Obsession

Jav and I have become obsessed with our 2 hours at night we get to relax and watch TV with no baby or pets interrupting. Actually, make that just no baby, the pets are still jumping on the bed or meowing for food or needing to go outside. But anyway, we are so serious about this time that we spent an hour or so looking over the article in the Star Telegram Sunday about new and returning shows. We decided to pick out a couple of new ones to start taping each week. Our show count dropped now that Sopranos, Big Love and Flight of the Conchords are finished. Here's what we decided:

-Saving Grace - we'll finish out the season

-The Office, which has been a favorite for the past couple of years.

-Top Chef/Project Runway (Top Chef has 3 or so more weeks, and I'm not sure when Project Runway starts).

-Heroes. We just started slowly watching last season and are trying to figure out a way to speed up the process so we can start enjoying Season 2 once it starts. Right now we're only watching two episodes a week.

These next three will probably not all make it. We plan to pick at least one and maybe two from this list of new shows:

-Dirty Sexy Money. Another mob show, and you gotta love Peter Krauss, so we have to try it.

-Cane. This is supposed to harken back to the Dynasty days, only much better writing and acting. It's about a sugar cane plantation owning family. It has a great cast including Jimmy Smits, Rita Moreno and Hector Elizondo.

-Pushing Daisies. The critics are all saying this will be the best new show of the season. It's about a guy who can save a person's or animal's (or even plant's I think) life by just touching them. The only problem is he has to pick out someone or something else to die instead.

And finally, our guilty pleasure - The Great American Band Contest on Fox.

Oh, and we decided to start taping all Seinfelds, just because they're so great and there's a bunch I never saw midway through the run.

And just in case anyone thinks I've become a TV addict, I also try to read for a half hour after we turn off the dreaded contraption every night.