My weekend was spent doing a whole lot of nothing. The cold that had been plaguing me since early last week decided to turn into a sinus cold just for fun, so my head felt like it had gone several rounds with various angry monkeys. We did venture to the outside on Saturday afternoon for video games and cat food, but other than that I did not leave our apartment until this morning when it was time to drag my battered carcass into the Space Station.
Our brief outing on Saturday was a complete success, however snotty my head might have been. I went through our game shelf to find some things to trade in at EB Games, and came up with 5 titles I was either done or bored with: Hotel Dusk, Phoenix Wright: Justice For All, and the Sims 2 for the DS; Ultimate Block Party for the PSP and Elebits for the Wii. At EB we waited in line for what seemed like forever – all the rich people from West Vancouver were buying video games, including small girls in equestrian gear – but it was well worth it, because when it was our turn at the counter, we found our small pile of games had a trade-in value of $102. Holy crap! The EB Jockey was equally amazed; he showed us a trade-in pile from earlier that morning with about 20 games in it that had a value of about $30. Yay for us! We gleefully tore through the store looking for new games to get, and ended up with SSX Blur for the Wii and Kingdom Hearts II for the PS2. Video games are awesome. Even awesomer were my other finds of the day, which included two new bags (shut up, I like bags) and a huge pile of books from the discount tables at Indigo. Ed dragged me out of the mall before I could do more damage at the book store, and we were off to get cat food from the sketchiest pet store in the world before going home to fall into a heap of fluids and price tags.
I had originally planned to be productive on Sunday, but I instead learned an important lesson – while Tylenol cold medication is yellow for daytime and blue for nighttime; Tylenol Sinus medication is green for daytime and white for nighttime. I was feeling uncomfortable in my own head, so I took some sinus medication in the hopes of clearing things up – unfortunately for my grand plans, I took the nighttime pills instead of the daytime ones and ended up passing out for the entire afternoon. Seriously, I got up at 7:30 and decided to cook a turkey dinner. Sinus meds do not fuck around, I tell you what. Perhaps next time it would be an excellent idea for me to actually read the back of the pills I’m popping before I end up huddled in another heap drooling on a cat or two.
So far today I’ve already had to send a nasty “back the fuck off” email to my most hated client. I’m either in for a terrible or an excellent Monday.
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Which petstore?
We’ve been unfortunately going to the Petsmart (I think??? it’s blue and yellow) on Renfrew or Rupert or something close to Burnaby. THAT place is big and sketchy, which is much harder to pull off than small and sketchy. We go because they have our brands and no one else does, but I hate walking into that place.
We were there again the other day and I had to make a big scene and piss ppl behind me in line off because their signs for pricing were all wrong, which was supposed to be my fault because while the signs were wrong, the flyer had the right info. Even though, you know, I didn’t have the flyer, I could just go off of the signs, which I was.
Maybe you had to be there
Miranda: That’s Petcetera. They’re eeeeevil. They buy local email lists and email people most spammily. :)
The store we went to was the Petcetera in Park Royal. I don’t generally mind Petcetera because they’re one of the only stores that carry the brand of food Cheddar will eat (she WILL. NOT. eat anything else to the point of starving herself and we can’t bear to watch her get that skinny and pathetic). We used to go to the one on Grandview too, when we lived in the area. Now we go to the Park Royal one, but I don’t think we’ll be going back – last time we were there, the food we needed was *expired* and still on the shelf. Every time we go, getting to the cat food area is impossible; there are flats of saran-wrapped good everywhere and you have to literally pick your way back there by climbing and stepping over towers of food. That’s bad enough, but add the expired food and it’s just not worth it. This time there was another factor – I bought a container of Pounce treats for Sasha, and when I opened it the seal had been broken and liquid had gotten inside – instead of the usual Pounce treats, the tin was full of sawdust-like crap. It was disgusting. We pitched the whole thing, and I’ll have to look around for another source of Cheddar’s food because I won’t be going back there.