So. Sauron lived in our old DVD player. Whenever we attempted to watch a dvd, it would skip, stutter, stop until the movie was nigh unwatchable. My darling husband in a fit of I-don't-know-what brought hom 5 new releases he wanted to watch this weekend. I love him. I do. But good gods, he doesn't realize it takes him 5 hours to watch 1 movie.
After making a concerted effort to watch Beowulf while Sauron refused to let us enjoy it, I made the command decision that we would buy a new dvd player. He got home .. we attempted to show him just -one- part of Beowulf and even that wouldn't cooperate, so he decided we would hie ourselves off to Best Buy and purchase a new DVD player.
$800 later, we returned with a new home theater system in the back seat of our covertible. This is how my husband shops, you see. I did my wifely duty of making certain we could afford it, but he makes about four-times my salary, so who am I to say 'No, we can't buy that' if it's what he wants? We hooked up only the dvd player - a Phillips dealio that was working lastnight fine when we hooked it up by itself. Cool beans, working fine, yay us.
So today, we decided to hook the audio stuff up. Surround speakers, powered sub-woofer, the works. After finding the wire strippers... which I had to hunt through the whole house to find that for some unknown reason they were in the bathroom dresser, I managed to cut and strip all the speaker wire .. having to do one twice because we didn't cut it quite long enough. But now we can't get the dvd player's sound to work. And so somehow, in the process of turning the damned thing around for the eightieth time, I managed to knock a speaker and an oil-scent-thing my stupid sister-in-law gave us for christmas. So the house now smells pine-fresh, and -not- in a good way. It's also manage to ruin the paint on the wall. Whee.
I'm having such a wonderful day.
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