42" of Pure Bliss!!!

So Derek bought me a very awesomely huge present....i have to explain this part first though. This year when we got our tax return we had all of these big plans to save the money, but like every year this didn't happen. After all, we did work very hard for this money, right? New tires for the car, a new alternator for the truck, and catching up on a few bills. Those were all things that were needed and I was very proud of us for being able to put it toward all that important stuff. So now, on to the story....

Derek's friend came up to me a couple of weeks ago and asked if he could go on another weekend fishing trip to Flaming Gorge. Seriously, I thought, didn't he just go on one. This fishing thing is crazy, I mean seriously. Anyway so I think that Derek has been trying to work out a plot to butter me up for this one because he really wants to go. So last weekend he said that he was going to take me to Idaho Falls and let me just buy stuff. How cool is that, he knew that I couldn't resist. And while it was a super great idea, what he didn't know is that I had other plans!!!

So on to my evil scheme! We have been staring at this 20" tv for six and half years. You have to squint to see the people on it. I noticed that Radio Shack was having a sale on 32" tv's this past weekend so I was like, that is super cool. So I asked Derek if we could go and just check it out. Well it was a really nice tv and the picture was so much bigger, but what we didn't realize is that Radio Shack is out to get us. Right next to the 32" there was this mother of a 42" that was just plain awesome. Well that just killed our enthusiasm for the tv that was "on sale." That tv just looked so sad next to the huge awesome one. So we left and drove around town and then we were like, well this is stupid, why sit here and be sad about it. So we gave into the temptation, went back, and bought the huge tv. And as an added bonus, we got a blu-ray player on sale too. (Those salesman are tricky). So we went to put this awesome tv in the car and the box was so huge that we couldn't fit it all the way inside the trunk. So Derek was like I am going to go home and get my truck and I was like no, because seriously this is like too good to be true. So we drove home at like 20 mph so the box wouldn't fall out and kill our awesome toy. So we finally got home (luckily it was like 2 miles or I would have really had a heart attack) and we set it up. And man, that picture is huge. We had to sit back all the way on the couch and we still got dizzy. But it is so freakin' cool!!! We ended up watching the TV like all day long. So much for our IF plans....but we sure enjoyed it!!!

And I have to say that my favorite part so far was watching Captain Jack. Seriously I was just expecting Johnny Depp to walk right out of my tv. If anyone wants to relive that experience with me you are more than welcome to come over ;)

So now the ending to this long winded story... it turned out very well for Derek. I told him that he could go fishing whenever he wanted and he was so excited. His evil plot worked, but now he has a hard time leaving the house ;) And this is how our tax return money dwindled to zero! Maybe next year....