No TV

So Christina and I are trying the no TV thing in our house. (By no TV we mean no cable hook up, we have a TV to watch DVD's and things online.) Christina grew up without any TV for a lot of her childhood, so it's not too unusual for her. But as so many things are available online, it's really not a huge sacrifice. We don't waste time just sitting in front of the TV for hours, but we can still watch some shows. To be honest though, we don't regularly watch any current TV shows. We have a $10 antenna that gets CBS, Fox, and PBS if you set it just right, along with about 10 foreign language channgels. But we haven't actually used that lately. Mostly we just watch Seinfeld online (we have a hook-up from my laptop to the TV), find a show on Hulu, watch movies we own, or check-out DVD's from our library.

Our public library actually has a lot of TV shows on DVD. Not very educational, but pretty awesome. So earlier we watched a few seasons of Home Improvement. I'm also introducing Christina to some new shows. Right now we're watching Frasier--a show she didn't like much at first, but now she finds it very funny. Next up, we have Season 1 of The Cosby Show on hold. I really enjoy that show and think Christina will too. (I couldn't believe she'd never watched it!) They also have the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Which I think is a pretty funny show. I occasionally sing the theme song and Christina has no idea what it's from.

The major downfall of this is sports watching for me. I'm sure Christina likes it cause I'm not turning Sportscenter on almost every night. We do have access to ESPN3.com, so that makes it better as a lot of games are on there. And BYU moving to ESPN/BYU-TV we can watch any televised games online. But I have a friend with DVR and DirectTV. DVR may be the one thing that pulls us back, if that were to happen. I love the idea of recording a sports game and watching it much faster and not missing any cause I'm at work. But for now, we're doing well without TV.

Fun Date Night

Last night Christina and I went on a great date night adventure at almost no cost to us! We headed off to Trafalga and hit up the Go-Karts. We have two Starving Student Cards and they have a free ride each.

I lapped Christina a few times. She was scared to keep her foot on the gas while going around the curves cause you kind of feel like you're sliding. But once she got over that it was a good race and I had trouble passing her.

After that we used a $5 gift card we had to

We split a Power size.

Christina had never tried one of the smoothies off of the secret menu that Nathan and I discovered a few years back. We got one called

There are many underground flavors as I call them. They don't have them posted, you just have to know them. Most of them aren't very healthy. Fruity Pebbles is basically a bunch of different flavors of sherbet and some soymilk. Other flavors are Pink Starburst (also very yummy), White Gummi, and PB& J Sandwich. Here's is a list and recipes.

Afterwards we came back and watched a Disney movie that neither of us had seen for a long time.

Toy Story 3

Here is my official review. We went to see it in 3-D this last Saturday evening. First off, a word about 3-D. I really don't think it made it that much of an improvement. Pixar doesn't really do the popping out at you from the screen thing (which is good, cause you're head would hurt more after two hours of that). I just don't think it's worth the extra $2.50 per ticket. My head still hurt a little, and it still looks really cool in 2-D. Plus, the story doesn't change one bit.

I'm giving Toy Story 3 4 ½ stars. It started out really great with a fun look into the imagination of Andy playing with his toys—and what this looks like in his mind. There were a lot of good laughs throughout the film. The visuals (although I downplayed those a little bit, because I think they would be great in 2-D also) were amazing. The ending was really good too. Both the climax and then the very last part. Darn Pixar, who else can make my eyes water over toys that are animated! 

I took off half a star for a few small things. In a few places the story felt way to similar to the previous two films. Also, they introduced a lot of promising characters, but probably too many. You hardly got to see any of the little girl's (Bonnie) toys. But overall it was another great film from Pixar. 

Toy Story 3 Trailer

 My favorite Toy Story 3 trailer. It comes out a week from Friday!

Summer Movies 2010

People who know me really well know that I like film. I thought about going into it my Freshman year. So here's a posting of the movies I'm most looking forward to this summer (Right-click on the title to and bring up in a new tab or window to see the trailer and keep this window open).


1) Toy Story 3 - June 18th
Pixar is the greatest. I am so excited for this new installment of the Toy Story films. Usually with sequels you have to worry (Shrek 4, are you serious?!), but not with Pixar. Toy Story 2, in my opinion, was a little bit better than the first. So Christina and I will try to be there opening night (at least opening weekend) for this one.


2) Inception  - July 16th
The trailer gets me excited. I don't know much else about it. It could end up being really unique and amazing, or unique and weird. 


3) The A-Team - June 11th
A classic 80's TV show turned into a big-budget action movie starring Liam Neeson. What more could you ask for? Really, I loved watching repeats of the A-Team when I was little (I am too young to have seen, or at least understood what was going on during it's original run).


4) Robin Hood - May 14th
I'll have to check this out on one of the parental review sites when it comes out. But it looks like it could be really good. Reminiscent of Gladiator. 


5) How to Train Your Dragon (in theatres already)
We'll wait for this one to come out in the dollar theater, but I'm excited to see it. I've heard a lot of good things. The fact is, we'll probably wait for a few of the ones above this to be in the dollar theater. Movies are too expensive. I'll miss the dollar theater when we move to California.