Wes's First Bout of Depression

Our weekend started out very nicely on Friday evening. We went to eat at a new Italian restaurant where we got to partake of the Early Bird Special (that's right...apparently we're now Senior Citizens). It was an above average meal with really good garlic rolls, so I was happy. I then got Wes to go see The Other Boleyn Girl with me. I read the book, and thought it was a little cheesy, but somewhat interesting. In any case, I wanted to see the movie, especially to compare it to The Tudors, the TV show I got hooked on last summer. After the movie, we went to bed pretty early because we had to wake up on Saturday and go pick up our new entertainment center!
This is one special entertainment center, because we have gone through A LOT to get this thing. We got Pops' truck, and on the way to the warehouse, we were assaulted by barrels. The truck driving in front of us was carrying large, empty, cardboard barrels. Of course the wind is going to pick those barrels up. TWO, not one but TWO, barrels come flying at us and the split direction. This makes it impossible to veer to avoid one, because you would end up hitting the other. Somehow, by the grace of God, Wes managed to stay in our lane, avoid the barrel on the right of us and the barrel hurtling toward us from the left. What a good driver! I continue to shake and sweat for the remainder of the car ride.
When we get home, we begin the enjoyable task of putting the entertainment center together. Wes and I are both good at putting things together, and we usually work pretty well as a team while building things. This was a different story. The directions to this thing were miserable. We really could have done just as well without directions. They didn't tell you a thing. Of course, we got a little Grumpella with the directions and with each other. We finally managed to get the entertainment center put together in about 4 hours. We did get to take a break by hauling our trash to the dump!
Wes took a break later by going to Mutt's with the guys. I opted out and decided that I would rest while he was gone. Wes even brought me dinner in bed! After I ate, Wes tried to put our new shiny TV on the entertainment center. He was so excited with the finished product until I showed him how bad the picture was. And thus began Wes's meltdown. Our TV looks really bad, and we don't know why. We can't get the Geek Squad or the cable people over until Tuesday. We are really worried that they will tell us that our TV is just going to look that bad. If they do, though, we will be taking that TV right back to the store. All night Saturday and all day Sunday we were consumed with thoughts of our ugly TV. I don't know that I've ever seen Wes so upset.
I taught Sunday School, and then Wes and I met at home. We decided that we had to get out to get our mind (and our eyes) off of our TV. I took him to Jason's Deli (not at all my favorite) to try and cheer him up. After lunch, I just had to try and take a short nap. I napped on and off for a bit, but then I decided that we must get out again! We took Wrigley on a really long walk since it was so pleasant outside. Wes even ran her quite a bit, so she was nice and tired when we got back. We tried to work on teaching her to heel, but that is proving to be pretty difficult.
After our walk, I hung around upstairs (I can't even look at that technological nightmare) while Wes sat in front of the TV and dreamed that it would magically work. We later headed out to my parents' house to watch the Clemson/Maryland game. Clemson fell behind pretty early and were down by 20 points with 11 minutes. We were definitely pouting, but Clemson came back and won the game by three!! I take back all of the bad things I've ever said about Oglesby.