Another post of perks...
My father's editor at Simon and Schuster asked me to compile a list of any S and S books that I wanted and so Jeremy and I scoured their site... made a list twenty books long. We'd hoped they'd have at least a couple of them lying around and send them out to us...
They've started arriving. A box yesterday... a box today. The invoice says there is still another box to come. I think twelve books are here so far. This is an amazing thing. I love books. I love free. I love free books. Of course, now I'm REALLY behind in my reading and really torn over what to read next.
While on the topic of free things... HVC Lizard Chocolate, a local chocolate distributor owned by the company that makes Sobe beverages (another local company) gave my father four boxes of low carb chocolate bars yesterday. Eighteen bars to a box.
These boxes of chocolate haunt me. It's like the fund raisers in school where you go door to door selling chocolate bars and they start you off with an entire case and you buy one and eat it, but then you want more... but no... you must sell them, you can't possibly afford to keep eating them yourself. It's like that. Only these are free and no one even wants them. My parents put them up in the cabinet because they don't want all the sugar alcohols. Me... I'm ignoring them because of the saturated fat. So Jeremy has inherited four boxes of chocolate bars, whether he likes it or not.
Florida/Connecticut fact that you may not know - Blockbuster charges a dollar more to rent DVDs up here than they did in Florida. A new release will run you $4.95.
Florida/Connecticut fact that I did not know - Kissimmee Blockbuster's seven day rental period on old movies is not in effect up here.
Two movies late. Eight dollar late fee. If you had to put my feelings into words, I believe the best words were the ones written on this pillar outside of Barnes and Noble by some extremely creative vandalist.
Did I pay the eight dollars and then another five to rent a film? No. I joined Netflix. Netflix is the single greatest thing about the internet and I would explain why, but god that would take forever.
Been a member of Netflix for one day and I've already received three movies in the mail. Fifteen dollars worth of movies at Blockbuster. But the most important thing is that I will never have to pay Blockbuster that late fee... and you can't put a value on that.
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