OMG. It’s anniversary day! As is my tradition, seen here, I did nothing. I knew it was coming, just like last year. I still work *at* the mall so shopping or a card would be easy enough. I just can’t get it together… After reading last years post I am a bit jumpy, worried some box or something is gonna pop out of somewhere leaving me to feel like a total heel. I thought we agreed tho. We get another iPhone. That is the gift, so we each end u with killer phones! Yay!

We are spending the day at a friend’s house for a BBQ and hopefully fireworks. She lives on Coronado Island, so we should be able to see the show without too much effort! There is champagne chilling in the fridge for later tonight. And we have a week off. I think that is a pretty good start on Anniversary festivities!

Anyhoo. Happy Anniversary Richard! Thank you for keeping me company all these years…

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daniel · mid-morning · 6 comments · ping it

Slept in till forever. That was a gift in itself! Had blueberry muffins. Now we are off to dinner. Christmas dinner.

So far a great day. I hope all of you are having a great holiday!

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daniel · lunch time · 3 comments · ping it

The Bad Gift Emporium via everlasting blort.

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daniel · at some point · say it · ping it

I am still in shock.

So yesterday I was all busy getting my sleep on. I was rudely awakened by the doorbell. Oh no. It was like 8:45 in the morning. I was not getting up. Who could it possibly be anyway… No one important calls on me at that hour. I was not expecting anything. I hadn’t ordered anything. I am on a budget right now! So I went back to sleep, leaving the door unanswered. Later as I was leaving for work I saw the FedEx message on the door. FedEx? Had Richard ordered something? I put the tag upstairs and took off. I called Richard from the car but he was clueless as to why FedEx would be delivering, but he was unsure. So I was like whatever.. The next day (today) I was busy sleeping in, but Richard was home. Apparently FedEx came again. When I woke up Richard told me that I had a package. Bleary eyed and confused, I went downstairs to investigate. Sure enough, it was a small box addressed to me.

I was hesitant as I opened it. I mean, come on. I had no idea where it was from. There was no return address, no sender name. What ever it was, it was wrapped in white once I got thru the cardboard. There was a small envelope. I cracked that open first. It was a small white card, about the size of a business card. It had one question printed on it, “Who loves ya baby”. Richard! What had he done??

I took off the white wrapping. It was an iPod Classic. OMFG. I ran upstairs to Richard. As I was speaking, excitedly announcing the iPod to Richard, he looked more and more confused, insisting he knew nothing about it. Weird. I went back down to admire my new toy. I removed the packaging slowly. Any Apple aficionado can tell you that the packaging is part of the experience… I savored it. As I held the amazing little machine in my hands I noticed that it was engraved.

It was from my father. “Who loves ya baby” on the card. Of course. My parents! In my mind the value of the thing just quadrupled. The thought alone that in this nothing month, far from holidays and birthdays, they thought of me. And out of all the Apple products I am currently lusting after, this is the one that fills the most needs/wants in one item. I am amazed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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daniel · late at night · 3 comments · ping it

The inability of purchasing international gift certificates on iTunes sucks dirty ass. Just FYI.

Seriously. You cannot do it. You get this warning about how certificates can only be used in the store they are bought in if the recipient’ s email is say, for instance, Canadian and registered in the Canadian store. I think I knew I was buying a gift for, as an example, a Canadian person. I am using Canada as an example here. I don’t care about the logistics. Just make it work! But no. Even if I logged into the Canadian iTunes store I was flagged as American and sent back to my own store! Bastards! So now what? I have an international gift I need to buy within the next few days!! Where do I turn if, for example, I need to buy a gift for a Canadian?

As I was getting desperate I got creative. I Googled Canadian (for example) Gift Certificates. The resulting websites offered email certificates for Canadian (as an example) stores, but ew. Really. How do I know if my supposedly Canadian friend shops at those places? I mean, I wouldn’t from the looks of things online. So I went over to the Amazon. Now that is a global market! Right? Erm. No. Well actually, yes and no. An Amazon.com certificate is not valid at Amazon.ca (for example). However, I was able to go to Amazon.ca (for example) and buy in the proper monetary exchange without being flagged as American and sent away. I found this to be a hypothetical shopping experience plus.

I will let you know if this hypothetical international purchasing scenario resulted in a happy gift recipient, hypothetically speaking, of course.

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daniel · the wee hours · 3 comments · ping it