Last night, just after the poker game was done and everyone had gone home, I sat on the couch and turned to my Tivo. And what I had been waiting for for the past eternally long few weeks was there: a new episode of "Arrested Development". Not only was it a new one, it was the last one.
I selected this "episode" to get the info on it (savor every moment) and quickly realized that it was actually a 2 HOUR long show. It was divided into 4 episodes but... our Tivo had only recorded 38 minutes of it.
Although I know my husband didn't do anything wrong when he put back the receiver, the Tivo box and the dvd/vcr thing back into their place in order to make room for my party, something went wrong and the units overheated, so the recorder stopped 38 minutes into "Arrested."
Now, it's sad. It's just so sad. I have been with my husband for almost 14 years, through hell and high water as some of you know. We have had horrible fights, wonderful sex, terrible tempers, we've been apart, we've had 2 children, 2 miscarriages, heartbreaks, and after 14 years, there is nothing so far that has destroyed our relationship. We are the equivalent of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
Yet...
I could have single-handedly and in a matter of seconds reduced him to mere crumbs on our hardwood floor when I realized what had happened. I was fine until he seemed upset with me for being upset over the devastating loss of my show. I tried to think of the birth of our children, our wedding, all of that, yet I was living in one of those bad beer commercials where the guy leaves the girl because she drank his beer. And Arrested Development was my beer.
My beer and the dealbreaker. I started having one of those conversations in my head where rational me tries to convince irrational me that I love him, that we have a history together, that AD is just a TV show. But it is a TV show that for some reason won't show again. I tried to find it at a later hour/date but nothing. NOTHING.
Off to find a lawyer,
G
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