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Dec. 11th, 2006 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Saturday I drove up to the Tai-Pan meeting. I made four stops along the way. At Fred Meyers I renewed a prescription and failed to find a whipped cream maker for my sister. I stopped to get gas, then stopped at Borders in Southcenter, with the idea of getting a gift certificate for one of the people on my Christmas list. The good news is I found three Christmas gifts there, the bad news is I decided that, because of that, I didn't need to get any gift certificates, and then later remember that I still didn't have a gift for the person I'd mostly went there for. But then the other good news was that I found out that Borders was the wrong bookstore to get a gift certificate for that person anyway, so it worked out.
My last stop was at my comic shop. I hadn't been there in over a month, and there was a LOT of stuff waiting for me... about 8+ manga volumes, including some of my favorites -- Negima!, Ranma 1/2 (the last one, amazing!), Cheeky Angel, W Juliet, Genshiken, Yubisaki Milk Tea, Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl, Read or Die, Fushugi Yugi, and maybe one or two others, I forget. Also I picked up the collected volume 1 of Girl Genius, I only bought the first comic or two of that and I've never really gotten into the story, but I wanted to give it a try.
And then there were also four dvds waiting for me -- three more Inu-Yasha dvds, and one Negima! So I spent a lot of money, way more than I really needed to.
Sunday I watched the Seahawks lose. That sucked. Later I got to listen to the Cowboys getting thrashed by the Saints, and that put me in a good mood, because I don't like the Cowboys and I especially don't like them in the years they are doing well. And they are doing very well this year. They might even make it to the superbowl, which would really annoy me.
Legend called me during the game and invited me over to watch a movie. He was excited to show off improvements in his entertainment sound system, he rewired all the speakers using, I think it was cat 6 wires? Anyway very cheap and very very good sound. I agreed to come over in part because I had things I bought at MFF to give him anyway, in fact I'd been thinking about dropping by his place for the last two weekends.
We watched Pirates of the Carribean 2, which I hadn't seen before. My opinion? It wasn't bad, but I agree with what others I know have said, it felt formulaic. Lots of action, great special effects, no real complaints on that score, but the storyline makes little sense and the acting's nothing much to write home about. I don't ask for much from a Hollywood action blockbuster, but I kind of felt that this didn't meet my expectations in some way.
That, and it's like watching Empire Strikes Back or Back To The Future 2 -- they end in the middle of everything.
After I left, it was still early in the evening, so I drove up to Southcenter again and did some more shopping. I was very bad and bought another manga volume for myself (like I needed to buy another this weekend?) It's a manga called Princess, Princess, by the same author who wrote The Day of Revolution, something else I kinda liked. This one I think is going to stray into Yaoi love at some point, although that doesn't happen anywhere in the first volume, so we'll have to wait and see. That would make it the only real Yaoi title I've bought, although I suppose "Until The Full Moon" comes close.
I also stopped at Fred Meyers again on the way home Sunday and tried to find that whipped cream maker for my sister. This time I found out for certain that they simply didn't have one in the store anywhere, but they might have it back in later in the week, or I could try another store. But when I got home I had an e-mail from my mom saying she'd bought one for my sister already, so once again my failure to buy the gift I wanted to buy was a good thing.
Based on what my mother had said, I went back to Borders tonight (three trips to Southcenter in three days, yay) and picked up a second copy of a book I'd bought Saturday, which as it turns out would also probably make a nice gift for my eldest niece. Plus I picked up a set of the seven Narnia books, because my sister wanted that. No problem, I thought. Books are cheaper than a mixer or a whipped cream maker anyway, right? Well, books in the singular probably are, but books in the plural as in a set of seven, not a chance. I didn't really think that one through too well. But no matter, I have a gift for my sister now, and I was careful to buy the best of the sets that were available -- there were two, one with color pictures (and more pictures) and thicker, heavier books that were on heavier paper and much better made, and the strange thing was the different in price between the two sets was less than $5.00. This is why it's a good thing that I buy the book set and not my mother or my other sister, because I care more about books than they do. ^_^
I'm much closer to being done with my Christmas shopping, yay!
My last stop was at my comic shop. I hadn't been there in over a month, and there was a LOT of stuff waiting for me... about 8+ manga volumes, including some of my favorites -- Negima!, Ranma 1/2 (the last one, amazing!), Cheeky Angel, W Juliet, Genshiken, Yubisaki Milk Tea, Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl, Read or Die, Fushugi Yugi, and maybe one or two others, I forget. Also I picked up the collected volume 1 of Girl Genius, I only bought the first comic or two of that and I've never really gotten into the story, but I wanted to give it a try.
And then there were also four dvds waiting for me -- three more Inu-Yasha dvds, and one Negima! So I spent a lot of money, way more than I really needed to.
Sunday I watched the Seahawks lose. That sucked. Later I got to listen to the Cowboys getting thrashed by the Saints, and that put me in a good mood, because I don't like the Cowboys and I especially don't like them in the years they are doing well. And they are doing very well this year. They might even make it to the superbowl, which would really annoy me.
Legend called me during the game and invited me over to watch a movie. He was excited to show off improvements in his entertainment sound system, he rewired all the speakers using, I think it was cat 6 wires? Anyway very cheap and very very good sound. I agreed to come over in part because I had things I bought at MFF to give him anyway, in fact I'd been thinking about dropping by his place for the last two weekends.
We watched Pirates of the Carribean 2, which I hadn't seen before. My opinion? It wasn't bad, but I agree with what others I know have said, it felt formulaic. Lots of action, great special effects, no real complaints on that score, but the storyline makes little sense and the acting's nothing much to write home about. I don't ask for much from a Hollywood action blockbuster, but I kind of felt that this didn't meet my expectations in some way.
That, and it's like watching Empire Strikes Back or Back To The Future 2 -- they end in the middle of everything.
After I left, it was still early in the evening, so I drove up to Southcenter again and did some more shopping. I was very bad and bought another manga volume for myself (like I needed to buy another this weekend?) It's a manga called Princess, Princess, by the same author who wrote The Day of Revolution, something else I kinda liked. This one I think is going to stray into Yaoi love at some point, although that doesn't happen anywhere in the first volume, so we'll have to wait and see. That would make it the only real Yaoi title I've bought, although I suppose "Until The Full Moon" comes close.
I also stopped at Fred Meyers again on the way home Sunday and tried to find that whipped cream maker for my sister. This time I found out for certain that they simply didn't have one in the store anywhere, but they might have it back in later in the week, or I could try another store. But when I got home I had an e-mail from my mom saying she'd bought one for my sister already, so once again my failure to buy the gift I wanted to buy was a good thing.
Based on what my mother had said, I went back to Borders tonight (three trips to Southcenter in three days, yay) and picked up a second copy of a book I'd bought Saturday, which as it turns out would also probably make a nice gift for my eldest niece. Plus I picked up a set of the seven Narnia books, because my sister wanted that. No problem, I thought. Books are cheaper than a mixer or a whipped cream maker anyway, right? Well, books in the singular probably are, but books in the plural as in a set of seven, not a chance. I didn't really think that one through too well. But no matter, I have a gift for my sister now, and I was careful to buy the best of the sets that were available -- there were two, one with color pictures (and more pictures) and thicker, heavier books that were on heavier paper and much better made, and the strange thing was the different in price between the two sets was less than $5.00. This is why it's a good thing that I buy the book set and not my mother or my other sister, because I care more about books than they do. ^_^
I'm much closer to being done with my Christmas shopping, yay!
