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Dec. 23rd, 2008 06:58 amI got the last of the Christmas shopping done, and mailed off the package home to my family; my mother will probably hate me, because I bought the boys harmonicas, which means they'll be spending Boxing Day wandering the house making hee-haw noises with them until they're confiscated. Oh, the joy of giving children noisemakers when you don't live in the same house as them.
I got a new phone. No frills, pay-as-you-go, ponied up extra for the text messaging package, and can now solicit top-up cards for my birthday. Downside: Virgin Mobile has all their phones locked so you can't use data transfer; no custom TF2 Art Of War ringer for me. If I do get a top-up card for my birthday I'll probably spend two bucks on a ringtone from them - they have Monty Python's "Scottish Farewell," which seems like a good one, as it involves both bagpipes and explosions. Upside: It's blue, and I can send SMSes and not be in the hole for fifty bucks a month. The texting's only five bucks and I hardly ever actually talk on it so the minutes ought to be fairly negligible.
I managed to do up my holidays without resorting to buying anyone a gift card. I enjoy receiving gift cards, but I always feel as if I personally am a failure if I have to give one to someone. Like I don't know them well enough to choose something they'll actually enjoy, you know? So, no gift cards, and holiday purchases for assorted members of my hearth which include: a spittoon; intentionally ugly jewelry; a box of band-aids wrapped up in more band-aids; toys from the Everything's-A-Dollar; and a variety of things I either got free or have had sitting around the house for ages (in one case, two years) because I never go to the post office.
Two more days!
I got a new phone. No frills, pay-as-you-go, ponied up extra for the text messaging package, and can now solicit top-up cards for my birthday. Downside: Virgin Mobile has all their phones locked so you can't use data transfer; no custom TF2 Art Of War ringer for me. If I do get a top-up card for my birthday I'll probably spend two bucks on a ringtone from them - they have Monty Python's "Scottish Farewell," which seems like a good one, as it involves both bagpipes and explosions. Upside: It's blue, and I can send SMSes and not be in the hole for fifty bucks a month. The texting's only five bucks and I hardly ever actually talk on it so the minutes ought to be fairly negligible.
I managed to do up my holidays without resorting to buying anyone a gift card. I enjoy receiving gift cards, but I always feel as if I personally am a failure if I have to give one to someone. Like I don't know them well enough to choose something they'll actually enjoy, you know? So, no gift cards, and holiday purchases for assorted members of my hearth which include: a spittoon; intentionally ugly jewelry; a box of band-aids wrapped up in more band-aids; toys from the Everything's-A-Dollar; and a variety of things I either got free or have had sitting around the house for ages (in one case, two years) because I never go to the post office.
Two more days!
