And now we return to your regularly scheduled programming...

At the end of August there are two things that are added to the usual "back-to-school need to buy" list. They are "TV Guide, New Shows for Fall Edition" and lots and lots of VHS Tapes.
This is a time of research and trial and error. We try new shows and see if they fit two criteria: 1) we absolutely love them and 2) they don't conflict with any other continuing shows in our already busy TV schedule.
In September we eagerly await the Fall Listings for season premieres and carefully mark our schedules to ensure that we catch them all and there are alot of them!
With the wonderful world of digital cable we are able to start our TV evenings as early as 7pm! (thank you Atlantic Canada!) and continue to tape into the wee hours of the morning (thank you BC!) Our vcr happily chugs away some evenings from 7-2 am.
Yes folks we tape out of necessity! Hubby works nights (got this job long after he had nurtured this full grown habit) and I have a schedule that takes me out of the house at minimum 2 nights a week (sometimes 3). Once again thanks to digital TV, Brianne and I can sit together and lovingly plan her recording adventure on Tuesdays and Thursdays (might I add that these are the 2 busiest nights of TV for us!)

So now in order to accommodate everyone's loves we have 2 TV's and 2 vcr's working overtime to record fun programming such as:

CSI
CSI NY
Law and Order
Law and Order SVU
Law and Order Criminal Intent
House
Survivor
Wanted
Prison Break
Supernatural
The O.C.
One Tree Hill
Veronica Mars and so much more....

We can't handle anymore new programs...that Jerry Bruckheimer guy needs to take a break!

We're working on developing a system that help us not to tape over shows recorded and not viewed (cause that leads to such heartache!) It will have to be something we build into our basement renovation this winter...maybe shelves with labels that say "Taped this week", "Watched" and "Not Watched"...I dunno I'll keep thinking about it.

Any Ideas??