The BenSpark

I think I’m gonna get it…

October 18, 2007 bargain alert!, just stuph, stamping and scrapping Comments Off

…the $129.99 Cricut machine from A.C. Moore, that is. You know how you see something you THINK you want, but aren’t quite sure whether you really do or not? This happens to me a lot. The way I decide is this: if I stop thinking about the thing soon after I leave the store/website, I probably never really wanted it that badly anyway. But if I seem to be thinking about it all the time, then I really must want it.

I have more than enough money in my PayPal account to buy it…I would not be making Mike pay for it. I’ve been working a lot and my balance has increased, getting back up to where it was before we went on vacation in August. I paid for the hotels and the nice dinner at Fore Street out of my online earnings. We’re not planning any big vacations anytime soon, no caribbean cruises or anything at this time. Just a couple of weekend trips in November and December…in November we’re going to the Maine Brewers’ Festival, but the tickets and hotel for that are already paid for.

Besides, I just won $75 as second prize in Drew’s XShot Photo Contest.   That alone would cover more than half the cost of the machine.

I’m going to ask Mike if he can take me to the A.C. Moore at Assembly Square tonight when he gets home from work.  There’s really no good way to get from here to there via public transit.  Besides, who wants to lug that big box on the bus?  Maybe we can have dinner at the bar at TGI Friday’s, if it’s not too crowded, and watch part of the Sox game…it’s sort of on the way back.  The Red Sox game doesn’t start until 8PM anyway, so even if we went to ACM and then straight home, we’d not miss much.

Besides, should the Sox lose tonight, a new toy will help heal my pain!

Ooops!

October 18, 2007 cats, just stuph Comments Off

It turns out that “Amanda” is a boy! I got a better look down there, no doubt about it.

So Mike and I were thinking of other names. He suggested “Sandy”, which is cute, but then I suggested “Pumpkin”, which is also cute. Mike started calling him “Pumpkin”, so I think that name will stick.

Pumpkin is clearly a kitten, as he is so much more rambunctious than the older cats..he runs around and chases them. Well, Sabby, Junior, and Little Mitty still run around and play what I call “horsecats”. When I’m down in the basement doing laundry, and they are running around, it sounds like we have a stable full of horses up here. Good thing no one lives downstairs, otherwise they’d think we had not only horses, but a whole wardrobe of equestrian riding apparel.

But Pumpkin is definitely much more kitten-like, in that he is so much MORE active. I wonder if he will grow any bigger.

Now I need to get him set up so that he can blog on The Purrfect Website, and also make him a Catster page.