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Edit:
What the hell? This entry is entirely too short. IT SNOWED TODAY. A LOT. And of course it chose to do this while I was out. I got everything mailed, though I didn't remember until I was standing in the post office wrestling with boxes and duct tape that I should have brought something to stuff in the boxes to take up the extra space. Oh, well. I think everything should arrive mostly undamaged... And I correctly remembered how much postage was needed to send things overseas, which was kinda cool (it is up to 98 cents now, for the curious).
Also, I raided Game Stop again and this week they did have a copy of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, so I bought that, because I guess I want to hurt my parents or something. MERRY CHRISTMAS, MOM, HERE IS SOME HORRIBLE, MENTAL TRAUMA-INFLICTING FUN. ... It could be worse! It could be a remake of SH2.
So now my shopping is done and my mailing is done and now all I need to do is get everything (that isn't Aniko's present, anyway, since I do have that wrapped, at least) wrapped. Which'll have to wait until Christmas Eve, when I am home and have wrapping paper. Wheeee.
Also, here is my amazing tale of how I DIDN'T fall down on my walk back after I ran my errands, mostly copy/pasted from an AIM conversation:
The sidewalk was covered in snow, and there was ice under the snow in some places, and it was still snowing (the fat, fluffy, SLIPPERY stuff), so you can probably guess how I came to slip. I started going backwards, but - you know how sometimes you can catch yourself on your arm before you completely hit the ground? - I had a box under my left arm, and I was falling to the left, so somehow, instead, I shifted my weight, over corrected and started falling FORWARD (fail), and then centered and only came down in an almost-crouching position. I never actually hit the ground anywhere.
I WAS SO PLEASED WITH MYSELF.
Edit:
What the hell? This entry is entirely too short. IT SNOWED TODAY. A LOT. And of course it chose to do this while I was out. I got everything mailed, though I didn't remember until I was standing in the post office wrestling with boxes and duct tape that I should have brought something to stuff in the boxes to take up the extra space. Oh, well. I think everything should arrive mostly undamaged... And I correctly remembered how much postage was needed to send things overseas, which was kinda cool (it is up to 98 cents now, for the curious).
Also, I raided Game Stop again and this week they did have a copy of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, so I bought that, because I guess I want to hurt my parents or something. MERRY CHRISTMAS, MOM, HERE IS SOME HORRIBLE, MENTAL TRAUMA-INFLICTING FUN. ... It could be worse! It could be a remake of SH2.
So now my shopping is done and my mailing is done and now all I need to do is get everything (that isn't Aniko's present, anyway, since I do have that wrapped, at least) wrapped. Which'll have to wait until Christmas Eve, when I am home and have wrapping paper. Wheeee.
Also, here is my amazing tale of how I DIDN'T fall down on my walk back after I ran my errands, mostly copy/pasted from an AIM conversation:
The sidewalk was covered in snow, and there was ice under the snow in some places, and it was still snowing (the fat, fluffy, SLIPPERY stuff), so you can probably guess how I came to slip. I started going backwards, but - you know how sometimes you can catch yourself on your arm before you completely hit the ground? - I had a box under my left arm, and I was falling to the left, so somehow, instead, I shifted my weight, over corrected and started falling FORWARD (fail), and then centered and only came down in an almost-crouching position. I never actually hit the ground anywhere.
I WAS SO PLEASED WITH MYSELF.