Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Step Away From the Television

Until my son and his family sell their house and get settled into a place here in Beaumont, I have custody of their HDTV and their dog.




My old television was twenty years old. No exaggeration. It looked something like this...



I had no idea what a difference it would make to watch television on a huge (by my standards) 42 inch high definition television as opposed to a 26 inch old timey television.



Every night, the grand-fabulous puppy and I lay on the couch hypnotized by all of the high definition wonderfulness. I watch things I don't even care about just because it's all so amazing.



So, Carly keeps asking me how far along I've gotten in Guitar Hero,



I've had my most recent Netflix movies two weeks and still haven't watched them,



Donna is pissed because I've only read two chapters of Twilight,



I'm paying $30 a month to a gym that I haven't seen the inside of for weeks and...




...my blog posts are more and more reliant on pictures than on writing.





5 comments:

Apartment for Peggy said...

Aren’t you glad I expect nothing of you! Steve agrees you don’t need the extra stress. So, as far as we’re concerned, you and the puppy should just enjoy that TV as long as you can.

Larry Jones said...

I have a feeling it will not be pretty when someone comes to repo that TV...

Laurie said...

Peg and Steve - I need all the enabling I can get. :)

Larry - I gave away my old television so that I'll HAVE to buy a new one when I give the one I'm watching back to my son. Very clever of me, no?

Adela said...

Laurie, I can relate. When we got our 42-inch plasma HDTV eight or nine months ago, I found a sticker on the back of the old TV that said "manufactured in March 1985."

Do you have HD Theater?

Laurie said...

Adela - I do have HD Theater. It's my main time waster.