The Homestretch of track off..

We've rounded the bend on our time off from school. The Things return to school on Tuesday and I go back to my part time job sometime next week (I've not looked at my work schedule close enough to see exactly when). All in all, while we've had a good time, I think it is time to get back to the routine of school. We're getting a bit too lazy and comfy with being out of school.

Yesterday I spent the day catching up on my stockpiled tv shows. E.R., Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters. I watched them all. And yes, my house reflects this extremely non productive day! ?

But, as I had a couple extra kids over, I really needed to be somewhere in the house where I could hear the interactions and make sure everyone was playing fair. The best place to police the area? Right here in the family room. Where the TiVo and the shows are. Imagine that? What a coincidence. Hey, that's my story and I"m sticking to it! :)

Some observations from yesterday's ABC marathon (yeah, ER is on a different network but I"m sort of done with that show, just watch it out of habit more than anything else)

• What do you think is the secret that the new neighbor is keeping from the others on Wisteria Lane?
• Come on writers of Brothers and Sisters, there are other options for pain management than narcotics. Send Justin over to the hunky acupuncture dude at Private Practice. Or better yet, try another nerve block. But, I forgive you, you've brought back adorable and oh so gay Scotty.
• Private Practice: my compliments to the casting crew...you serve up a delightful dish of eye candy for my viewing pleasure.
• Grey's Anatomy: please bring back that weird and wacky. I'm so tired of dippy Merideth and self centered Izzy. McDreamy? I'm about to call you "McStupid" for just putting up with all this for so long. For a brain doc, you sure are lacking in self confidence to realize there are plenty of women out there way better than Mer. These days, Alex is sounding like the voice of reason!

Well...now that I've outed myself and admitted to having serious TV issues, I"d better go do something productive with the day. Like feed my kids some lunch...

Either/Or

I've caught Thing Two's cold. Either he's a lot tougher and stronger than his old momma or I'm just a big old baby...but all I want to do is fix me a cup of tea and curl up on the couch and watch TV.

Right now, I'm wishing I had saved just a couple of those Entourage season 2 episodes so that I wouldn't be so miserable while waiting for the sniffles to pass. Knowing my luck, season 3 will arrive and I'll be all better and filled with guilt for having done very little these past couple days.

Oh well...at least I have one saved/unwatched episode of Design Star.

While it has a good beat..

You can't scrapbook to it. I scurried around yesterday, cranking out a lot of my chores in hopes of spending time today in my craft room. I thought I'd try something new: multi tasking. While scrapbooking, I'd pop in the DVD for Season 2 of Entourage. Normally, I just have music on or the background noise of cable TV.

The verdict? Not so good, at least from the crafty side of things. For some bizarre reason, I find this show highly addicting and distracting. So while I made a huge dent in my backlogged DVDs from Blockbuster, I made next to no progress in the scrapbooking department. This photo represents the entire amount of layouts completed during what was to have been my own private scrap-a-thon.

Instead, I had a marathon session of Vince, and his entourage.

I'd still call it a good day indeed....

House, MD

A friend recently mentioned that this was her new favorite show. Since I appreciate her taste in books, I thought I"d give it a try. I checked out season one on DVD from the library.

Oh my! Within the first 30 minutes, both hubby and I are hooked.

So much that I am finally motivated enough to go buy a replacement DVD player for our current one that keeps freezing or skipping. I found it too annoying last night to deal with but I was too hooked on this show to give up all together and go to bed.

Now we're wondering how in the world has this show already aired 2 seasons and is into their third, and we are just now learning about it? Makes me wonder what other good tv is out there that we've missed? Any suggestions?