Okay, I admit it. I am a TV addict. Well not completely, but I have a few favorites that I simply MUST see. I want to watch every House episode new or old. I want to watch every Law and Order: SVU episode even if the same episode came on two hours earlier. LOL There are a handful of others.
Well, Mike has been growing increasingly more aggravated with our digital satellite and its cost. First, every single storm, wind or otherwise, we typically lose the satellite signal for a few hours. We could live with that, because its a normal part of having satellite. Then about three weeks ago, all of a sudden all of our digital satellite receivers are getting multiple copies of channel 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 24 and 30. Apparently they are pulling from all over. Except we aren’t actually GETTING the channel. You have to flip through all the channels to find the CORRECT channel 2 that you wish to watch. I’m sure you are thinking why not use the guide to find what you are looking for. I.Would.Love.To! Except the guide channel has gone crazy as well. Dealing with the above mentioned channels there are multiple copies of each channel to flip through and in addition to that, the NORMAL channel 2, 4, 5 and so on that we are supposed to get, no longer says what’s coming on. All it says is “Regular Programming”. Yeah. Helpful. Not.
So apparently he got peeved enough last week to call them, yell at them and promptly cancel our digital satellite. Uhm. Then he just told me about it on Thursday and they shut it off Friday at midnight. Let me just tell you how much fun it is with five kids, no Hannah Montana, The Suite Life, etc. They are about miserable and have almost exhausted all avenues of playing, every DVD we own and every video game we own. I never thought I would hear my kids complain about being sick of video games!
So now we are going with a new service. According to my best gal pal who just got it about 2 weeks ago, it took them A MONTH on a waiting list to get the service installed. Am I seriously going to be without cable/digital satellite/digital ANYTHING for a month? Please tell me the list has gone down to a much more manageable one hour? hehehehe
Anyway, the plus side is that Mike did not have a DVR when I moved in. I did before I moved in. I was totally accustomed spoiled. NOW, with the new service we are getting, I will have it back!! YAY!! I am seriously so thrilled about this because honestly I wouldn’t be such a “tv addict” if I could just watch the shows when I wanted to and delete them when I’m done.
Guess I’ll get a lot of reading, scrapbooking, writing, work and family time in before its installed. This could be a good thing.
I swear I’m not a technology brat, I just need some eye candy during the quiet day from time to time and before bed.
Seriously, I would die… just fall over from heart failure right then and there.
Of course I could have used to miss that game last night, lol.
It’s OK to be a TV addict, when you watch the right channel.
I think hardly any parent would be upset, when a kid spend his/her entire spare time watching discovery channel.