Fall TV Schedule

Here it is. After a few busy days of reading reviews and making out my grid, I have it all ready for you. Here is a comprehensive list of the tv the Halls will be watching. I linked the show to the website for those of you who haven’t done your fall tv homework and want to learn more. I’ve also added the season premere date. I debated and debated about how to list them. I decided to go with days and times. You’re responsible for remembering which week they start.

SUNDAY

7:00 PM Simpsons (Fox) Sept. 10

7:00 PM Everybody Hates Chris (CW) Oct. 1

7:00 PM Flip This House (A&E)

7:30 PM American Dad (Fox) Sept. 10

8:00 PM Family Guy (Fox) Sept. 10

8:00 PM Desperate Housewives (ABC) Sept. 24

8:30 PM War At Home (Fox) Sept. 10

9:00 PM Brothers and Sisters (ABC) Sept. 24

10:00 PM It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (FX) currently rerunning

MONDAY

7:00 PM Prison Break (Fox) Aug. 21

7:00 PM The Class (CBS) Sept. 18

7:00 PM Deal Or No Deal (NBC) Sept. 18

8:00 PM Heroes (NBC) Sept. 25

9:00 PM Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip (NBC) Sept. 18

TUESDAY

7:00 PM Dancing With The Stars (ABC) Sept. 12

8:00 PM VERONICA MARS (CW) Oct. 3

8:00 PM Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC) Sept. 19

8:00 PM Fridaynight lights (NBC) Oct. 3

9:00 PM Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) Sept. 19

9:00 PM Miami Ink (TLC) already started in Aug.

WEDNESDAY

7:00 PM Dancing With The Stars Results show

7:00 PM Justice (fox) Aug. 30

7:00 PM Jericho (cbs) Sept 20

8:00 PM Criminal Minds (CBS) Sept. 20

8:00 PM Lost (ABC) Oct. 4

9:00 PM Smith (cbs) Sept 19

9:00 PM The Nine (ABC) Oct. 4

9:00 PM Day Break (ABC) Nov 15

9:00 PM 30 days (FX) new season started in Aug.

THURSDAY

7:00 PM My Name is Earl (nbc) Sept 21

7:00 PM Ugly Betty (Abc) Sept 28

7:30 PM The Office (NBC) Sept. 21

8:00 PM CSI (CBS) Sept. 21

8:00 PM Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) Sept. 21

9:00 PM ER (NBC) Sept. 21

9:00 PM Shark (CBS) Sept. 21

9:00 PM Six Degrees (abc) Sept. 21

FRIDAY

7:00 PM Meerkat Manor (Animal Planet) on reruns new season Sept. 29
8:00 PM Crossing Jordan (NBC) Oct. 20

8:00 PM Men In Trees (ABC) Sept. 5

9:00 PM Law & Order (NBC) Sept. 22

9:00 PM Battlestar Galactica (SciFi) Oct. 6

9:30 PM Ace Of Cakes (Food Network) started in Aug.

SATURDAY

7:00 PM Porperty Ladder (TLC)

8:00 PM Flip That House (TLC)

2 other new shows to watch for:

Notes from the Underbelly (ABC) TBA

Travler (ABC) TBA
Here are a few more on every weekday:

5:00 AM Jimmy Neutron (Nick)

7:00 AM Sponge Bob (Nick)

8:00 AM Dora the Explorer (Nick Jr.)

9:30 AM The Backyardigans (Nick Jr.)

2:30 PM Code Name Kids Next Door (Cartoon Network)

3:00 PM Trading Spaces (TLC)

3:30 PM Fairly Odd Parents (Nick)

4:30 PM Drake & Josh (Nick)

Just to round out the list, here are a few of our favorite shows that are either in reruns or will be starting in the spring/summer season.

Theif (FX)

QI (BBC)

The Sheild (FX)

American Idol (fox)

Scrubs (NBC)

Kyle XY (ABC)

Windfall (NBC)

Good Eats (Food Network)

Boondocks (Cartoon Network [adult swim])

August 31st, 2006 - Posted in TV | | 0 Comments

Draft Day

I went to my draft for my fantasy football league (oh, believe me. If you keep reading, you’ll hear more of it). My roster, which I think is decent:

I have to start a tight end, but I don’t have to like it. So I took the best available in round 4, and (as with kicker and defense) will grab some mook off the waiver wire to cover bye weeks.

The bread and butter of the season comes in picking up the backups quickly when they suddenly get thrust into starter roles due to injuries. So I think this is a good start.

August 27th, 2006 - Posted in fantasy football | | 0 Comments

For sale 3 kids

For sale 3 kids! I will accept an all expense paid one week vacation for 2 to anywhere in the world. In exchange you will get 3 wonderful, exuberant, smart, inquisitive children.

(I’m not responsible if they do not: listen, clean, take baths, use the toilet correctly (or at all), fight, cry or refuse to go to sleep, leave their toys in the direct path from your bed to the bathroom where you will step on the sharpest point in the middle of the night, pour sand in each other’s hair, splatter the walls floor to ceiling with some unkowen brown substance “from the bathroom” after you spent the whole day cleaning, argue with you over every small detail, scream at the top of their lungs for fun, not eat the food you cook even if you cook them each a seprate meal, leave smelly milk sippie cups in places you will never find them or expect you to buy them whatever they want when they want it.)

August 27th, 2006 - Posted in Parentgeekness | | 0 Comments

Happy Dance time!

“Fall TV, Falll TV! I Love my Fall Tv” Sing it with me now—”FallTV…..” I’m so excited. The season premier of Prison Break was on tonight. That is a brillaint show. I admit it is frastrauting at times. But I love hanging on the edge waiting to see what will happen next. I think this will be a great season.

Soon Veronica Mars will be starting too. My other shows will be coming too. It’s just so wonderfull to start having all my old friends back.
On the subject of TV. I reccomend to everyone to watch Meerkat Manor on the Animal Planet Channel. We started that this weekend. The whole family loves it. It has everything, romance, comedy, suspense, it is just great entertainment. It’s a half hour show taken from three years of scientific footage that followed a clan of meerkats around out in the wild. It’s amazing the social infrastructure that makes up this meerkat clan. I have heard of ants dividing up jobs and everyone working together but the meerkats are just amazing. The family dynamics of the clan are so engaging. It is as interesting as watching a prime time tv show, reality or fiction. Everyone should check it out. Check your local listings for times. The new shows air Friday night at 8pm on Animal Planet. You’ll love it. I promise.

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August 21st, 2006 - Posted in Homelife, Parentgeekness, TV | | 0 Comments

Another Friday Night

Ok so I didn’t get to post as much last week as I thought I would. So much for being a junkie. Michael’s at work again. Sorry, he’s closing, I hope for all our sakes this doesn’t mean a full detailed list of every house he goes to tonight. If he does I guess none of us will need an Ambien.

I’m up late tonight. I worked 5-8 and had a large ice lattee before I went to work now I’ll be up all night. Unless Michael gives me a full report of his deliveries. I had excess energy after work and was pretty goofy with the kids. The kids were with when I got the coffee so I blamed that. Wacko told me “I like it when you drink.” I guess it’s a good thing that coffee is as strong as he’ll ever see me drink.

I win world’s best mom award from Yacko. I found a sound track from Drake and Josh. Yacko and Wacko have sang Soul Man all day after watching Drake and Josh sing it. I can’t wait to play it in the morning for them. Maybe if I play my cards right I can get them to clean the toy room before I play it for them. Well, a girl can dream.

I guess I’m gonna go now. I found a full file of Madonna covers. I love it!

August 19th, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments

August 19th, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments

My life in Dylan concerts

Got my ticket in the mail from TicketMaster the other day. It’s official: I get to see Dylan again. Because it’s right here in town I get to take Yakko, which will be great. Three opening acts, including Junior Brown and the girl who used to sing for Hot Club Of Cowtown. Unfortunately, because I love my son and because I know that 15 Dylan songs will be test enough of his attention span, I plan to go late, hopefully just as The Poet takes the stage. I haven’t heard any of the 2006 shows yet, but i’ll try to grab one and listen to it beforehand.

For those interested, click the link to read about the Dylan shows I’ve been to. (more…)

August 17th, 2006 - Posted in Music, Parentgeekness | | 0 Comments

Monday night rush

An easy monday night.  If you can’t make any money, at least get out quickly.

First up was a small house in the central part of our area.  Blue collar, probably developed in the early ’60s.  Older guy answered the door and it becomes apparent that he’s probably lived in the house since its construction.

Next was the southeast corner.  Nice 15-year-old neighborhood obviously developed all at once, with the same brick and siding on every house.  The front door was nearlyl inaccessible, blocked first by a rain spout right across the walk, and then by two gigantic potted shrubs almost completely blocking the front step.  The ladies were nice, and wrote a tip into the check, so it’s hard to complain.

After that, it was the dreaded downtime.  No calls for almost 45 minutes meant trying to make myself useful in the store.  I finally got back on the road, this time to a dump of a house across the street from the Hospital.  It looked like the two guys there were rebuilding the house, and good luck to them.  Dinky little post-war bungalow, stripped paint, rotted floors, dirty yellow paint.  The guy dug into his paint-covered jeans and handed me a ten and a five, soaked with sweat or heaven knows what.

A few more minutes back at the store, and I got to count out and leave.  Still had time to catch the last hour of football practice, though I had to bite back criticism about Yakko’s stance.  Defensive tackles can’t set themselves with their knees on the ground and expect to do their job.  Bite, bite, bite…  he’s enjoying himself… bite…

August 14th, 2006 - Posted in Pizza | | 0 Comments

8/12/06 I Love TV

Wow, I feel like a little blogging junkie. Now that I’ve had a hit of it I can’t quit.

I know that one of the sections Michael has is for TV. Anyone who knows us knows that we are somewhat TV junkies. All of us are, me probably a little more than the rest. Michael always says I should turn it off and read more, but you know when the captions are on i am reading. (I do read my share, it’s house work that suffers.) Well I thought I would post a few thoughts about some of the show I’ve been watching.

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August 12th, 2006 - Posted in TV | | 0 Comments

The One Book by Mom

Ok so I need to add my 2 cents (in this case 10 cents) to this book thing. This will be my first post so stay with me I tend to ramble, I’ll try to stay on track. oh yeah my spelling’s pretty bad too. Then if you’ve ever read my dad’s email’s you’ld know where I get that from.

1. One book that changed your life.
Power of Myth by Joseph Cambell. This should be required reading. It made me change my way of thinking about so many things from religion to super heros to basic human psychology. This is one book that I would gladly have taken a highlighter to (if I believed in marring books in such a horrible way.)

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Other than Good Night Moon, Baby Angels, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Love You Forever……Oh that’s right this is for adults. Unlike Michael I have read many books more than once. In fact my freshman year at college I only took a few non-school books with me and read and reread them several times. The one that sticks out in my mind most is Wishes by Jude Devreaux. I must have read this at least 10 times. It’s funny and has such a good love story to to it. Yes I would reread it again. In fact I’ll have to look for it to put on the palm.

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Wow, this one I have to think about: “How to Survive on a Desert Island”. Seriously other than the Ice & Fire books I don’t know if there is one that I could read every day.

4. One book that made you laugh:
There Should Have Been Castles by Herman Raucher. My sister loaned me this book, but I liked it so much I kept it. To qoute Michael “Amazon seems to think it’s out of print. scandalous!”

5. One book that made you cry:
Love Story by Erich Segal. So many books have made me cry but this is the first one I remember. It’s said you always remember your first.
6. One book that you wish had been written:

The first one by me. Everyone says the first is the hardest. Maybe if I had the first one done the rest would be eaiser. Oh, Michael said the question is which book you want to read not write. In that case, a sequel to There Should Have Been Castles, the chacaters in that are so great that I would love to have seen them again.
7. One book that you wish had never been written:

I have read some bad books, many I never finished. I can’t truely say one shouldn’t have been written. Someone, somewhere thought each book was a good idea. Every author puts so much work into a book that I don’t think it’s fair to anyone to say something shouldn’t have been written.

8. One book you’re currently reading:

I’m always reading one of the Ice & Fire books. I think the current reread is A Clash of Kings. I’ve just started Reckless by Amanda Quick. It’s the first romance novel I’ve read in 2 years or more.

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War by William Saletan. I got the book for Christmas 2 years ago and it’s still sitting on my shelf. It’s the last dead tree book I got. I think if it had been for the palm I would have read it by now. It’s so inconvenient now to not have a book that fits in my pocket or is backlit so I can read it anytime, anywhere, except when the batteries die. Dead tree books never die they just take up to much space. Back to the book: it’s a look at the politics behind abortion laws and how both sides work the issue. Now don’t blast me as pro-choice, I’m not and I will go on the record to say it’s wrong and I’m completely against it. I wanted the book to strengen my argument in support of life.

10. Now tag five people:

If you answer Michael you can answer mine.

August 12th, 2006 - Posted in Books | | 0 Comments