{"id":87614389,"date":"2008-11-30T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614389"},"modified":"2008-11-30T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:28:27","slug":"29-whoops-missed-a-day-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614389","title":{"rendered":"29: Whoops, missed a day there."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick note so people don’t think I forgot how to count. Yesterday we shopped.\u00a0 All <\/em>day.\u00a0 The kids went to grandma & grandpa’s place for the night, and we shopped the heck outta Vancouver. \u00a0 Actually, we mostly shopped the heck outta North <\/em>Vancouver, and a little of the downtown core.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0 He was awesome, without trying. \u00a0 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.”\u00a0 He was just human.\u00a0 Just a guy who had access to some truly awesome steaks, and was willing to part with them for a fee.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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. \u00a0 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.\u00a0 Oh well, we’ll have to win the raffle some other time.<\/p>\n

Then we went to see “Body Of Lies,” which was all about US involvement in Jordan. \u00a0 Yeehah, right? Action-packed thrillride adventure. \u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Ahee.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0 Just car ads and things. \u00a0 Odd.\u00a0 Also super-duper loud.<\/p>\n

Then we came home around 1am to our empty house and went to bed.\u00a0 We slept in until 10:30am, which is unHEARD<\/em> of in our house of kids that think 7:00am is <\/em><\/strong>sleeping in, and Saturday\/Sunday are days they don’t go to school or preschool.\u00a0 There’s no sleeping in, ever.\u00a0 Today, coffee was at 11am.<\/p>\n

Sure, we blew through a lot of money, but it sure felt like a day off from being responsible parents of two kids.<\/p>\n

And normally, I can’t STAND shopping.\u00a0 Yesterday?\u00a0 That was a tactical strike, all day.\u00a0 Good times.\u00a0 Good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick note so people don’t think I forgot how to count. Yesterday we shopped.\u00a0 All day.\u00a0 The kids went to grandma & grandpa’s place for the night, and we shopped the heck outta Vancouver. \u00a0 Actually, we mostly shopped the heck outta North Vancouver, and a little of the downtown core. We bought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614390,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614389\/revisions\/87614390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}