Our TV screams at us

For real, the damned thing gives us about a half hour before it starts screeching. The only way to get it to stop the ear-piercing squelch (as Amanda likes to call it, we have many names for it) is to turn it off for a couple of minutes, during commercials of course. Fortunately, I have become an expert at precisely timing the length of commercials, however, now Amanda and I must actually talk to each other for these brief moments (conversation!?! say it aint so!) Here is my favorite convo from tonight's Break from the Squelch/Steph and Amanda Visit time:

Is he cute?

Oh yeah.

Well there you go..

...but I think he might be too nice

Oh God Forbid!

Well I mean, that could imply a number of things! Like he might have another girlfriend, oops..ha

(laughter)

another girlfriend huh? Freudian Slip!

Total Freudian Slip. Another girlfriend -- cuz obviously I'm his first girlfriend, hahaha! No, but seriously, he might have a girlfriend, or, he might be too nice, in like an annoying way

(skeptical look)

for instance, this class we're in, he's like really dedicated to the assignments, always putting in a lot of effort, and that could get annoying.

Right, cuz it would just be awful if he was into the class and, I don't know, studious..

EXACTLY!