Where does the television set go?
posted by Stace
Well, as some of you know, before I met Kevin I did not own a tv set, and before that I kept it in a closet -- potentially the only person on the planet who kept her tv in a closet and would "pull it out when she needed it". One brilliant friend of mine - with a PhD to prove it - even called me "superior" for not having a tv set -- and doncha know, I have never forgotten that -- although I think she said it sarcastically... it was Randi after all... Anyhoo, I digress. The tv. When Kevin and I agreed to marry, one condition was that the tv would never be a central point in our home. And so it wasn't. Until a few months ago when it "had to be moved" as we are working on drywalling and painting the basement. And so that is how the tv found a "temporary home" in our living room. Being naive and stupid, I thought this meant we would actually be "working" in the basement - which by the way has yet to be drywalled and painted. Well, we didn't - and the basement goes unworked on, and quite frankly, rather unused these days. It seems to be the place we go to occasionally for clean clothing, and for cats to go to yack.
Maybe it was an unconscious realization that I figured if renovating the downstairs meant displacing the tv, then maybe reorganizing the upstairs would also mean that the tv would find a new home - looking back on it I wonder, where did I imagine it might go next? Maybe on the front porch... Or, dare I say it, maybe it was a shockingly passive move on my part, but today I rearranged the furniture in the living room - and aghast - there is no space allotted for the tv! What in the world was I thinking?
Well, whatever I was thinking - the tv now has a new "temporary home" in the middle of the living room - which is a little like it being "central" - don'cha think?? It really is only temporary though. And, despite what I like to portray, I actually am not totally anti-tv. I fully support some of the good channels and am beginning to think about getting those kids channels that don't have commercials if we have a kid -- those do exist don't they?? Anyway, I don't see myself as much of a pioneer these days as I suspect there is more than one house on any random block with a tv in the middle of their living room. sigh.
Well, as some of you know, before I met Kevin I did not own a tv set, and before that I kept it in a closet -- potentially the only person on the planet who kept her tv in a closet and would "pull it out when she needed it". One brilliant friend of mine - with a PhD to prove it - even called me "superior" for not having a tv set -- and doncha know, I have never forgotten that -- although I think she said it sarcastically... it was Randi after all... Anyhoo, I digress. The tv. When Kevin and I agreed to marry, one condition was that the tv would never be a central point in our home. And so it wasn't. Until a few months ago when it "had to be moved" as we are working on drywalling and painting the basement. And so that is how the tv found a "temporary home" in our living room. Being naive and stupid, I thought this meant we would actually be "working" in the basement - which by the way has yet to be drywalled and painted. Well, we didn't - and the basement goes unworked on, and quite frankly, rather unused these days. It seems to be the place we go to occasionally for clean clothing, and for cats to go to yack.
Maybe it was an unconscious realization that I figured if renovating the downstairs meant displacing the tv, then maybe reorganizing the upstairs would also mean that the tv would find a new home - looking back on it I wonder, where did I imagine it might go next? Maybe on the front porch... Or, dare I say it, maybe it was a shockingly passive move on my part, but today I rearranged the furniture in the living room - and aghast - there is no space allotted for the tv! What in the world was I thinking?
Well, whatever I was thinking - the tv now has a new "temporary home" in the middle of the living room - which is a little like it being "central" - don'cha think?? It really is only temporary though. And, despite what I like to portray, I actually am not totally anti-tv. I fully support some of the good channels and am beginning to think about getting those kids channels that don't have commercials if we have a kid -- those do exist don't they?? Anyway, I don't see myself as much of a pioneer these days as I suspect there is more than one house on any random block with a tv in the middle of their living room. sigh.
posted by Kevin and Stace @ 6:27 PM
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