Monthly Archives: November 2008

I wanna Roku gently

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I got a roku for our anniversary, and OH MY GOD, I love it. For one, I can watch Airline (as I mentioned), but it's also nice to have some kids stuff on there for those times when we just need a movie to watch. The day I got the Roku, we checked out Ratatouille (eh) but Milo & Otis is just a cat and a dog playing with every other animal you can imagine, and she loves animals, and to help reset her clock I played the first 13 minutes of Annie, and she loved the Kids N MUSIC! And the Roku takes out of the tv guilt equation two things — advertising (either within the viewing of the movie, or when we leave the house –there is no cobranded Annie bratz doll, or Milo & Otis shoes), and schedules. We don't schedule tv, and we don't have cable, or a DVR, or even a VCR hooked up, but the bigger she gets, the more trouble she can get into on her own, and there are times when a few minutes of uh, zen, are appreciated.

So far, Ing's tv watching is 20 minutes of Arthur in the morning (on PBS) as there's a gap between when I leave the house and when Dave is done getting ready, so she gets a cereal bar and cup of milk and some aardvark, and on Saturdays and Sundays, Sesame Street is on from 8-9, and that is mama & daddy's coffee waking up time. We can't sleep in anymore, but we do take our time 'waking up,' with the help of Jim Henson. Since the discovery of AFV two weeks ago, AKA "Guys all fall down show," she's liked that, and Dave has instituted a family cuddle and viewing of AFV for about 20 minutes before bathtime, because Ingrid LOVES it, and it's kind of a nice way to end the weekend.

I still tend to feel guilty about tv, and maybe the Roku will now make me lose all my "I have no cable" street cred, but it is a damn cool device.

3 years of Ingrid & Chucky

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3 years of Ingrid & Chucky
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It’s NaBloPoMo Month! Which I plan on doing again, only because I have um, kind of a ridiculous number of blogs now — uhh, this one, ingrids @ vox, moblog @ LJ, Local Baby one, and now, one at my own domain name (myname.com), um, yeah. That’s a lot. So I’m going to try to post once a day at one of those five blogs. (If you want the addy to any that you don’t have, let me know.)

Halloween was awesome — Ing went trick or treating for the first time, and dave had to miss it because of work BOOO, but, never again. We’ve agreed that 10/31 is way too important for us — as a couple, and as a family — to be apart for the sake of OT. OT is great, for sure, but not worth missing such a big holiday if we don’t have to.

Ingrid was a peacock, and my parents came up to help man the house and trick or treating, and it went great. My mom and I did the block with Ingrid, and met some neighbors we hadn’t yet, so that was cool. We (I, since I’m the neighbor) also wink, wink’ed with the neighbors with Obama signs, so that was nice. Ing kept her costume on until the last minute, greeting trick or treaters in it up til the end.

Today, my parents took us all out to breakfast, and we got a late start, so Ing missed swim, but oh well. Dave went to work at 10:25, straight from breakfast (before the rest of us had finished even, but he had to go) and he’ll be back tonight by 11. BIG OT weekend, on top of last week’s big OT, so it will be a really sweet paycheck on Friday. Anyway. After breakfast, Ing took a nap, and after that we went out for her to get a haircut. Then, we went to Target, where her cousin (who is 22) called because she was in town and wanted to see her. We spent quite a while at their house, and then went and got lobster at the grocery store. Maine’s lobster industry is struggling right now, so there’s a big push to buy it, and man, I’ll take one for the team. Okay, so technically, I took two for the team. But they were softshell, so not very meaty.

Ing is in bed now, and I’ve set up the woodstove with the fire screen and a bunch of candles (some that allegedly smell like a fireplace, but I’m not so sure) and I’ve got a glass of wine. And the Roku playing Airline. I love that show. Just wish Dave were here….