Let's see...a big premiere week on TV. I watched 3 nights of Dancing With the Stars and, in doing so, missed Prison Break and the season premieres of House and Bones. Yes, I know, one day I really do need to buy a TiVO (I do own a VCR but can't watch one channel and tape another on my cable system--so say they).
I thought Private Practice was just okay but, like Peg, I did really like the Amy Brenneman storyline about the lady in the Dept. store. I like that they have made Amy's shrink look kinda ditzy and crazy herself but when she goes into action, she's really good. Ditto that with the sex-crazed pediatrician who was the REALLY BAD GUY on Prison Break the past few years (which is funny to me).
Last night, I was SO torn between the season premieres of CSI and Grey's Anatomy. I would usually just commit to one and miss the other (as I did earlier in the week) but I actually feel like I was able to catch the gist of both.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
Posts: 7217 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Yesterday I caught The Affairs of Dobie Gillis on Turner Classic Movies. I didn't realize what it was at first. I noticed a young Bob Fosse and Bobby Van and figured it was going to be a musical. Debbie Reynolds and Barbar Ruick were in it too along with a lot of recognizable faces like Charles Lane, Hans Conried, and Percy Felton.
New series have mostly been recorded, but not seen yet with the exception of Journeyman - which has my interest. I also watched Dirty Sexy Money last night - bizarre, but I'll probably stay with it.
I, too, strayed from the big 3 networks to watch Back to You. Kelsey Grammer AND Fred Willard and Patricia Heaton were enough to entice me.
We watched "How I Met Your Mother" (LOVE that show) because we enjoyed it the past two seasons; totally didn't disappoint. Still funny.
Watched "Bionic Woman", and was...not nearly as impressed as I think NBC would have wanted me to be. Too much exposition. Then we sorta caught "Life", which I really enjoyed. It kept me up til 11. <hides from Denise>
Tonight is The Office and My Name is Earl. They make me happy
I can't look at ads for "Back to You" and not think, "They should have called it, 'Everybody Loves Frasier'"...
I didn't realize Amy B-something was in Private Practice. If it's less soapy than Grey's...maybe I won't hate it?
Challenge Goals: *10 minutes of unplanned exercise five times a week *Gym time twice a week *Socialize at least once every two weeks.
Anybody else watch Private Practice last night? I really, really liked it. At least this episode was less soap-operaish than Grey's (not that I don't lap up every bit of that) and I was just so profoundly touched by the storyline of the lady in the department store. I was crying. I really love Amy Breneman and I like lots of the other characters a lot in this show so far.
I was pretty disappointed in Dirty, Sexy Money but maybe I just wasn't in the right mood. I'm a huge Peter Krause fan but it just didn't hold my attention.
Back to You wasn't as good as the first week but I'll hang in there...can't resist the stars of the show. Is it a bad sign of my age that I am now choosing tv shows based on actors/actresses I've liked before??
I just watched "Hot Fuzz" on DVD rental. What a strange flick. I don't even know how to describe it. I wasn't offended by it (though some might be) and I was entertained by it on some level...just not the level I expected.
And I'm not sure what to make of the fact that the few minutes of outtakes made me laugh harder than the whole movie itself.
I guess I expected it to the kind of movie where you would be laughing out loud all the way through it...but it wasn't that for me...though the outtakes were.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
Posts: 7217 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Just a note that "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style", while still getting its sea legs, has a lot of promise, if you like "What Not to Wear". Tim Gunn's show is on Bravo...and tonight's episode is a woman who lost 145 lbs and will be learning to dress her new body. (10pm Eastern, Bravo, and repeated at least 13,000 times through the week)
(Watching last week's episode makes me want to buy his book and then go SHOPPING.)
Challenge Goals: *10 minutes of unplanned exercise five times a week *Gym time twice a week *Socialize at least once every two weeks.
Originally posted by GoingSkiing: Fracture. Would give it 5 stars. VERY good. Breach. Also 5 stars. VERY good.
Thanks for the reviews on those. They are both on my Netflix queue and I'm looking forward to seeing them. I am a huge Anthony Hopkins fan, so I was especially hoping that Fracture would be good.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
Posts: 7217 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I watched "Blades of Glory" over the weekend. It was not nearly as funny as I had expected, but I did still LOL from time to time.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
Posts: 7217 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
We watched Hidalgo this past weekend. It was not what I expected but it was very good and I enjoyed it. I was not enticed to watch it from the trailers I had seen on tv but dd bought it and wanted me to watch it with her. I knew it was based on a true story but did not know it was about a Native American. The "extra features" on the dvd were about the real man and was also very interesting.
"Live your life so that you are not afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
Posts: 3948 | Location: NE Atlanta (Chamblee, Doraville, Norcross, Duluth) | Registered: March 15, 2004
My top picks for the weekend were: The Fountain Pan's Labyrinth
Both were very different but good. Pan's Labyrinth was the better of the two but there were some scenes that were very hard for me to watch (violence and death).
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
The Day After Tomorrow. It kept our attention... but Jamie and I were laughing out loud... and I don't think that it was supposed to be funny... but it was no academy award nominee. Maybe 2.5 stars.
40 year old Virgin. We watched 7 mins and turned it off. Didn't find it funny at all. negative stars.
I just watched a show, new to me, thanks to the change in our cable line-up.
The show was on a PBS station new to us. It was Real Simple. They showed how to make salad dressing from the leftovers in the condiment jars (among other things). I'm impressed.
They even had a link to pick up the hints on the show and additional ones.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
I finally got a chance to see Clint Eastwood's companion to "Flags of Our Fathers"--the Japanese perspective of the same battle in "Letters from Iwo Jima." While I didn't think either movie was the best I'd ever seen, if I had to choose between them, I'd definitely say I liked "Flags" better. "Iwo Jima" was, I thought, VERY slow--esp. in the build-up to the actual confrontation between the U.S. and Japanese forces.
There are some nice small moments, such as when two young Japanese soldiers realize that a captured young American soldier is really not so different from themselves. It is a humanizing moment in a really brutal battle.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
Posts: 7217 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Because of the recommendation of a co-worker, I started watching "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts" on HBO On Demand (I've watched through Part III). It's a Spike Lee documentary, and it's...amazing. It's biased (but it's a documentary, not a news report)...and it's hard to watch, and it's certainly not for children. But if you want to hear from survivors and be exposed to viewpoints that didn't make the evening news, it's well worth the watch.
Challenge Goals: *10 minutes of unplanned exercise five times a week *Gym time twice a week *Socialize at least once every two weeks.
Last night, I watched Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" on DVD rental. It was well done (a logistical nightmare for a director, I would expect) and expectedly difficult to watch. Sometimes, what was hard to watch wasn't what I was expecting; one of the major characters is an American Indian, and the racism directed at him (even though he was a "war hero") was really hard to take. Also, seeing how the military guys who were survivors of Iwo Jima were so tortured once home about what they did and saw there.
I have the other one (Letters from Iwo Jima, from the Japanese perspective) here to watch next. I wanted to see them together so I could relate the two perspectives.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
Posts: 7217 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I think the last movies I went to were Charlotte's Web (what a tear-jerker!!), Painted Veil (good) and a French movie called Hors du Prix (with Audrey Tautou, quite funny)
I don't watch tv that much, but the whole family enjoys some imported thing labeled America's Funniest Home Videos, and another favorite is Shaun the Sheep (BAAA!!)
****************** “The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.”
