The Things They Come Up With These Days...

I have not blogged on either one of my blogs the last few days. The reason for this was because we were celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary. My Parents and Sisters were lovely enough to take all five of the boys overnight so that D and I could enjoy some time to ourselves. It was wonderful.
After we picked the boys up from Mom's on Friday, we decided to run a few errands. Living in the small town paradise we live in has a few drawbacks, one of those being a very limited choice of places to shop. Since we were in the big town of Vancouver, WA for our anniversary, we did a lot of browsing around. D had received a gift card for Christmas (three years ago) for a certain electronics store that purports to have the "Best" prices and many things to "Buy". Luckily, the gift card had no expiration so we went there to peruse for things to use it on.

While we were there, #3 happened to notice something as we walked by heading for the restroom. He pointed it out to me on our way back. I have included a picture of it here for your proof that such a thing does in fact exist. Yes...its a beautiful side-by-side refrigerator/freezer. What is that in the door you say? A TV? Why yes...it is!

At first I was only planning to put a picture of it on this blog, and a few lines of ideas on how this would actually be a useful item to have in the kitchen. My ideas included things like:

When you get up for a midnight snack and can't decide what you want, you can watch a sitcom while you think about it.

Your kids will never want to take food in the living room again! They can just watch TV right in the kitchen.

etc...etc...etc...

Then when I was online looking up this beautiful picture, I happened to glance over at the paragraph next to it. Here is a snip from that paragraph just for you!

Moon B. Shin, vice president of overseas sales & marketing of LGE, said, “The TV refrigerator allows housewives to enjoy music, movies, satellite broadcasting, and cable TV in the kitchen, enhancing their pleasure and convenience. For instance, housewives can order food and kitchen items from home shopping channels and also cook dishes while watching cooking shows.”

First of all...have you actually seen one of those cooking shows? There is no way that anyone I know could cook along with a show and keep up with it. And I always personally find it necessary to actually be IN my kitchen when I am ordering kitchen items from the Home Shopping Network. This would help me avoid the embarrassment of accidentally ordering something I already own. Not to mention the subtle reminder that my place is in the kitchen. I enjoy being in the kitchen. But I also have laundry to do, carpets to vacuum and a toilet to clean. Where is the TV built into my medicine cabinet or my Washer and Dryer? I think they should also include the sales pitch that this TV is great for Men who don't want to sacrifice family time to watch football (or is it the other way around...) Now they can watch the game and still enjoy a pleasant meal with their family! Kids! You can rot your brain while you do chores in the kitchen! And lets be honest here...Are Housewives going to really cook along with their favorite cooking shows? Or are they going to turn on some Daytime TV and watch it while within arms reach of a half gallon of ice cream?

Seriously...do we have to have TV everywhere? Its in the car, the kitchen, the bedroom, the living room, and I just did a Google search, and you can indeed put one in the bathroom!

Or in your hot tub. I can already see the headline about the family that stewed to death after deciding to attempt to watch all three LOTR movies in succession from the comfort of their hot tub.

What will they think of next! For those of you who are fans of the amazing Refrigerator/TV, start saving your money! You only need about $4000.00! Yippee!