I watched the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding for the first time. The movie came out in 1997 and was billed as a comedy and romance. Julia Roberts portrays a woman named Julianne who realizes that she’s in love with her best friend Michael (a man portrayed by Dermot Mulroney) when he tells her that he’s getting married to Kimberly (portrayed by Cameron Diaz). She decides she’s going to try and break them up, leaning on and occasionally receiving help from her other friend (a man, portrayed by Rupert Everett). I really enjoyed it. It was actually pretty funny. One of my favorite scenes is where Julianne jumps in a delivery truck and, without even pausing to get her bearings, starts chasing Michael, who’s in a car chasing Kimberly.

Last month most of us learned the details of Michael Phelps’ 12,000 calorie a day in-training diet. He eats about 4,000 calories per meal, more than many of us eat in a typical day. He must eat out, because he certainly isn’t carting around all of his food in Swiss Army luggage. He must spend a while at the table during each meal. That got me to thinking. A funny reality show would be one that showcased people with high calorie diets eating in restaurants. It would be like the time my whole family went to Walt Disney World. My hubby RB can eat a lot. We were eating at the Brown Derby and most of us couldn’t finish our meals, so we offered them to RB. He finished his own plate and all of ours. The plates kept stacking up next to him and the server couldn’t believe that the tiny guy ate all of the food. He actually looked under the table to see if food had somehow made it’s way to the floor.

It’s funny how kids evolve as they grow up. For many years my son TJ only watched cartoons and animated shows. He’s twelve. Over the past year or so he’s moved away from the cartoons and into comedies, both current and reruns. He likes a lot of the old comedies that are on Nick At Nite now in reruns. Right now Family Matters is on and he gets the biggest kick out of Urkel. He cracks up at the sounds Urkel makes. (Viewers know that Urkel has allergies but I don’t remember seeing any Air O Swiss humidifiers or anything like that, do you?) It’s kind of neat when you realize your child is watching the same shows you used to watch when they were on the first time around. It’s been so long since me and hubby have seen some of them that we watch with my son and we laugh all over again.

My and RB used to always watch the comedy series Home Improvement, which has been off the air for a number of years now. It’s reappeared in the form of reruns, on Nick At Nite. My son TJ loves to watch it, apparently he thinks it’s as funny as I used to. If you’ve never seen the show, it’s about Tim “the Toolman” Taylor, his family, his home improvement show Tool Time and his constant accidents when working with tools. His family didn’t even want him to do work on their own house. Whether it was kitchen faucets, outdoor lighting, plumbing or electrical, you could count on Tim to mess up the job. If you want a good laugh, check out Home Improvement on Nick At Nite.

All of the women I work with have seen a movie called Best In Show, which I have never seen. I’d not even heard of it until they got to talking about it. My understanding is that the movie is a comedy about a fake dog show. The cast portrays dog owners and handlers, and the movie featured real dogs. (I bet they needed a lot of dog supplies for that movie.) I’m curious enough after hearing them talk about it that I might try and find it on tv to check it out for myself. Have you seen Best In Show? Did you like it?

I watched the series premiere of Samantha Who. It’s a half hour comedy series starring Christina Applegate, and it’s about a woman who has amnesia. We begin in the hospital where Samantha is waking from a coma. Her mother is played by Jean Smart and her father is played by Kevin Dunn. She is released from the hospital and goes to her parents’ house where she meets her best friend. She realizes she cannot live with her parents and goes to her apartment which she shares with her boyfriend Todd, played by Barry Watson. It’s hinted they have some issues. She goes to a party with her boyfriend, where she discovers she’s cheating on him with a married man named Rene, whom she has no memory of even after he kisses her. She finds a 30 day AA chip in her purse and goes to a meeting where she can’t remember what foods she likes (which serves as a great analogy for everything going on in her life). She is asked to leave the meeting. She goes home and during the conversation with her boyfriend discovers he’d broken up with her just before the accident. I liked it and will watch it again.

Let me start by sharing with you shows I currently watch every week. I have a season pass set up on our living room Tivo for most if not all of them. Tivo’s season pass allows the viewer to schedule all or just some episodes of a tv series. This list doesn’t include what we watch occasionally, anything we watch on a whim , movies or news - it’s just current recurring series.
Soaps. I only watch ABC soaps. All My Children, One Life To Live and General Hospital.
Comedy. Til Death.
Drama. Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order Criminal Intent, ER.
I just started watching these shows this season. Some are new, one is not. Two and a Half Men, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, Big Love, Burn Notice, The Dead Zone.