Of no use sitting in storage...

My uncle's dad gave us his TV when he moved back to Texas way back when. This was back in 2011 or 2012, I can't really remember. It was a super nice 1080p HD Sony flat screen. My uncle's dad did not skimp on quality when it came to buying necessities for his house. He was a rich old man that literally threw thousands and thousands away at the casinos in Vegas. This completely irrelevant to this post, my apologies.

Anyways! He gave us his TV, but we had just purchased our first flat screen, so we didn't feel the need to use that one at the time. We had planned on putting it in the glider room, but we never got around to it, so it's been in storage for over 3 years. This was when we lived in our old house, so we didn't have the use of a second TV at the time, other than in the glider room.

Out of the blue last night, LaVaughn mentioned that we should set it up in our den and replace our old small flat screen with it. It's definitely superior to the cheap one we bought -- plus we were curious what the image quality would be like with our PS4. So we braved the storage earlier today and carried it up to the house.

Wow, what a difference! The quality is impeccable -- it's honestly better than the "fancy" TV we have in the living room, which is a shock. I love it! Gaming is unreal now, I just wish I hadn't rushed through GTA 5 and could enjoy the improved quality.

It's amazing what you forget about when you store stuff. Makes you wonder what the point even is. Now I kinda want to clear everything out and either use it, or throw it away.

Post cleanup.

Kinda hard to share the quality via the computer screen, but you can imagine how nice it is.

O come, all ye faithful...

Yes, it's Sunday and I'm blogging!! That's because I didn't go to work today! Now worries, I'll explain later.

It's weird that I'm blogging on a Sunday instead of a Friday, like I normally do. I guess cause I usually work today, but then, what's my excuse for not blogging on Friday? That, my friends, is because absolutely nothing exciting took place that day and I would have been stuttering around trying to find something to write about and piece together. So no, I didn't blog that day.

Since I didn't go to work today and actually had a day off that my aunt has off, LaVaughn and I decided to stop by and pay her a visit. Which eventually turned into a journey into town so that she could get a massively awesome new TV. It was on sale, so it was hard to pass up. And, of course, we stopped and got something to eat on the way home. We begged her to let us pay, but if you know her, that's not happening! I did manage to slip a $20 into her check book without her noticing, though. Ha!

As I'm sure 97.7% of the work knows, the season 4 premiere of The Walking Dead is on tonight. I'm pretty excited. Since I wasn't a huge fan of season 3, I'm really hoping they wow us in this season. And please, Robert Kirkman (or however you spell that), leave the governor out. And for the love of god, don't kill off Hershel!! You already killed part of me when you killed Dale. Not to mention, you took away a lot of eye candy when you killed Shane. Just saying...

Okay, now onto the work dilemma. Last week -- I believe it was Tuesday -- I asked the scheduling manager to be off by at least 6 Sunday. I made it clear that I needed off. She said okay and to call her the next day before 4. So the next day, I made a mental note (and several others) to call her. When she answered, I said,

"Hey, you told me to call you today and remind you about Sunday."

Her response...

"Oh right, 6:00 Sunday?"

Since she was so quick to remember, I didn't think anything else about it until yesterday when I got to work and looked at my schedule. Wanna know my hours for today? It was from 4 to fucking 8 PM!! What the hell!? I immediately told the general manager and he said that he would try and figure it out in the morning and that he should have it fixed. Then I was thinking how stupid it would be for me to drive all the way up there at 4 and leave 2 hours later. I told him the same thing and he told me that I could come in at 1 if I wanted.

Okay, well later that night I was working with a new girl named Jessica and she kept saying how badly she wanted to work tomorrow. As soon as she said that, lights started popping up. So I said to her, "Hey, I need a shift covered tomorrow, would you want to work from 4-8?" She said yes almost instantaneously. I then proceeded to ask if I could call the general manager and ask if that was okay. The girl I asked is a "traveling manager" and hops from a few different stores. She's not permanent there, but she's really awesome.

Well as soon as I grabbed the phone and started to walk to the back and call, the newest manager of the store asked what I was doing. I began telling her my plan, which I thought would come together nicely. She than finished with, and I quote, "Well I'm working tomorrow, so it's my shift and it's fine with me." She even said she would leave him a note explaining what was going on. Awesome, right? Wrong!

Even after I called her on my way home last night and made sure she was going to leave a note, they still screwed me over today. Wanna know why? Cause she DIDN'T leave a note for him! So I get a call from one of the day/evening managed asking why I didn't show up for my shift at 4! I was so pissed! After I told her what had happened -- and what didn't -- she said it was fine.

That's my workplace for you. Come on, you can't tell me you're not dying to put your application in there! And on that note, I'm out! Time to feed the gliders -- especially since we bought and ENTIRE box of Wombaroo powder and a whole sack of bee pollen earlier this week! No more sample packs for us, but that's mainly because she raised the price from $3.50 to $6. No thanks! Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

The drive to town:

Dream catcher in the sky, lol.

Parked at Sonic:

As you can tell, we were extremely close to the menu.

These Sonic toys are just horrible!!

Oh happy day!

Hey again! Can you believe it? Two blogs in a week! I'm kind of beside myself right now, lol. After I finished my blog yesterday, LaVaughn and I returned to Fredericktown in hopes of returning that God awful game. And guess what? They took it back, no questions asked! They didn't even make us exchange it for anything, they just gave us our money and sent us on our way. It was a relief to say the least!

After that, we did a little shopping. We had some money saved back and decided to spend it on some stuff that we needed. Well... we think we needed anyway, lol. We got, for the first time ever, an HDTV!! It's a 32' flatscreen Emerson. I believe it's a 720p, but I'm not too sure. It's either 720 or 1080. Anyway, it's awesome and I couldn't be more excited! The picture and sound is so pristine, I'm just astonished by it.

We also got something else for the first time... a Blu-ray player! It's a Magnavox with Wireless Lan! If you don't know what that means, it means that it will pick up WiFi. And since we have a router, we'll get to take advantage of that! Netflix, here we come, lol. It also has Blockbuster, but that's kind of expensive. And it also has something that's kind of new to us, vudu. It's also a video streamer, but it also has apps, like Facebook. I think it's safe to say that it's awesome!

Now for my personal favorite... a new camera!! It's a beyond gorgeous Nikon Coolpix L120. I had my doubts when we first got it, though. The fact that is uses batteries instead of a battery pack kind of annoyed me, but it could be worse. And since I'm such a huge Canon fan, I wasn't sure how good a Nikon would. Well, I think it's safe to say that I'll NEVER doubt a Nikon ever again, lol. It's still pretty early in the even and we've already taken 50+ pictures with it since last night. So expect WAY more in the future, lol.

Aside from that awesome stuff, we also managed to get a few new shirts that were tax free and an awesome little TV stand for our new stuff to sit on. There was a really nice stand for $60, but we ended up getting the $20. I'm glad we did now, it's smaller and looks pretty awesome. I think it's safe to say we wont be buying anything else for months!

Well, I suppose that all for now. The day is young and I feel like going outside and taking some pictures. If I don't die from a heatstroke, lol. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Ramblin' Man by The Allman Brothers

Here are the pictures:

This is what our new camera looks like. This was the display camera at Walmart.

And this is the little beauty whilst in the box. This is also the last picture taken with our Canon.

Our little fat rats, Evan and Jonah.

Our new Blu-ray player!

And now for loads of baby Hans:

Cute, isn't he?

Check out the macro on this camera!

I'm in love with this shot!

And this one!

And this one, lol.

Well, here's our new set-up. The TV looks so small here for some reason.  :)

Demon cat!

I take it back, this is the demon cat, lol.

I adore this picture of John. <3

Some of my all time fave pics of Una:

And now some of Zoe:

This is probably one of the best pictures of Kira.

Yeah, she's not a big fan of the camera.

The new battery charger. Cause we have to use batteries now...

Nothing says movie night like snow caps! Well, that and popcorn. ;)

More pics of Hans:

And just so you know, not all of these pictures were taken by me. At least half were taken by LaVaughn. :)