Personal: Why I shouldn’t ever buy a series on DVD again!!!!
March 25th, 2006 § 4 Comments
I’m having one of those disappearing weeks. You know the type of week when you fall into a self-indulging funk and do shit-all. Mind you I can’t blame all this on self-indulgence. There was a migraine that helped this along.
It all started on Thursday when I hooked up with my mate Suze at a shopping centre for day of gabbing, shopping and watching a movie. Suze shares my passion for op-shopping. I’m one of those people who can fork out money for books, cd’s or dvd’s but finds it really hard to part with dough for clothes. Ergo, I shop second-hand and score fabulous bargains that enable me to spend more money on books, cd’s and dvd’s.
I especially love buying clothes for work second-hand. I’m a office chick and this is strictly a ‘have to pay the bills and eat’ gig so there’s no way in hell I’m forking out my hard earned dough on threads to impress a bunch of fuckwits. So as you can see in the pic below I bought three skirts and three jackets for $16.00. You heard me right. God I love a bargain.
The only downside was that I had to lug around the bag of at least 5kg worth of clothes for the rest of the afternoon. This lugging around brought along a migraine and a sore knee so I was laid up in bed on Friday doped out on painkillers. But that was ok. It meant that I was able to indulge in my two other passions.
Having spent only $16 on clothes meant I was able to indulge in buying my absolute all-time favourite TV show Quantum Leap. Does anyone remember this? If you don’t you can read it about it here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096684/)
I watched it when I was in high school until the network idiots put it on late at night. I tried to stay up late and watch the show and fucked up my sleeping patterns for life. I still claim this was the reason my insomnia started. So when I saw the DVD packets as below
I just had to get it and with Mr Credit Card paying, I did it pronto. I’ve got season two and three with season one on order. In searching for the website to link to I just realised that there are actually five seasons. Oh My God. I’m not going to do anything else for the rest of the year. In three days I’ve watched 16 episodes and I’m going to keep going. I hardly watched any episodes in Season Three so they’re all fresh. God I love this show. It makes me laugh, and cry and feel-good all at once. Plus the whole premise of leaping into other people’s lives and being someone else is just a hoot.
The best episodes are when Scott Bakula leaps into a woman’s body. My favourite episode so far in Season Three is Miss Deep South where he leaps into a beauty queen. There’s nothing like seeing hairy chest sticking out a evening gown to make you giggle.
My other indulgence of the day was buying figs which I just finished today. There’s nothing like ripe figs. I love them. We had a fig tree but we’d hardly ever get any because the bloody birds ate them, so whenever I see figs for sale, I heed the call and buy a bucket.
$16!!!! Man, I just bought an op shop jumper for $20 and still don’t know if I’ll get much chance to wear it.
LOVE your philosophy of buying op shop work clothes! I’m an office chick too and this seems like the absolute best way to go. I’m going to pay more attention for a bargain now.
I’m a shocker–just about ALL my $ goes on Amazon–books, CDs, DVDs. Or on eBay for the same. I just ordered the first series of Grey’s Anatomy, Seasons 1 & 2 of McLoud, the 3rd season of the Mary Tyler Moore Show…and I think that’s it for series. Love that they’re releasing so much of the stuff I loved as a kid.
Oh dear. I’ve never actually seen Quantum Leap, but I’ve got a QL-obsessed dorky Australian in my novel! I promise he’s not based on you!
Why not, why not, why not? I want to be a star, star, star!!!!!