When Does the "Entertainment" Part Start?

I blogged last time about having to get a bigger entertainment center[*] to fit my shiny new TV into. Well, mission accomplished! I went up to Wal-Mart yesterday after my family left and purchased myself a truly impressive piece of furniture. It's got shelves, it's got cabinets, it's got more shelves... The thing is massive. It occurred to me after I put it together that I'm gonna be in big trouble if I ever decide to move, because there's no way it's ever going to fit out through the door.

The downside of that is that it took forever to put the damned thing together. It's amazing how a simple "let's buy a new piece of furniture" project can simply eat up your entire day. Just buying the thing took most of the afternoon, given that it's a 90-mile round trip from here to Wally-world and that I had to fight all the weekend-after-Thanksgiving shoppers once I got there (not to mention spending 15 minutes looking for someone to help me move the box). Then I had to unhook the three thousand wires leading to, from, in, over, and around the old TV, the VCR and the DVD player. And remove everything from the shelves of the old unit. Then dismantle the old unit. Then put the new one together, which probably took me about five hours. Then I had to hook everything back up again. I still haven't put anything back onto the shelves of the new one, which means that there are currently DVDs and videotapes and games and other random things scattered all over my living room. And on top of it all, my arms are really, really sore from all that hammering and screwing and heavy lifting.

But I keep thinking how cool it's going to be to, say, watch the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring on my beautiful new non-crappy TV in my big new entertainment center. I just have to get all that junk off the couch first so I can actually sit in front of the television...

[*] And is it just me, or is that a really dumb-sounding name for a piece of furniture?