My day

[the_muppet]

I took Ella along with me to Comet to make sure I was picking the right TV ~ not that she knows any more than me but she would at least stop me being rash and stupid and doing whatever the salesman told me. When we arrived at the shop and I took Ella over to look at it, it was showing pictures of F1 racing, which clearly I took as a good omen :) Then later, when we were waiting for the salesman to come over, it was showing pictures of the German football team in action (along with others) as part of a montage of the World Cup ~ and there was Micha .... then there was Torsten!! Which clearly I took to be a huge, big goddamn sign! :D Obviously this is not the reason I bought the TV, I'm just saying, there were clear signs and I didn't ignore them, OK? ;) So I got the TV and The Boy and I set it up this afternoon and it's all very pretty .... but I'm not happy with it. Not yet, anyway. I think it's partly my resistance to change (who doesn't have that, right?), partly that I'm often worried I made the wrong choice and partly because I haven't set it up the way I want yet ~ the colours are off and it still seems a little blurry to me. It does have built-in freeview which I didn't realise yesterday.

Ella always gets me cool birthday presents. Like she will get me something amazing that I ask for which I know no-one else will get, or just something really cool that no-one else would think of ~ last year she got me a meteor rock and it was such a cool present to get! So as we were watching this World Cup montage at the TV shop and I was squeeing over pointing out the German players, I mentioned that I'd very much like her to arrange that I get an actual birthday card from Torsten Frings this year. But she said she couldn't do it :/ My faith in her powers of awesome present-giving have diminished somewhat. Well, not really, but still, she would've really outdone herself if she could've achieved that!

Tonight The Boy and I are going to the fireworks show! I'm so excited, I ♥ fireworks! :D Hopefully I'll see dizzyblonde3 there, and Ella is hoping to come too, though she's been at a beer festival all day so she's not sure if she will make it back sober enough in time :)

And although I mock the walking hairdo mercilessly, which he thoroughly deserves, I'm so damn jealous of my geeky elf partner who today got to touch meet Joe Flanigan ~ I can only imagine how happy she is and how hard she is grinning right now :)

Comments

[sue91.livejournal.com]

LOL I hope your new TV is working fine and it proves to be the right choice ;)

Have fun tonight :D You should come to Germany on New Year's Eve :D I don't know if you know, but here it's a custom to have fireworks at midnight and so it goes on for hours XD

Wow, I think I'm jealous, too XD I'd love to meet Joe, even if I'd prefer meeting Torri XD

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

We always go down to the local pier on New Years Eve for the fireworks show, which is usually pretty good ~ doesn't last for hours though, so I reckon I should come over to Germany! ;)

I'm hoping I will work out how to make the picture on the TV better tomorrow :)