Well, many of you will be shocked to know that for the last 17 years, our home has operated with THREE television channels. For the first three years of our marriage, Ken and I had cable - mostly because the city where we lived at that time did not allow outdoor TV antennas. Even with our rabbit ears, we were lucky to get two very blurry channels, so we opted for cable. Since we left there in 1991, we have had THREE channels with our antenna. Its been fine. The boys have not been stunted in any way, although, I am sure they would argue that. We bought lots of movies and have a whole library of those. If there was something on another network that we wanted to see, we had plenty of friends and family that were kind enough to record them for us. We survived.
Now, with the changes coming in February 2009, we started looking at the converter boxes and decided, maybe it was time to get a dish. Add to that the fact that the Olympics this year were in China, plus we met many members of the US Boxing Team in San Francisco/Beijing. So, we went ahead and ordered the dish. THEN, the male species in my home started talking about needing a larger television to go with all the new channels. So, on Wednesday, we all stared and gawked at TV's in several stores. We compared prices, sizes, quality, and all those other things... and came home with this massive monster. Some vehicle destruction was involved to get it into the car to come home from the store too. It does not even fit inside our entertainment system. It has to sit on top and practically fills the entire room. Ken won't let the boys hook their PS2 up to it, which is probably a good thing - other than the fact that last night, they had both TV's on at the same time. The TV inside the entertainment system had a street football PS2 game and the giant screen on top of the console had Sponge Bob SquarePants on it. JOY! A new definition to multi-tasking. They were both playing the game while they were repeating the lines from the Sponge Bob cartoon.
When Elle and I were talking about it yesterday morning (the install was after we left the house), I told her that when we got home from work, we could watch Hannah Montana. She was excited and then paused and said "No, watch Dora." Of course, the boys weren't really impressed and kept telling her last night that Dora wasn't on. So this morning, when Ken was getting her out of bed, I went and put Dora on. You should have seen her face light up when she came into the living room. The giant new TV had Dora on it - just for her! The boys were already gone to weight lifting, so they don't realize that Mom ruined their scheme to keep Dora out of Elle's TV schedule.
Nothing much else to report today... just another Friday. Hope you each have a nice weekend, whatever you decide to do. I think we'll be watching Dora and the Olympic Boxing Team!
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2 comments:
Have to laugh about the tv. We still just have one tv - a 20 inch. Since we moved down here we have not had cable (it's not available out here). I've really enjoyed not having the tv schedule rule our evenings! But...today Phil bought a little antenna so we could watch the olympics.
You are too funny. I am afraid my CA husband has had us use cable for use - however, my children wouldn't know the diff since we only let them watch videos...
I think I would have to bang my head against the wall if I had to endure the two sets going with boys playing games and quoting SpongeBob...
(I could for the most part live without cable (or television for that matter)- that said - when we switched providers - I did make sure that they offered a similar package to the one we had so that we would still have the NFL channel - middle of the winter and early in the spring with all the stations in the world have nothing to watch - I like listening to football stories - how bizarre is that).
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