Changes are taking place at the Rapin Compound. We got rid of our old TV and armoire (thank you Tommy) and purchased a new Bluray player with Netflix, a 40″ flat screen Sony Bravia, and moved up Mom and Dad’s old stereo cabinet from the basement to set it on. I think it looks like a college pad again in our living room, Ben thinks it looks great. I think he’s flashing back to better days when someone didn’t make him clean up his dirty clothes off the bedroom floor or wash his dishes.
Next is DirecTV. Bye bye birdie. I will miss HGTV, USA, and Biography, but we cannot justify the cost anymore. Basic tv with an antennae will come to suit us just fine. We have discovered the wonders of Netflix and watching entire seasons of tv as we wish, sans commercials, for 8.99. That is a heck of a deal, Ben is amazed by this technology–and that is really saying something considering the things he understands in the world of sheeky geek.
It is also time for us to start consolidating our things. That will be an interesting venture, one pack rat and one sentimental I-can’t-possibly-imagine-my-life-without-that-item individual. We already know we will have to get a storage unit to store some of our things so our house appears to be bigger than it is, but we are going to have to make a serious commitment not to move crap. I think we will get there, it will call for baby steps, I suppose. Compromise and letting go, two of my least favorite things.
So, in the meantime, we are on episode 3, season 1 of Dexter and I am missing stuff even as I type. It is a weird show founded on crazy ideas, yet you still come to care about the characters, despite the disturbing stuff they do. I love a good crime show and Dexter is rising to the challenge, along with a little bit of romance and some deep seeded emotional problems. Right up my alley–
I’m off to enjoy sheeky geek with my favorite sheeky geek.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step. I’m sure we can find homes for the misfit trinkets and furniture you’ve collected. And I will open 5 years worth of bank and retirement account statements and recycle accordingly.