Spectacular!

Ohsweetmama. The television is up and running.

On Thursday night, we received word that it had arrived at the store. The Hubby wasted no time and took off to Grand Junction. However, once at the store with the television, he was told that the super duper large box must be upright and could not lay flat in the back of our car. Hence, at 7pm, the Hubby started calling rental companies to rent a truck. Thankfully I was not there as I would have been pissed. Luckily he found a place. The owner empathized with his situation ("yes, I understand you must be able to get your big-screen tv home immediately!") and re-opened his store to rent the Hubby a pathetic Dodge pick-up truck. With the television loaded, the Hubby took off at a whopping 60mph down the highway.

When we opened the box and put the television on the console, we had a brief moment where we thought it was way too big. However, after 15-minutes of watching, we got over it.

The kooky thing is is that the technology in the television is far superior to any of our components. The Hubby tinkered so that our DVDs now get 'upgraded' to the technology. The fucked up thing is that to get everything upgraded, we would have to spend more money like getting DirectTV (don't want!) or a BlueRay (mmm...want!). Boo! What a scam!

On Saturday night, we randomly selected movies and played pieces of them: action, nature documentary, cartoon and fantasy. Drool. The schooling fish and corral in Finding Nemo were completely mesmerizing; the punches in Kill Bill I electrifying; the endangered lynx in Planet Earth even more stunning; and the inner-space warfare in Revenge of the Sith completely rockin'. Last night, we had friends over to help christen the television by watching Transformers. Epic. The television plus the surround sound is an unbelievable sensory combo.

I really really like the television. Yet I still have some lingering anxiety because it is so extravagant. It is a huge electronic gismo that serves no purpose except to entertain us. Since life in the country with rabbit-eared television has helped me rediscover a love for reading, encouraged me to pick up cooking and baking and other hobbies, I worry the television will rule. I take comfort in that we are still sticking with our rabbit-eared antenna but...I sense the need to re-watch every DVD in our collection. AHHhhhhhh!