Interlude

Last night was stormy, and when Ian and I got back from eating at Camino Real (where we could hear the rain beating on the roof and the music went out), we shortly discovered the TV, TiVo and Internet were out. We tried playing some Tiger Woods on the Wii, but the flickering power soon put an end to that.

So Ian grabbed a flashlight in case we lost power altogether and plugged his iPod up to the stereo, and I ran upstairs and grabbed Yahtzee. Before we gave the record player (and all the records!) back to his dad when we got our new living room furniture a few months ago, we used to listen to records and play Yahtzee pretty frequently.

As much as I love the Internet and he loves TV (and we both love video games), it was nice to be unplugged for a while. After a long day at work and a long ride home every day, it’s easy to fall into the eat-dinner-then-sit-on-the-couch-til-we-fall-asleep routine. Last night was a welcome break from that, where we simply enjoyed each other’s (and the cats’!) company.

Although, after the storm passed and I had I beaten his ass two games out of three, we were pretty quick to turn the TV back on. We are undoubtedly children of the media generation.

~ by Megan on June 17, 2008.