So a few weeks ago I had the wild idea to get rid of my cable. Over the past 10 years the cable company has sucked my pocket book dry and I had finally had enough!! $75 a month for my beautiful digital cable and DVR that I so desperately loved was starting to get out of control. So, I did a little research.

I found out that I could get the same thing from Dish Network for $35 a month. And, me being the cheap ass I am, decided to give it a try! So I called Time Warner and told em to take their overcharging cable monopoly and shove it (but not till Friday when the Dish guy gets here).

Friday arrives: (enter hawt Dish guy with tongue stud)

It only took about 30 minutes for both Joe and I to actually understand how this "one reciever for two tvs" thing worked before he headed to the roof with the Dish. I was busy cleaning up the bedroom ,since he arrived an hour early and interrupted my nap and my house wasn`t exactly ready for an outsider to be in it. When to my dismay I found out my cleaning was unnecessary, the Dish guy couldn`t find a signal for all the trees.

I mean all the damn problems my trees cause; the ever present shade that won`t let my grass seed grow, the raking, the trimming, the stick picking up, the falling down and having to spend an entire day cutting it up, the killing my grass when the leaves just dont stop falling and now, now NO DISH NETWORK. sigh.

To make matters worse, I already cancelled my cable and told the "man" to shove it. I`m not sure how long my pride will last before I go grovelling back. It`s been about 2 weeks now with only basic cable and no DVR. Who has the over/under on when I cave??