We didn't get anything quite like a bicycle for christmas this year. But we did get a 'put it together, stay up late and then have it all fall apart when taken out for its first ride' kind of gift.

We got a tivo box. My husbands sister and spouse decided this was the perfect gift for us. Yeah!!! My mind went immediately to LOST and what wonders I will be able to see with it. The hidden things in the backrounds, the slo mo watching of a Sawyer smile, the computer >:I face. Oh boy!

Well, it sounded good anyway. Hubby has been too off his sleep cycle thanks to retail work to have put it together. So I tried today. Hahaha. Everyone laugh with me. Now, I put my computer wires together and got it working so I thought this would be easy. Blue wire here, green wire here, yellow wire....um? where does the yellow wire go?

There is also the added problem of a gift that we bought ourselves for christmas. A DVD recorder w/vcr. So we can take all the vhs tapes and make them into dvds. And have more space. And move into this new century of ours.

Well, I tried is all I will say. And lucky for my husband, everything is now OUT of the boxes, instructions have been read, wires have been unwound and shelves have been dusted off awaiting his awaking and after he has some home cooked crockpot stew. Yep, its all ready for HIM. Me, I mangled it enough to know when to stop.

I remember getting a bicycle for christmas one year. And I rode it up and down the long hallway in my victorian home. Because there was too much snow to actually be able to go outside and ride it. Everything worked fine, except according to my Dad, the rubber handle protectors (with the long strings of glittery stuff hanging from them) came off. My Dad says he fixed it with Duct tape. Not unusual. Everything was fixed with Duct tape in my house.

I have the Duct tape ready for my husband. And also a nice beer. He should do fine. I will report in tomorrow on what we watched tonight!