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**tulip** · 02-18-2009, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Biciclista

what is your company website?

well, that'll increase the hits, huh? We're going to be upgrading it in the spring by professional webfolks, so it looks a little amateurish. I did it in 2007 when I re-joined the company. Before that, there was no website. But it is useful.

SarverHousingGroup.com

**Aggie_Ama** · 02-18-2009, 08:14 AM

I let DH keep cable for the sake of cycling. Otherwise he would lose the fight. I do like History channel and the Travel Channel. I hate ESPN, Sportscenter, VH1, E!. I record the Texas Parks and Wildlife Show off PBS it is really good.

**OakLeaf** · 02-18-2009, 08:55 AM

I watch MotoGP and Big Love.

Other than that they can keep the TV. DH can barely get me to come downstairs for a movie.

**Biciclista** · 02-18-2009, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by tulip

well, that'll increase the hits, huh? We're going to be upgrading it in the spring by professional webfolks, so it looks a little amateurish. I did it in 2007 when I re-joined the company. Before that, there was no website. But it is useful.

SarverHousingGroup.com

o, wow, what a cool business!

**Zen** · 02-18-2009, 12:33 PM

Theres always Hulu and a lot of old shows are even on Youtube

**kelownagirl** · 02-18-2009, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Crankin

Am I the only person who has never seen American Idol or the bachelor? Or Lost, Survivor, etc?
I don't get it.

I haven't either (although I'll admit I did watch 3 minutes of the Bachelor when someone told me they were in Kelowna meeting the girls' family

I do not watch ANY TV, not even the news. I cannot stand the sound of it and the l don't have a clue what anyone is talking about when they talk about TV.

I used to have my regular 'shows" like Er etc but once I got out of it, I dont' miss it one iota.

**kelownagirl** · 02-18-2009, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

We actually don't watch tv at all for the past 11 years. When the power goes out we have a little battery radio.
We do love good movies though, so we rent them (Netflix) and we watch films on our tv. We have a 'movie night' like once a week or so in our bedroom, with popcorn and everything.
I saw part of an episode of american idol once at a friend's house- their kids were watching. Frankly, I was appalled by it. I'd rather read or knit or write letters to friends or work on my websites in the evenings.

We're the same way - we rent movies about once every 2-3 weeks and have movie night in bed too.

**Crankin** · 02-18-2009, 04:14 PM

Well, I am a news addict. I watch about 3 hours a day (including part of the Today show), local news, and sometimes CNN. I also read 2 newspapers a day. Most of the news watching happens when I am doing something else.
I only have a couple of shows I really like to watch. Right now my favorite one is on when I am in class, so I have to watch it on the, well, the thing on Comcast that has all of the recent shows there for you to watch.
Another thing I don't know how to use!
We got rid of our DVR and HBO. We get 2 Netflix movies a month and I barely can sit to watch them.

**Crankin** · 02-18-2009, 04:31 PM

This is ah, kind of morbid. But not really. I went to a funeral today. The person was our real estate agent and I have known her since 1991. She was not that old, early 60s. She had leukemia and was supposed to have a bone marrow transplant this week, after months of trying to find a donor.
She was a wonderful person and I have never seen our synagogue so full. It got me wondering. I wonder who would show up to my funeral? I also thought about if I could stand up and give a eulogy for someone. Several people spoke today and all were composed, except for one who only broke down a bit at the end of her speech. I don't think I could do that.

**Biciclista** · 02-18-2009, 05:51 PM

my grandmother was someone beloved by the entire family. we all knew that when she died, the church would be filled. Well, she died in February, right before one of the bigger snowstorms on the east coast (where she wanted her funeral) so only a very few people showed up.
And my dear father, who used to fantasize about the size of his funeral, his funeral was attended by about 6 people (myself not included, although I paid for it)

YA never know.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 02-18-2009, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Crankin

She was a wonderful person and I have never seen our synagogue so full. It got me wondering. I wonder who would show up to my funeral? I also thought about if I could stand up and give a eulogy for someone. Several people spoke today and all were composed, except for one who only broke down a bit at the end of her speech. I don't think I could do that.

It's amazing what we can do when we have to.
DH and I befriended a local fiddler who was 92. We visited him a few times at his house and played music with him and his wife. A year later he died, and his widow asked us to play some fiddle music at his funeral.
We had to stand right in front of his open casket and play tunes and talk about how we met him. It was very surreal, but I sort of got by on auto-pilot.

We were happy to have been able to contribute something pleasant to the funeral.
Now, I have sat alone with and comforted 2 different people as they died, but looking at a person in a casket was somehow way more morbid to me.
It was pretty hard, but I didn't look at him! Sort of like driving by an accident and not looking.

**Aggie_Ama** · 02-19-2009, 05:18 AM

My family is Lutheran which believe you close the casket before beginning the funeral services. I have been completely bugged that DH's family leaves the caskets open. He asked why and I said "I dunno I keep expecting them to sit up and tell the family they don't like the song or dance a jig".

My Pawpaw had a huge turn out for his funeral, but his widow only wants graveside services because she is convinced anyone who loved her has died and it will be depressing to just have her one son, his wife and his two kids there.

Myself? I will be cremated. When I was little they moved a cemetary to widen a highway and showed it on the news! I have been so bugged that you are not left to rest in peace that I refuse to be buried. I saw on TV they can take ashes and make you into an artifical reef for the fishes, that looks kind of functional and cool. Plus I hate visiting graves, I have done it once for my Pawpaw and then I say hi when I go to another funeral there (popular place) but otherwise I don't go. I also want the Chicken Dance played.

I am not normal I guess.

**Fredwina** · 02-19-2009, 08:08 AM

My most strangest one was at my dad's funeral. His pastor had me place my hand on his body to verify that he was dead. He said that he found it was easiest way to reassure folks that their loved one wasn't coming back.
one of these days i'll get around to doing a willed body donation - I'm not going to need my body, so I might as well put it to good use.

**Aggie_Ama** · 02-19-2009, 09:09 AM

They are collecting brains of people with essential tremors. I hope I don't die anytime soon but they can have my brain to study for ET, not like I am going to keep using it.

**Crankin** · 02-19-2009, 10:22 AM

Well, Judaism doesn't do open caskets, but I have been to quite a few visitations/funerals where there was one. My poor husband almost freaked out when we went to the wake, for the mother of a colleague of mine .My colleague was standing there, holding the deceased's hand and saying, "Doesn't she look good?" It necessitated going out afterwards and having a very expensive dinner/wine at the restaurant on the top of the Valley National Bank building in Phx.

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