Yeaaa Boiiii!

Not a bad vacation. Didn't do much but stay home which was all I really wanted to do. The wife and I did get to take the boy to the Boston Aquarium. That was a lot of fun. His reactions were great. He had a blast and we had a blast seeing him have a blast.

Now onto christmas.

People who know me know that I get pissed when I don't get what I want. Let me rephrase that. If I get something that isn't on my wishlist but it is something cool...like for example a Stephen King book might not be on my wishlist, but I like Stephen King so that would be a cool gift. What I hate is getting a gift just to get one. Trust me I would rather get nothing. Like in 2004. I read comics, so my mother in law got me 2 superman comics and had her little son give them to me.

I hate superman. I mean come on. Do a little homework. That shit pisses me off.

So this was the year of the wishlist. I told everyone if they wanted to get me something then to get it off my wishlist. This, I thought, was idiot proof.

Well they made a better idiot.

When you order off of amazon it gives you the option to buy the same item but perhaps cheaper off of another vendor. If you choose this option, then you are not buying from amazon anymore. So you are not buying off of my amazon wishlist. So my mother in law in order to save 2 dollars did this. My wishlist doesn't update and someone else buys the same gift off of amazon. This does update my wishlist but the damage is done. So now I have to deal with a return through amazon. I have to mail the shit back and deal with the fucking vendor. On top of that I don't get the full value of the gift because it wasn't the shippers fault that I sent it back and if I want to get anything shipped to me in exchange then whatever the shipping costs are have to be deducted from the value of the gift. So for example if I send back a gift that was 45 dollars. I only get say 39 dollars to spend because it will cost about 6 dollars in shipping and handling. This is the pain in the ass stuff I was hoping to avoid.

My sister in law was over during Thanksgiving. We both like the same kinda movies. We were talking about American Splendor. Great film. I told her I liked it a lot but would never want to own it because it's on TV all the time and I am kinda straying from owning movies on DVD. I am more into getting TV shows I like on DVD. I did say that I liked the soundtrack. So she sends our christmas gifts to us via the mail. She lives in New York so we don't see her on xmas. My wife gets a few things. The boy gets a few things. There is only 1 thing for me. That's fine. She's not my sister I don't care. What is it? It's American Splendor on DVD!!! I am fucking bullshit. I really am. So she calls on xmas and tells my wife that she saw the DVD on my wishlist. I am flipping out. I am like if your fucking sister looked at my wishlist it would have said that it's the soundtrack. My wife looked at it and says "Well it doesn't say soundtrack on it Jay. How would she know?" I am like "It says various fucking artists! She don't need to fucking know either. She was supposed to buy it off the fucking wishlist. If your fucking sister had done more than just look at the wishlist she would have known..that's how!! If she had clicked on it to buy it she would have known it was a soundtrack...that's how she would have fucking known. If she had used the fucking wishlist that's how she would have fucking known!!" Now I do tend to get pissed about this stuff. We buy gifts for my wifes 2 brothers and her sister on their birthdays and the holidays. I get shitty gifts back...gifts with no thought in them. A ten dollar DVD that I didn't even fucking want? That pisses me off. It shows lack of thought and it makes me have to go to Tower Records (that's where she got the DVD) and return it. I hate Tower Records. I hate the elitist employees. Their stuff is way overpriced, well most of it except for the 10 dollar DVD of American Splendor. So I once again have to do what I didn't want to do this holiday, deal with returns. I get a 10 dollar credit at Tower. What the fuck can you buy for 10 dollars at Tower Records? Nothing. The elitist attitude comes free so I was fucked. The American Splendor soundtrack was 20 dollars. No way was I throwing another 10 towards a gift to me. I ended up dropping an extra 6 dollars towards my store credit for a different CD. It's a good CD but it will forever be tainted by the fact that it was a consolation prize from a pseudo gift.

Then my fucking brother. Lazy fuck that he is. He waits til the last minute and looks at the wishlist but buys at the store because the gift won't be delivered in time. This fucks him because we had a lot of Baby Einstein on the boys wishlist. My brother couldn't find any of that stuff in the store. He didn't double gift me though. He got the boy some stuff but not stuff he wanted to get him and he double gifted the wife.

She had to return his stuff. She is a bigger person than me though. It doesn't bother her. It drives me NUTS. So nuts in fact that this is what you see when you look at my wishlist:

"I had a few cases of people looking at the wishlist and then buying items from a store, and other people buying the same item from the wishlist. Please do not buy anything on this wishlist from a store. It makes it a huge headache to have to return stuff because someone looked at the wishlist and didn't buy from the wishlist."

I am an asshole and I don't care.

Happy New Year.