This and That

I gave up Amazon Instant purchases for Lent. That means no "leisure" books, no instant movie rentals, no TV shows. And I was standing by that, reading books I never got around to finishing (or even starting) and I've been rewatching Smallville. And then I turned around and decided to pay for a Hulu Plus account. I didn't even think about my Amazon-ban. It follows the letter of the law, but maybe not the spirit. Although, in my defense, I was mostly thinking about books when I made it. Tuesday, I woke up, took a shower, packed my bag for school and then decided "Screw it!" I was just way too drained to pull myself through a day at school. I invented an upset stomach and a headache and then hung out in bed, screwing around and watching Community on my newly "repaired" PS3. Now there's a story! Monday night, I get home from a late night at Subway and click the button on my PS3 controller to turn on the system. I did something fiddly like empty my pockets and realized my system hadn't actually turned on. I walked over and realized it wasn't plugged in. The RedBox DVD I had noticed downstairs came to mind and I grumbled a bit as I threaded the power cord back and plugged it in ("Why didn't they take the PS2. That wasn't plugged in. If they're going to use my stuff, plug it in again when you're done..."). I turned it on and realized it wasn't connected to the TV either. I ran around looking for the cord, even pulling my mom awake from the brink of sleep before I found it still plugged in to the TV. I hooked it up and sat back and watched nothing happen. I tried it on both TVs, turned everything on and off repeatedly, checked the cords using my PS2 and eventually just sat back and cried. "My family just broke my $250 PlayStation for want of a $50 DVD player! They will pay for this! I saved for this thing for four months and it's barely a year old."
I pulled Jacob out of bed the next morning and made him fix it. He had hooked it up using an HDMI cable instead of the standard one and so we had to reset the output settings. I admit, I gave him a few earfuls about what was allowed in regards to my PlayStations.

I had breakfast with Ashley this morning. I was 20 minutes late because of the buses and Ashley was sending me text messages trying to guilt and threaten me. All it did was piss me off. I am always to first one there when we meet up and, more often than not, she's late. I am late one time because the traffic was bad and the bus running late and she's giving me a hard time? And then she was obviously upset because I wouldn't commit to a 2015 move to Alaska with her and then because I said that I would not room with her there. I tried to explain that I wouldn't room with 90% of my friends due to several bad experiences in the dorms, but she was quite obviously offended. This is why she has no other friends; she takes everything super personal.

I've been catching up on some of my shows: Castle, New Girl, Arrow, Beauty and the Beast.
Castle: Damn two-part episode! But good work at some foreshadowing.
New Girl: Finally, a "Big Kiss" that is actually treated as one! Thank you for dwelling on this event for the two following episodes. Because Jess and Nick kissing IS a big deal and not something that can just be swept under the rug (like Gus finding an engagement ring in Shawn's gameboy [Psych]).
Arrow: Probably the least notable of all the shows I caught up in.
Beauty and the Beast: Was it really necessary to introduce a "First Love" for Vincent? I feel like this relationship is complicated enough; adding in another love interest for the hero almost feels like a "filler" so far. While it does create a bit of development for Vincent and JT, I feel like the main purpose was the undermine the budding relationship between Cat and Vincent and there are so many other ways to do this without throwing an obviously doomed romantic possibility in the mix. I hate obviously doomed relationships.