What do these TV shows have in common – Cashmere Mafia, Mad About You, Diff’rent Strokes, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Ellen Show. Read on to find out.
Archives for 2008
TV shows
I’ve been sent a bunch of DVDs of TV shows to review for a new website called EntertainMe.
The DVDs I was sent were Cashmere Mafia, Mad About You, Diff’rent Strokes, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Ellen Show. There’s a good mix of more recent shows and some golden oldies. Who doesn’t love I Dream of Jeannie? I’ve been watching The Ellen Show which I never saw when it was on TV and look forward to watching the rest soon, particularly as the summer silly TV season starts.
The EntertainMe website is a part of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and only includes TV shows and movies from this company. I don’t know if there are any plans to include Playstation games which would be great as we’ve got a Playstation 2 that ‘someone’ in my household is much better at than me.
I would like to be able to browse through TV shows and movies separately on the website but the only way to find titles is to search or browse by category like action, comedy etc.
There are other shows available like Get Smart, Bewitched and movies like St Trinian’s and On the Waterfront.
The website does have a bunch of competitions you can enter to win free stuff, and who doesn’t like to win things?
Unfortunately I can’t give away any of these DVDs this time but I’m hoping to get some that I can give away another time.
Time
Things just move too quickly and I just want things to slow down.
Just when I think things are settled at work, things change – some good and some not so good.
It’s mid-November and before I know it Christmas will be here and it freaks me out every year about what to get people for presents. I’ve organised my son’s, but that’s it.
I’ve been doing a course for the last ten weeks or so which has taken up much more of my time than I ever envisaged. At least it’s shown me that there’s no way I want to go and do further university study at this stage. I have an exam for this course early next week and then that’s over and I can concentrate more on this website again. There’s a few things I want to do with it and I know I’ve been neglecting it.
I don’t know if the time flying by thing is just because I’m getting older and that’s what happens? How is it that I’m doing much much more now than I was in my 20s and this isn’t including being a mum. How can I not do the things I’m doing?
I sometimes think about what I can cut out of my life. Work’s gotta stay. House maintenance has gotta stay. My son’s gotta stay. I’ve got to spend some time with my friends. I’ve got to spend time with my hobbies, like this blog, ukulele playing and the odd bit of photography. It’s hard to find time for those extra projects, like doing extra stuff around the house, and washing the car etc.
I find that when things have been frantic for a while that if I don’t take some time just to sit back and relax that I get sick which then forces me to relax, but I feel crap so what’s the point of that?
So I’ve established that time’s going too quickly and that I don’t want to cut things out of my life so I guess all that’s left is managing what time I have better. That sounds like hard work.
Maybe I should look at websites like Time Management from Mind Tools or this from Personal time management guide, but I haven’t got the time just yet.
What’s your best time management tip/s?
First baby tooth gone
Today marked a momentous occasion in the JC household. JJ finally lost his first tooth. He’s nearly seven and a half and is the last of his classmates to have reached this milestone.
It’s been loose for some time and this morning it was at a right angle to where it was supposed to be and I knew it wouldn’t take long.
He was eating popcorn at school today and out it came then. It’s now home so maybe the tooth fairy might visit here, although JJ said he doesn’t believe in the tooth fairy. He’d like some cash though. Dilemma!
Has the tooth fairy visited your household? It never did mine as a kid.
New beginnings
When I moved into my house I had to clear a lot of junk from the yard as a hoarder used to live here. Consequently there wasn’t much of a garden. All I really had was a grapevine and an orange tree. A lot’s happened in the ten years I’ve been living here and at this time of the year the fruits of my efforts come to the fore.
Part of the garden makeover involved planting two native frangipani trees which look glorious this time of the year with their small yellow flowers.
I have numerous bulbs too but they don’t always flower and this year everything has.
My bearded irises had taken a break for a couple of years.
And so had this plant, a red Hippeastrum.
While I was walking around my garden taking photos I noticed one lone hibiscus flower on one of the bushes.
Last but not least this cactus is having its first year flowering. A friend bought it for me quite a few years ago and I’ve never seen it flower before.
Thank goodness
I rarely talk about politics here and I don’t know that I even mentioned how happy I was at the results of the last Australian election, but I can’t let today go by without mentioning how happy I am about the results of the US election.
Thank goodness America, you got it right this time.
It’s been hard, even all the way over here, not to know that the election was happening in the States around now. We’ve probably had more press about it in mainstream media than we did about the Australian election last year but, bloody hell, it was an important election.
Also because I read lots of blogs etc from people who live in the States it’s been hard to avoid from that aspect also.
I hoped from the beginning that Obama would win and then thought he was onto a pretty sure thing when Palin was announced as McCain’s offsider. I still don’t quite get that decision.
I was sitting watching the 7.30 Report on television tonight and beaming at it while Barack Obama made his acceptance speech in Chicago. I also watched a household of African Americans dancing in their home in absolute joy at the outcome. All the political commentators that Kerry O’Brien from the 7.30 Report spoke to were ecstatic also. Is it just me or does it look like Professor Allan Lichtman wears a wig? When I first saw him I thought it was a joke and then I realised he was for real. He obviously knows his politics, but he needs a better hairdresser.
Nobody I have spoken to here wanted McCain to win, but then nobody admitted to voting for John Howard in previous Australian elections either.
Now we all sit and wait (probably not for too long if the experts have any say in it) to see what changes come about.
Thank goodness!
The winner
In the end there were four people who wanted to win the phone. Thanks to:
- Yvonne at Tea Party Diva
- Lisa at Wisemonkeys
- Louisa at Edible Moments
- Trish at My Little Drummer Boys
Do I choose between someone who wants to stay in touch with their family, someone who’s had extremely bad luck with their phones, someone who’s written an ode to their phone, or someone who’s little boys keep stealing her phone?
Mmmmm.
I have to choose, I can’t avoid this any longer. I’m gonna choose Yvonne at Tea Party Diva so she can keep an eye on her new grandchild from afar. Yvonne, email me via the contact link at my blog and let me know your address so I can post it.
Thanks to the others who also entered. I hope to have some other giveaways down the track so stay tuned.