I've written about this before. And I will do so again and again, including today.
Why do men get so weirded out when the lady (or man) in their life doesn't want to sit and watch an hour of recorded TV with them?
This week has been not too tiring, not too stressful, not too boring, dull, annoying, etc. It's just been...okay. And what comes with okay to me is being able to relax a bit after a certain time at night, which also means not being tied to the TV for an hour (which normally lasts much longer due to pauses for conversation or pee breaks or having to obsessively take care of something (both he and I are victims of such obsessions)).
Each night this week, we've started watching a recorded show, and I've either gotten lost in my laptop or just wandered off only to be eventually found and asked, "why'd you leave?"
Tonight we started the finale of Hell's Kitchen, but we both found out who won in the morning when someone blasted the winner on their Facebook status update. My husband started sweeping the floor while we were still watching, so I got up and started helping by cleaning up our dishes and TV trays. Then I said I was going in our bedroom.
"Don't you want to watch?" he asked me.
"But I know who won. I'm tired," I said.
About 10 minutes later I was followed in by my husband who started playing Scrabulous with me, which is just about the same as watching a TV show - it keeps me trapped until I say "NO MORE SCRABULOUS! This lady is going to bed!!"
Maybe I should hole up in the bathroom with a book for a good hour....
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Alaska Experiment, or why there is no camping in my life.
I got my husband hooked on The Discovery Channel's Alaska Experiment. If you're unfamiliar with this show, it's basically a bunch of people living in the rugged Alaska wilderness for 6o days while trying not to starve, die of thirst, go crazy (the "cabin fever" episode is really freaky) or get eaten by any one of the various animals that could easily take them down in two seconds.
While watching the "cabin fever" episode, three things were highlighted: one being cabin fever, two being peeing and pooping in a bucket in the kitchen in a cabin, and three being hallucinating while trying to hike 40 miles to visit another group of Alaska Experiment revellers. The hike, by the way, took 7 days. The hiking group thought it would take maybe 1 or 2 days and planned for that and only that (meaning they ran out of water, hence the hallucinations).
If this show doesn't sound even slightly interesting to you, at least watch the "cabin fever" episode. There is nothing like watching people lose their marbles, I tell you, nothing. It's really freaky. The couple in the cabin thought they heard noises and apparitions of people in their cabin (which, by the way, is only 200 square feet). My husband felt the man looked crazy, and kept telling me, "that's the face of a crazy person!!" I didn't quite see it that way. He just looked haggard and tired to me.
The people hiking affected me way more than the couple in the cabin. I watched a show about people hiking up Mount Everest, and it was explained how people hallucinate and lose it because of altitude sickness among other factors. The Alaska Experiment showed it. All three of them lost it, but were close enough to reality that they knew they were hallucinating at the same time. They thought they heard singing coming from the people they were going to visit (they were 2 miles away), and there was lots of maniacal laughter and just nonsense talk. And tons of ice eating, which is bad because it lowers your inner core temperature and you really aren't getting a lot of water to begin with.
And then there was the pee and poop bucket. One couple made an outside outhouse because they didn't want their waste inside their tiny 200 square foot tent cabin. In this episode, they decided to head on over to the ocean to try to get some more protein (clams) before the bad weather really set in. The ocean location they were heading to is where another group lived, a father and his two daughters (don't even get me started on the two daughters, boy howdy, if anyone deserves a few punches, it's those two girls), so when they arrived, the father invited them to spend the night with them.
The father gave them a tour of the cabin, including his own poop bucket setup, which he proudly showed, like he invented indoor plumbing or something. The production people grabbed the visiting man to get his feelings on the inside poop bucket, and he basically said if they want to have human waste right next to where they store their food and cook their food, then more power to them, but you can tell he was completely disturbed by the whole thing (remember, he's the one with the outdoor poop bucket). The kicker to the whole scene was that the visiting man was eating something when the father proudly showed off the poop bucket (which had a big jar of what looked like pee right next to it, so maybe the poop bucket is just for poop).
So because of 1. cabin fever, 2. poop buckets, and 3. hallucinations, my husband thinks he has even more fuel to his "people shouldn't camp" fire. He is not one for camping for many reasons, mainly because he doesn't have his own private bathroom and shower, not to mention butler and chef, and during this episode he kept telling me these were even more reasons not to camp.
I told him that 1. unless he decides to isolate himself in a small space, he's not going to get cabin fever while camping, 2. he would never be pooping in any bucket because I would never poop in a bucket while camping, however, I have used an outhouse, and while it's not pretty and you pretty much have to vie for space with all the flies, you do get used to it (and used to not breathing through your nose), and 3. unless he's taking drugs while camping, or eats some berries he's not supposed to, there will be no hallucinations on my watch.
While watching the "cabin fever" episode, three things were highlighted: one being cabin fever, two being peeing and pooping in a bucket in the kitchen in a cabin, and three being hallucinating while trying to hike 40 miles to visit another group of Alaska Experiment revellers. The hike, by the way, took 7 days. The hiking group thought it would take maybe 1 or 2 days and planned for that and only that (meaning they ran out of water, hence the hallucinations).
If this show doesn't sound even slightly interesting to you, at least watch the "cabin fever" episode. There is nothing like watching people lose their marbles, I tell you, nothing. It's really freaky. The couple in the cabin thought they heard noises and apparitions of people in their cabin (which, by the way, is only 200 square feet). My husband felt the man looked crazy, and kept telling me, "that's the face of a crazy person!!" I didn't quite see it that way. He just looked haggard and tired to me.
The people hiking affected me way more than the couple in the cabin. I watched a show about people hiking up Mount Everest, and it was explained how people hallucinate and lose it because of altitude sickness among other factors. The Alaska Experiment showed it. All three of them lost it, but were close enough to reality that they knew they were hallucinating at the same time. They thought they heard singing coming from the people they were going to visit (they were 2 miles away), and there was lots of maniacal laughter and just nonsense talk. And tons of ice eating, which is bad because it lowers your inner core temperature and you really aren't getting a lot of water to begin with.
And then there was the pee and poop bucket. One couple made an outside outhouse because they didn't want their waste inside their tiny 200 square foot tent cabin. In this episode, they decided to head on over to the ocean to try to get some more protein (clams) before the bad weather really set in. The ocean location they were heading to is where another group lived, a father and his two daughters (don't even get me started on the two daughters, boy howdy, if anyone deserves a few punches, it's those two girls), so when they arrived, the father invited them to spend the night with them.
The father gave them a tour of the cabin, including his own poop bucket setup, which he proudly showed, like he invented indoor plumbing or something. The production people grabbed the visiting man to get his feelings on the inside poop bucket, and he basically said if they want to have human waste right next to where they store their food and cook their food, then more power to them, but you can tell he was completely disturbed by the whole thing (remember, he's the one with the outdoor poop bucket). The kicker to the whole scene was that the visiting man was eating something when the father proudly showed off the poop bucket (which had a big jar of what looked like pee right next to it, so maybe the poop bucket is just for poop).
So because of 1. cabin fever, 2. poop buckets, and 3. hallucinations, my husband thinks he has even more fuel to his "people shouldn't camp" fire. He is not one for camping for many reasons, mainly because he doesn't have his own private bathroom and shower, not to mention butler and chef, and during this episode he kept telling me these were even more reasons not to camp.
I told him that 1. unless he decides to isolate himself in a small space, he's not going to get cabin fever while camping, 2. he would never be pooping in any bucket because I would never poop in a bucket while camping, however, I have used an outhouse, and while it's not pretty and you pretty much have to vie for space with all the flies, you do get used to it (and used to not breathing through your nose), and 3. unless he's taking drugs while camping, or eats some berries he's not supposed to, there will be no hallucinations on my watch.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Sad day in the history of TV. And some other TV nonsense.
Montel Williams show will be over and done and dead as a mouse stuck in a trap after this season ends. Who else will feature Pyschic Sylvia Brown every single flipping Wednesday? Where will she go?
Luckily, the other man in my life, Dr. Phil, is going strong.
Lost began its 4th season last night -- I'm still on Season 3, disc 3, show 3 of 4. But thanks to my lovely iPod touch, I'm plowing right through them all and should be caught up by next week. And yes, I'm recording season 4 so I can have a Lost day on the couch.
WE will be showing High School Confidential in March. Now if I can only remember to record it.
Why is it with the writer's strike going on, our DVR is filled to the brim with new show goodness?
Luckily, the other man in my life, Dr. Phil, is going strong.
Lost began its 4th season last night -- I'm still on Season 3, disc 3, show 3 of 4. But thanks to my lovely iPod touch, I'm plowing right through them all and should be caught up by next week. And yes, I'm recording season 4 so I can have a Lost day on the couch.
WE will be showing High School Confidential in March. Now if I can only remember to record it.
Why is it with the writer's strike going on, our DVR is filled to the brim with new show goodness?
Friday, January 18, 2008
One of my favorite shows (non-kid)
I love, love, love those haunted, haunting, spooky, possessed, ghost shows. Paranormal State is even one my husband likes to watch. Check it out on A&E Monday nights! (Will I get paid for this advertisement?)
I'm moving to Pennsylvania so I can go to Penn State and join the Paranormal Research Society! Go Penn State!
I'm moving to Pennsylvania so I can go to Penn State and join the Paranormal Research Society! Go Penn State!
Kids Shows: An Expose. Boohbahs!
So we're watching more and more kid shows because of Mateo. Let me fix that statement (I've yet to learn how to do the fancy cross out the words and add new words thing that fancy bloggers do - I'm sure there is some HTML thing I could be doing, but I'm lazy and don't want to look it up): Mateo watches about 5-15 minutes of whatever show and then crawls around, throws himself on the ground and whines or tries to get into corners he's not allowed to go into, and I end up watching the whole stupid show for some reason.
Let's start with Boohbahs. The first 5 minutes of this show is the intro and it seems to go on and on and on and on. But Mateo really likes it. I'm over it after 30 seconds. The Boohbahs are these teardrop pipe cleaner penises. They live in a pack of birth control pills. The story people are the only adults, however, there are kids who bring them presents by going down a spiral walkway in the middle of the psychedelic dancing space of the Boohbahs. The story people are supposedly related, but they really aren't unless they are all adopted. I know this because there is an Indian lady, a black man, white people and Asian people.
(Side note: I was wondering where the story people part was filmed, so I looked it up (I tend to do this with anything that interests me, so if you watch kid shows, you'll find out some interesting things if you keep reading my next posts), and all the story people skits are filmed in Spain. The studio stuff is filmed in England. I was betting on South Africa. I was wrong.)
(Another side note: I just learned how tostrike out words. Total coincidence too. And yes, I do have to use HTML, but it's really not that big a deal.)
After the story people, the showquickly moves onto the fun "Look what I can do!" segment, where kids repeatedly do some simple movement. This usually looses Mateo completely, and since we watch these shows on Comcast's On Demand feature, I usually fast forward through it because I'm not too impressed with the kids' skills.
The final segment is some fancy Boohbah dancing, and Mateo definitely stops watching at this point. I'm usually chasing after him or trying to distract him at this poinnt, so I let the show keep running until it's over.
And yes, in case you were wondering, you two can own your own teardrop shaped pipe cleaner penises! Or just visit their lovely web site and get totally confused like I did. I guess you have to have a kid's brain and not an adult's brain that thinks its a kid's brain.
Next: My thoughts on Teletubbies!
Let's start with Boohbahs. The first 5 minutes of this show is the intro and it seems to go on and on and on and on. But Mateo really likes it. I'm over it after 30 seconds. The Boohbahs are these teardrop pipe cleaner penises. They live in a pack of birth control pills. The story people are the only adults, however, there are kids who bring them presents by going down a spiral walkway in the middle of the psychedelic dancing space of the Boohbahs. The story people are supposedly related, but they really aren't unless they are all adopted. I know this because there is an Indian lady, a black man, white people and Asian people.
(Side note: I was wondering where the story people part was filmed, so I looked it up (I tend to do this with anything that interests me, so if you watch kid shows, you'll find out some interesting things if you keep reading my next posts), and all the story people skits are filmed in Spain. The studio stuff is filmed in England. I was betting on South Africa. I was wrong.)
(Another side note: I just learned how to
After the story people, the show
The final segment is some fancy Boohbah dancing, and Mateo definitely stops watching at this point. I'm usually chasing after him or trying to distract him at this poinnt, so I let the show keep running until it's over.
And yes, in case you were wondering, you two can own your own teardrop shaped pipe cleaner penises! Or just visit their lovely web site and get totally confused like I did. I guess you have to have a kid's brain and not an adult's brain that thinks its a kid's brain.
Next: My thoughts on Teletubbies!
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Two shows I'm loving.
Ice Road Truckers (when I told my husband how I was dying to watch this, he confusedly asked, "Really?..." Yes! Really!!!) and Cities of the Underworld (loving this shows doesn't need an ounce of explanation), both on The History Channel. My husband is watching the series Human Weapon, also on The History Channel.
See, I knew adding The History Channel to our favorite channel line-up would come in handy some day. Who knew history could be so much fun?
Note: If you look under the "all shows" link on The History Channel web site, Ice Road Truckers is listed under the "Uncategorized" section. Wonder why? It doesn't really have anything to do with history and more to do with the willies. As in, it gives me the....
See, I knew adding The History Channel to our favorite channel line-up would come in handy some day. Who knew history could be so much fun?
Note: If you look under the "all shows" link on The History Channel web site, Ice Road Truckers is listed under the "Uncategorized" section. Wonder why? It doesn't really have anything to do with history and more to do with the willies. As in, it gives me the....
Monday, April 02, 2007
Montell
I like Montel Williams. He has interesting shows and there isn't a lot of hoopla and fighting and yelling and all that nonsense oh, say, Maury has on his shows. Now that I've been home for 9 weeks, I've seen a lot of Montel. And I have one question: Why does he have to tear up and cry so much?
It's kinda embarrassing.
It's kinda embarrassing.
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