You are all going to think I'm nuts, but since I'm probably not going to get anything for Christmas but another pair of fuzzy socks from my sister and a check from my grandmother and father, I was thinking of taking that money and getting a new TV for the living room. I know. I know. Like a month's worth of TV drama wasn't enough. Why would I want to invite the drama on purpose?Well, because after two weeks of watching the high def channels, I have finally realized how inferior the picture is on my old analog TVs. This time last month I thought the pictures on those TVs were great. Now I just think they're fuzzy. I can probably count the number of times that I have watched my other TVs since I got the new LCD one in the bedroom on one hand.
As cold as it is today, I would love nothing more to sit by the fire and watch a couple of movies. The problem is I can't. The idiots who built this house put the one and only cable outlet in the living room on top of the fireplace. They then put the fireplace on an angle so the only way you can really watch TV is to lay down on the end of the sofa opposite the fireplace. If you lay down on the end next to the fireplace, you won't see anything but mantle. Ditto if you sit in the arm chair next to the fireplace.
I want another flat screen so I can put the TV on the wall opposite the sofa. That way I can watch TV from any seat in the room, including the ones right next to the fireplace. Obviously, I would have to get another outlet installed, and that will probably be another drama in its own right. Plus, I have to some how lift that ridiculously heavy analog TV off the top of the fireplace. That'll be fun considering my lack of upper body strength. I'm picturing broken TV everywhere or two impaled dogs.
Now that I'm thinking about it, watching an analog TV way on top of the mantle isn't such a bad thing after all.
