshi! King Koopa! Princess Lana! Simon Belmont! Kid Icarus! Mother Brain! King Hippo! The Eggplant Wizard! Count Dracula! Dr. Wily!”
My kids have been enjoying these cartoons I remember my nephew watching when I was his nanny over ten years ago. They know who the characters are from playing on our friends’ XBox. Do you realize how long Super Mario Bros. has been around? Captain N and the New Super Mario World is a two-disc set that includes every episode […]
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I know it’s only Tuesday, but it’s been quite a week. Kevin called from work yesterday morning to tell me that he will be “down-sized” at the first of the year. Laid off, let go, whatever you want to call it. And I freaked out. I tried not to, but I did. We live in a pretty economically-depressed area, and tech jobs don’t come along very often. And when they do - well, let’s just say the pay is ridiculous. We’ve been very blessed with his job, and he received a good wage for our area. And now we’re faced with this huge life change.
When I told the kids, Natalie (who takes after her mom, being a “glass half empty” kind of gal) wailed, “Are we going to have to live on the street?” Which started Noah and Jonathan both crying. So I said, “Hey! Is Daddy’s job our provider? […]
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(The Best of the Colbert Report was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
First, a confession. Four years ago, I would never have considered reviewing a DVD compilation of clips from a Comedy Channel show that makes its living by satirizing Republicans and Republican-leaning news shows. Four years ago, I considered myself a die-hard Republican. I thought the whole of politics revolved around one issue: abortion. I thought President Bush was the best possible choice for our president. Although I may still think he has been better than the alternatives we were presented with (Kerry or Gore) would have been, I no longer think that he is a sacred cow whose decisions and integrity can’t or shouldn’t be called into question.
Having said that, I have to admit that when I agreed to review The Best of the Colbert Report, it was pretty much on a […]
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(October Road was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
I have to admit that until Click Communications contacted me about reviewing Season One of October Road, I had never heard of the ABC series, which stars Bryan Greenberg, Laura Prepon, and Tom Berenger. The premise sounded interesting, so I said sure. The first season only includes six episodes, so I figured I could watch it over a couple of weeks, write the review, and be done.
I watched all six episodes in three days. Don’t worry, it was a weekend, so I didn’t neglect homeschooling. I did feed the kids, and I was crocheting the kids’ Gryffindor scarves for Halloween. So I wasn’t completey unproductive.
I can’t think of another show that this reminds me of - and that is such a good thing. It is an hour-long drama, with lots of comedy and a fabulous soundtrack. Nick […]
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(Jericho was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
Jericho qualifies as Must-See-TV. I know, that’s an NBC phrase, and Jericho is a CBS series, but I can’t think of any other way to describe it. Kevin and I have been completely engrossed for the past several nights. We are on episode nine, and our sleep patterns are suffering because we can’t just watch one episode in an evening. Thursday night, we put in disc two, intending to watch one episode and then go to bed, and we ended up watching three and not getting to bed until midnight.
Jericho is a small town in Kansas, population around 5,000 people. The series starts with the mayor’s son, Jake, returning home from a long absence. He plans a quick trip home to visit his family, but all of his plans change when the entire town sees a mushroom cloud […]
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