So you like watching a bunch of men in speedos trying to drown each other in water? So has anyone here looked up the ages of the female gymnastics team? No, good, that'd be weird.
No, but I did look up the ages of the blonde-haired, blue-eyed female identical triplets running the marathon for Estonia. It's 31.
I'm finished with work for the day but am headed out to my nephew's birthday party now. Water balloon fight, here I come! Then, commence gettin' tore up. I'll meet you back here at the appropriate time.
I'm in a mood to drink, It will be only the third time this year. If my wife doesn't wake up soon and feeling well enough to drive me to a friend's house, I'll have to drink here, with my two year old as company. On hand I have a bottle of pinot noir and moonshine with strawberries in it. Both of them have me nervous. I don't know if wine will give me a hangover, and the moonshine, well, does what moonshine does. I'm debating going to the store for a carton of reliable, predictable Busch heavys.
Yes! We can be biscuit buddies and drinking buddies! We survived the trip. As expected we spent way more than I intended but that happens every time the husband comes shopping with us. Especially since we ended up going to Sam's Club too. We did end up buying a new TV so I'll get to start watching Elementary in high definition instead of on the $10 TV my husband bought at an auction that we've been using for the last year. Since I'm sure there will be much cussing tonight as he mounts it to the wall, I'll be drinking doubles.
I just spent the last 20 minutes on the phone acting like a god damn drug dealer, except instead of illicit substances, I'm dealing in cuts of meat. "Yeah, I ordered a half, but I can't store that much. I can give you up to a 1/4, but I got someone that also want's an 1/8, so you can split it with them." "I'm meeting my guy on Saturday to pick it up. Can you just give me cash to make the whole thing easier for all of us?" Those are both sentences I've had to say to people about a freaking cow.
Please tell me you're going to put the new TV on top of the old TV... it goes so well with the whole Semi Front Lawn and cut-off sleeves. Spoiler: redneck tv stand
There's nothing like a Texas night under the stars. Wait. There's nothing like a Texas night under the stars in a food truck spot with a ton of great beer on tap.
I almost made a redneck joke about the $10 auction TV but I'm glad you took it in another direction. I did forget to take into account the solid wood entertainment center that we'll have to move tonight. (Not into the front yard, thank you very much.) So I opened my first beer of the evening and I'm pulling out all the DVDs from the entertainment center. Fun times.
I ate a cupcake at the party and got icing on my ankle, thigh, fingers, dress, mouth, and nose. Last night, beignet dust appeared on my entire face and hands. I ate s'mores earlier this week and melted chocolate was found on my cheeks, hands, and the carpet. How does this keep happening. I am such a child.
I used to keep my DVDs organized alphabetically. Then kids happened. Now they're not even in rows so much as they're in piles.
Decisions, decisions. My old graded cards are far in excess in value over what I owe on my property, even after I pay consignment fees to an auction house. The vintage card market had been down the past few years, but it's coming back slowly but surely. Now I have to decide if the cards will continue to appreciate at a faster rate then the interest rate I'm paying on my mortgage. I've bought all of them over the past couple of years while the market was down and gotten some incredible deals. I'm kind of thinking of liquidating everything over 50 years old except for a few cards I really like. The cards I have from '67-'72 are all ultra high end, so holding on to them kind of makes sense until they're at least 50 years old. My '67-72's are all graded and slabbed as pack fresh (PSA 8 or higher) and that's pretty amazing for a piece of cardboard that old. It would sure be nice to pay off my property and not have to worry about the interest and the monthly payment. But are old cards going to go back to the value they had 10 years ago? Shit. I need a beer.
Canned iced espresso kalua with milk is like a white russian or something. Pretty tasty beverage I've got here.
With the baby less than two months old we're doing a lot of decluttering. Just got rid of basically all of our DVDs. Having them as a physical copy has almost no value. Each one is watched so rarely, but takes up space constantly, and we live in a world of subscription and purchasable streaming services. So get rid of them and the one time in the next decade I can't watch the one random movie I want to is more than made up for by all the other moments of not having to deal with them. Ditto books. I buy all my books as ebooks now anyway, and it's not like we reread old books all that often. So getting rid of the physical books and the joy of space is so much greater than the rare time I'll miss a book and even rarer time I can't just reaquire it as an ebook.
We buy almost every movie through Amazon now. This way we can watch it upstairs, downstairs, on the computer, and the kids can watch it in their tablets. It's so much easier. I just haven't culled any of our DVDs at this point. I buy a Disney bluray/DVD/digital movie occasionally but otherwise it's all through Amazon. Status: Old tv is moved, installation of the wall mount has begun. I'm still only one beer in. Maybe it's time to break out my teensy bottle of Jäger.