8 days till Kurisumasu

I'm really loving this "X days till Kurisumasu" thing. Sometimes I have so much trouble thinking of a good title that it completely demotivates me to write in this blog. I think after Christmas I will start an "X days till New Yearzu" and then an "X days till Gloundhogu Dayu" after that.

I have a reputation for being a cheapskate (insert your comment here Chad) but that isn't always fair. For example the other day I bought a $6 pencil. How many of you big spenders out there can lay claim to the fact that you own a $6 pencil? It's one of those mechanical pencils. I bought it after seeing a few highschool girls use them in class. I would literally stop the lesson and demand that they let me try it. Now maybe I'm a few years behind the pencil technology curve because I've never seen these things before. In the old days we used to have to click the eraser on our mechanical pencils if we wanted to get some lead. Now all you have to do is shake the pencil and the lead comes out by itself! It's quite a feather in my cap to own a pencil like that.