When things don't go your way and shooting tequilla is no longer an option

I was so tired when I came home from work and I really just wanted to curl up on the sofa and watch two weeks worth of television that I haven't seen yet, including The Office episode where Michael tries to conduct crisis communications and last night's Grey's that was really more the premiere of Addison's spin-off show. But Big Daddy said he was going to take his parents to eat and did I want to go and I figured I might as well eat first.

Dinner was just one giant reminder of why it used to take me 3 or 4 or 5 glasses of wine to get through a dinner with my in-laws. My MIL is 84 years old and I love her dearly but OMG the woman is ANNOYING. Somehow we got on the topic of places to visit in Europe and when she told me about how she would NEVER go back to FRANCE b/c those people are SO RUDE b/c they HATE AMERICANS and they would never even give you the TIME OF DAY in a restaurant, and all the while she is talking way too loud with her mouth full and spitting food on me, it was hard not to laugh out loud at the irony of her words.

So I come home, change into my comfy jammies, grab my pillow and head for the couch and my new best friend, the DVR and guess what? It's. Not. Working. Not like this is the first time I've had trouble with the damn thing. More like the hundred-and-first. So Big Daddy "re-boots" the hard drive - which takes like at least 5 minutes but it eventually comes back online so I figure we're good. I start watching The Office and about half-way through, the picture freezes and won't move and then the HARD DRIVE SPONTANEOUSLY RE-BOOTS AGAIN. So I wait it out, turn the box back on (again), open up the DVR (again), chose The Office episode AGAIN and fast-forward to get back to the where it stopped playing, which OF COURSE IT FREEZES UP AND SPONTANEOUSLY RE-BOOTS ITSELF AGAIN. So fuck it.

It appears that instead of curling up on the sofa with all my favorite shows, I am sitting in my office complaining to the internets about how I can't be curled up on the sofa watching all my favorite shows. And watching the last 20 minutes of a 2-hour Grey's Anatomy special that I guess I'm never going to see and my goodness but Addison is certainly going to have a lot of old TV stars in her new show, like that judge with the perfectly curly hair and the guy from Wings and the hot single-dad lawyer whose show never really took off who is also BTW much shorter than he looks.

What really irks me is that I know if it were Big Daddy's or My Kid's TV that was fucked up, it would totally be fixed by now. Boo-hoo poor me.

/obnoxious bitching session

PS - I totally do not feel sorry for Paris. She totally deserves to go to jail. How stupid do you have to be to continually drink and drive (even after your license has been suspended) when YOUR DADDY HAS ALL THE MONEY IN THE WHOLE WORLD AND YOU CAN TOTALLY AFFORD A DRIVER?? Stupid, stupid girl.