Nov 28, 2008 22:12
Well, I didn't get my computer today. Feeling way under the weather this morning (all day, actually -- for reasons that you may guess), I didn't get any kind of jump on the sales. By the time noon clicked by and I was creaking out of bed to rejoin the living, the deals were gone. Which didn't stop me from spending four hours of my life and Nick's, hunting down every last one. I know, I know. Serves me right. I almost went over my budget to pick up a seductive little HP with widescreen, 3 GB RAM / 260 GB hard drive and a built-in webcam, but a bad credit check steered me away from what would have essentially been a silly impulse buy. I'll wait for my check to come out next week.
I felt bad for Nick, driving me around in the rain and the traffic, suffering the vertigo of holiday crowds (he hates shopping) for hours on end and no shiny new products to show for it. So I got us bloody Marys (which, I am not proud to admit, helped to ease the pains of post-Thanksgivingitis) and we made Chaddaroni, which we brought to Griffin in time for the game. It did help to watch the Blazers end their home stand with a strong win over a quality New Orleans team. Yes, it did help.
Griffin left to tend to an ailing Megan, so now Nick is upstairs playing Halo, and I am here, writing just to write. Maybe if I just keep writing, I'm thinking, maybe if I start writing more regularly about the little things, I'll be comfortable enough to talk about bigger picture things -- without spooking myself out of it. My last post reads a little off-key to me, you know, it doesn't quite get to it, that thing I'm trying to get at. And it feels a little self-important. So maybe it's best to take myself less seriously for now, without worrying about that thing.
But to start, I kind of need a computer.