When everything is “meh,” it’s hard to get excited or involved in anything. I found Christmas seriously, seriously hard this year. Decorating became a chore, baking became overwhelming, shopping? All I can say is thank whatever supreme being there might be for Amazon. The most enjoyment I got out of Christmas ramp-up, and don’t laugh because I am dead serious, was ordering wood grain wrapping paper paper to go with our Christmas tree theme: wood ornaments only.
We spent the week leading up to Christmas shouting, "That's mahogany!" every time a cat or a girl got too close to the tree! |
The other highlight of Christmas? Funny story actually.
We haven’t updated our gaming console since the PS2. Really. We have a first gen Wii, but I don’t considering that as an “us” update. The Wii was a gift from my mom many, many years ago. So our console gaming has been rather limited in the past few years. Don’t get me wrong, I love my PS2 and it will not become part of the Dejunking 2015 project at all. I have very specific, very joyful memories attached to it. Yeah, I’m looking at you Sara. Baulder’s Gate Marathon? SSX Tricky until our fingers cramped? Still play ‘em. Still love ‘em.
This Christmas Scott and I decided to finally update to a PS4. Cool, right? We completely skipped a generation! The girls were thrilled when they opened it Christmas morning, squeed even, and couldn’t wait to start playing. So as I was making the Christmas Breakfast and getting ready for work (yeah. Work on Christmas. Sucks, but that’s the hospitality industry for you.) Ashleigh started unboxing and setting up the new shiny.
After a few minutes of ripping plastic, tearing tape, and shredding cardboard, Ashleigh appeared in the doorway, a cord in her hand.
“Mom, I can’t set it up.”
“What? Why?”
“There’s no plug for it,” she said.
“Just unplug something else.” We’ve got a dvd player, Wii, and PS2 all hooked up to our TV, surely there is something we can do without.
“No, Mom,” she wiggled the cord at me, “It won’t plug in. There isn’t a port.”
Frustrated because of the 20 million things I’m trying to get done, I walked into the living room and took the cord from her. “What do you mean?”
“This cord doesn’t fit the tv.” She wiggled the cord at me again.
I pulled the cumbersome, heavy tv away from the wall and look at the back. And Friends, wouldn’t you know it, our TV is so old, that it doesn’t have an hdmi port! Seriously? Yup. Our ancient, only got it because it was on sale and they were discontinuing the model, tv can’t handle new technology.
Scott and I couldn’t stop laughing. The girls? Well, they were less than amused.
Guess what else we got for Christmas?
Is your TV still a tube TV? You got me beat on the game console, the last one I owned was a Sega Saturn. Yeah, that old. The wood wrapping paper is cool. And finally, a Christmas post in the middle of January? That's like still having your Christmas tree still up.
ReplyDeleteHaha! When my mom's family moved back from Germany to the US, back in the 80's, they went from military housing to owning their own house for the first time. Military housing means that the electric is all set up and ready to go. Well, my uncles didn't know that. They plugged in their gaming system (I don't remember which one, the one with the one button and joystick). Well, it exploded. My mom about died laughing, just telling the story to me.
ReplyDeleteGreat story! I've got a PS2 also. I like your wood wrapping paper, too.
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