monkey nonsense

so this morning, my stomach was upset. majorly upset. the lesson to learn here… eat less. i had 2 dinners last night (albeit one of them was really small, just taste testing someone else’s cooking and no, i don’t think it was that dinner that upset my stomach. i think it was the pho.) i decided not to risk going into the office today as my stomach still had not settled by early morning. i thought about requesting to work from home today… after all, i wasn’t feel that bad… i just wanted the comforts of my home bathroom and well, not to get any weird looks if i went to the bathroom 2-3 times in a row.

in the end, i decided to take the day off. i decided to also go for my car’s scheduled maintenance… i dread car maintenance as much as i dread the dentist. why? because both end up being much longer visits (either one really only extended visit in the case of my car or multiple broken up visits in the case of the dentist) than initially anticipated.

this time, they told me to drop the car off at 10:15 and that it was tenatively scheduled for pickup by noon. first bit of bad news, as i was dropping off the car, the guy says 1pm. fine. i decide to ask them to drop me off at the mall to kill the time. i was a bit worried about this. because my stomach, while settled, was still kind of upset so i was afraid to be a public place with an upset stomach. my worries proved unwarranted as my stomach pretty much calmed down by 11am.

so i walked around the mall… picked up a mother’s day present before i realized i had told my parents i was being cheap and after buying them a really nice and expensive bbq grill for christmas last year they weren’t getting presents foorrrever (ok, at least for awhile). oops, i forgot my own threat….

on a whim, i went into eb games. they always have wiis (empty boxes) on display but rarely are they in stock. i asked the salesman not expecting anything. then he tells me you’re 3rd in line if u want a wii! we’re expecting a shipment today, but i don’t know how many wiis will be in it, if any! hrmm… after asking him when the shipment is to arrive (he says soon) i decide that maybe i’ll leave and come back right before my car is ready… when the delivery guy shows up with the delivery!

eh! why not, right?? minimal effort, might as well pick one up and decide later if i should return it or not! so i bought one.

then i get a phone call from the dealership… seems my car has a bunch of other repairs they’re recommending - initial estimate $600+. BAH! i pick and choose what i think are the essentials, but the total is still $300 for the repairs. THEN, because like myself at the dentist, my car always needs more repair than expected, the dealership takes another hour on my car! 2pm! it went from noon, to 1pm, to 2pm to get my car repaired! it was a good thing i took the day off. and an even better thing that my stomach started to calm down! when i initially scheduled the maintenance i thought, hrm… even if my stomach were to get upset, i’d only have to manage for 2 hours. anyhoo..

so now i have a wii… but i also spent $300 on my car. it’s a lot of expenses for such a short amount of time*… should i keep the wii and get rid of the car? keep the wii, keep the car? … or return the wii and keep the car?  … OR sell the wii online and try to get it to pay off my car expenses?
* so i also got a fraud alert phone call almost immediately after i purchased the wii! hahha, i did this before when i purchased my used ps2 and taiko drum master! citicards seems to always suspect fraud whenever i purchase ~$200 worth of merchandise from eb games! i guess that does seem like a large amount…