Steve and I don't own a TV, but we catch a few things on the BBC iPlayer, like Human Planet (episodes about people living in jungles and on oceans=awesome, episodes about people living in the arctic and in deserts=just okay), and we sometimes get our hands on a movie, like the other week when someone was feeling the stress of writing a PhD and had to be instructed in the art of taking a vacation from his problems by Bill Murray in What About Bob?
Also, there are Thursdays.
On Thursdays we wake up at 5:30 am to get Steve out the door for work in another city. He usually arrives back home at 10 or 11 pm, so I have a big, long day to myself in which I bake and do my soul-destroying work (but I can only ever really do about 5 hours of soul-destroying work on any given day for the obvious reason that it's soul-destroying) and eat cookie dough and edamame salad for dinner (the cookbook said that salad would feed 4 but it just keeps giving) and watch TV on the Internet.
At the beginning of Steve's term, I watched all the most recent episodes of MI-5 that aren't available in the US yet. Then I called my sister to give her hints about what might happen, because she's only season 3 or something.
Then I discovered that there are full episodes of Supernanny on YouTube. I love Supernanny. She's the best.
And now I've gotten my hands on a few episodes of So You Think You Can Dance. Oh, I love the dancing! (Have I mentioned that I've been going to Zumba, which is a bit like dancing except with the elderly and the overweight? I like it.)
Today's episode of SYTYCD included this dance, which caught my fancy. I think I've watched the clip about 15 times today. (Maybe I will have to check my eye-rolling next time Steve becomes very, very enthusiastic about a particular railway video clip.)
This video of it is actually better. If I were you, I'd link over and watch it from there.
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At our Y, Zumba is dominated by the young and fit (and fast) and the old and overweight (me) can't keep up. You should be here! Mom
I also watch SYTYCD on YouTube. I started watching the UK, Canadian, and Australian versions on there, as well. I still think the U.S. has the best, but the others are enjoyable to watch as well. Yes, my life is very slow in the winter.
Moo--I haven't watched the international ones yet. I thought I saw a billboard here advertising a new season of the UK one but it hasn't shown up on iPlayer. Booo!
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