"But I WANT that!!!"

So yesterday, Jon wanted to go to Best Buy to check out the new 3-D Nintendo DS system to see if it was all it was cracked up to be.  He was pleased.

While said husband was being entertained by the new gadget, I decided to wander around Best Buy...bad idea.  You're accosted by a Best Buy Sales person at every turn!...ok, perhaps accosted is too strong a word, but there were a lot of them, and I was asked if I needed help by at least 4 different people.  On one hand, I understand their plight - they're located next to, and therefore competing with, Wal-Mart.  Business is slow - that's pretty self-explanatory.  On the other hand, and unfortunately for them, we had no intention of buying anything.  Poor guys. To their credit though, their prices actually were better than Wal-Mart, at least as far as TV's are concerned.

Segue!

Yes.  TV's.  TVs are new, sleek, big, clear, quasi-affordable (without cable...but you can't NOT have cable..seriously...what's the point of having a nice tv then...) and Jon and I have been talking about purchasing one eventually.  I should elaborate on "eventually".  What we really mean when we say "eventually" is: way way way faaarrrr far far down the road.  I should have known better.

So, while trying to avoid the Best Buy people (in vain) down the TV isles, we browsed, checked out prices and imagined what kind and size we would like to have someday.  In my mind, however, I'm secretly getting my hopes up "It's ONLY $400 - that's SO much better than $500 or $600 and we could easily pay it off!  The picture would be so much clearer and bigger! etc".  Sound familiar?  Cats anyone?

I bet you can guess what happened next.  If you can't...well, we left.  No TV, no immediate plan of buying one, and me desperately fighting the urge to throw a fit (not tantrum, mind you).  For heavens' sake!  We can't buy a TV!  Oh the trials....

As I type this, I'm struck with one verse:

“You shall have no other gods before Me." Exodus 20:3

Wow.  I feel like I've been lambasted.

I have a lot to think about.