iWish

[deckardcanine]

1. I sent my sister her belated birthday gift yesterday. My mom had thought of the obvious solution: chocolate. And other foods as an afterthought. Rather than buy a ridiculously expensive package online, I customized on a run to Trader Joe's. (You know, that's the kind of store that makes me imagine an alternate life in which I buy all the stuff I haven't had there. Is it just me?) Sarah was puppyishly excited to hear she was getting a package, even without hearing the contents were edible.

2. Note to self: Stop renting video games. Period. You may be learning a tidbit of culture from them, you may even be having fun with them all seven nights, but ultimately there are better ways to spend your time. You know what happened with your last seven rentals. Basically, if you're certain from the outset that it's for you, buy it or put it on your wish list; otherwise, leave it alone.

3. It's not worth it to me to buy an LJ upgrade, partly because I don't feel like stocking up on icons or even alternating the ones I already have. But the realist in me does not prevent the dreamer (ever strong) from thinking of icons I'd like. They would give readers a new impression of me. What I'd most like right now is an iPod spoof featuring the silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock, the caption being "iConfess." I might have the capacity to make it myself, but again, I don't expect to doff the keaton face anytime soon.

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Time management and Trader Joe's

[-fairest.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you sent your sister's gift off. Being older now, I don't get gifts anymore...we tend to spend on the kids. (Each year, we alternate so that the whole family takes a vacation trip on one of the kid's b-days.)However, this fall, I'll have a b-day ending in a -5. Somehow the -0's and the -5's seem more significant than the rest. So, I do hope for at least a dinner out alone w/DH. Same for our upcoming 10th wedding anniv.

Regarding time management...I spend so much time online at night doing 'nothing'. Gee, I could be folding laundry! Or doing my Bible study. Or putting curlers in my hair...blah blah blah.

Regarding LJ -- I'm with you about paid accounts. And yet, I do like icons and options.

Oh! I almost forgot about Trader Joe's (in my house, known as TJ's). When we move to Law School, we may be as far as 100 miles from the nearest TJ's. Heartache!! I should check their website. Perhaps they do online orders for non-perishable stuff. I grew up with and took for granted my TJ's at the beach. Then, here in the desert, we only got one close by two years ago. Before that, we had to drive 35 miles! Anyway...who could live without frozen Indian food???

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[-fairest.livejournal.com]

Being older now, I don't get gifts anymore...

Well, let's say I don't get surprises anymore. IN the past three years, I've been given two lovely rings (that I chose myself) and a digital camera (which was something the whole family needed.). So, I am not exactly deprived! But I do like surprises. And I have told DH so! (VBG)

Re: Time management and Trader Joe's

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I first read that as "minus 5." Then I saw the "-0." :) I'm making myself aware that Sarah and I will soon each have separate permanent addresses, which may mean no expectations of birthday gifts between us.

When I warn myself against renting games, it's not so much that they cut into productive time. I am looking for lazy fun in the evenings, and they usually are -- just not enough for a worthy rental. Some are very good but not my type. I could talk a blue streak about several of my relatively recent rentals (ooh, alliteration!), but I wouldn't expect more than one reader to be interested.

[-fairest.livejournal.com]

I love alliteration. DH does, too, but he drew the line on the children's names :)

PS: Did you see the pic I posted regarding the trashy woman? Ya don't want to miss it.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I like a bit of alliteration too, but I overdid it in 12th grade, so now I'm wary.

I saw the pic. A candidate for a site I looked at 5 years ago, uglypeople.com. I don't dare check to see if that site is still up. (At the time, I considered borrowing someone's computer and setting one of those photos as the desktop background. My roommate, meanwhile, considered posting photos around the dorm with the caption, "For a lovely time with one of these ladies, call...")