Big Week for the Cleakers

March 4, 2007

Disclaimer: Normally if we go out in the course of a week, it’s to a movie, sometimes out to dinner. Generally we’re stay at home kind of people; perhaps not always by choice, but certainly by budget and workload…

Disclaimer #2: We do have a budget. We are generally good at sticking to it. We don’t often make large purchases (I mean, minus like the car and stuff)…

This past week was what I like to call a ‘go big or go home’ week. It sounds very sports-related, but fortunately there were no sports involved (except for Adam’s frisbee game and the numerous times we went bike riding because it was almost 70 degrees outside, not that I’m bragging, I’m just saying…). Rather, it was a cultural week of sorts.

It all began last Saturday night when we finally, after months of random conversations and whining (that would be me) and debates, bought TiVo. It is a completely frivolous purchase that is in no way necessary to our well-being and the money could have (should have) been put to a better cause; but, that said, whoever thought of TiVo was genius and deserves a prize (I suppose the amount of money we paid for it might be prize enough).

Do you know how much good shit is on TV at like one in the morning?  Stuff you would never see unless you can’t sleep and then you don’t appreciate it because you’re wishing your asleep and instead your stuck watching this movie … you get the picture. TiVo knows though. TiVo knows what is on ALL the time and it records it for you. You tell it to and it does. Every episode of your favorite show, it’ll get it as soon as it comes on TV. Don’t want reruns? It’s skip those and only get the new episodes? Not sure what you want? It’ll record things for you it thinks you might like, just in case. You should at this point be hearing the heavenly angels singing behind this post because I am sure this invention was heavenly inspired. It’s not that we need more TV to watch, we really don’t. But TiVo will grab all those shows we do like to watch and save them for us. So on Wednesday night when I have a crap-load of work to do for Thursday, I don’t have to watch Lost. I can watch it Thursday afternoon when I have nothing else to do and nothing good is on TV anyway. Clearly this is amazing and I could go on and on, but really it was only the beginning of our amazing week.

Next we saw High School Musical (the movie) and Adam danced and sang along with it ALL week.

Then, we saw Billy Joel. Again with the angels singing. He was amazing. The show was amazing. Really all I can say is amazing. Adam has more to say, so you can read more there.

Then, Adam surprised me with tickets to Spamalot. Why all in one week you ask? Well, Adam bought tickets a long time ago and then we found out Billy Joel was coming for only one night, and I didn’t know about Spamalot so of course we got those tickets and then it was all at once and phew, it was a cultural extravaganza. But back to Spamalot. So funny. Way funnier than the movie, which I fell asleep to the night before. So good.

And, to top it all off. We finally finished the worst book ever written on the Holy Spirit in my theology class and now we are on to a much better book that I actually enjoy, rather than dread, reading.

Oh, and for a final note. We bought a GRE study book so I could start learning vocab for the GREs. Woohoo. Big week!!

Posted in life, marriage by Sarah