Jenn and I love ping pong. When we lived at The Colony we would walk over to the Marriott and play ping pong near their pool. Probably not the classiest thing to do, but we enjoyed it. It always made us feel like we were on vacation. When we started looking at houses one of the "nice-to-haves" for me was an area for a ping pong table. And of course if you've been following the "Casa de Szerlip" series you know that we have a really nice size atrium at our new house. 

This is really hard to believe but Jenn and I haven't seen a movie in theaters at all this year. A lot of that has to do with buying the house which has taken up a lot of our life. We absolutely love the movies so it was time to make amends for that and what a better way to start the year of movies then to go see the follow-up to the excellent Avengers movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron.

It took us nearly three months, but we just finished up our first big project in the house. When we purchased the house in January of 2015 one of the big projects we wanted to undertake was removing the built-in's from the second bedroom and the outside atrium area. They weren't bad built-in's but they didn't fit the decor or setup that Jenn and I wanted for either of those areas. It restricted our options for the rooms and took up more space then we would have ever wanted. 

Last year I started to keep a list of movies I wanted to see. Whether it was from Academy Award season, or trailers I saw online, or just movies I didn't want to forget about. On the top of that list for the last six to nine months was The Theory of Everything. With all the stress that comes with purchasing a home we missed seeing The Theory of Everything in theaters. A couple weekends back we rented it on iTunes (for $6) and endured the 2+ hour movie. 

When Jenn and I moved into our house a couple months ago we were desperately trying to find new TV shows to watch. Since we've gotten really into TV over the last couple of years we've heard tons of good things about CBS's The Good Wife. The show has won a ton of awards over the years and seems to be a critical darling. With our Amazon Prime membership we get the first five seasons for free so we decided to jump in.

Back in the fall of 2014 Jenn and I made the decision that we talked about doing for years; canceling cable. When we rented our first apartment together in 2009 we signed up for cable and have had it ever since. We carried two DVR's and just basic HD cable. Our bill (through Cox) was around $150-170 which included Cable and Internet. While we had cable we also carried Netflix and Amazon Prime.