I’m sure most of you are aware of the phenomenon of celebrating a birthday. Some of you may be familiar with the birthday week-long celebration. I have decided that it is now time for the birthday month celebration. Because, well, I can. That’s why. Plus, when you’re born in a month that involves fireworks, you just need to claim it. All. So I started out my birthday month right before the weekend. And renamed July as DramaPantsapalooza. Or Pantsapalooza for short. What says Pantsapalooza better than starting the month off with a long weekend and hanging out at the lake?
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Nothing, really. Except maybe fireworks.
Oh yeah, I did that, too.
After that, the gifts begin to arrive. To start out the month, I bought myself a little something I’ve had my eye on for a long time. A laptop bag. This bag
Pantsapalooza Present Are the Best
Why, yes, that would be a W00t! box on top. But we’ll get to the big box first. It had my bag! See?
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The W00t! box contained the present that B got for me. He’s really lucky that I send him links all the time with stuff I like. Sadly, he only really seems to pay attention when it’s close to my birthday, Christmas or our anniversary. Or when I REALLY REALLY want something. My life, it is so hard.
ANYWAY.
In case y’all hadn’t heard, W00t! was recently acquired by Kindle Amazon and to celebrate, the W00t! of the day was a Kindle. And I might have sent B a text message on the first day of Pantsapalooza that might have said something like “Have you seen today’s woot? WANT!” (For the record, I did not plan that. W00t! apparently knew that it was the first day of Pantsapalooza and surprised me with the deal of the day being the Kindle.)
B, being a wise man, got me one.
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I am completely enamored. Especially the part where it came preloaded with the New Oxford English Dictionary. And that I can listen to my audiobooks on it. And that I can carry a library with me everywhere I go. How cool is that?! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a few hundred books I’d like to read.
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My friend Sarah Nicole was born in February. That month now has the distinction of being called Sebruary, and is now a month honoring the birth of and the person that is Sarah Nicole. Gifts all month long sound pretty good to me, but as my birthday is so close to Christmas, I would feel gluttonous if I tried to name the whole month of December after myself.
A Kindle . . . I am so jealous.
Wow…from what I’ve seen of the Woot! deals, I bet you got a pretty good deal on the Kindle.
Happy Pantspalooza!
Bah, I paid way more for that same bag when I first got my laptop. I’m also totally jealous about the Kindle now that I’ve decided they aren’t stupid & that I want one. Now to figure out the whole Kindle vs. every other eReader thing.
It’s so easy to shop for you when you send me links to sh!t that you like. happy birthday. xo
My mom came within one hour and fifteen minutes of naming me September. (As in, I was born at 10:45 PM on September 30, and she thought it would be trite to name me after the month I was born in, so if I’d been born at midnight and thus on October 1, I would have been named September.) I have been celebrating my birthday for the entire month I would have been named in honor of for several years as a result. I totally salute your choice to make this Pantsapalooza month. And am happy that Rick hasn’t caught onto the whole birthday month thing, because otherwise we’d also be in Rickapalooza–his birthday is Sunday.
Are you going to knit it a cozy?