Current Ramblings
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Acquisitions
Every three months at work we get a profit-based bonus check. In my two years there I've seen them range anywhere from $50 to close to $500. But they're a random factor, so I try not to make any plans based on them. The one that showed up on Monday, however, was quite good, so I spent yesterday and today (well, today as in Wednesday, since I'm typing this in the middle of the night as usual) spending large quantities of it. I found myself on a few occasions cursing my Christmas list, much as I did leading up to my birthday. "Oh!" I would think to myself, "I could finally get Energon Prime! No, wait, I put it on my Christmas list..." I would mull things over a bit more, then think, "I could go to Charley's on my dinner break, then run across the street to Toys R Us and see if they have Ricochet in yet! No," I would admonish myself after a moment's deliberation, "he's on my Christmas list too." It did, naturally, occur to me that if my parents hadn't already preordered me my beloved Nintendo DS, I would have now had the funds to stand in line in front of Target at 6AM a week and a half from now and buy it on the release date. Curse you, cruel hand of fate! But I still found plenty of good things to do with it:
1) I bought a new coat, since my foo-foo glam coat looks about how you'd expect a tan suede coat to look after two years of heavy use. It's a nice dark-grey wool peacoat from Old Navy, which all my friends thought was great because they're boring guys.
2) New jeans, also from Old Navy.
3) Mirage, who I hadn't bought yet, but Meijer still had, and I know everybody thinks Dreadwing is so much better and prettier, but Mirage is the one in the show and he's got the colors that match Sharkticon and make them sort of a Decepticon Naval Team. And he's a character, even if that character is just Tidal Wave again. I swear, I'd be 500% more inclined to buy redecos if they'd just put the bios back on the boxes.
4) Also, Duststorm (the last combiner limb out now that I hadn't picked up) and Shield Breaker (the last Xevoz I needed to be all caught up).
5) The Martini print from my last post and the frame it's in. The print ended up not costing me anything becasue they give you some store credit on your employee ID card on your anniversary, which I had forgotten. It's now in my kitchen.
6) Shockblast and Battle in a Box Magnus and Treadshot for, respectively, Malin and Fin, which I'm being paid back for so they really don't count.
7) Some new undies.
8) Also, today when we went to pick up comics it turned out the Laughing Ogre had overordered the new 20th Anniversary Don mega-litho, so they were selling them for $15 each instead of the usual $25. So I bought that and, later, a frame at Meijer. I moved the Transformers: The Movie poster to the hallway across from the Death's Head art and put the litho behind the couch instead.
9) Also also, I bought lots of food. Mmmmmmm, Long John Silver's.
Now I have to go back to Saving Mode so I can actually get some people Christmas presents. :)
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