Rearranging - The Saga Continues

Nikki's guess of completing this project by 11pm on Sunday was close, but not quite right. We did indeed stop working at 11pm on Sunday, but we are far from finished. In fact, the room itself looks like the Cable Guy came in and threw up cables and components all over. Yes, the house (not just the room) is strewn with cables, components, spare furniture, cds, DVDs, and various other random items. This makes Mommy very uncomfortable so let's just recap how we got here, shall we?

Alright maybe rearranging the living room wasn't the best idea to have on a Saturday morning, but we got an early start so what's the harm? After much haggling over the furniture placement, a call to the neighbors for advice, and a good deal of back breaking furniture movement, we finally got the room arranged. That took most of the day on Saturday and one trip to IKEA to get another table (which, by the way, was the wrong color and had to be returned on Sunday).

On Sunday morning, Luke decided to tackle the more complicated task of actually moving the TV. Of course, we have the wrong TV mount (we need one that tilts now) and no connectors or line testers and the wrong speakers and some other stuff probably that I can't remember. So, off to IKEA and Lowes Luke goes, plus he had to pick up a new TV mount from some guy on Craigs List. Four hours later he returns to our electronics graveyard of a house to finally hang the TV. Using all of the strength in my puny little arms we get the thing up there, and this is what it looks like....totally crooked. Off by I don't know how many degrees but enough that it makes me laugh out loud. No consolation to my perfectionist husband. Poor thing had used the holes that the previous owner used and didn't actually count them. Puny wife didn't have enough strength left to get the thing back down again so at 11:00pm we just gave up. There our crooked TV will hang all day while I quietly chuckle from my desk at work and steam continues to billow out of my husband's ears.