Many, many times. Have also watched the one starring Marlo Thomas many times. But in the last few years, Hallmark has made so many new and good Christmas movies that I watch them now, instead of watching the oldies on a regular basis.

I watched the very first Married at First Sight. It was interesting because these three original couples had not idea about the concept. I really never kept up with the couples that followed, although I did hear that one woman needed a restraining order. I have seen the latest three couples, but I haven't been following. I might google to see if they had the finale and to see who decided to stay together. Two fo the men are only 26. I think this is a bit young to do this time of arrangement. What actually happens on the second chance show?

The only trouble with multiple opinions is that many times, in a life or death or grave disability situation, you are in no position to get a second opinion. You've broken your neck skiing and the lovely Dr. Death is the neurosurgeon on call that night in the ED. There can be other, less emergent circumstances where your ability to get more opinions is severly limited. I had pain in my knee. I stupidly put off seeing a doctor, hoping things would resolve on their own (which they had in the past). Saw an orthopaedic surgeon, by the time I had the initial meeting, MRI and learned of his plans for me, I was in a grave amount of pain, the kind that makes you understand how people became alcoholics and drug addicts back in the day before modern medicine. His diagnosis and plan was mind bogglingly inappropriate. Fortunately one of my dearest friends is an orthopaedic surgeon. She does hands, though. One of her friends saw me asap, and I had the appropriate operation a bit later, but really, at some point time is not your friend with a medical situation. And mind you I had to see a third surgeon because my friends friend was out of my insurance network, and though he could tell me how much he would charge and I could decide to pay that, he said he had no idea what the surgical center would charge and it could be reasonable or crazy no way of knowing until you got the bill. Which brings me to the topic of bad doctors and how do they get away with their behavior. I live in the Bay Area. This surgeon did his residency at Stanford, spines were his specialty, ha, and it turns out everyon knew him to be the egregious idiot he was. One day at a Junior League meeting I was recounting the story of what happened. I had not used his name and another woman jumped up and said, no doubt you are talking about so and so. The doctor my friend sent me to did his residency with the egregious one, he said everyone knew was he was like, and yet, he practiced in my town, at a major clinic, not Stanford, though. PS In case anyone is wondering, Dr. Egregious said I, a 35 year old woman at the time, had unknowingly snapped my quadracep. This is an injury usually sustained my football players apparently, but I managed it without noticing. Because I had waited so long to be seen, the muscle has shrunk and retracted and the surgeon would have to make a 10 " open incision to reattach the muscle, which he would not be able to do properly because of my neglect and so I would limp for the rest of my life. Turns out I have a benign condition, synovial chondromatosis, which makes it so I grow rice sized pieces of cartiledge in my knee. You could not tell from the MRI. My surgeon went in arthoscopically to diagnose and fix the problem. I have no open incision, friends, and I do not limp :-)

I don't see many movies, and have been pondering if there are any that I would watch again or have watched again. A few came to mind: Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney) Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version) A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version) Various other movies from the 1930s & 1940s, when I had access to TCM and AMC, and when both showed mostly movies (Cagney, Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, Crosby - if enough years have passed since the last time I saw them) Battleground Moonstruck Out of Africa Master and Commander (just recently) When my DD was an early teen, she loved a movie called "Wish Upon a Star" with a young Katherine Heigl. She watched it multiple times so inadvertently I did also. Should I count the things that she watched over and over as a toddler? The TV production of Peter Pan with Mary Martin was watched daily for over a month - she learned all the moves to the dance with Tiger Lily.