Dave’s birthday is on the 19th, and I ordered him some stuff from Amazon a week or so ago.  A book "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way" (which uh, isn’t a sex book, really) and the Harolde & Kumar movie, because we had so thoroughly enjoyed it when we rented it.  When we were shopping for his mom’s DVD player, there was a sale on DVDs, and Dave grabbed Harold & Kumar and said "This one and another one will only be 20 bucks!"  I groaned and said "Yeah, don’t bother getting that."  He quickly figured it out, and then was annoyed that I had told him.  What was I supposed to do, you know? He said I could’ve just said "oh, we can Netflix it, " or "not today, we can’t afford it" or something. Fine, no worries.

So, feeling like I’d gypped him of his birthday present, I saw that Ghostbusters I&II are out.  I grabbed it at Target, and hustled it into the back room to save for his birthday.  Last night, he starts pawing through all of our DVDs.

"Whatcha lookin for?"

"Brett wants to do a trade, so I’m trying to find something to trade out."

"What are you getting in return?"

"GHOSTBUSTERS!"

Well, fuck.

I stammered and said "We can’t afford it!" and he looked at me like I was nuts.  "Don’t give away any of our movies, uhhh, we like all our movies!"

"Gretchen, why are you acting all crazy and retarded? What is wrong with you?"

"I SAID… We. Can’t. Afford. It."

"But… ohhhhhhhh…."

I mean, what are the chances that BOTH DVD purchases would be ruined as birthday gifts? FUCK.  I just hope the guitar is here on time.

(Waiting for the furniture. Couldn’t sleep all last night, worried it would a) not fit, b) suck, or c)be the wrong stuff. 20 minutes or so….)