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Cavemen are ok

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In mid-September I wrote a post about an upcoming new series. The post was about the new show Cavemen. Well, the show premiered on Tuesday night and thanks to us having a PVR I’m only just now getting around to watching it.

I said in my original post about the show that it was either going to suck because the idea was strange or that the writing would be so good that it would be an excellent show.

There’s more normal Homo Sapiens in the show than there are cavemen, and the cavemen consist of two brothers and an old friend living together in an apartment in San Diego.

If you forget for a moment that the guys are cavemen it’s just like watching a fairly good sitcom about three single guys living together, working and trying to find love in the big city. Well, one of the guys, Joel, has found love. He’s dating a Sape – short for Homo Sapien which is frowned upon in Caveman culture.

In the premiere episode he breaks the news about his new girlfriend to his brother and friend. It’s a big deal!

Oh and like any sitcom with three guys living together one is practical and tries to hold everything together – that’s Joel the one with the Homo Sapien girlfriend. One of the other guys, Nick, is kind of neurotic. He’s been working on his dissertation for a year and hasn’t written a thing. He’s the guy who seems to like analyzing things. Then there’s the screw up, Andy. He’s pining for the girlfriend he left back home and he seems sort of hopeless. I think Joel and Nick will spend a lot of time looking out for Andy.

I don’t know if this show will make it or not, but I liked it enough to watch it again.

Did you see the show? What did you think of it?





What a busy night!

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I can’t believe how busy I was last night.

A while after Chris came home he went upstairs and started re-arranging furniture in our smallest spare bedroom. He then began to put our new elliptical trainer together. I offered to help him of course, but he said he was ok doing it all on his own. I did end up giving him a hand here and there holding things as he connected them.

Anyway, while he was busy upstairs turning our spare bedroom into a mini exercise room, I did some work on my computer and then I went into the kitchen and cleared the double kitchen sinks and counter so I could prepare dinner.

When I cook I can’t stand a messy kitchen so I always clean everything up before I begin to cook and then I clean everything I use as I go so by the time dinner is served and eaten all that’s left is our dinner plates and utensils.

Why I do that I don’t know. It seems like a strange habit even to me, but I swear I’m one of the cleanest cooks you’d ever meet!

I was also taping the multitude of Thursday night shows on the PVR at the same time, but I had to keep running in the room to check to see how full the PVR was getting because we had a lot of shows on there from last week that we hadn’t gotten around to watching yet. I ended up having to delete about five shows just so I could tape all of last nights shows! It wouldn’t have been such a problem if we weren’t both busy doing other things and had been watching some of the previously taped shows as new ones taped – and then deleting them of course.

Chris took a long time upstairs! Neither of us thought the trainer would take long to put together, but between moving the furniture around to make room for the elliptical trainer and then putting it together I think Chris was upstairs for more than two hours! What a great guy for doing all of that for me, eh? Of course he’s going to use the machine too. I made sure he tested it out and liked how it worked as I was choosing which one to buy. We both might as well use it.

Along with making dinner and cleaning the kitchen I managed to finish watering the garden, and all the indoor plants. I even managed to set up a months worth of daily posts for my photoblog! I’ve been neglecting that blog (and others) lately. Only posting a couple times a week at most and traffic has died down. I’m hoping that getting back to posting new shots on it daily will bring the visitors back. I’m so happy that wordpress has auto-publishing.

All in all Chris and I had a very productive evening. Now I’m looking forward to working out in my new “fitness room”.

It will take me a while to build up some endurance on the elliptical, so my plan is to use the machine for about ten minutes at a time a few times a day for the first few days. It definitely gets my heart rate up so hopefully those little bursts of activity will reve up my metabolism and help me start on my way to getting back into shape. (quickly!)

What do you think? Is that a good plan? Anyone else have an Elliptical trainer at home or use one regularly at the gym?

Hasselhof can not sing!

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I’m still watching America’s got talent. See previous post – I taped it in August. Did you guys see it? OMG – when Hasselhof started singing I almost died! I think he was worse than some of the audition talent that they brought back to do “We are the Champions”. How sad!

Finally … a month late I’m just now finding out that WTH? Terry Fator the ventriloquist won??? What?

He’s extremely talented, but come on. I sure hope that Cass hailey ends up getting a recording contract at least.
Ok no more watching these shows anymore. That’s it. I’m done.

Finally watching America’s Got Talent Finale

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I’m finally watching the America’s Got Talent Finale. Yes, I know the show ended on the 21st of August, but I taped it and didn’t watch it.

So I’m quickly skimming through the 2 hour show as I write some posts. I’m not really enjoying the show all that much. Butterscotch is fantastic, but I’m not all that into hip hop so I didn’t care for her performance with a big star. Right now the ventriloquist is singing with Kermit the frog? Can you say Cheesy? Were they just trying to draw out the last two hours or what?

I just hope I’m happy with the winner when I get to the end of the show. (don’t spoil it for me!). It has better be Cass or Butterscotch. My hope of course is that it’s Cass as he performs quite a bit like my husband.

The main reason that I’m finally getting around to watching this show is because well … we’re almost out of room on the PVR! Yes, High Definition recordings sure do fill up the PVR’s hard drive pretty quick!

Plus, even though a few of my last posts have been about watching TV I really don’t watch all that much TV. Not all at once anyway. We tape shows we like and watch them when we have time. With premiere week it’s hard ’cause there’s new shows and premieres this week. It will be a lot easier once some of the new shows fail and get canceled! Of course they’ll probably end up canceling the ones that I really like as they did last year.

Thursday night TV – A quick rundown

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Wow there were a lot of new and premiering shows on TV tonight! Way too many to watch all at once. Once more I’m thankful that we have a PRV.

So far this evening we’ve watched ER – I hope Neela’s ok! It seems everyone else is pretty much the same as usual though.

We also watched CSI – the Vegas version. I won’t say too much in case all of you haven’t seen the episode yet, but it was a good one. The whole episode revolved around trying to find and rescue Sara who had been kidnapped by the miniature killer at the end of last season.

Then we watched Grey’s Anatomy.

Again, everyone is still basically the same. George is still in depressive mode, Izzy’s confused, Merideth’s indifferent but wants things to change, Cristina still hates everyone and she really misses Burke. Alex has a bit more of a caring personality and it seems he misses Eva/Rebbecca. Callie and Bailey are at odds with each other and plus a few other people, the chief just fumbles around, and finally Derek and Sloan might actually be becoming friends.

I don’t want to spoil anyone’s viewing … there’s lots of juicy happenings on Grey’s, but you’ll have to watch the show to find out what all I left out.

At this time, while I’m busy typing away on my laptop we’re watching Shark. Looks like a good one too.

The other shows that I set to tape tonight – ones that we’ll have to watch tomorrow night over over the weekend (hey we still have shows from Monday to Wednesday that we recorded, but haven’t had time to watch) are My name is Earl, Ugly Betty, The Office, Without a Trace, BigShots, and Survivor.

See what did I tell you? There’s way too many shows for someone to watch in one night! I feel sorry for those of you who don’t have vcr’s, tivo or PVR’s as you probably had a tough time deciding which shows to watch and which ones to drop from this evenings watch list.

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