My new year has not gotten off on the greatest foot.  I was all ready for this to be the best year ever, so I’m pretty bummed things haven’t been going my way so far.

Let me explain further.

Because of where we live, we have Cablevision in our house for TV, internet, and phone services.  There isn’t another option, at least there wasn’t when we moved here.  Perhaps there is now, I’m looking into that this week.  Anyhoo, unknown to me (or anyone else I’ve talked to for that matter), Cablevision, for whatever reason – and to be honest I don’t give a crap about the reason – ended its deal with the Scripps Networks as of January 1, 2010.  Scripps Networks, for those of you who don’t know is the company that brings us the Food Network and HGTV.

That’s right.  As of the New Year, there is no more Food Network in my house.  AND IT’S ALSO THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

The Food Network has been my background noise, my relaxing-in-front-of-the-TV channel, and my muse for my entire adult life.  The loss of it, in a word, sucks.  Cablevision has their version of what happened running on the channel formerly known as the Food Network.  You can check it out here.  Similarly, Scripps Networks has their own campaign going to explain what happened, which you can check out here.

What it comes down to is a contract dispute.  All I can think of is 1994, when the MLB Player’s Association went on strike and the season ended before it’s true end, robbing fans of the World Series for that year.  The fans didn’t care what the problem was, or who was right and who was wrong, they just cared about losing out on watching their favorite teams play baseball.  It’s the same thing here.  No one cares whose fault the whole thing is.  We just care that we’re getting screwed out of our shows (while still paying the same price and having to hear from people on other cable networks about all the great stuff we can’t see).

As if losing my favorite TV channel wasn’t enough, we also discovered last Saturday (1/2/10) that our dryer is broken.  We rent, so we have to wait for our landlord to fix that problem.  Until then, we either can’t do laundry, or we have to wash it and then line dry EVERYTHING.  Or we have to impose on someone we know to use their machines.  I won’t go to a laundromat, for reasons that are outside the scope of this post.

*sigh*  I still have high hopes for this year!  I’m keeping my fingers crossed that both issues are taken care of soon.

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