When it comes to ideal mates, it’s easy to get caught up in the pretty people on screen. After all, who can be satisfied with Mr. Darcy on the page when you can watch him right in front of you, swelling violins and all? For me, my ideal fictional mate was always a cross between Han Solo (the cocky bantering) and Mr. Knightley (played by Jeremy Northam) from Emma (I literally wanted to transcribe his proposal and hand it to my husband-to-be, saying “Read this. Don’t even come up with your own.”). Now, if I just wanted to pick a fictional date (not a mate), one of those flings you know won’t last, I would easily pick Jack Foley from Out of Sight. Or Doug Ross from ER. (Or maybe just anybody played by George Clooney).
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This year we are planning a remodel for our living room. Basically demo the whole thing and start over. Our inspiration for the room is a new 52 inch Sony Bravia flat screen TV. Ahhh, so exciting. Can’t wait until the room is finished so we can get it! Except my husband decided to buy it early. Like at Christmas. Well, there were some amazing sales, so it was a smart buy, but now where do we put it?

He started asking where we should set it up until the living room is done and I suggested that we just leave it in the box. Of course that was a ridiculous recommendation. The only logical location was the office, so I agreed.

I was at work when it arrived and I had kind of forgotten how big it was. When I stepped into the doorway of the office, where my husband was happily “working” while watching TV, I almost died. The thing was bigger than the desk! Not to mention that the couch was only about three feet from the screen.

I had to train my eyes to handle the enormous HD images by allowing only brief viewings for the first few days until I worked up enough optic strength for a feature length blu-ray.

For now we are camping out in the office, watching movies and munching on popcorn while we wait for our finished living room. Until then, we have our own little movie theater. It’s a little cramped with the two of us, the dog, and all the furniture, but it’s pretty fun.