Yesterday started out pretty good. I did my workout, was feeling pumped and I needed to run to the store. I thought we'd take the kids to the park and spend some family time together. DH had been up as he'd had a dr's appt. He got back and made us brunch (DH's days off are our "weekend") and seemed to be in a good mood. So when I go to ask him to come along with the kids and I, I find he's already glued his butt to his XBOX.
Now, in my house we both have XBOX's. I don't play frequently anymore as it has addictive qualities that I am pretty sure helped lead me further into the weight abyss I'm working on climbing out of. He constantly plays his. Its been the source of major arguments in this house cause he'll stay up till 5am playing then want to sleep all day. He skips out on chores in order to play as well (its like pulling teeth getting the yard mowed and its a little yard). Point being he takes his gaming so seriously and spends TONS of time playing.
He ended up going (after yet another argument) and actually enjoyed spending time with the kids. So when we got home, you can accurately guess he ran straight back to the XBOX. Except this time, he got an error message. He was on my XBOX and it errored out on him. Hardware failure. Now, for those not familiar, Microsoft XBOX is notorious for its hardware issues and has had to extend their warranties to cover it. I was a little upset initally that it happened to MINE, especially since its the least used of the two. So while I'm dealing with warranty crap he runs to his own xbox, gets on and... RED RING of DEATH. In the XBOX community that is the most well known hardware failure. The chance of it happening to both XBOX's on the same day is remote!
Now, both XBOX's are scheduled to go out for repairs Friday and it's going to take at least two weeks till we get them back!! Which means no fighting over him sitting in front of the TV till 5 in the morning hunting zombies or whatever he's doing!! Nope, instead he's been at his computer all day instead :P
I just had to share!