Making Life Easier

Since Nate's been gone so much, I've been watching quite a bit of tv at night. But we don't have cable, so I mostly watch Netflix. And I've been getting pretty frustrated lately because something is wrong with the way our computer runs Netflix and it keeps crashing while I'm watching it. I've done everything possible to fix it with no luck. So I was venting to him about how mad it made me and he surprised me with this!

It's a Roku! It streams all kinds of tv shows and movies through the internet, and it's only as big as my hand! It was soo simple to set up. I plugged it into the wall, and then plugged it into the tv. I synced it with our wifi- and then I was pretty much done! 

You know what else is nice? It has this simple little remote control.

Check out the remote I WAS using to control my Netflix:

A few more buttons, eh? And it runs on a semi-weak bluetooth signal so it gets a little quirky sometimes. 

Oh and PS, take a gander at the system I was using to run Netflix.

nbd right?

Soo I think it goes without saying that this is not the easiest thing in the world to troubleshoot. You see those blinky blue lights at the bottom? Well, apparently they have to blink some certain color in some certain order, and if they're not, you have to fix them. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS?! Yet somehow Nate does know it, and can actually walk me through fixing one problem after another from 1,000 miles away. Which is fantastic, but he's not always available, and sometimes you just want things to work when you turn them on, you know? 

So in sum, my husband is really awesome for understanding my need for simplicity and making it easy for me to watch my Netflix when he's not here to set it up for me. He takes such good care of me. Thank you babe :)