Creature Comforts

I saw the funniest show last night! It's called Creature Comforts. The producers conducted interviews around the country and played them back. But the funny part is the faces you see are of claymation animals! It is hilarious. I think my favorite was a mother and daughter who were interviewed together. They were portrayed as pigs. The daughter was nursing several baby pigs and the mom was talking to her through the fence. They were talking about all kinds of things. What they liked or didn't like about their bodies, what they thought about flying. A bird with only one leg and a sling on his arm was talking about proper landing. It is just a funny show! Check it out on CBS!

Lost Finale

If you haven't seen the Lost finale, stop reading this post! And, go watch it at abc.com!!

I was totally blown away MANY times last night! I have only read the post at Rocks in My Dryer and the Hanso Foundation letter , so I don't know what the message boards or anyone else is saying. So, here are a few of my thoughts, in random order, because that's how my brain works:

I just have to say that Hurley is my new favorite! I liked him before, but after getting in the VW bus and plowing down the Others, I am impressed!! I started out the episode feeling really bad for him, but he is awesome!!

Why did Charlie have to die? I think he is a lot smarter than that! He could have gotten out. I guess though that Desmond would probably have tried to get in to talk to Penny! And, Des also told Charlie that if he didn't die, they would have never been rescued.

On that note, I think that the people in the boat off shore are the Hanso foundation coming back to work on the Dharma project and maybe retaliate for all of their people that the Others/Hostiles killed!! They could have perhaps been turned to the side of the survivors, but maybe not if Locke killed Naomi!! Idiot!

Speaking of Locke, Woo Hoo!! He's alive! But, maybe that isn't such a good thing... Who knows? How did Walt do what he did? He does have some kind of weird powers...

What made Jack want to go back so badly? Had his life been made so horrible that he thought it was caused by the island? Who could he have cared about so much that his dying made Jack want to kill himself? My husband thinks that it may have been Ben. That if Ben died, Jack saw no way to ever get back to the island. It would make sense that no one would have gone to Ben's viewing. Most of the others would have had at least a few people there.

Kate looked like she was free. Had she been freed because all that she had been through? That doesn't sound likely. We wonder if she was still on the run.

Last of all: I know that there wouldn't be a mystery or much of a show if they explained things to each other, but they would have a lot more things go the way they wanted to. If Ben had told Jack why he knew that they'd all be killed by those on the boat and who they were, maybe Jack would have taken him more seriously. The same goes for Locke. All they had to do was use that dramatic pause to tell each other what they knew and things could (maybe) work out. On the other hand, if I am right and the boat is the Hanso people, maybe that would make Jack want them to come even more!

Oh, and I was really excited to see Claire carrying Aaron in a sling of some sort while they were trekking up the hill to the radio tower! Everytime I saw her I thought that it was so cool that she was carrying him that way!!

Okay, so there's what I have to say!! I'm excited that they've been renewed for next season and to tell their whole story!!

Cutting Back on TV

The TV has been on entirely too much in our home! I rarely watch anything other than what the kids watch, but they watch quite a bit! They don't usually spend the entire time just staring at the screen, they are usually playing at the same time, but the TV is still on most of the day. The kids need to use their imaginations and play without the TV in the background. It has really started to bother me. So, yesterday I decided that we'd spend a lot of the day with the TV off. I tried to have the TV off for twice as long as it was on, but that got to be tough at times. It was a really nice day, though. I read a lot more to them, we played outside more and Belle got a longer nap, since we were outside and it was quiet. There seemed to be so many more hours in the day. It didn't go by so fast. There just seemed to be enough time to spend with my kids, yesterday!!! At the same time, I don't want to remove the TV completely, because we all enjoy it and I think there is good to come from it, but I want to cut back on how much it is on. There are great things for the kids to learn on TV, and it is really nice to have when I need to get things done. I also don't want to give up my shows. I am addicted to Lost!!! (I can't wait for the new episode, tonight!!) So, I am trying to see what works best for my family. What have you done?

Raines

We just found a great new show on TV. It is on Friday nights on NBC. It's called Raines and it's about a detective who has hallucinations of victims whose murders he is trying to solve. He can only see what he knows, so at first he sees them as they were at the crime scene...it can be gross. Quickly, though he learns names and faces and they start to become more of a person. I really like it because I like mystery show and I hate the gory parts. This show is more about figuring it out, not the nastiness of it all.

If you're interested, you aren't far behind. There have only been 3 episodes so far and you can watch them all online.

LOST!!

No, I'm not lost, but I love "Lost"! I was so annoyed when they stopped mid-season to--well whatever they were doing. We watched it last night and it is such a great show. I just hope they don't keep us coming with all the questions and then get cancelled and never answered! It was so frustrating when that happened to "Pretender" and (so I am told, since I wasn't a viewer) "The X-Files". It seems that they could just take a two hour special and wrap everything up just so we don't have to be so frustrated. Anyway, as long as they keep going an eventually answer all of these questions, I'll be happy! It is such a great show.