Typical Thursday...

Thursday nights are my favorite.  They've been affectionately deemed TV THURSDAY!  Like I've mentioned before, we are without cable and barely get the 3 local stations.  And usually there is nothing good on.  Most of the shows are far behind the actual seasons in the states, and lots of them are some I never watched before, but find myself looking forward to here:  House, Law and Order, Rachael Ray, etc.  Back in Omaha, where I sought supreme comfort in my investment of a DVR, I often found myself in a rut with nothing to watch on the 100 channels and recorded programs.  But Thursday in New Zealand is a whole other story.

The night starts with Survivor Gabon.  I haven't watched Survivor since the first season, when it was all the rage, and I distinctly remember the catchphrase 'You have been voted off the island".  In fact, I was voted off a trip to Grandma's by my friend Rachel and her brother and friend that same year, total Survivor-style...for talking too much, imagine that!  I have been on the edge of my seat week to week wrapped up in the drama of Survivor Gabon, even though I know Google could instantaneously tell me the winner since it's so far behind (please don't spoil it for me)!  After Survivor, CSI Miami is on.  Again, I never watched any show even remotely like the CSI series, and if I were going to, the Miami version would not be the one.  All I can remember is a stupid YouTube video that Bret showed me of all of Horatio's one-liners in the show, accompanied with the trademark, glamourous way of putting on his shades, with excerpts of that annoying Who theme song.  Therefore, I cannot take the show seriously and think of it more of a comedy with drawn out music-videoesque sequences analyzing DNA.  And when good ol' Horatio comes on the screen, I can't wait to hear what his next ridiculously profound discovery will be.  It's a riot.  Lastly, to wrap up the evening, is Girls of the Playboy Mansion.  A few seasons behind, it's comforting to chill with Bridget, Holly, and Kendra, although, they too, are a little hard to take serious.

Overall, I relish in TV THURSDAY because it is an escape from the kiwi shenanigans and accent, and I can find myself surrounded by American television, as bad as it may be.