Run of luck
22 September 2007, 10:39
Warning: Self-congratulatory masturbation ahead.
McG and I don’t often enjoy financial windfalls. We’re like every other middle class working couple with a child – we have a fortunate life and are very lucky, but we have an inner-city sized mortgage and we’re always watching our $$$, deciding not to buy a plasma TV when our existing TV is perfectly fine (geez, that’s such a hardship, I mean, really). McG loves his gadgets, but apart from that, neither of us is particularly frivolous when it comes to material gods, I mean goods.
My win on Temptation was the first sign that it would be a fruitful couple of months. Since then, McG won a snazzy Macbook through a friend’s company referral program, Johnnie Howard lovingly provided us with a year’s family payment (which I had no idea about, assuming we’d be over the cutoff for any kind of government assistance) and yesterday I received a massive payrise backdated to 1 August. And as a bit of well-timed indulgence, today we’re receiving our first instalment of my Roses Only prize – 18 long stemmed roses, Moet sparkling, lindt choccies and, oddly, rose pot pourri and rose oil.
So we’ve decided to get a plasma TV after all but will generously give the rest to the mortgage (who was starting to look under-fed) and to my parents who donated coin to us so we could buy this house. The plasma is extravagant, I know, but what the hell. You can’t take the coin with you when you shuffle off!
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We’ve just returned from a trip to Adelaide to see McG’s folks. I have bronchitis at mo, so I could rest while grandma and papa smothered Scout with love. She had an absolute ball, hanging out with cousin Blake who adores her, but really, how could he possibly help it?
She sat on her first real ninny and bewitched a plane full of passengers. She even sang us a lullaby in the car driving home from the airport. It was way past her bedtime but she was happy to sing as we shuttled home in the darkness…
Permanent Link | - yes, i forgot to give my opinion on TVs :) if you’re looking for great HD and not necessarily a flat TV then get a sony SXRD rear projection LCOS. they effing rock. we have one and it’s the best HD i have ever seen. they also can do full 1080i and have the quickest response time on the market.
— gleek Sep 23, 10:20 PM #
