My last post was on Wednesday so on Thursday, I don’t even remember what I did so it can’t be that important. Friday I went to the ARC to pick up some more books to sell. I wrote down 109 ISBNs so I could check their going rate on Amazon as far as resell value. Well apparently they don’t always have the awesome deals that I’ve been getting. I’ve been getting paperbacks 4/$1 and hardbacks 2/$1, well now that they’ve ‘cleaned up all the books that they keep getting in’ it’s now paperbacks 2/$1 and hardbacks $1 each. So i get up to the counter with all my books and I’m like what the fuck and start telling the dumb bitch that I’m in there all the time and I normally get a better deal. Well that’s not going on right now. Fine. I buy all the books anyway and go through them when I get home and only 7 of the 25 were worth selling the rest were crap. I also checked through my list of 109 ISBNs and only wanted like 8 of them. After that whole ordeal, I went to the gym and worked my ass off. Today’s Sunday and my calves and thighs are still aching. Friday night Marla and I made plans to go see Tomb Raider 2. I went to the theater a couple of hours early (around 8 pm) to pick up tickets. There were NO parking spots. I drove around for like 10 minutes and finally just decided to go out and park across from Galyan’s in the new parking lot. The previous 2 shows before ours were sold out so we wanted to get there early. We planned on meeting a half hour before the movie started. I still had a bunch of time before the movie started (10:20) so I decided to go to Kohls and pick up this red Nintendo shirt that Casey saw before he left for DC but didn’t want to wait in line to buy. Marla had never been to Cinemark so I had to give her directions and it took her longer than she thought it would (this is the chick that can go from DIA to the Springs in 38 min. whoa!). While I was waiting outside Casey and I had our daily chat and Marla ended up being about 10 minutes later than our original meeting time. Well 20 minutes (or probably even the original 30) was clearly not early enough to be there since they put us in a small theater (genuises). The theater chicks were telling people as they came in that there were no seats together and we’d have to sit up front. Marla was ok with this but there is no way that I’m gonna sit up there and get a stiff neck from contorting myself to see the movie. I told her that I would start looking for a couple seats in the same row and just ask people to move down. I found 2 seats on the first row of the upper section and politely asked the guys to move down and they were quick to agree. So before and during the previews Marla recounted her trip to LA for me. Yeah she sucks! And yes I AM jealous! Movie was pretty good, there were some spots where they got to carried away with the CGI. Long movie and didn’t get out till around 12:30, I guess not THAT long but it was kinda late.
Saturday, I met my parents at Old Chicago’s for lunch. I had a yummy salad and the toppings off a pizza (still not eating wheat and maintaining my weight loss!). We then headed up to Audio Visionaries so Jim could play some chapters from DVDs and test the speakers that he’s thinking about getting. Everything sounds SO good. It’s a shame they don’t carry the 65″ TV he’s getting so we could get the full effect. But I guess we’ll get that soon enough. Afterwards, since the proximity was so close to Cold Stone we headed over there for a tasty treat. Gotta love the fat-free yogurt! I then headed down to the ARC to return the books that I didn’t want and the guy was a dick about the whole thing. Well, I got what I wanted and even picked up the 8 books that I knew would sell. I’ve even managed to sell 2 of the books I bought this weekend already! Things are still pretty slow but I’m hoping with the school year starting back up again, sales will increase.
I stayed at home today and enjoyed the brief reprieve from the HOT weather. I caught up on some cleaning and was forced to watch a bunch of movies because fucking Adelphia can’t seem to get their service to work. Ugh! So after being on hold with 2 different dipshits, they concurred that it was my laptop that was messed up probably because I was using OSX and they were looking into it. I finally told the guy after he told me this, that it was fine and I would just get my husband to fix it because he’d KNOW what to do and I was right. I HATE Adelphia but can’t afford/too much hassle to go the route of Kevin & Rachel. Guess I’ll just have to grin and bear it. Off to bed now, 3 more days of class left.