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Apr. 26th, 2002 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckSadly, I've discovered that the trouble last Thursday was not with Matt's VCR. I tried my tape of The Music Man in our VCR and got awful static on the sound track. I don't remember it being there when we first got the tape (it was a present), but I hadn't played it recently. I'm disappointed because it's a movie I love (I'm listening to the sound track right now, having gotten the urge to do so from the bits of the movie I watched). Robert Preston's great fun to watch and listen to. I guess I know something I'll be putting on my birthday wishlist…
Speaking of which, Suzanne's asked me for one. I plan to edit my Christmas list and add a few things. LunarGeography dragged me out to the mall Tuesday night, and we went to a shop called Origins that has some wonderful lotions and the like that are in scents that are not only pleasant but also don't make me sneeze. I'm sure that a request for a gift certificate there would be met with great joy by my in-laws. Some of them really dislike book shopping, I think. I'll have to keep my ban on clothing for a while longer. I'd like to have an idea of where I'm going to end up before I add anything to my closet. I've got enough stuff in there that I could get rid of but don't yet know if it'll fit me when I settle at a more permanent weight (most of it is a bit too small just now, and another 10-20 pounds would make a world of difference).
I do wonder if I'll get a birthday present from my parents. I never got a Christmas present, and they didn't acknowledge Scott's birthday (they never have, so this is nothing new. It still saddens me, though). If my mother thinks about it and remembers, she may give us a largish check around my birthday, but then again… There was no birthday present last year, just a card that I found rather repulsive (there was a slight, very slight, gross out factor involved. I'm betting that my step-father picked it out since it seems rather more his style than Mom's and since both signatures were in his rather distinctive handwriting).
Part of me wonders if I ought to get over this whole Christmas/birthday thing with my parents. I'm going to be 35, for goodness sake! This is how they've always been and presumably always will be. I just always hope a bit. Still, would it kill them to send Scott a card? I always make sure I mention his birthday to them (by telling them about our plans for celebration) at least a week before the fact. I suppose that, as problems with parents go, this is pretty minor.
Speaking of which, Suzanne's asked me for one. I plan to edit my Christmas list and add a few things. LunarGeography dragged me out to the mall Tuesday night, and we went to a shop called Origins that has some wonderful lotions and the like that are in scents that are not only pleasant but also don't make me sneeze. I'm sure that a request for a gift certificate there would be met with great joy by my in-laws. Some of them really dislike book shopping, I think. I'll have to keep my ban on clothing for a while longer. I'd like to have an idea of where I'm going to end up before I add anything to my closet. I've got enough stuff in there that I could get rid of but don't yet know if it'll fit me when I settle at a more permanent weight (most of it is a bit too small just now, and another 10-20 pounds would make a world of difference).
I do wonder if I'll get a birthday present from my parents. I never got a Christmas present, and they didn't acknowledge Scott's birthday (they never have, so this is nothing new. It still saddens me, though). If my mother thinks about it and remembers, she may give us a largish check around my birthday, but then again… There was no birthday present last year, just a card that I found rather repulsive (there was a slight, very slight, gross out factor involved. I'm betting that my step-father picked it out since it seems rather more his style than Mom's and since both signatures were in his rather distinctive handwriting).
Part of me wonders if I ought to get over this whole Christmas/birthday thing with my parents. I'm going to be 35, for goodness sake! This is how they've always been and presumably always will be. I just always hope a bit. Still, would it kill them to send Scott a card? I always make sure I mention his birthday to them (by telling them about our plans for celebration) at least a week before the fact. I suppose that, as problems with parents go, this is pretty minor.
