I have a sick, sad lust to buy Gene a Nintendo Wii for his birthday. We were standing in the GamesStop store across the street from our house yesterday and they had 3 of them (I think – they had the boxes and I think that means they had the systems). I don’t particularly want to use the Wii (anything more complex than Super Mario Bros 3 is just too much) but I want him to have it.<\/p>\n
Is that the manifestation of “love means wanting to make your partner happy” or is it just the manifestation of “money fixes everything”? It is probably the latter, and we have racked up a huuuuge Visa bill from our party-hearty lifestyle so I guess I should refrain from making a $500 purchase (yeah, the system is a mere $250 but when you add in all the extra thingies and then buy games for the thing, $500 is probably a lowball estimate).<\/p>\n
Plus, the reason Gene wants the Wii is to set it up upstairs to use Wii Fit and we can’t just buy a Wii and Wii Fit, we also have to buy a TV, mount it to the wall and buy enough mats to plastic carpet the entire upstairs. (“The upstairs” = The Boy’s room and also where I have stashed adorable items of tiny clothing and the MBUS.) And yes I know that we could just buy the Wii and the game and call it a day, but we really can’t. Neither of us like to do stuff half way.<\/p>\n
The problem is this: Gene is really, REAAAALLY generous to me on my birthdays. For example, when I turned 30 (shhh, don’t tell!), I got flowers, an Edible Arrangement, dinner out, an iPod shuffle, a gift card to a salon and other assorted smaller items. How can I just turn up on August 17 with only… nothing? (Well, not literally nothing, but there are SOME things I do not discuss on the blog, tyvm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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