Exceedingly Mundane

Tim has a new love – his new big screen plasma TV. It still pales in comparison to his golf addiction – he is more than willing to leave his new TV sitting at home all alone and go play golf (he’s done that twice, and we’ve had the TV 5 days), but he does love his new TV. It’s definitely the object of his affection right now. 😆

Click on the extended entry for some pictures of the old and new …

Here’s our old entertainment center, sniff sniff. I loved this thing, I bought it before I met Tim and it was the focal point of my setup for our living room. It’s really nice, a Hooker, and I hate to get rid of it, but we don’t have room for it. Anyone know someone who would give it a good home? 🙂

Here’s the new baby, still in the box:

Here’s some of the cables that have to be rewired for all of our geeky electronics we have:

We spent the better part of one afternoon taking the old stuff out and setting up the new entertainment console we had to buy to hold the TV. The new TV was too wide for the old entertainment center. The new one is really too big, but that’s ok – it gives him room in the future to get a bigger one and us not have to buy furniture again. He’s hoping to get a mounting bracket for the plasma and hang it from the new console. That way, it will be more centered and will also allow us to swivel it around.

Needless to say, the first thing we checked was football:

A full 24 or 36 hours later, I was allowed to look at the Food Channel:

We decided to squeeze the DVD cabinet to the side of the new entertainment console. That’s the cedar piece in the picture below – Tim made this for us from wood from his dad’s land and it’s very sentimental to me. It doesn’t really fit and the woods don’t go, but I couldn’t bear to part with it or relegate it to a corner. Needless to say, we have so many DVD’s now that they don’t all fit. I’m having to fill the drawers in the new entertainment center with CD’s, DVD’s and other media. We have more media than we have space for!