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This blog has afforded me a number of things.  One of those things?  Friendship.

And for it I am so thankful.

I don’t have very many friends that I see on a daily basis.   On a daily basis, though, I see and feel the love of so many that I call my friends.  Love when they come here and tell me something sweet.  Love when they leave me a comment on an old picture on Flickr or Facebook.  Love on Twitter when I am asked a very random question that I just totally get.  Love when I get an email inviting me to a gathering of friends, old and new.

The friends that live in my laptop are so great.

And for them I am so thankful.

@alimartell

@thecaffeinatrix

@motherbumper {on left, in purpley bokeh splendidness}

@aprylsantics

@aiminglow

@secretagentmama {in selfy-pee}

THE LANE FAMILY HAS TV.  {I repeat} THE LANE FAMILY HAS TV.

Now, don’t go thinking that we’ve back-tracked on our ideals.  No, that is not the case.  Fact of the matter is: WHO DAT!? The New Orleans Saints are playing in the Superbowl.

That being said, we spent some of our Christmas money on a new TV.   Our old one was a hand-me-down cathode ray tube* with a very old DVD player that we got for like $99.00 at a Blockbuster nine years ago.    The new TV is a pretty nice plasma, and it’s really, really big.

Then we were faced with a dilemma:   What kind of service would we get?

We decided that satellite wasn’t the way to go just yet.

An old-fashioned antennae, however, was.

Michael scaled our two story home, braved high winds, balanced, used his brute force, and got that bad-boy up there.

So far I’ve enjoyed an episode of General Hospital, and last night we watched the American Idol try-outs in Dallas.  Oh yeah, and the President’s State of the Union.   Oh yeah, and Conan.

This morning, however, while Benjamin lay on the couch nursing a head cold, the two other bigs joined their brother to watch an old favorite (do you hear the sarcasm?) as they took a break from their school day.

Davey asked them to turn it off!

*cathode ray tube – That’s totally Michael talking!