Finished the new wiring for the sound system and then zumba, now wine o'clock!

We worked on this stupid wiring project all friggin' weekend. ALL FRIGGIN' WEEKEND. The black cast iron register cover came in the mail on Friday. We started about 11 am on Saturday morning. Took us like 3 hours to figure out how to and then build the framing around the new vent cover. It doesn't come with a frame so we had to figure out how to frame it out. I told my husband that the beautiful vent cover won't look right with just a plain little wood frame. So started the chaos. About 2 hours into it and 2 trips to Home Depot I thought I was going to throw it out the window into the snow. But we finally got it done with the help of an 8" x 10" black frame. This ended our Saturday.
The next day at about noon we decided to wire everything to make sure it worked before feeding all the wires into the basement and back up to the TV. We realized we needed some more wire. Another HDMI wire, an optical audio wire (to feed the sound from the TV through the receiver so that we can hear it in the in-ceiling speakers), and a red, white and yellow wire to so that, in the future when we buy it, we can hook up our WII. So I had to go to the store. After I got home we realized that the receiver we currently had that we planned on hooking up was too deep to fit into the cabinet. We wouldn't have been able to close the glass doors. So before the kids went down for their naps we went out to buy a new one. Problem, we went to WalMart and they didn't have the measurements on the boxes. So we bought one and hoped for the best. Low and behold....it didn't fit. Still too deep. So we looked online and checked all measurements and features and then looked to see where they sold it. Finally found one at Target. Of all places. So after the kids got up we went to Target and go that one.

Then, onto the wiring. We need to wire the verizon box to the TV, the new DVD player/receiver to the TV and then the TV wired back to the receiver. Then wire the receiver to all the speakers clips waiting on the wall. Just a mess.
But when we wired everything outside of the wall it worked. Now we get everything fed to the basement then back up to the hole in the wall behind the TV (so that you can't see any of the wires) not everything works. OMG. We put The Sound of Music DVD into the player and the picture is going in and out on the TV. Among other issues.

At 7 pm we gave up on everything. At some point I fed the kids heated up hot dogs and corn for dinner but neither of us ate dinner yet. At 7:30 pm we put them to bed, showered and I ordered dinner. My husband was a good boy and ate his chicken and salad from the fridge. We sat on the couch for about 2 hours then went to bed.
The sound still didn't work. So today I went out and got a new HDMI cable, an audio optical wire and a new coaxial cable (my husband ripped the end off the one we had on Saturday pulling it through the wall). I came home, put the kids down for naps and changed the wires out. I got it all working but the TV sound going through the speaker wires. While I was at Zumba my husband figured this out.
Now, it all works and everything is done. Just need to paint the baseboards and nail them in and start decorating. Ah.....