So the wife is 7 months pregnant now. I’ve found that with pregnancy comes her buying stuff. A lot. This bothers me. Not cause I’m worried she’ll spend us out of house and home or anything, but because if she gets to buy stuff, I want to buy stuff.
“See my new pair of pants?” she says. That hardly seems fair. I spend 5 dollars on a cable to connect something and I get the teary eyed “we don’t have any money!” speech. Mind you, when she gives this speech she doesn’t take into consideration the balances of our savings or checking account. She only consults the worry in the back of her head, the ever present fear that, even though we have no credit card debt, and both have well paying jobs, we’ll somehow, out of some financial fluke, end up on the streets.
But back to the point at hand. She buys stuff. A lot.
So I complain, “You get to buy all this new stuff, how come I can’t get [...]?” She explains that she buys all her stuff with gift cards from the last baby shower. She says, “If people give you gift cards, you can buy whatever you want.” So with that, I call upon you. Send me gift cards. Lots of them. Preferably the kind I can use anywhere, ’cause I have vast and varying “needs.” In return, I will shower you with personal e-mails about how much I’m enjoying my new [...] and how I’ve finally found that you can find happiness through material goods. All because of you. Don’t you want to feel that kind fo pride?
This is a beautiful little 4 minute documentary on Parkour, and one space in particular. Makes me dread the lack of spaces in my neighborhood, and even more so, makes me hate my stupid, injured ankle. I was fine, and then it just started hurting again out of the blue. Stupid ankle.
You know how when you were a kid, you’d have a friend or someone who had broken a leg, or sprained an ankle, and they had to walk around with crutches? You’d ask them if you could try them out, and you wished a little to yourself that you could have cool crutches. Well, one day that will come back to haunt you.
Today it got me in the form of a strained tendon in my left foot. I was doing something like this, only it turned out something more like this. Well, my mistake was a little more graceful, but a lot less kind to my foot. So now I’m on crutches for “5 to 7 days” according to the doctor. This’ll be fun. Can’t wait till they start picking on me at work.
On a completely other note, I had posted before about switching from Netflix to the Blockbuster Total Access Plan. So now that we’ve had it for a while, I have to say, I like it. I have a Blockbuster near by, so it’s really great. I pay for the two movies in the mail, and I get two free when I return them through the store, yeah yeah, everybody knows that. But as far as I can tell, you can get away with almost anything on this plan. Last week Strangers on a Train was like, 4 days late, so I reported it missing. Today I got two copies of it in the mail. I already had one free rental from the Blockbuster store out, but when I took the two, same movie, into the store, I got two more movies for free, and didn’t even have to bring back the other one that I had out. So today in Total, I had five movies from Blockbuster. Call me crazy, but I like this thing.
If you happen to get a chance to see Dragonforce and Killswitch Engage on their current tour, take it, as you will not be disappointed. That show was amazing. Easily one of the best I’ve ever been to.
But be warned, bring earplugs. Dragonforce is the loudest band I’ve ever heard.
