Nov 14
Everyone,
Tonight we had some friends of Jucie’s over for dinner. As they came in and met the kids, Butterfly pipes up with this gem:
“We’re watching She-Ra on Netflix. Netflix has some awesome stuff and this is really good. Netflix only has the good stuff. And it’s new too!”
Of course, then I had to explain to her that She-Ra was the cartoon that I used to watch as a little girl. But it’s new to her and that is what matters.
Other things that Netflix has:
- Voltron- Hello early Power Rangers. Watch at your own risk though. I remember loving Voltron as a kid, but now it’s the exact same story line over and over and over again.
- He-Man. Did you know that He-Man and She-Ra are twins? I seem to have forgotten that tidbit of information. They are. And they have very similar story lines. These don’t make my ears bleed, although I could do without the cat woman chick.
- Rainbow Bright. Seriously love Rainbow Bright. I had Rainbow Bright sheets for years. I love her horse. And I love that we watched Rainbow Bright and the Star Stealer and I still remembered what was going to happen next.
- Star Trek, TNG. I love remembering how we used to watch TNG while eating dinner in our house in Colorado. My brother and I fought over the chair that you didn’t have to turn all the way around to see the tv.
- The Wonder Years. Oh Kevin Arnold. You have such dark curly hair! And I loved you in The Princess Bride too. (Another childhood favorite.) And Winnie with her super long hair. I love this show.
Things that Netflix doesn’t have:
- Ducktails (who-oh!)
- Gummy Bears (bouncing here and there and everywhere)
- My Little Pony
- Full House
- Saved By the Bell
Get on that Netflix, okay? Especially the My Little Pony show. I have a 6 year old who would LOVE it. And then maybe I could enjoy that instead of the new Care Bears (which, frankly, I hate.)
What show do you remember from your childhood?
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SafireTV TV
Jun 02
Everyone,
I admit, my kids watch their fair share of tv. Even though we don’t have cable, we have Netflix streaming on our Wii and we watch that. Every one of my kids can turn the tv on, turn the Wii on, and get a show going. We do have a few rules with it.
- No tv before school.
- No tv until everyone is done eating. Such as, if Juice and I linger over our plates after dinner, the kids can’t turn on a show until we say that we are done. Sometimes it takes too long and they end up playing until bedtime. I like those days.
- Everyone takes turns picking a show. Okay, mostly we fight with Pirate to let everyone else pick a show.
- Mommy can switch shows if she just can’t take it any more.
That last rule is new. Because there is only so many times that I can listen to Dora the Explorer yell, “Say it LOUDER!” Why does she insist on yelling everything? Her head and eyes bug me too. And I can’t help but wonder if Boots the monkey got his name before of AFTER his red boots.
I know too many songs that I really didn’t want to know. Like the backpack song on Diego. Or the Care-A-Lot song from Care Bears. Also, this stupid Missing Lynx show that Pirate is obsessed with drives me out of the room. And I can’t remove it from the cue or hide it…he searches and FINDS it.
But it is helping the rest of my house stay clean!
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SafireTV TV
Jan 20
Everyone,
So this afternoon Butterfly was complaining that one of her movies was not working.
“You need to fix this movie because it is very sticky.” I pulled it out of the player and there were fingerprints ALL over the disk. No wonder it was sticking. I told her we shouldn’t touch the shiny side.
“Why?”
“Well, because that’s where the movie is.” She looked at the disk and looked up at me like I was crazy.
“The movie is on the TV. This (pointing to the disk) only tells it what to play,” she told me matter of factly.
“Nooo, the disk IS the movie. Look, there’s a little light on the inside of the dvd player that looks at the shiny side of the disk and gets the pictures. Then the light shines on the screen and the pictures come out.”
“Oh, so you learned not to touch the shiny side when you were little huh? And now you’re telling me!”
“When I was little we didn’t have these kinds of movies. We had tapes. They were about as big as a book and we played them in a VCR.”
She looks a little stunned at that. I continued, “And when Nana was little, she didn’t have movies in her house. She had to go to a theater if she wanted to see one.”
“No she didn’t.”
“Yes, I’m sure she did honey.”
“Nope.”
“You want to call her and ask?!”
“Yes!” So we called up my mom who told Butterfly what I said was true. Then my mom took it a step further and said that when Nana-Great (her mom) was little she didn’t even have a tv at all!
Butterfly took the phone away from her ear and told me that Nana-Great had no tv when she was a little girl! She put the phone back to her ear and said, “That’s HORRIBLE!” I think she was secretly interested though because she has kept asking me what Nana-Great did when she was little if she couldn’t watch tv. I told her Nana-Great does what Butterfly does when she’s not allowed to watch tv…she played!
Not so horrible, I think.
Safire
SafireButterfly, Great Grands, movies, my Mom, TV
Dec 18
Everyone,
Good news! I found a fix for the remote online (I love the Internets) and it works again. Yay! I can now scroll through our movies.
Sadly, I think we might have to morn the loss of our other 2 remotes. It’s been at least a month since we lost the TV and the small DVD player remote. We have searched high and low. We’ve moved furniture, cleaned, hunted, everything.
I think Pirate may have thrown them away and we didn’t know.
He loved to bring them to me awhile ago and I would always tell him to go put them back. I did that one day to something in the kitchen and noticed that he went right to the garbage and threw it in there. Ack! There’s a very real possibility that our remotes are now at the dump leaking harmful chemicals into our soil. Because they had rechargeable batteries in them.
Juice is more upset at the loss of the batteries than the remote. We at lest have a universal remote that works with them both. The TV or the small DVD player are not as complex as the big DVD player so it’s not as big of a deal.
Yes, we have 2 DVD players. One for the movies we own, and one for the movies we rent. We have a big box covering the big DVD player because the boys like to push buttons. It’s a pain to get movies in and out of it anyway. So we have a small one that isn’t covered by a box and you don’t have to scroll through pages of titles to watch something once. It works for us.
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SafireTV
Dec 17
Everyone,
We discovered this morning that the remote to our fancy big 400 dvd changer is broken. BROKEN! You seriously have to have that thing in order to know what movie you’re switching to. And I love that changer so much. It makes things so much easier. No pulling disks in and out. No loosing them, scratching them, or destroying them. It does make it harder to watch them anywhere else but at that TV, but that is okay sometimes.
So I looked online to see if I could send it somewhere and have it be repaired. Nope. They don’t even make this remote anymore. I could get a universal remote and try to get it to work, but there are specific buttons on this one that I don’t think a universal remote would have. Like “folder” or “edit.”
Guess I’m off to ebay to find some one’s old remote. Ugh.
Hopefully the kids will stop doing the following when we do find a replacement remote: eating it, licking it, slobbering on it, throwing it off the couch/table/stairs, hiding it in the couch cushions, putting it in the bathtub (minus water), shoving it under the bathroom door to play while I am in there, trying to feed it to the dog, putting it in the dog’s food bowl, putting it in the dog’s bed, trying to put it in the dog’s water bowl, trying to put it in the fridge, putting it in the kitchen cupboards, standing on it, hitting each other’s heads with it, hitting their own heads with it and laughing, pretending it’s a phone, pretending it’s a Wii remote, pretending it’s a surf board/skate board/wake board, trying to take it outside, trying to shove it out the doggy door, trying to throw it out the window, trying to color on it, pushing buttons when they are not supposed to, and generally man handling it.
I think they should make these remotes out of sturdier stuff. Don’t they know I have twin toddlers and their big sister to deal with?!
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