Surprise gift...
Oct. 24th, 2006 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideSo there I'm sitting at my computer around 8, bored stiff. Don't feel like writing, and usually I'd be heading over to 30STM to see what's up there (there were always new pics and reviews and other fun goodies,) but there I'm sitting, lala, bored and frustrated and disappointed. I hear something rustling outside and I'm thinking, "Huh, that was odd," but the dogs didn't even look up, which is weird, because my dogs are psycho. I actually have a mouse or a mole or something hanging around outside the door (Sano is obsessed with the door frame whenever he thinks it's out there.) So, I don't think much of it. Until I go to let the dogs out a few minutes ago.
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And there is a huge gift bag stuck to my door. I'm trying to get the dogs out while at the same time fussing with the bag to see if there's a card or something, thinking, "WTF? Did my parents leave me something extra? And why didn't they just come in?" Then I see the card is signed from Kim.
Dude, she got me a 250 GB My Book external hard drive. Holy hell, WAY too much! I mean, I certainly will use it (I learned my lesson!) but my god, that's such a huge gift, and such a thoughtful gift. I have actual guilt over it, it's crazy.
I wondered why she didn't come in, but then with the dogs being all quiet plus the fact that my car is not in the driveway, it must have seemed that I wasn't at home.
Oh, yeah, my car. My fear now is that the transmission is going, though I seriously hope that it's not the case. The mechanic guy took it for a spin today and he noticed all of the things that I'd been noticing: it shudders while making a left, it lurches when I hit 2nd gear, and it shimmies when I get to like 65 or so. He thinks maybe it just needs a tune up ($120--not pleasant, but not going to kill me.) If it's the transmission, I'm in considerably more trouble, and I wish less and less that I hadn't spent so much money on frivolous things this month. >_>
Thinking about it now, I'm noticing a recent pattern: people are giving me hugely wonderful and useful gifts, sometimes for no reason. This has been happening more and more. And yet I still keep falling behind on money where I should actually be saving it. True enough that this is my expense season (what, like 7 birthdays all in the space of ten days, and the annual Hula seminar?) But my recent foolishness has put an even bigger dent in the usual expense. I'm 34 now. I should think about these things I call "adventures" before embarking on them recklessly.
But dude, do I totally not have the most considerate and thoughtful friends ever?
Oh, but oh: I will repay. ;D
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And there is a huge gift bag stuck to my door. I'm trying to get the dogs out while at the same time fussing with the bag to see if there's a card or something, thinking, "WTF? Did my parents leave me something extra? And why didn't they just come in?" Then I see the card is signed from Kim.
Dude, she got me a 250 GB My Book external hard drive. Holy hell, WAY too much! I mean, I certainly will use it (I learned my lesson!) but my god, that's such a huge gift, and such a thoughtful gift. I have actual guilt over it, it's crazy.
I wondered why she didn't come in, but then with the dogs being all quiet plus the fact that my car is not in the driveway, it must have seemed that I wasn't at home.
Oh, yeah, my car. My fear now is that the transmission is going, though I seriously hope that it's not the case. The mechanic guy took it for a spin today and he noticed all of the things that I'd been noticing: it shudders while making a left, it lurches when I hit 2nd gear, and it shimmies when I get to like 65 or so. He thinks maybe it just needs a tune up ($120--not pleasant, but not going to kill me.) If it's the transmission, I'm in considerably more trouble, and I wish less and less that I hadn't spent so much money on frivolous things this month. >_>
Thinking about it now, I'm noticing a recent pattern: people are giving me hugely wonderful and useful gifts, sometimes for no reason. This has been happening more and more. And yet I still keep falling behind on money where I should actually be saving it. True enough that this is my expense season (what, like 7 birthdays all in the space of ten days, and the annual Hula seminar?) But my recent foolishness has put an even bigger dent in the usual expense. I'm 34 now. I should think about these things I call "adventures" before embarking on them recklessly.
But dude, do I totally not have the most considerate and thoughtful friends ever?
Oh, but oh: I will repay. ;D
