Our TV

When Joseph and I first got married my parents said that we could have one of their old TV's. Joseph begged me to get a "real TV" (this has been a persistent theme through out our 3+ years of marriage). But, since we [read I] didn't really know how the finances would shake out, and with both of us being entirely responsible for all of our bills for the first time in our lives, we were cautious and kept the old TV. I told Joseph it would just be for that year in Provo.

Then we moved to Philadelphia. Philadelphia was more expensive than Provo, and I had some trouble getting a job so I couldn't justify spending money on a new TV, so we didn't. Despite, again, persistent requests.

Then as we went into our last year of graduate school, we declared that we were only going to keep this TV until we moved from Philadelphia. It was not making the move to NYC.

As many of you may be aware we are now only 3.5 months away from moving from Philadelphia.

On Sunday morning when we woke up, our old TV (that was manufactured in 1998, yea that's right the 90's) was working just fine. I only know this because Joseph had been watching his morning round of SportsCenter. You know, in case something life changing had happened in sports in the past eight hours - while he was sleeping.

When we got home from church we were both pretty tired so we had a little snack, and I had just laid down in the room for my Sunday afternoon nap, when I heard Joseph frantically yell my name. I thought something serious had happened. And it had. The TV had broken. The picture was gone. You could still hear the audio just fine, but there was no picture. Just a sad little line. Our TV had turned into a radio.

We knew we didn't have the money to really replace the TV, since all of our pennies are currently exactly counted out to last through The Vacation of a Lifetime and until Joseph starts his big-boy job. So Joseph got on craigslist and found us a replacement. This TV is bigger and was manufactured in 2004 (movin' on up!). But it still isn't a "real TV."

It is sad to say that our 25 dollar craigslist TV is a major upgrade. But it really is. We both sort of chuckle about it every time we look at the TV.

But at least we were only without a TV for 24 hours.