I think I could use a Tivo. That way, I could Tivo Dr. Phil and watch it when I fold laundry – that would certainly be better on my ears and more entertaining than the screaming parrot. Well, actually, I don’t know how Tivo works – I could probably only watch what I tape record (I grew up in the 80’s – we “taped” our movies and our music) on the tv that has the Tivo, right? But anyway, I could pause it when someone needed a diaper change or help with something or a snack or a drink to be able to watch more tv instead of just never getting to commit to watching shows (except really good ones like The Office) because of my lack of time and my lack of Tivo. I wonder how much they cost; I have no idea. It occurred to me that I don’t watch much tv anymore; a hobby I really liked as a kid. It’s not a bad thing, really, I’m busy doing other more worthwhile things. But I do miss getting to watch Dr. Phil – my tv has been hijacked by the likes of Dora, Diego, and Max and Ruby in the morning when it’s on, and I don’t like not being able to watch the Office until it’s available online. We try to watch The Office when it airs on Thursday night and without fail, all hell always breaks loose with the kids even though it’s on at 9 and they should be in bed.
I got the movie Mr. Mom from the library for the kids to watch. I figured since my husband and I liked the movie as kids, we should show it to our kids – after all, they loved Annie (the 1982 version, the update is awful). But apparently Mr. Mom came out before the MPAA came up with the PG-13 rating – there were a few scenes (funny how neither one of us remembered they were in the movie) I would rather not be in the type of movies my children enjoy. At least we were able to skip over the strip club scene without them even noticing, yikes. I surely don’t remember that from watching that movie as a kid. Maybe there was an edited-for-television version… Anyway, all this got me to thinking that they should have a function for dvd players where you can edit the movie to play while skipping certain parts of your choosing. Maybe this already exists, but I don’t know a lot about the latest gadgets and such.
Well, anyway… sorry for the randomness, just had a little time to blog for a change, so I just wrote what was on my mind at the moment! Maybe I’ll check into that Tivo…
Or Dish or if I’m not mistaken most cable cos now have DVR. We have a good deal here… you can have more than one link going whereby it IS possible to record something from another tv in the house and watch someting entirely different on another. Unfortunately, it doesn’t help with your problem at 9PM Thursday nights when you want to watch The Office as it airs.
And given the choice between the two, I would also choose the 1982 Annie or better still… the 1992 EHS version.. NOT the 2001 FCF production 😉