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kasper — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:45:53 +0000

Hubby’s birthday isn’t until June 5, but since I always try to get him something really great I tend to start early on the gift. He’s been going on and on about getting a PS3, but frankly we just can’t afford it. I mean, first of all we used to have a Super Nintendo and the original Playstation. Where are they now? Exactly. We eventually got sick of them and they (I believe) are currently sitting out in the garage waiting for a yard sale. Then looking at the cost of the system and then the games on top of that…not bloody likely. I figured the only reason he even wants a system is to play Gran Turismo again. You’d think that when he drives for a living that he wouldn’t want to play games that involve driving. Like I don’t think it would be much fun to play a game that involved answering phones or typing. Just me though.

So I checked out ebay and found an auction that had 23 games, 3 controllers, 2 guitars plus the PS2 with a high bid of $280.00. I tried to see if it was a good deal by checking the cost of the new system with the important games that hubby would’ve wanted from the 23: Gran Turismo 4, Grand Theft Auto (x4), Guitar Hero II, III and Encore: Rocks the 80′s. I couldn’t even find all the games for sale, but suffice to say that the system, GT4, GHIII plus 2 guitars was already over $300.00. So I put in a big of $300.00 max and won the auction for $290.00.

Since the guy listed that shipping would be from Toronto I asked if I could pick it up instead of paying the $30.00 for shipping. Unfortunately Toronto is a big city and he was clear on the other side of it from me. He offered to take $10.00 off if I’d still make the trip, which I did. That was Monday. When I got home I hinted that I had a really great gift for him and maybe he wanted it early. After all it was exactly 1 month to the day before his actual birthday. (I’m so horrible) I just couldn’t wait to give it to him. Besides he has Mondays off and we weren’t doing anything that afternoon. I couldn’t seem to convince him to totally give in, but he he’d think about it and maybe the following day I could give it to him. He was started complaining that he was feeling dizzy by dinnertime and ended up staying home from work yesterday.

Laying it on thick at lunch, I asked him if he wanted a piece of cake for dessert. He said he did, so I asked if he wanted “birthday cake”. He laughed and said ‘fine’. So I got the candle in the piece of cake and sang Happy Birthday for effect. When I got home on Monday with all the stuff I had it stashed downstairs at my Dad’s since he’s out of the country at the moment, so we agreed that he would change baby D and I’d get the gift ready. I made him close his eyes when he got downstairs and I had the games fanned out across the floor and was holding the guitar. When he opened his eyes it took him a minute to figure out what he was looking at and then he asked ‘you got me a PS3?’. “Nope sorry, just a PS2″. At which point he realized how many games there were and he was shocked.

So we played Guitar Hero III a bit downstairs while trying to keep one eye on baby D who was loving crawling around new surroundings. Then we managed to get the very heavy tv (which my Dad gave us since he bought an HDTV, but hadn’t bothered to move yet) up 2 levels to our bedroom, where I got everything rearranged and hooked up. We’ve managed to spend an exorbitant amount of time playing games over the last 2 days (yes he called in ‘sick’ again today).

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The Biggest Lose-Her

kasper — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:02:48 +0000

Sadly the new layout is not ready for public consumption as yet but do stay posted, you just never know when I might spring it on you.

SPOILER ALERT

I must rant once again about The Biggest Loser (sorry – I’m hooked). I absolutely HATE Ali. I actually felt sorry for her when she got voted off and was very impressed with her weight loss efforts. That laugh of hers is totally annoying me, not to mention her standoffishness. She didn’t want to team up with the women when she came back into the house and instead chose to stick with her pink team colours. Okay what really got me tonight is her totally backstabbing Brittany. I thought for one moment that Brittany might actually make it through the elimination unscathed. That bitch Ali actually said that she felt like she was forming an alliance with Brittany. Last time I checked you don’t vote out people you’re allied with!! Then what’s up with Dan? I mean, I guess he had a tough decision to make since Jay was his team-mate, but Brittany was right in pointing out that Jay is definitely the bigger threat. Wasn’t Dan continually going on about doing whatever he needed to to get himself farther in the game? Sad to see Brittany go, it just won’t be the same.

The Biggest Disappointment

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The Biggest Disappointment

kasper — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:07:03 +0000

What a rip off!! The evilness that is The Biggest Loser just ripped me off for the vote off!

If you haven’t yet seen The Biggest Loser for March 11, 2008, please advert your eyes as spoilers follow.

So to mix things up this week they decided to bring back 2 old players, 1 man and 1 woman. I really hoped that Bernie would be back, but of course Mark beat him out. And only by 2 pounds if you can believe that! Considering how close Mark is to his goal weight he shouldn’t even be in the running to return as far as I’m concerned. For the ladies it was Allie from the original pink team who got to come back. At first I thought that was great considering how much weight she’s lost. Man did she look great! But when she’d rather not even join the black team and the fact that she’d rather hang out with the men (blue team) has got me steamed. Get her outta there! Brittany has always been a favourite. I don’t know, maybe I relate to her, but whatever the reason, I’ve been rooting for her since the beginning. Once again this week she is facing the possibility that her numbers won’t stack up against the guys. Having never seen the previous seasons I wonder if it’s even possible for a woman to win this thing. I mean men and women lose weight differently and certainly women will never lose as quickly. At the weigh-in I was ecstatic to see Dan get close to the yellow line even though Brittany was there with him. This is how I was hoping it might go down. If they both fell beneath the yellow line it would be perfect because then Dan would lose his challenge winnings of 1 extra vote and the teams would be even. That way it at least it would be a tie between them. Unfortunately that’s not how it played out. It ended up being Brittany and Maggie going into the elimination. But before they even got to vote, the show ended. It’s hard enough for me to get to next week when I know who’s been voted off, but to not even get that far?! Even though I really like Maggie, I’m really hoping that Brittany stays in it even if it’s only for one more week. Oh yeah, I almost forgot Jillian’s censored outburst. She was totally sticking up for Brittany and telling everyone to ‘leave the F’ing girl alone’. Too funny. Guess I’ll have to try to make it through till next week. I guess I’m just afraid of missing the next show, like they might air it on a special weird night or something. Hope not.

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