The Happy Tivo Song

By Heather (sorta)

(sing to the tune of ‘Let’s All Go to the Lobby’)

I just ordered a Tivo!

I just ordered a Tivo!

I just ordered a Tiiiivooo

to make TV a treat!

My room was incomplete,

But now it can’t be beat!

Recording shows is just dandy,

Netflix provides instant eye candy!

So I just ordered a tivo,

to make TV a treat!

I just ordered a tiiiiivoooooo,

to make TV a treat!

    Hehe, yup, that’s right! My bedroom entertainment system is now complete! Mwahahahaha! After thinking about this nonstop, trying to figure out how I could afford to buy a Tivo, I finally figured it out. Of course, it means I’m going into debt for a little while with my parents – no more shopping for me until March (ouch) – but hey, it means I get a Tivo!!! I’m SO excited!! I just ordered it straight from Tivo, cause I ended up getting a discount on the product lifetime service plan thingie, since my parents already own a Tivo so that means we’re repeat customers and eligible for a significant discount. So yay! I’m excited! It came with a pretty hefty price tag, but after a whole week of staying up all night until like 8 in the morning because of some pretty bad pain, I realized I really need the Tivo just to help keep me sane. These past few months have been really rough, so anything that can help fill my time and keep me entertained and distracted is a very, very good thing and worth a teensy bit of a debt for a few months.

    You wanna hear something weird, though? Now, my memory’s not so great, so maybe I’m just confused here, but… shortly after I wrote that last blog entry, I was having a hard time figuring out how I was gonna be able to afford the Tivo. Since I was kinda bored, I decided to put the Tivo on my Amazon wishlist, cause hey, you just never know, right? I distinctly remember putting it on there, but you know what? It’s not there anymore.
    
So that means I either took it off my list and don’t remember taking it off, or some nice soul bought me at Tivo. 🙂 I didn’t notice it until after I ordered my Tivo, though. So if some angel out there really did buy me a Tivo, god bless you! And don’t worry, your gift will still be greatly, greatly, GREATLY appreciated, cause hey, debt’s no fun, it really drives me up the wall. And presents are always more fun anyway. 🙂 So if someone really did buy me such a big huge giant awesomesauce present, email me please and we’ll figure something out. Of course, I’ll be really shocked if someone really did buy me a Tivo, since with my memory it’s far more likely I just took it off my list myself, but I really don’t remember that… anyway, we shall see, right? 🙂

    Anyway, I’m happy! 😀 Huzzah! Now when I’m up all night and can’t sleep, I can watch movies instantly from Netflix or Amazon Unbox, or I can watch TV shows I’ve recorded, I think I can even transfer some digital files to the Tivo so I could like watch Doctor Who on it or something. Ooooooo, I’m SO excited! This is gonna freaking rock!!! I so love my new entertainment system! Huzzah! 😀

    In other unrelated news, I had a really, really rough week. I kind of had the crap scared out of me for a while when I got some results from an MRI I had done of my pelvis. While they were looking to make sure my organs in that general region were okay, they happened to spot a problem with the bones – specifically the marrow – around my SI joints on both sides of my pelvis. What the report said it might be was familiar, because it said it looked similar to a form of auto-immune arthritis like my brother has. I was really kind of scared and overwhelmed by that for a while, cause all my life I’ve seen how truly miserable and painful it’s been for my brother. He was only finally diagnosed with that specific type of arthritis a few years ago, thanks to a kind rheumatologist who really fought hard to figure out what was causing his pain. So after seeing Steve suffer through that for so long, seeing how hard it was for him to get relief, all I could think was, ‘Holy crap, I so don’t want to have to deal with yet another weird enigma of a disease that’s debilitating, difficult to explain, and even more difficult to treat.’ Those few days between when I got the scan results and when I went to see Steve’s rheumatologist were pretty tough. I just felt kind of disoriented and overwhelmed the whole time. Cause it seemed like even if it wasn’t that specific type of arthritis, those sorts of results couldn’t really mean anything good. So one way or another, I was going to be stuck with something else pretty damn sucky.

    On the bright side, the rheumatologist doesn’t think I have Steve’s form of arthritis. He also ruled out some other pretty nasty stuff, like one condition that basically causes your hips and lower spine to fuse. That would have been royally, royally bad. I’m still having a couple blood tests and a CT scan done just to absolutely rule that one out, but the doc’s pretty well convinced it’s not that, so that’s a load off. It does look like I do have arthritis in my hips, though. Sure, that’s not good, but at least it’s not as bad as what I was fearing.

    So yeah, after the worries of this past week, on top of all the pain I’ve been having, I finally just got right down to figuring out how to get this Tivo. Cause I need it. I normally hate saying that word with such seriousness, cause normally I highly doubt that anyone really *needs* a Tivo. I mean, it’s not like food or air – I could certainly live without it. But as of right now, psychologically speaking, I think I need to have something to keep me distracted and entertained during those long nights when I can’t sleep. The PS3 has been absolutely wonderful for that. This past week I’ve been hanging around in Playstation Home whenever I can’t sleep, or working on building a level in Little Big Planet. It’s been loads of fun, but I think having a Tivo on top of that would be perfect. Because then if I didn’t quite feel mentally capable of playing a game or interacting with friends, I could just lay back and watch a movie or a TV show or something. Or rather, more specifically, a movie or TV show that I haven’t seen before, which is even better! Cause I think I’ve seen all the DVDs in my collection at least 10 times each, if not more. 🙂

    Anyway, what I’m getting at is, at least for me, right now, the Tivo’s worth a little bit of debt for now. It’s worth going for the next two months without spending anymore money. I can handle that, so long as my long, long sleepless nights won’t be quite so lonely, empty, and quiet anymore. Hooray for that! 🙂