We have a closet full of VHS tapes. In fact, I have every Disney movie on VHS up until I started buying them on DVD a couple of years ago. It must have been longer than a couple of years ago, because obviously Katiana has no recollection of VHS. The point being I have so many videos that we don’t have on DVD.
The day before yesterday, I was going through my emails from our local ReUseIt Network and came upon someone giving away a TV/VCR combo. Our VCR died a long time ago and we hadn’t replaced it. I asked if I could have it and they chose me. Off I went to get it. I brought it in from the car yesterday and set it up on the table because I need to Pato to move the huge honking TV in Kat’s room so I can put it in there. (Before anyone flips about their being a TV in my kids’ rooms, they turn it on maybe once a month. They usually watch it out here in the living room.)
The girls and I went through the videos in the closet and they each picked out one. Kat picked out 101 Dalmatians and Alyce picked out Snow White. Turned out they weren’t rewound last time we watched them.
I put Snow White in the VCR and started rewinding as my girls are waiting patiently.
Kat: Mom, it’s not on.
Me: I know. I’m rewinding it.
Alyce: What’s rewinding?
I showed them the tape inside of the video tape and explained that it had to be all the way to the other side before they could watch it. That it’s not instantaneous like a DVD is.
They kept pushing open the door to look in and were not happy that they couldn’t see anything.
Katiana: This is sooooooooo slow.
Alyce: Yeah, mom this is soooooooo slow.
Me: Do you want to watch Snow White or not?
Both: Yes
Then wait for it rewind. Then we’ll fast forward through the previews.
Alyce: What are previews?
Kat: What’s fast forward?
Banging my head on the table.
Finally the movie was done rewinding and then done fast forwarding.
And they were happy. The end.
No not really the end. Then Jordan came inside and started digging through the video tapes and I was subjected to a Pokemon marathon. He tried to make it a marathon, but I only actually let him watch 1 because it was 8:30 by the time the movie was over and time for bed.
We’re so vintage round here. I need to get an 8 track player and really amaze them. Except I’ve never used an 8 track player. Just cassettes and records. That’s it. We need a record player!
I’d really like to get a VCR/DVD combo and record all of our tapes onto DVD. That’s not piracy is it? If you’re just making a copy of your own for your own use?
So, Pato is on my poop list this morning.
Mind you, I vacuumed the living room twice yesterday. Between Nano and his crackers, the birds throwing seeds out, and the kids coming in and out of the sliding glass door, it always needs vacuumed. Not to mention I did the dishes (twice), cleaned the counters, swept the kitchen floor (twice), you know stuff you do every day. He came in last night and wanted to put clothes away. A chore, if you visit my blog often enough, you know I refuse to do. It’s not that I mind putting clothes away. It’s that he never leaves cash home to put money on the money card.
So, he gets the privilege of doing laundry. We have 6 in our family. We go through a lot of laundry. He washes 8 – 12 loads on his day off (6 at a time) and then just puts the baskets on the futon. And there they sit. And sit. And sit. Until he decides to put them away. If he left me money on the laundry card, I’d wash them 1 or 2 loads at a time, and I’d put them away as I did them. There is no way on God’s great Earth that I am putting away 12 loads of clothes at once.
He kicks aside some things that were on the floor (that Nano got out) and then goes to vacuuming – third time total the floor has been vacuumed. As he does it, he mutters under his breath how I never clean anything. I looked up and said, excuse me?????? He said, well, it’s the truth.
I didn’t go into a rant about all I did do that day that includes the listed above, plus feed our children (that includes making the meals), plus play with our children, plus put our 2 youngest down for a nap, plus bathe our children, plus get the oldest 2 up for school and ready in the morning while he was still in bed SLEEPING, plus plus plus plus plus. Kiss my what????
I just shut down my computer, walked in the bedroom, and slammed the door.
He slept on the couch last night.
Man needs to invest in a health savings account because if he ever makes a comment like that to me again, he’ll want to see a doctor.
You know that cartoon where the house is a stinking mess and the woman is sitting amidst all the chaos. The husband comes in and asked what happened in the house?
She says, you know how you ask me what I do here all day?
He says yes.
She says, today I didn’t do it.
I so feel like doing that now. Leave breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes piled in the sink. Leave the carpet alone all day. Leave the kitchen floor and counters.
The only problem with that is I’d have to clean it later.
Sorry honey, I sat on my butt all day blogging, playing games on Facebook, eating bon bons, watching Oprah or Rachel or Ellen, pick your vice. You might want to feed the kids. I forgot. Oh and the baby needs changed. I haven’t changed him since you left for work, cuz I DO NOTHING ALL DAY. (And don’t mind the sticky goo covering Nano when he goes to hug you. I didn’t clean him up all day either.)
That can of soup in the picture of above proves nothing except that Nano got in my pantry and took out EVERY single can while I was making dinner. That one escaped when I was cleaning up the mess. I did eventually see I missed one.
Have a great day!
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My kids are 18 and 21 and I remember telling one night how we were going to see a slide show of some old photos. You should have seen the look on their faces when I pulled out an old slide projector. They thought we were going to watch a power point display.
I still have a working, Beta and VHS recorders as well as a working record player. I love listening to the old vinyls every now and again as they do have a distinct sound.
As to your TV/VHS recorder, I remember selling those all those years ago when I used to be a salesman in a hifi/electronics store.
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Oh my gosh!!!! You totally need a record player and I want a corded rotary phone too!!!!!! Our VCR died foo and it sucks. I made so many tapes