My new favorite thing...

Netflix's "Watch Instantly" feature rocks! J and I have had Netflix for awhile now, but we aren't very good at it. We are the type of people Netflix makes all kinds of money on. We get a movie in the mail, and sit on it for a long time before we either watch it or just mail it back because we watched the movie on television. (Yes, that has happened to us more than once.)

I have a friend who has a system down. He signed up for two movies at a time, created his queue, and waited for the movies to arrive. They both showed up on the same day the first time, so he and his wife and kids watched one, and put it in the mail the next day. Then the next night they watched the other movie. The next day they put the second one in the mail, and on the third day, they got a new one. They have an endless rotation, and they see all kinds of movies!! They truly are getting more than their money's worth each month.

Not so much here in the Hocking household.

Anyway, I got online the other day to update the queue, and saw that three of the movies had a little button next to them that said, "Play now". Curious, I clicked on one of them. Did you know that you can watch a movie on your computer? It was fabulous!

J was still sleeping, so I put on some headphones, grabbed a blanket, and curled up in my comfy computer chair and watched "The Game Plan." I wouldn't recommend it, by the way. Unless you have a little girl. I think only little girls would like it.

It was so cool, that I looked at the queue again to see what else I could just watch right then. Turns out there were two more movies in the queue that were most definitely movies I wanted to see, and I figured J wouldn't want to see them. So I also watched "Enchanted" that morning. It, too, was just okay. It would have been more fun to see it with a little kid. By myself it was alright. It was WAY better than if I had watched with J, though. He would have complained the whole way through!

A few days later I watched "Dan in Real Life." Now THAT is a movie I can recommend! It's rather predictable, but worth the time regardless.

The only other movie in our queue that we can watch instantly is some creepy scary something that I am NOT interested in at all. J can watch that and take it out of our queue and it would thrill me!

I have also watched a couple of episodes of other television series to see if I want to borrow the seasons on dvd. Nothing so far has impressed me. I tried to watch "The Office" to see if I "got" it better by watching the first few episodes. Not so much. I just don't see what people love about that show.

Anyway, my new favorite thing is Netflix's Watch Instantly feature. (And I suppose it makes me love my computer even more! We have a great screen, and it's still a super fast computer...and it's more than a year old now! On our old computer, there's no way I could have watched movies...)

I highly recommend checking it out!