Just a quick note so people don’t think I forgot how to count. Yesterday we shopped. All day. The kids went to grandma & grandpa’s place for the night, and we shopped the heck outta Vancouver.  Actually, we mostly shopped the heck outta North Vancouver, and a little of the downtown core.
We bought groceries, shopped WalMart (nobody got hurt), shopped MingWo (I think there’s a branch of techie/geek that designs kitchen utensils, and they’re making a *killing* out there, let me just say), we shopped one of those “As Seen On TV” places, and *just* about bought some stuff that I’m sure wouldn’t have made it through lunchtime on December 25th.
Dropped our stuff at home, and headed back out into the night for some steak dinners dinners with a guy that was the mid-30 blonde-ponytail version of John Goodman.  He was awesome, without trying.  I think it was mostly that he was NOT one of those greasy “Hi there, my name’s Kurt, and I’m going to not understand that you’re just here for dinner, not as a redbull-and-vodka-fueled entertainment experience with spinach dip.” He was just human. Just a guy who had access to some truly awesome steaks, and was willing to part with them for a fee.
After dinner, we bought our “Our Gift From All Of Us To All Of Us” which Arwen and I had to test out, of course, so we did a little bowling, a little tennis, a little “This is gonna be FUN.”
I returned a call to Visa to tell them that there was no need to freak out, and yes I had in fact just bought dinner for $80 and then electronics four blocks away for $360. The teller at the Future Shop had put in the wrong expiration date once, which had triggered Visa’s WTF-ometer, so they’d phoned the house to make sure we were cool.  At first, I wondered if that meant we’d accidentally walked out the door without actually PAYING for the stuff we’d bought, but no, it went through the second time. Oh well, we’ll have to win the raffle some other time.
Then we went to see “Body Of Lies,” which was all about US involvement in Jordan. Â Yeehah, right? Action-packed thrillride adventure. Â Wheeeee! Ridley Scott directs (Blade Runner, Alien)! Happy-happy-joy-joy! With kittens and balloons, and unicorns that fart rainbows with baskets full of puppies chasing butterflies.
Ahee.
Seriously though, a good movie, but heavy, and long. there was also what seemed like 30 minutes of commercials, many of which were ones we’d seen on TV, so it’s not like we were getting big-screen ultra-rare artsy-fartsy commercials.  Just car ads and things.  Odd. Also super-duper loud.
Then we came home around 1am to our empty house and went to bed. We slept in until 10:30am, which is unHEARD of in our house of kids that think 7:00am is sleeping in, and Saturday/Sunday are days they don’t go to school or preschool. There’s no sleeping in, ever. Today, coffee was at 11am.
Sure, we blew through a lot of money, but it sure felt like a day off from being responsible parents of two kids.
And normally, I can’t STAND shopping. Yesterday? That was a tactical strike, all day. Good times. Good times.
