The Video Chair June 26, 2009

It’s no secret that the hubby LOVES playing video games. I can’t say I share the same affection for the 360 as he does, but I do enjoy a good sitting with Guitar Hero. Anyway, we got rid of my couches to make more room for his stuff the month before we got married. We decided to live in my studio garage apartment to save money for a while. It’s only 500 sq. ft. and one big room, so there’s not a lot of space for extra furniture. We’ve been creative though and positioned the tv on the opposite wall as the bed, so we just sit on the bed and watch it. But there is the space between the foot of the bed and the tv, so I told the mister that my old video chair was in my mom’s garage and I’m sure she’d be nothing less than thrilled for us to get it.

He had lots of questions about this video chair since I’ve had it since childhood (along with a lot of other things that he’s itching to get rid of). It’s not fancy – no buttons or volume or anything remotely electronic or technical about it. It’s just a leather chair that sits on the ground. If you lean all the way back, it rolls all the way to the ground and you have to throw your feet backwards and then down again to sit up (unless of course you want to roll over and dump yourself out of the chair). So it’s a video chair – you’ve all seen them I’m sure.

So now we have a video chair that the hubby loves to sit in while playing his games. He has mentioned that he would prefer an updated one that he can plug things into and have speakers by his head and all kinds of bells and whistles. I don’t get it. It’s a chair. I also don’t understand the fascination with souped up cars or super expensive cars. It’s a car. It takes you from point A to point B. Whatever - back to my point. . .

I don’t have a problem with the video chair at all. It is a little cumbersome and in the way at times, but it kind of does me a favor, so I won’t complain about the other little things. Before the video chair made its grand appearance in our humble abode, the hubby would lay on the bed or sit on the foot of the bed and play his beloved video games. Now, he sits in the chair which is WONDERFUL for me!  You might be thinking it has something to do with the space on the bed being free, but that’s not it at all. You see, now we can both get what we want. He can sit and play video games to his heart’s content and I can straddle him (please redirect your thoughts OUT of the gutter), and have my face squished into the back of this chair. I don’t mind the face squishing as long as I’m being held. So I get to be held, he gets to play his game. The video chair makes life grand!!