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Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth
Sep. 15th, 2005 12:31 pm
The in-laws are getting us a big-screen t.v. for our 10th wedding anniversary (which really isn't til next January, but oh well).
I don't really know how to respond to this considering how much my mother-in-law bitches & moans about money & the lack thereof. When I bitch & moan about money, it's because we're broke. Honestly broke.
Why buy us a television when the actual cash would be more useful? Why buy us anything when they need the money? What the fuck? We have a t.v. Actually, counting Rob's tv/vcr combo & his 6-month old portable DVD player, and some little mini tv, we've got 4 t.v.'s.
So instead of giving us useful $$$ or nothing at all & saving useful $$$, we're getting a big-ass t.v. which we won't be allowed to sell.
Granted, I am a techno-whore and the thought of a bigger t.v. is marginally appealing, not that I ever really get to watch t.v. that I want to watch, so the gift is really more for Rob, the couch potate & remote control control-freak. But oh well, we're not going anywhere for a couple of years. We can sell our current television & make some space. Where to put the snakes? Hmmmm... Playing 'Worms' might be interesting.
We rented The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night. We should have waited, but I've been wanting to see it for awhile now & never got around to seeing it in the theater. It was sort of a mish-mash of all 5 books of the trilogy (if you haven't read them, you won't understand why there are 5 books in the trilogy & don't bug me if you don't get it) plus some extra plot thrown in for less abstract-minded viewers. It was overall a pretty cool movie & they kept a lot of the dialogue intact.
So it's going to be delivered sometime Saturday. I got to clean this place up a little & make room, all while doing homework & studying & reading... Ye Gods!
I don't really know how to respond to this considering how much my mother-in-law bitches & moans about money & the lack thereof. When I bitch & moan about money, it's because we're broke. Honestly broke.
Why buy us a television when the actual cash would be more useful? Why buy us anything when they need the money? What the fuck? We have a t.v. Actually, counting Rob's tv/vcr combo & his 6-month old portable DVD player, and some little mini tv, we've got 4 t.v.'s.
So instead of giving us useful $$$ or nothing at all & saving useful $$$, we're getting a big-ass t.v. which we won't be allowed to sell.
Granted, I am a techno-whore and the thought of a bigger t.v. is marginally appealing, not that I ever really get to watch t.v. that I want to watch, so the gift is really more for Rob, the couch potate & remote control control-freak. But oh well, we're not going anywhere for a couple of years. We can sell our current television & make some space. Where to put the snakes? Hmmmm... Playing 'Worms' might be interesting.
We rented The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night. We should have waited, but I've been wanting to see it for awhile now & never got around to seeing it in the theater. It was sort of a mish-mash of all 5 books of the trilogy (if you haven't read them, you won't understand why there are 5 books in the trilogy & don't bug me if you don't get it) plus some extra plot thrown in for less abstract-minded viewers. It was overall a pretty cool movie & they kept a lot of the dialogue intact.
So it's going to be delivered sometime Saturday. I got to clean this place up a little & make room, all while doing homework & studying & reading... Ye Gods!
