Yesterday after my doctor appointment I stopped in and visited my Mom. Well not my real Mom, her miserable carcass is in NJ. I visited my greatest friend EVER!!!! No, seriously…EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Her name is Robin and I will describe our friendship at length sometime in the future, but just for this story you should know she is 20 years my junior and I love her to death, so much so I wish she would adopt me…no really, I want her to be my “REAL” Mom! Without a full explanation of our friendship that sounds freaky as hell, but fuck it, I know what I mean and eventually if you keep reading this blog so will you.
On to our adventure from yesterday. Yes, I say adventure cuz that is what we call them… “Our Adventures”. Robin and I are both Aquarians so we tend to be impulsive and just do shit completely out-of-the-blue on a whim. This leads us to some really hillarious situations (like getting stuck in the snow in the middle of nowhere on an old logging road and then almost getting the tow truck sent to help us almost stuck there with us) and also some pretty fucking awesome memories (like the time we wanted to go out to dinner and wound up driving all the way to Plattsburg in upstate NY…nearly 150 miles away from where we lived…but god damn, that dinner was AWESOME!!!! We both tried escargot for the first time.)
Ok, so like this simple little post is turning into a freakin book now. Anyway…long story short…Robin had a 12% off coupon to Best Buy so we drove to the one in West Lebanon, NH (no sales tax in NH). It was sooooooooo fucking hot all day but the drive was all interstate so we got a cool breeze and it was pretty nice. We get to Best Buy and look at the Ipods, the laptops, the computers, the monitors, back to the Ipods, back to the monitors, then to the video cameras, then to the digital cameras, back to the Ipods, back to the monitors…get the picture, we just wandered around and around the store for a long time.
I was just there to hang with Robin since it is hard for us to find time to spend together lately (she moved to a new town about 50 miles away) but while we looked at the monitors we noticed they had a lot of LCD monitors on sale and I have needed a new monitor for like a year and a half. The one I wanted, a 17″ for only $129 was sold out but…after walking around the store some more while Robin tried to decide whether to buy the Ipod, as well as trying to order the monitor online and having the store wave the shipping cost, then stopping to look at an open box Ipod which was $50 cheaper, then going back to the Ipod section to look at accesories, then to look at Sirius radio stuff, then to look at the DVD box sets, then back to the Ipod section and finally deciding we were tired and hungry and would leave…I somehow convinced Robin to buy the new black 30GB Ipod and she got me to give in and splurge and buy the 19″ LCD monitor that was on sale for $199. (My god is that the longest run-on sentence in history?!)
After our hours of treading around Best Buy we went to Wendy’s for some yummy din din. We don’t have a Wendy’s anywhere near either of us so when we are near one we usually eat there. After ordering a ton of food, paying and then at the VERY last minute changing my mind about what I ordered…luckily they changed it…we had a nice conversation about absolutely nothing in an ice cold air-conditioned dining room. The cold was almost as good as the food! After dinner we headed back out to the heat, which had actually gotten cooler since the sun went down.
I felt like a Dunkin Donuts Coffee Coolatta to keep me cool on the drive home. So, it is dark and I cant see shit out at nite and the enterances are all confusing to the stores in West Leb. Anyway, I wind up entering through the exit of Dunkin Donuts, as some dude enters through the entrance and he looks at me like I am fucking crazy, driving over a curb in the process and making Robin laugh her ass off cuz I’m such a doofass.
We get to the drive-up window and I order my coolatta…damn coolatta machine is broken. So I order a large turbo ice with milk and sugar flavored with chocolate and rasberry and Robin, who didn’t really want anything at first, ordered the same only a medium…hmm, I’m big and fat and order a large and she is tiny and thin and orders a medium…I think I need to start ordering mediums (or possibly moving my fat ass away from the TV once in a while…but that is a different story).
To finally end this rambling bit on nonsense I will just say we had a nice ride home, discussing the same shit I always discuss, probably boring the shit out of Robin, but she is always nice and listens and laughs at my stupid jokes so a good time was had by all. Only thing was we were both wired when we got to her house from the coffee. In her case a bad thing since she had to go to bed cuz she had work in the morning, however, in my case a good thing since I still had to drive another 50 miles through the fog filled backroads of VT, praying a Moose didn’t decide to park its fat ass in the middle of the road.
All and all a fucking fantastic adventure and she has a shiny new 30GB Ipod with a fancy-smancy case and I got me a brand new 19″ LCD monitor…WOO HOO!! Hope you all are enjoying your lives cuz I for one am enjoying mine…at least for a short while anyway.
