HGTV, MTV, ESPN, and sometimes even NBC are initializations that are just not apart of our vocabulary. For the life of our marriage, we have not subscribed to cable. And I'm pretty sure that I never had it throughout college either.
What this means is that I can't remember a time within the last eight years where I have had the pleasure of turning on the television and watching something of great quality while seated in my own living room. What this also means is that when it comes to television, we are most likely limited to the shows that the rest of the cable-watching world has never heard of. When my coworkers are sitting around discussing the latest episodes of quality shows like "The Real Housewives of Orange County" or "Jon and Kate Plus 8," I try to chime in with a "Did you see Bernie Mac yesterday?" and am usually shut down with stares of dismay and confusion as to if I'm really serious. And I am. That's what's shown on the four channels that I get. Well, that I got.
You see, my non-cable-watching life changed drastically on June 12. Who knew they were actually serious this time about the whole digital conversion thing? Not me. We had never purchased a converter box the first time they threatened and practiced this whole thing, and then we had lost the coupon that we were saving to purchase it. (This in itself pretty much portrays why we don't have cable to begin with. We're cheap. I mean thrifty.) Needless to say, we have no channels. None. Zilch. Zero. Really, it has not made that big of a difference to me until today. It was today when I decided that I missed my good friend Bernie. And if you have cable, I know what you're thinking because I've been asked this several million times: "How do you survive?" Well it kind of works like this, if you don't have it, you don't know what you're missing. Then when you have a taste of it like when you're in a hotel room or sitting in the waiting room of Discount Tire or visiting your parents, you think to your self that this is the life. And then you remember that you have other things to fill your life with and spend your money on like Facebook and blogs and clothes.
Oh, and if this lady would come give us a hand, life with Bernie could be back to normal.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:59:00 AM
You can drive to my house and watch TV, but then again, if you came all the way to my house, we wouldn't be watching TV. We'd be doing those other things we can spend money on, like clothes, movies, and ice cream.
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