Sort of. There’s a new reality show that premiered tonight called Greatest American Dog. The show will feature a dozen dog and owner teams living together and competing against each other for a prize of $250,000. Each week one team will be eliminated by the judges, who are Wendy Diamond, Allan Reznik and Victoria Stilwell. The host of the show is Jarod Miller. Greatest American Dog will be airing on Thursdays at 8pm on CBS.
As I mentioned recently on one of my other blogs, my son CJ has been having a blast watching golf on television lately. He goes wild when any of the players hit the ball. CJ is turning nine years old in two weeks and I’ve been thinking about what to get him. Today I saw a set of kids pretend golf clubs on Amazon and thought that he might really enjoy one of those. A couple of companies make playsets like this but so far the Little Tikes looks like it’s the nicest. Do any of your kids have a pretend play golf set? Which one? Do you recommend it?
Television’s going to the cats! Sort of. There’s a new television show called Housecat Housecall. It’s being sponsored by Purina Cat Chow. In each weekly episode a veterinarian will visit three different families and try and solve problems the owners have been unable to. Sort of like a Dog Whisperer but for cats. The show will be on Animal Planet, airing on Saturdays at 9 am and Sundays at 7am. The cats will all have different issues, submitted by real people. Some of the real stories already submitted are an aggressive cat, a cat that sleeps in the sink, a cat that stalks a camera and a cat that won’t leave the computer alone. So, if your cat is acting strangely, perhaps hiding all of your Guess watches, send your story in. Maybe you’ll get a Housecat Housecall.
Lately there’s been a bit of press about Britney Spears appearing on the network television show How I Met Your Mother. It’s been announced the Lindsay Lohan has signed to appear in Ugly Betty for six episodes. I wonder if the producers are trying to cash in on the free bad girl pr. Are they hoping to get a free ratings boost from viewers tuning in to see if the drug rehab grads are a wreck? I’ve not seen How I Met Your Mother, and I didn’t like the one episode of Ugly Betty that I saw. And I’m not interested enough to watch it either show just because Britney or Lindsay or on them.
Some people feel that buying additional warranties aren’t worth it. I have found that it’s worth buying an additional warranty on any expensive purchase. We have bought one for every vehicle we’ve bought from a dealership since we married, and used every one. I follow the example my parents set for me. Buy the warranty if it’ll save you more than it will cost you to spend to replace the product and buy the warranty if it”ll be cheaper to buy it than hire a repairman. Most recently my parents flat panel tv in the den started having problems. The repairman came out to the house and said that he couldn’t repair it there and it’d need to be replaced so he took it right off of the tv wall mount and off to the shop. Soon after the tv was replaced with a brand new one, so it paid to have that warranty. Do you purchase additional warranties on expensive purchases? Have you ever had to use it? Have you ever wished you’d bought one after the fact?
Going back a couple of years we had to replace our old metal swing set. It had rusted and was falling apart. My oldest son wanted something big enough that his friends could play on. We wanted something that would last a while and be affordable. So off we went to look at and price swing sets. We looked locally and everything we wanted or liked was out of our price range. Unwilling to give up, I decided to search online to see who else in our area carried them. I had never considered buying one online. I was so surprised to find out that some really big manufacturers sell their wood swing sets online for mush less than you can buy them elsewhere. And they’ll ship them to you on a freight truck. We saved about $400 on the swing set and it’s still standing and in excellent shape. So, if you are considering getting a swing set I recommend doing a little surfing online. You might find what you’re looking for at a really nice price.
Want to save yourself some money in 2008? Of course you do. You can, if you win the contest that Elizabeth over at Table for Five is running. The winner will save themselves some money because they’ll be the recipient of a year’s supply of Orville Redenbacher’s Natural Popcorn AND a one year subscription to Netflix. We boy a box or two of microwave popcorn every week, so this would save us a bunch of money. If you want to enter the contest just write about it and then comment on her blog. That the short versions of the instructions of course, check her site for the full set. The winner will be selected on 01/05/08. I’m in. See you there!
For Christmas all of the guys (my father, husband, son and all brothers) each received a new Xmod radio controlled car. They all already had at least one but since they like racing them so much my Mom got them all another. One of my brothers loves playing with his so much that he has even put together a track at his house. Sometimes they like to add stuff to them and dress them up, so now I have to keep my eyes open for a Dodge Charger accessory or two as I think that’s the one my son got.
Do you like to play games on your computer? I’ve gotten hooked on hidden object games, thanks to my blogging pal Skeet. After buying one hidden object game and beating it, I knew I had to have more. Which is where the saving of the money comes in. I could go broke buying games at full price. So I joined the Big Fish Game Club. By signing up for the club, I am committing myself to making one purchase a month. In exchange for that commitment, Big Fish is discounting games down to $6.99 each. (There are two other plans at $9.99 per month and $7.99 per month, but the best discount is the one I got, and it saves a lot of money.) Generally games are about $19.99, so you save $13 each if you’re in the game club. So let’s do the math. I’ve committed to spending $83.88 over the course of one year, broken down into $6.99 increments each month. If you were buying the games full price, you’d spend $79.96 on four games alone. So after buying four games you’ve pretty much paid for the membership. Once you’ve met your committed number of games you can cancel. And if you want you can rejoin at any time with no minimum required. It’s a great deal worth checking out. But wait! That’s not all. For a couple of days more, Big Fish has made the deal even better. The ad on the Big Fish Games Home Page says that if members use a game credit between now and 12/14/07, they will be emailed a free game credit on 12/15/07. I also got an email saying the same thing. Go. Now. What are you waiting for? If you don’t want it for yourself, it’d make a great gift.
I have two brothers that really enjoy football. My youngest brother, the one in the Navy, loves the Giants. Another brother recently told me he liked the Saints, but I’ve always thought of him more as just liking the game in general. My youngest brother is really hoping the Giants will make it to the Superbowl. Yesterday both brothers were looking at tickets for an upcoming game, and they were saying how hard it was to get big clocks of tickets together. They had found a block of five for about $500 but before they could purchase them online they were gone. Being as he’s currently stationed in California, I bet that if the Giants do make it to the bowl that my little brother will be looking for some Superbowl tickets, because a trip to Phoenix from San Diego probably wouldn’t be too bad. I can only guess how much they will cost.
