Donna Martin graduates...

Now that summer is slowly quickly approaching, I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do with all my freedom and time.  Of course, there is all the fun I'll be having hanging out with Swee'Pea, working in my garden, working on super exciting sewing and crafting projects around the house, cooking and baking and creating up a storm in the kitchen... but what about those lazy times?  When I've just finished another good book, the little one is asleep, and all I want to do is doze on the couch with the air conditioner on high and the TV tuned to something funny and familiar and not too intense.

I don't know if those of you who have cable realize it, but there really is nothing on network channels during the day.  (Quite honestly, I don't think there is much interesting stuff on at night either, but that is just me).  Oh, I do love my Law and Order and CSI and 30 Rock and Kings... and boy oh boy do I miss my beloved ER... but those are all on just a few nights a week, and that leaves entire mornings and afternoons open when I'm most likely to turn the TV on.  I can't stand most of the morning talk shows... nor do I care about who is sleeping with whom or which random star from the late 1980's has come back from the dead to kill her stepson's illegitimate love child with her second cousin twice removed on one of the many soaps that invade the stations from 11am-3pm.  Alas, my two options over the past month had been A) The Cosby Show or B) Roseanne (and I'm not embarrassed to admit, sometimes I would totally rush home from running errands just so I could watch Roseanne).  

Because of our limited free TV viewing options, we've invested in several TV series on DVD over the past few years... we've got the complete series of Seinfeld and Arrested Development (two shows which I firmly believe every household should own...) and I most recently completed my set of Friends (gotta love cheap discs at Target!).  I need one more season to go to complete my collection of 24, and we've also got some random seasons of The OC (don't lie, you know you miss that show), Family Guy, The Shield, and Night Court (random, I know).  I've really wanted to get into a new show that I can start collecting, so I've started researching on Amazon for good finds and good deals.  I've been wanting to find a show that is, like I said, fun and funny and not so intense that I will freak if I fall asleep 20 seconds into it (unlike with 24 where I panic if I miss a single second... who knows who Jack Bauer will have shot dead while I blinked... or how he will have narrowly escaped death by fighting off 20 armed gunmen with a single straw).

I have been searching and searching and searching... and then it hit me.  Why reinvent the wheel?  Why try a new show when there are so many other shows I already hold near and dear and would love to add to my collection?

A few clicks of the button, and I had my wish list set.  I think I'm going to have a pretty fun summer of catching up with some old friends if I'm able to order a few of these puppies.  What do you guys think?  Which should I start with first??

Okay, seriously, I really do want to get into a new show.  I'm thinking I want to order some seasons of HBO's Big Love.  I am OBSESSED with this show, even though I've only seen like five episodes (I think Marge is just the cutest person EVER!).  I am glued to it when I'm at my mom's house and it is on... and a ton of people at work watch it and talk about it and I'm dying that I am not able to watch it.  What do you guys think?  Anyone a fan of Big Love and have some input??