2007
this is the story of a water drop
maura @ 3:33 pm
Here at mauraweb! we’re not just getting older, we’re also getting better. (Or at least that’s what we tell ourselves.) Yesterday was my birthday! Our friends + neighbors came over + we ordered tasty Mexican dinner. There was prosecco and sangria. The boys made delicious chocolate cupcakes w/vanilla buttercream frosting. I took a small afternoon nap. Lovely presents of books and music and foodstuffs were bestowed upon me. Friends and family called from timezones both near and far. And Anne dedicated the Sunday News to me, which makes me feel like a rockstar. A rockstar full of burritos and cupcakes, mmmmmm.
Today it is not my birthday, and it is pouring rain. It’s also about 20 degrees cooler than it has been recently, which is a welcome change. We went from snow in April to a chilly mid-May to temps over 80 degrees every day for the past 2 weeks. And I’m sad to say that few days ago we finally turned on the air conditioner. I’m sorry Al Gore, really I am, but we all get exceedlingly cranky when it is too hot! Soon we will have ceiling fans installed, and will bask in the light of Al Gore’s approval once again.
Over the weekend we also made a few small attempts to buy a Nintendo Wii, to no avail. We’ve always planned to buy one someday but recently started thinking it’d be nice to have during our beach vacation with my family in August. Inevitably one week of family togetherness produces a few tough moments, and why exchange harsh words when you can just open up a can of Wii Tennis whup-ass on your relatives? Sounds like a plan to me!
The Wii came out last xmas, but apparently there is still a supply and demand issue. I don’t know whether Nintendo is doing this intentionally but it is very annoying! Poking around online reveals that no one has just the console for sale, but plenty of retailers will sell you a package w/games, accessories, etc. I’m not automatically opposed to the package concept, but I am when the package consists of games we don’t want (the Wii comes w/5 games), controllers we don’t need (we have a GameCube already), and Nintendo’s play money (Wii points). AND when the price is nearly 200% of the cost of the console itself! Lame.
Not that it matters, as our Nintendo displeasure is ever-fleeting. Nintendo, we could never hate you, not when Gus is still playing Wind Waker over 6 months after we finished it. Good thing, too, as we will not be letting him play Twilight Princess even when we do get a Wii. No sir, not ’til you’re 12, son.
4 comments on “this is the story of a water drop”
No way! Maybe I should send you guys money to get it for us. We checked at a shopping center near us last weekend but no dice. They were really vague about it too — “maybe we’ll get some in soon, we didn’t get any last month.” I am too old to call some teenage clerk at a store every day for a video game system!
Sure!
The clerk was post-teen. He asked, looking at me over the top of his glasses, “Is there anything I can help you with?”
I wanted to say “YES, can you please deprogram my son and husband so they are no longer game freaks? Can you bodily get them out of here? Can you magically fix our car (for free if possible) so we don’t have to meander around this soul-stealing mall any longer?”
But we said, “No, he’s [Max} just browsing, thanks.”
As Pee-Wee says, “Browse away!”
Yeah, those malls, they are soul-sucking. Can you believe that I went to the mall on my birthday?! Like the very last place I would expect to find me.
Blah, we have had car trouble recently too, let me know if you ever find the magical free auto repair shop, we would totally come to VA for that! :)
We saw the Wii at the Electronics Boutique at the South Park Mall. EB Games was selling it used for $230 or new for $250. Ben thought of mauraweb! when he saw it.