Simeon and I started out the weekend Friday night with a lovely dinner at our favorite local Mexican restaurant, Amigo’s II. Then stopped by Blockbuster and rented a few movies. Our final stop before retiring to our couch for the evening was Best Buy to pick up a new television for our bedroom. We desperately needed to replace the one Simeon has had since he was 8 years old. (Dead serious, it was that old.). We ended up getting a sweet 20″ flat screen TV/DVD combo. Now I can control the volume and turn off the tv without getting out of bed! How cool is that?!
Saturday morning Simeon and I decided to celebrate Christmas! Yeah, I know, we are really lame for having no self-restraint and not waiting another week for the actual day. (Thanks, David!) I got Sim some cool new clothes and some super soft wooly moccasins. And he got me TiVo!! Thats right!! I never have to miss a tv show again!! I can pause live television!! I can do an instant replay!! I can even tell my tv to record something from someone elses house!! Can you even believe it? It is amazing beyond my wildest dreams. As I write this I am watching last nights Saturday Night Live WITHOUT A TAPE!! I am so excited!! Can you tell?! Did you think I could have so many exclamation points in one post?!?
After we hooked up the TiVo and let it do its thing, we did some work around the house. Sim coded and played with his computer while I cleaned the house and did the laundry. Then I made my first Chocolate Rum Cake for Simeon’s Office Christmas party. We all had a great time. There was plenty of great food (thanks Mark and Jeanie!) and great company. Oh and don’t forget all the wine! You can see all the party picture here.
Today Sim and I slept in, watched I, Robot in bed (on my new tv, thankyouverymuch). Then we met David and Kris to see Spanglish at the new Century Theater in Beaverton. It was a good movie. It’s refreshing to see Adam Sandler in a dramatic role. We ran a few last minute Christmas errands and wound down the day at my friend Tricia’s open house. It’s always fun to hang out with co-workers outside of the office setting. Everyone loosens up quite a bit. I guess all that wine didn’t hurt any! You can also find more information here if you want to know the best kinds of wine.
So now I am getting ready once again for another work week. Thank goodness this is a short one. I only work through Wednesday! Wahoooo! Hope you all have a great Monday.
That would be really nice to not have to watch commercials ever again. That alone might make it worth it.
Oh, and I made sure I put "doesn’t want me to…" rather than "won’t let me" just in case someone might read it the wrong way, and be like, "you let your man tell you what to do? blah blah blah…" And look! It happened anyway! 😉 Can’t fault me for tryin’. so there. 😛
Well Sim and I had that talk as well, but our DVD player in our room was so old that it didn’t want to play some DVDs (it thought they were from the wrong region or something) so we opted to get the nice combo one. That and no one tells me what I can or cannot have but me. So there.
As for the TiVo, its great because you actually spend less time watching tv, but get more out of it. You don’t spend all that time waiting for something to come on, plus you never have to watch commercials unless you want to. So last night we watch SNL (typically 90 minutes) in about 50. So I am getting to watch only what I want to watch and nothing else. Best of both worlds.
You lame-os. You already did Christmas?!
I remember seeing that old t.v. in your room…it was rather sad. Glad to hear you got a cool new one. you just better hope nothing happens to the dvd player, or you get to take the whole thing in! 😉 Barney doesn’t want me to buy any combo electronics like that (I asked for a combo dvd/vcr thingy for Christmas) because he says then you have to pay extra to take the whole thing in and have diagnostics stuff done on them when only one thing is broken. Party pooper.Hopefully you wont have problems though.
P.S. Tivo is dangerous! Who needs one less reason to get off the couch, especially this time of year?! 😉 Hope you enjoy it though.