I have not been good today

[trinityvixen]

I mean, I baked cookies for a friend's birthday for a couple of hours, giving bits of dough and some of the scruffier cookies to one roomie and the other roomie's boyfriend, and I made a second batch of dough specifically so the absent roomie could have some because I wouldn't give her much of the birthday cookie dough...

But I was not good. I went to Best Buy to return my last Christmas DVD, and with the monies from that and two other gift cards, I bought Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Airplane! (finally, it was in stock! Who the hell doesn't carry Airplane! for god's sake?). Then feiran said she wanted to browse Game Stop, and we went, and I spent another $30 on three used games, only one of which I'd never played before. I got Max Payne, my own copy of Amplitude, and Max Payne 2. I wouldn't have bought them but that they were all pretty cheap (I'd only seen Amplitude for $20 before, and it was being sold for $15; Max Payne was $4 and Max Payne 2 was $9).

This would be bad enough but for the fact I came home and promptly bought two DVDs to get one free through a promotion being run at DeepDiscountDVD. I picked up Love, Actually (which I love but don't own), Pitch Black (which was really better than Chronicles of Riddick and I should have bought before it became titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black), and I got Dragnet: the movie for free (come on, Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks were fantastic in that movie, and yes it's a guilty pleasure, but it was free).

I want to buy sneakers this long weekend, too, but I don't know if I'll have the money for it. As Max Payne would say...

I wanted to save my money--there was no telling when I would need it to buy my way out of this stick situation, but the deals I'd struck to get through the hours that led up to the expenditures weren't going to let me off so easy. Besides, why put off until tomorrow what I can put away today?

And did I forget to mention that feiran and I bought 8 two liter bottles and 3 packages of 12 cans of Diet Pepsi? You know, if these were cigarettes, people would say we had a problem. Really, we have two problems: caffeine/Diet Pepsi addiction and the inability to pass up a sale (8x2 liters = $8; 3x12 cans = $8, and we'll probably go back again for this deal--it's good through the first week in February). As I told Carrie on our way out of Duane Reade: "Well, this will last us for a week." She didn't even pretend to disagree with that estimate.

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[decidedly.livejournal.com]

So when are you coming over with season 2.0 of Battlestar Galactica? I've got Diet Pepsi in the fridge waiting for you, dude. Catch ivy03 up on the action and we can all indulge in the crack. And then you guys can help me kick the shit out of the woman who is talking on her cell-speaker-phone in the parking lot -- a phone so loud I can hear the person on the other end of the line clear as day. I'm UPSTAIRS, fer chrissakes.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I need to buy the second season first!

Did you finish the first season? Is it not teh awesomezors?

Really, I might have a free ticket through my frequent flier miles. I can't wait to explain to my family why I'm going to Arizona.

"I'm going to meet this nice girl I met on the internet. We're going to watch the Sci-Fi channel DVDs of Battlestar Galactica with a mutual friend I originally met through my roommate!"

Maybe they'll all assume I'm really meeting my new internet boyfriend. They can't tell me no because that's how my brother met his girlfriend originally.

As for the cell phone person, it's legal to murder them in some states. So sayeth the TrinityVixen

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

"Kids, it'll grow back."