tv...

So Monday am we were downstairs watching TV ( I'm sure it was something useless :) ) and the lamp in the TV went out. Now mind you, this puppy is almost 5 years old and not one of the fancy schmancy new flat ones so it has this ginormous light bulb in it that has a warning label on it that it gives off radioactive waves or some such nonsense. Nice huh? So being that it is labor day we start the should we buy a new TV search or should we just replace the lamp in it. I figured there would be some good sales. TVs are stinking expensive! So i decided to see how much said light bulb would cost. The dumb thing is like $200. What the heck! So i told Cameron t forget it and within the hour we had gone from let's go out and buy a brand new one to taking the dumb thing out into the garage. It was fun watching Cameron pull a 51" TV off of the top of the fireplace mantel by himself :) So now the monstrosity is in the garage and we thought it would be such a good thing so that we would have more quality family time. Oh yeah, sure. So now everyone parks themselves upstairs in the play room in front of the thing and it's pretty much lights out by 9:00pm when the kids go to bed. So i feel like I'm going full circle cause now I'm back to square one with...hmm.....should we go get a new one or replace the lamp in the old one??? how sad that life can be ruled by such a dumb piece of equipment!!!!!!!!