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feeling: stomach is ugh
listening to: TV
Today while we were having dinner at Taco Bell, my parents were talking about possible graduation gifts they were considering for me. They always do that for holidays and other gift occasions, because they'd rather have me know where most of the gift money's going than totally surprise me with stuff I might end up hating. Anyway... graduation gifts... a car is out, as we are not the kind of family with enough funds to hand cars out as gifts... I knew that anyway, but my reasons for mentioning it will surface later. So, the first idea they shared with me was... an aquarium. Size unspecified. Mom made it clear that she doesn't want one the size of the one they gave my brother and his family for Christmas, which was... what, 50 or 55 gallons... now THAT is an aquarium :x ...but dad was silent on the matter of gallonage, and he has more than once expressed his interest in having a very large, well-stocked and cared for tank... as long as he wasn't the one caring for it. Anyway, and suggestion number two was, mind-bogglingly, mom's idea alone: a new computer.
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I guess she didn't stop to think that a new computer would cost about the same as 3 or 4 tanks the size of my brother's. Or about the same as what my parents would commonly spend on a car. (not counting the new Cadillac they just bought... $11000-something... before that they'd never spent more than $3000 on a vehicle). But you didn't hear me arguing. :P And she WAS thinking... she's been listening to me whine about not having enough hard drive space and memory and stuff for months now. The only problem with the new computer idea is that until I get it, I'll have to put up with this worthless thing. With its 900 megs or so of of free disc space, which has been decreasing from 2 gigs for a few months now. So it would be pointless to upgrade this one now and be happy with it if I'm getting a new one in a few months, but I don't know if I can stretch out my 900 megs for that long, either. >.>;
Anyway... so they gave me these options, or of course, if there's anything else in that general price range they'd most likely do that too. And one mustn't forget that my birthday falls only a week or two after my graduation. Mom had suggested taking me to see the Lion King musical when it comes to Columbus that week, since I was a Lion King obsessee as a kid... and as much as that would rock, my obsession with J-rock is growing at an alarming rate, and I sure wouldn't mind getting some BLOOD, Gackt, and/or Dir en Grey CDs in place of tickets to that musical.
So. A new computer, or an aquarium of any size I choose. And a week later, Lion King musical or J-rock CDs. See, for anyone else, both of those would probably be a no-brainer. >_> But I've wanted a tank for most of my life, and raising bettas in recent years has only fed that interest... but how can one pass up a brand new gift-computer of one's own choosing? Especially when one's current computer is crap? And a musical vs. J-rock... matter of interests, I guess, but that's a pretty broad range of interests, ne? :P I think I'll go with the J-rock on that one... especially since mom said they'd be glad to take me to the musical too if I wanted, regardless of birthday. I'd feel bad though, cause those tickets can't be cheap. Blarg. ><
Time for Hey Hey Hey now... then homework I should've started a week ago... joy.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 2/29/2004 09:56:00 PM
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