Thursday night my cable went out. Over the last few days - I have watched the same 3 DVD's over again at night. I have gotten in the habit of watching TV before I go bed. "Radio" gets old halfway through the second time in a row. "50 First Dates" is funnier at 3-6 month intervals. "Rudy" is probably the best "My cable is out again-why don't I just cut if off and do something constructive" movie. Aside from the nightly movies, I forced myself to concentrate on my budget. Something I'm obviously procrastinating on tonight. The cable tech was scheduled to come out today and fix my cable but I had to go down and sign a permission to enter form at the leasing office. When I woke up this morning, trying to get to work on time, I skipped past the leasing office and figured I'd either come back at lunch and re-schedule the cable guy or I'd actually cancel my cable as a way to save money.I came home for lunch and my cable was still off - and even though I had time to re-schedule it - I paased on it - deciding to delay or cancel. When I got home tonight - I noticed that the cable box had beeen moved. I wondered if I did it last night when I unplugged it. The cable guy shouldn't have come in, since I never signed a permission to enter form. I'm sure Yukki will lie her ass off about that one. I threw my first load in the laundry and was content I'd at least have something different to watch while I was working on my budget. Time passed by - I found myself stuck to the couch. There's still hope - if I quit typing now - to make something
constructive of this evening. So I the cabe guy like the one Jim Carrey played years ago - someone who'll go to any lengths to keep cable in my life; breaks into my place and reads my blogs; puts some wierd chemical on my couch that keeps me pasted to it; hopes one day, I'll be home and he'll finally have a friend! Or ... are blogs addictive? Time-wasting and decieving, while we feel we're emptying our heart and opening our lives for motivation, we're really cursed to blog forever and ever - waiting the day the cold pizza heats up and we can eat from the fruitful tree of companionship and laughter, ha ha ha! Or am I lazy? Unmotivated? In such fear of a budget that sentences me to grilled cheese, white rice and tap ice water (ps - does anyone else get unidentified floaty things from tap water ice?) What will become of me now that cable has taken me hostage? Am I a prisoner to my own blindness? I must log off - I will logoff.
3 comments:
I too am a prisoner of the evil black box in my living room...and I truly feel that if I did not have cable, I could curb the addiction to it, but now I am starting to believe I cannot do it on my own....Some days I want to light the TV and cable box on fire and watch it bur. And yes, I get those little white floaty things from ice in my tap water, and I pretend they are nothing more than calcium flakes from meting frozen tap water....but they are probably tiny nanobots put into our water supply by the government that burrow deep into our brains and make us addicted to cable so that we will be unproductive sloths that will not oppose them. Just a guess.
Calcium deposits - yeah, I can go with that. All in an efoort to make my brain mushy-mush so the aliens can gobble them up - cuase that's just how they roll.
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