Roku makes me happy.

This is a Roku with remote

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Did I mention the fact that our bedroom tv was shitting the bed? Yes? No?
  Fred watches football,  college basketball, and Pro basketball. We have to always have at least 2 televisions in the house just for this reason. The one in our bedroom was a heavy assed tubed 32 incher. It started doing this blinky shit about 2 months ago. It was tolerable up until these past 2 weeks. OMG! Black, screen, black, screen. You could hear the audio fine but if you watched anything with reds in it..it would blink faster. I could watch a whole black and white movie with no problems.  Hubs was running errands with his godmother on Friday and he pointed out in the store that we are going to be getting a new one soon. We just had to wait because this week was bill week. (every week is bill week). So she told him she was buying the tv! They went to several different stores and picked out a really nice one. I had no idea of this event until he walked into the house with a big 32 inch flat screen in a box. OUR FIRST FLAT SCREEN!  LOL I actually jumped! No more blinky tv! Woot! . I put it together right then and there. The damn thing only weighs like 6lbs. How sick is that? The one it is replacing weighs as much as a walrus.
 So anyway..remember I said that Fred won some money at the casino?? Yesterday he saw I was sad. He hands me some cash and tells me to spend it..retail therapy. I really did not want to go anywhere but after I did my rant on here..I decided I needed to stop being such a sad sack and spend that 50 spot!
 So I bought a Roku. <----click the link.
  It is really simple to set up. It works wirelessly (or even wired) through your internet. No cable needed. In fact, some people have this and they get rid of cable. I found it on sale at Best Buy for $79.  Sears has them for like $119.  You can probably find them even cheaper.
 We have Netflix. It is on our Wii system in the livingroom and Chelsea sometimes watches it on the computer. That being said..Fred and I hardly EVER get to watch it. EVER!
So I bought the Roku to go with the new tv. I have mentioned to my children that I may eventually get rid of cable and just have internet and netflix. But Fred likes Sports..so I dont know how that is gonna work out.
Very fun night last night. I watched some movies, in my bed. I was happy. I forgot about all the shit storm around me for a couple hours.
So think about a Roku.