I am very excited that one of my favorite shows has finally started it’s new season. I hadn’t been watching much TV since Deadliest Catch closed their seasons.
Dancing with the Stars (or Dancing with the “Doobers”, as my husband calls it) has the spontaneity of live TV with the fun of seeing people outside their [...]
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Dancing with the Stars
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, TV on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wild Send Off from Connecticut!
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, TV, Travel, Vacation on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We started off on another vacation early this afternoon. Our ultimate destination is Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow afternoon. But we left early this afternoon so we could stay at a hotel near the airport in Windsor, CT and not have to get up quite so early in the morning.
We stopped in Manchester, CT first. I needed [...]
Fibromyalgia/Lyrica Commercial #3
Posted in Day to day, Fibromyalgia, General, Health, Life, TV on July 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Well, the makers of Lyrica have done it again! Gather round, all you in fibro fog. I’ll tell you what I think of this one.
This new commercial, like the first 2, does an adequate job of informing the general public about fibromyalgia. And gratefully, we no longer have a whining woman as did the first [...]
I LOVE the NHL Network ad campaign
Posted in Day to day, Family, General, Hockey, Life, Sports, TV on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More often than not, sports and sports network ads are targeted at males in the 16-35 age bracket. They tend to have a lot of adolescent humor or violence (much like beer commercials, which are targeted to the same group). But I recently discovered one of the best ad campaigns for sports I have ever [...]
Star Jones burns my butt
Posted in Day to day, Fibromyalgia, General, Life, TV, Weight loss on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I used to be a Star Jones “fan,” of sorts. I thought she was funny and a strong woman who had accomplished a lot in her life. That was when I first came to “know” her on “The View.”
But she began to be a bit strident and pushy and I became wary. What was going [...]
Snow Hype
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, TV on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to have to turn off the TV soon. We’re having a snowstorm – a Nor’easter at that. But people are getting so crazy about the snow that you’d think we were in Baghdad, not central Massachusetts.
They had snow in Baghdad this week. And even though they get so really infrequently (snow storms are [...]
I watched the Political Debate
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, TV on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re having trouble with our cable service. The non-digital channels are fine, but the digital channels are doing something the cable company called “tiling” when we called them. The effect is that, after displaying maybe 6 seconds of the transmission, it stops dead for 5-10 seconds, then starts again. I think of it as stuttering [...]
Thinking about Oprah
Posted in Day to day, General, Lakota, Life, TV on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Oprah made the evening news tonight in Boston, days after she visited New Hampshire. It was odd timing, because I’d been thinking about Oprah since she brought her “dog and pony” show to NH to stump for Obama. I don’t care about her politics. She’s a citizen and has a right to her opinions – [...]
Dancing with the Stars, The Finals
Posted in Day to day, General, TV on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
THE COMPETITION
Wow! I got to watch both the competition and results shows after all. The meeting I had Monday night got out at quarter to 8 instead of 9 PM. By the time I got home, I did miss the first dance, which was Mel & Maks. But they scored fairly well, so I guess [...]
Dancing with the Stars, Semi-Final, Competition and Results
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, TV on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I have a confession to make. I missed the live competition show. I don’t even recall why, but I realized it was 10 PM and uttered a few mild expletives. This is where ABC’s Full Episode Player becomes a life saver. I watched the Results show last night and watched the Competition show this [...]
