Super Bowl 43 (they should just get rid of the Roman numerals)

Tally and I had a lovely and quiet day on Sunday watching the good ol' Super Bowl. We decided to not have or seek out any Super Bowl parties, since I'll be taking off in about a week and we wanted to hang out together.

First, the TV. Let me take you back a little. The heat in our house went out on January 9th. Luckily, we are in CA and not in ND, but it does get a little cool here at night, and with no heaters going, the temp in our house was getting down to 54-55 degrees by morning. Why it took until today (25 days) to get our heat going, I have no idea--you'll have to ask our property management company and the local heating/AC company that was working on our furnace. Despite that, we did not have to pay rent at the beginning of February for the days that we did not have heat in January. This added up to a savings of ~$900. Keep this and a picture of a TV in your mind.

Next, I need to explain to you about wives. So, while our heat was out, our house was obviously cold (we did have a couple of space heaters going). Also, during that time, Tally came down with a cold and had a couple of days off from work. Me, being the perennial husband-of-the-year candidate that I am, moved our only TV into the bedroom for her, so she could stay in bed with a space heater on her and watch TV on her days off while she was sick. This led to the natural conversation of her suggesting we could get another TV for the living room and leave the first one in the bedroom. I didn't really go for this, so then she reached for the "Well, it helps me relax at night, and otherwise, the dogs and I might get spooked by noises we hear--the TV would block this out". I eventually buckled and agreed. Of course, I had nothing against getting a new TV right before the Super Bowl. Also, we had purchased a Nintendo Wii a week or so before. Now, even though I might enjoy and use these things more than Tally, there's that other thing...OH YEAH!...I'm going to Iraq for seven months in about a week. So, who will benefit on all fronts from the new technology. That's right. It's the wifey...it's always the wifey. Just remember that.

So, we blew our rent savings on the Wii and the new TV, and we don't regret it. The Super Bowl was great--I like both teams, but was cheering for the Cardinals. I should have bet on the Cards, since they covered the spread (Pittsburgh was favored by 7 points), and maybe I would have won eleventy billion dollars. We made some homemade Super Bowl snacks which turned out pretty good. I'll slap some pics up of all this stuff.

Stay tuned for Jill (my mom) coming out in a few days, and John and Quinn going to the UCLA-Notre Dame men's basketball game on Saturday, while Tally valiantly attempts to set the Guinness Book of World Records record for "most shopping done on a Saturday morning in LA ever".