so last night i sat here for afew hours wondering what to do about my tv situation. i almost convinced myself that i really wanted cable internet enough to dump my dish, and get cable tv. this morning my hubby called and was gonna call dishnetwork for me, but i told him i would deal with no tv for two weeks till he gets home, and in the meantime,  i would consider which we would get when he gets home. we went 7 months with no tv when i was pregnant, cause i had really bad mrning sickness, and slept most of the time, and he was always at work. when i woke up one morning and realized that we had been watching the weather channel for 3 days straight, nobody had changed the channel, or turned the tv off. i decided to just get rid of the cable altogether. of course by the time i was 7 months pregnant, i was litterally to fat to fit behind the wheel of a car (i'm very short, so i have to have the seat all the way up to reach the petals) so we had to get the tv back, since i was trapped in the house. my point is, i've lived without tv. i know i dont need it, but i want it. i can think of a million reasons why its bad, but it has its good points, one of them being that i'm afraid to be here alone, and it drowns out all the little noises that otherwise scare the hell out of me. so i spent all day sitting here telling myself i didnt need it. by 6pm, i decided to make some calls. first i called comcast. i got 3 different price quotes from 3 different people. finally i talked to a nice man who explained all the prices for me and told me the exact price per month for what i wanted. for basic digital cable, a dvr, and internet it would cost me $113.00 per month. he says this is a good price. i'm almost willing to pay that, but i decided i should call dishnetwork first. i currently pay $54.00 a month for my dish, with dvr, local channels, and hbo. this is more than i would get with cable. i'm not sure that cable internet is worth the extra money. so i called dishnetwork, i figured they would charge me the usual $99.00 for comming out, plus whatever the price was for a new dish. i decided before i called that if it was gonna cost more than $113.00 (and i was sure it would) that i would just switch, since my hubby and i both really want faster internet, and we've already spent $300.00 on service calls to dishnetwork. (this is not the first time the dish has been messed up, altho it is the first time i was gonna need a whole new dish, as mine smashed to bits in last nights wind). so i call, and i explain to the girl on the phone that because i live in navy housing i cant mount the dish on my house, so it was on a pole. we had a really windy night last night, and i was gonna need a new dish because the whole pole fell over, smashing my dish to bits on the concreate. silence on the other end of the line. so i said i needed a price for a new dish, and for the service call. silence. after afew seconds she say "your dish...blew over and...smashed to bits....that really sucks!" she was obviously new, and probably younger than me. i laughed "yeah, it sure does! so how much is this gonna cost me?" she was quiet for a minute and then she asked about my husband being in the navy, and pointed out that i'm not on the account so if i was gonna cost anything, he would need to approve it. i thought about going into a big sob story, and decided not to, and not to threaten to switch to cable. instead, i simply said that i just wanted a price. i think she knew that ment i already had a price quote from somewhere else, so she said she was going to put me on hold and speak to a manager. 5 minutes later, she comes back and asks me if i'll be home sunday morning 8-12. i said i would. she says that they would replace the dish at no charge, and usually they would charge an instalation fee of $120.00, but since a) i didnt break the dish, an act of God did b) theres notes on my account that i have stayed with them even tho i have had ALOT of trouble c) i dont have inssurance in my area but theres a note on the account that i want it as soon as its availible in my area and d) i ALWAYS pay my bill early they are waving all fees. so i guess its dishnetwork then. i really would love to have cable internet, but free is for me. so even tho i'm missing the new southpark eppisode tonight, i'll have my tv back in time for [adult swim] on the cartoon network sunday night. yay!! (i know, i'm a dork, but i cant help it)