holy crap....

...i have cable! this is amazing. right, so this may not seem like a big deal to everyone else, but for me this is huge. since i moved here i've had to forego sweet luxuries like a washing machine, dishwasher, answering machine and cable. i've programmed our tv quite a few times over a year and a half, only to be stuck with 20 crappy channels...10 of which are in other languages.

my roommate wasn't too sad since she didn't grow up with cable and i chose to spend my pittance on other utilities. i, however, grew up on mtv and cnn, none of this public tv cocknbull. it's become quite common for me to walk into the tv room and see my roomie engrossed in a japanese soap opera or glued to mind-enhancing PBS special. luckily, i've always had the wealthy, emmy-award winning* rocco to turn to. he lives just 12 minutes away and has all the channels under the sun PLUS tivo, so my sanity has been spared.

well today bess and i were trying to lounge on the couch and waste a perfectly good sunday, but all plans were foiled by the tragic programming on my shitty 20 channels. this sucks!!! sidenote: somehow our remote seems to blitz out everytime i leave town and my roomie gives up and assumes it's a lost cause. not me. so i changed the batteries, reprogrammed it and started testing out random channels. that was when the magic happened.

my face dropped and heart lept when channel after channel produced another clear picture of the innovative programming i have missed for so long. for some beautiful, amazing reason we have been granted full cable (minus the premiums of course)...but what the hell....i mean, mtv. comedy central. the superstation. vh1. and best of all...ALL THREE CABLE NEWS NETWORKS. (yes i am a news junkie sometimes...all the time). i have no idea how long we've had them, but we do....our stupid tv just didn't auto-program them.

sadly, this revelation comes after we'd already agreed to jerry-rig cable from our neighbor who's having dish network installed later this month...then split the costs. er, um...well, we don't need to anymore. doh. dish network equals DVR though, so hell, one month free is fine. i want me some DVR. i love technology.

*in an effort to boost rocco's morale, he now requires the "wealthy, emmy award winning" bit be added to his name. if i had an emmy, hell, i'd wear it around my neck.