The Holtonian

Christmas Shopping and other rambles

I think I'm pretty much done with my xmas shopping. I've shopped online for a total of 5 hours, and been to numerous malls (I realize a comma is not necessary there but I felt it was nice). I've only bought one thing online for the wife, and a few things out at the mall. I would have bought more online but didn't want to pay for shipping. I realize some places ship for free but the places I was at didnt. Wow, I just realized how boring this is... I need to step it up on this post otherwise I might lose your interest... I'm already losing my own.

      I wish I could blog about the gifts I got the wife, but I'll have to save that for next week. I think she'll like what I got her, though she bought two of the gifts. Her family has this weird pseudo tradition of her going out and buying stuff and telling people to give it to her for christmas. Its kind of nice cause it cuts out some of my work.
      I ran into one of my co-workers at Sears and found out in my absence she has accepted another job. So my team of coworkers has gone from about 13 to 5 in one year. They've posted some jobs for it on the company website though the job takes a year to get the hang of so its pretty much hopeless of getting any sort of immediate help. I'm not looking forward to the email barrage I'll have tomorrow, I'm guessing over 200 emails will be awaiting me in my inbox.
      I bought Blade Runner for 3 dollars on DVD at wallmart. I figure its a decent enough movie to buy for 3 dollars, and if its not (I haven't seen it in years) then I'll sell it to Mckays and hopefully get more than I paid. I also saw Dark City for 5 dollars which is a pretty good little dvd though I didn't purchase it.
      Don't you hate that, when you're shopping for other people and you find a million and one things for yourself. And its never stuff like a 350 dollar U2 I pod, its stuff that you would normally buy for yourself. I mean a computer game for 10 bucks, a gamecube game for 15, a cd for 10 bucks, a dvd for 5 or 10 bucks. I mean cheap stuff and most of it decently entertaining. I didn't even bother stepping foot in any of the gameshops tonight knowing what agony would befall me as I saw the prices and my inability to purchase things. Another thing is not having a lot of money to purchase these little things. THough not much money a 10 dollar dvd could go towards groceries or bills, something I'm more concerned with than my entertainment... unfortunately.
      I've noticed I don't like ESPN.com anymore. I prefer to get my sports from yahoo sports. The layout of the info is better, updated more often, and the team pages has more news than ESPN's. Like if you go to the Cardinals page on Espn it has a bunch of last year's stuff. Yahoo has all the info on the Cards aquiring Mulder and giving up their future... I think it was a dumb move to send Danny Haren to oakland, I think he has a lot of talent. Mulder's good but send someone else than Haren. I was hoping to see Haren and Ankiel come out as starters and tear it up as two young pitchers. Marquis I think won't do much and Suppan and Morris aren't that great. I think Haren had the young fast ball they could use. Sending Woody Williams out though was a decent move, he's getting up there. I'm still ticked about Matheny leaving, but what are you going to do. Ok thats nough rambling for one night