The BIG One
I went and did it. Thanks to a surprise small fortune that fell in our lap last week, Carol and I went on a mini shopping spree. It's a funny thing about having extra money...you never know when it'll come around, and when it does, you don't always know what to do with it. Save? Spend? Save? Spend? We decided to spend, and spend we did. I assure you our motives were well-intended, and no harm came to anyone, but I have a strange feeling about it all now.
First, I went out looking for something I'd had my eye on for a long time now--an iPod. Ever since January when the iPod shuffle was announced, I'd been scoping them out, thinking that this was the perfect fit. But after giving it some thought, I realized that the measly 1GB wasn't enough, so I considered the iPod mini, which ended up being only $50 more.
Hey, we've got a little extra money. Why not? Now's the time. Good. Done. I didn't even get bent out of shape when I bought the Firewire cable that used to come standard with every iPod. I even dropped a Benny for a sweet car charger/FM transmitter/holder/iPod-love device.
You know, there was a time when I thought spending a couple hundred dollars on something smaller than a cassette tape would have been just downright silly, but I suppose technology has since surpassed my sense of reason.
Then...I went and did the unthinkable.
Remember that scene from Pretty Woman when Richard Gere says to Larry Miller that he plans on spending "an obscene amount of money" in his store? That sheer disregard for the value of money was pretty much what I was feeling. What this insane? Yes. Obscene? Most definitely. Necessary? Absolutely not.
Let's get something straight. I'm not a high roller by any means. I don't make beaucoup cash. What I do make goes right to all of our bills. It's kind of rare for me to go and drop a wad on anything that isn't in some way necessary. I mean, I'm always trying to find the best deals, even when things are free! But that all went out the window that day. There was the iPod, which I'd been hunting for bargains on forever and had all but given up on ever owning. Then, of course, the accessories for it, and they didn't come cheap either.
Then there was what I consider to be the first purchase of true, grandiose excess of my entire life. I went and bought what has to be the biggest honkin' television I've ever seen.
You're probably wondering where the rest of it is. Well, that's all you get. This thing is so freakin' huge that I just don't think photos don't really do it justice anyway.
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