I know that this will probably show that I have been living somewhat in the stone age, but I just decided to join Netflix last night. (obviously, I am not that inept with regards to technology, and I am obviously NOT in the stone age; as I did design and currently run this site… ahem; but anyway) I must say that am excited about the idea of always having new movies around and at my disposal, and considering how many DVD’s I already own, this could prove to be quite fun; maybe I will find some new favorites. James is always complaining that we watch the same ones (I GUESS there are only so many times one can watch Mean Girls or 13 going on 30; but, is there really?), and that we never rent ones he wants to see.
We do rent the ones he wants to see, but he needs to be convinced of what he wants to see. He is a man. Men need help making up their minds. I am a problem solver. I help people with decisions. Put us together: I help him decide which movies he wants to watch. After I convince him that he really wants to see what I want to see, it all tends to work out, but Netflix definitely gives us a way to rent a variety of movies for practically no money at all. Trust me when I say I will be very diligent about getting those suckers back in the post.
**If you want to, you can invite me to be a “friend” on Netflix. We can share movie titles we want to see, suggest movies, etc. I think that is pretty neat. If you want to add me, my email is email(at)duanemoody(dot)com.
After good fun stuff, comes a rant, of sorts. It comes in the form of eBay frustration. I recently bid on a beautiful blue Timbuk2 bag, and, while I did win, some asshole came in with 32 seconds left, and upped the price by $24!!! This is what I would like to call “guerrilla bidding”. Waiting till the last couple of seconds to bid, in order to screw someone else out of what they were trying to buy. I say, that if you wanted the stupid thing, you should have bid before that last couple of seconds. And by waiting until then, it just shows that you don’t want me to have it and are going to be a jerk, and either: take it by force, or make me pay way too much for it. This happens to me all of the time on eBay, and not to be a whiner, but I really don’t think that it is all that fair. I even do the “maximum bid” thing, but when people see that you have more money bid, they keep bidding to make the price go up. Shameless. Completely shameless, I say. But, I did win the bag, and I paid much less than the $100 I would have to have paid for the same bag off of the website, so I GUESS I made out. I guess. But I am still mad about it. And I am not afraid to bitch. If there is one thing I do well, it is bitch.
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