Merry Christmas (Happy birthday & anniversary) to B-rad

B-rad has been wanting to get a new tv for the living room.  And you know, what Princess wants - Princess gets.  But let me tell ya how he thought he could doup me into thinking this was a good idea hatched a plan to convince me to let him get it.

B-rad is a 12 year old & plays video games online.  Xbox, play station you know what I'm talking about.  He plays with his other 12 year old friends online & they even get together once every couple of months & have 'game night' at Brian & Shauna's.  He has a tv JUST for his little video games.  It's like a 32" tv which nowadays is like having a tv that fits in your pocket.  TV's are gigantic now.  And B-rad has been wanting a new one...a bigger one...the ONE that was Jaime's bedroom tv.  Pump the brakes.

Plan A:  Since he wanted MY tv, he tried to sell the idea that I was going to get a better (& bigger) tv because he would put the tv currently in the living room in our bedroom.  (Follow all that?!)  So he started doing some research & figured out just which tv he wanted.  They have '3D' tv's now, but I didn't care about all that noise.  You have to wear those tacky glasses & you can only watch in 3D when it's a special movie, blah, blah, blah.

He went to Best Buy Friday night alone to look around.  Typically I don't allow him to shop unsupervised because he tends to spend WAY too much money.  He did good, though, just looked around & narrowed down his options...no purchases.

Saturday night we went in town so he could show me which ones he wanted.  Brian & Shauna had called -they were also headed to eat dinner & we were going to meet up with them.  It quickly became the most chaotic & confusing night I've had in a while.  They went with us to Best Buy & THEN we were going to eat.  UHM, we never made it to eat....

B-rad did a total 360 on us & changed his mind about which kind of tv he wanted.  SIGH.  We had driven my car because the tv should lay in the back with the seats down.  WELL the kind of tv he got cannot be 'laid' down.  It has to stand upright.  It was 8pm & the store closed at 9.  

Plan B: He was going to come home, get his truck & go back.  If you have ANY clue where I live - you know that's not possible...

Plan C:  Brian said he could go get HIS truck (they live quite a bit closer) & come back & get it.  Brian went with B-rad & Shauna & I hung out & shopped (happy accident for us!) & when the boys got back we were going to eat... finally.  Unfortunately the tv wouldn't fit in the back seat of his truck upright either so it had to go in the bed... & there was no way in Hades B-rad was going to leave his new, shiny toy in the bed of a truck while we ate.

Plan D:  Brian & B-rad come to our house to start working on the tv & Shauna & I bring home pizza.  

I'm exhausted just from reliving it.

It took them forever to get the tv installed because B-rad also got one of those wall mount thingies for it.  I didn't get any pics of those two dorks working on it, because Shauna & I were working on something else at the same time (which I will show you later...)

I had a huge tv box & other shrapnel in my kitchen...

 B-rad just opens stuff & throws the packages down wherever they land...

Success...finally...

Remember how I told you I didn't care about 3D?  Well, the tv B-rad got is a 3D tv.  We had anticipated hanging out in our tacky 3D glasses & watching some Transformers coming towards our faces but it took so long to get it mounted we didn't do that.  When they FINALLY got done I proclaimed that we need to all put the glasses on & take our pics...  & no one really listened.  HMPH.  It only really took me screaming it once or twice more to get them to cooperate.  

THIS is what I got.  Brian looks like he's not enjoying all of us piled on him...

So we tried AGAIN.  And now, MY hubby has photo bombed the picture.  

Ya'll wonder why I'm crazy?