Current mood:	worn out
Current music:	Pon da Replay - Rihanna

A journey towards greatness
I feel like the 2nd best aunt in the world.

My darling nephew is 5 this year, and fabulous aunt that I am, I had planned on getting him his first set of real Legos this year. Fortuitously, my brilliant plan hit a snag. I went to the Lego online store thinking to have the 805-piece bucket delivered to my mom's house in time for Christmas. But noooo, they were all sold out. Eeep! What could I do? I thought, perhaps, to go to Target to see if they had some (one? just one? that was all that I needed.), but in discussion with some friends they directed me rather to Toys-R-Us saying that it was a "better place to buy Legos".

Well that was a load of dren. Toys-R-Us didn't even have one complete aisle of Legos, and most of it was that Bionicle crap. Most distressingly, they didn't have the basic building bucket of Legos. Crap-and-a-half! So I did what anyone in dire need of a toy for a youngster would do and I wandered the store aimlessly until my eyes glazed over with mind-numbing action of all the toys that play for you and my ears stopped listening because of the constant barrage of "I want that! Mommy, get me that! Daddy, make Santa give me that for Christmas!".

And then, surrounded by a halo of flourescent light, I saw it. The gift. The one that would usher my nephew into his rite of boyhood. A Transformer. And not one of those stupid new models where they transform into some brightly colored nerf gun, but an honest-to-goodness Transformer. My only quandry was whether to get him one of the six Optimus Prime's or the one Bumblebee. Malign me if you will, but I got him the Bumblebee. The way I figure it, Optimus Prime is a much more favored character than Bumblebee, therefore they will still be making Optimus Prime's even when they've stopped making Bumblebee's. That, and I can go back to Toys-R-Us after Christmas to pick up Optimus Prime as a "thank you for being my ringbearer" gift.

So after all that, what would've made me the best aunt in the world? Starscream. He's out in the set, but the store didn't have any. Curses! Foiled again.

Oh and J, it was thoughtful of you to set your alarm for me this morning seeing as my phone did indeed die. The only problem was that you had the wrong prefixed-meridian. I ended up waking up on my own at 6:30 - thus having to fight rush hour traffice twice in the space of an hour and a half. Then there was work. I won't go there right now. Suffice it to say I may dream about keys tonight.

Lastly, a little gift for zamboni42. Go on, give it a look.