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The Doctor is in the House!

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Wasn’t House amazing tonight?

I love the constant bickering and back biting that goes on between Wilson and House. One kidnaps the others guitar so the other kidnaps a patient? What other show has that kind of humor going on while a medical mystery is trying to be solved? None!

As some of you know I started the WatchingHouse blog on the 451 network last November, but I gave that up and I’m no longer writing that blog. I found I couldn’t write a serious recap of the show and actually enjoy watching the program. I started to dislike watching House because I knew I always had to write up a summary after watching the show. Plus I had to make a post daily and with the show going on hiatus several times last year it was very hard to keep coming up with material.

So here I am writing about the show after watching it again eh? Well this isn’t a summary. Just an opinion. No pressure.

I still find that the medical facts on House suck. Lots of mistakes. More so than any other medical show that I watch. I was hoping that that would improve this year, but if the season opener is any hint as to what’s to come I’d say that there will still be plenty of medical mistakes.

So it looks like House will have a room full of potential team mates next week. That should be interesting. The preview looked like it will be a funny show.

I think it was true to form right down to three medical misdiagnoses before finally finding the real problem just in the nick of time. What – you didn’t notice that just about every show in the past has three guesses that end up being wrong before House or a team member finally figure out what is making their patient so sick? Uh huh – happens all the time. That’s the House formula and they’re sticking to it.

So what did you think of the season opener? Did you feel it was still true House even without his three team members from last year? or was it missing something?





I love my PVR

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I’m so happy I have a PVR. As you might be able to tell I’m still busy working on my blogs this evening. The only problem, for me that is, is that many of my favorite shows have their premieres on right now.

No worries! Earlier today I looked through the channels and found all the show I wanted to record on the PVR. So shows like Bones and NCIS which I think are premieres are taping while I’m busy typing away.

The only downside to all this is that Chris came home from work at 8 pm and he’s not so patiently waiting for me to finish my computer work so we can settle down and watch these shows together.

I’ll get there soon hun!

Oh and another thing I like about having a PVR … Last night there were a lot of new shows premiering. Of course we wanted to watch the shows that we’re already hooked on like Heroes and CSI Miami – some of which were playing while the brand new series were premiering. Again – no problem. I can tape two shows at once. So we ended up taping about 8 programs last night. Of course we didn’t get to watch all of them so they are stored on the PVR’s hard drive and we can watch them at our leisure. Did I mention that we can also zoom through commercials on the shows we’ve taped. Oh I like that too!

The round underground house

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Have you heard of underground houses? My sisters ex-boyfriend actually grew up in an underground house. Different eh?

The other day Chris was watching television and he had on some documentary. I don’t know if the whole show was about this house or just part of it, but they showed this really cool underground home.

Everything was curved and round. I didn’t see the bedroom but I wouldn’t be surprised in the bed was rounded too!

The kitchen was fabulous! It had a long curved central workspace. It was like one of those very ornate reception desks. Within the curved kitchen counterspace there was a fridge.

It was specially created for this round house. It was round. It came up out of the counter and you could turn it like a lazy susan! The coolest thing was that the fridge was super energy efficient. You know when you open a fridge door and all the cold air starts to come out? Well cold air drops to the ground right? Well since this fridge came up out of the counter the cold air would drop back down into the hole that the fridge came out of, so that when the fridge was closed again it wouldn’t have lost very much cold air at all.

I love seeing great inventions like that.

Survivor China

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So it begins!

First- I’m really happy that there’s been some new shows on TV this week. There were a few great shows last year that my husband and I got addicted to and we’re both looking forward to seeing their premieres and watching them regularly again.

Ok Survivor … I guess I’m not as much of a fan as I used to be. This one didn’t do all that much for me. I’m pretty sure I’ll watch this seasons episodes if for nothing else than to see the beautiful landscape and wildlife of China.

Clothing … no bras? High heels? Fishnet stockings? What were these survivors thinking? Smart survivors wear a few layers of clothing on Day one just in case they can’t bring anything from their suitcases with them. In fact I think the last five or so episodes have all started out with the survivors only having the clothes they were wearing on day one.

So what do the Survivor China contestants do? They wear flimsy outfits and are upset when they are told that that’s all they can have to start out.

As my husband watched the first five or so minutes of Survivor he kept making remarks about how large some of the women’s breasts were. “Did you see the boobs on that one?” LOL Now, I’m sure he notices what other women look like, but he’s not normally that vocal about it so it was amusing.

I don’t know about you, but normally by the end of the first episode there’s at least one or two survivors that I like and that I hope do well. This time? I didn’t really get a feel for anyones’ personality so I don’t have any favorites yet.

Ok well … I do like the way James looks and how he wields an axe!

What did you think of the show?

Watching the oldies but goodies

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While I was lying on the couch earlier today trying to recover from the severe pain I was in last night and trying to sleep I scanned through the channels and I came across a station that was playing really old television shows.

I watched episodes of Lassie, Happy Days, Maude, and All in the family – remember Archie Bunker? I haven’t seen any of those shows in ages! You know, shows like All in the Family are still funny today. Yeah it was a politically incorrect show, but it had it’s funny moments.

It was sad to think that the majority of the cast that I saw on All in the Family are long gone. It just goes to show how old that show really is I guess!

Do you ever scan the channels and stop to watch an old show that you might not have seen since you were a kid?

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