WEEKEND!

[annathepiper]

Looks like I get to have a weekend, finally. To celebrate this, and to celebrate the end of the positively ridiculous amounts of overtime I have been working this week, I intend to go buy myself a treat. This will do double duty as something to do while I'm Recovering From Surgery Girl next week, too!

But I do not know what to get, and my brain, it is mush. So clearly I need your all's input on this, people. Sing out!

[Poll #555466]

Comments

[ssha.livejournal.com]

Don't get books. Get something that requires little cognitive involvement. TV shows work very well for this.

[ssha.livejournal.com]

Although, for the latter half of the week, books might be helpful. When you're more with it, and getting bored of movies/TV. Also, puzzle magazines work really well.

[annathepiper]

See my other comment re: my book-reading plan! I figure Harry Potter will be about my speed. And even if I don't get any books for my treat, I still have plenty of others waiting on my To Read shelves.

We'll see what happens, though. For last year's thyroid surgery adventures, I spent a lot of time watching Mimi's X-Files DVDs!

[ssha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I imagine you'll be a bit less out of it than I was. Probably more on the level I was at by the time I got to my father's house and can remember anything. In which case I readmy little brother's copy of Goblet of Fire. Harry Potter seems to be suitably fluffy for that sort of thing.

And again, if you enjoy puzzles (logic, word, math), I highly recommend the corresponding Dell magazines as good ways to pass time.

[annathepiper]

Thanks for the recommendations. :)

[annathepiper]

Lack of mental coherence (let's hear it for our friend Percocet!) is part of why I'm inclined towards one of the TV box sets, yeah--though I forgot to add 1st season Star Trek to the list, foo. :)

The other thing I'm considering is that my plan is to bike to the Woodinville shopping center tomorrow, and whatever I get needs to be easily tucked into my backpack for the ride back. A DVD set would be more durable than books. Though if my treat budget allows for it, I may get one book!

(I've got plenty of things on my To Read shelf that I haven't touched yet, anyway, not to mention that I've already planned to get caught up on Harry Potter with spazzkat's copies of those books. So I won't be hurting for reading material.)

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

You knew what my answer had to be, though I wavered at the Firefly DVDs. :)

[annathepiper]

Hee! I thought that'd get your attention, yes. ;)

Much will depend on what I can buy at the Woodinville shopping center tomorrow. My plan is to bike there, because I'd like to get in a good bike jaunt before I have lie around for a week being Recovery Girl. So whatever I get needs to a) fit in my backpack, and b) hold up to the rigors of the ride back. A DVD set should do this well.

I'm not sure if there's actually a separate music store in that shopping center or not--I don't remember seeing one! There's a Target and a Barnes and Noble, both of which have music sections, so that may be my only option if my treat budget allows for a Carbon Leaf album. Also, there's the question of whether either place would HAVE any Carbon Leaf! (And any albums I don't already have, as well.)

Also, foo. I forgot to add 1st season Star Trek to that list!

[me-fein.livejournal.com]

Like I would choose something else....LOL ;)

[annathepiper]

I am shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, at your selection!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Hadda vote books, just on principle. Though Firefly was my second choice... I've heard so much about just how good Josh got it.... one of these days he might even be as good as JMS...

Naaah. There can be only one Great Maker. :)

[annathepiper]

Firefly is very, very good. I'm quite, quite fond of it. :)

The only reasons I'm waffling about whether to get that boxed set at all are 1) I've seen all the episodes within the last year, and 2) it's a shorter set of episodes than the other things I'm looking at, and I will have a week of being Recovery Girl to kill. I do want all four of those box sets eventually, it's just a matter of which one to buy now. (On the other hand, the Firefly box would be a bit cheaper than the others, too.)

And bugger, I forgot to include first season Star Trek on that list!

Though we'll see. I'm hoping to take a bike jaunt over to the Woodinville shopping center with solarbird tomorrow, and what I wind up getting may well depend on what I find being sold there!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

My instinct is to go with the book(s) selection. If you haven't already picked up Eragon, it's a rather good read, besides, the next book in that series is due out soon. If your to read list is already long, forgo the books. As to the first series of Star Trek, which one? I'm inclined to think you'd go for TOS, although make sure you don't forget to watch the ones where Christopher Pike was captain and Majel Barrett's character was Number One first.

[annathepiper]

The only problem I have with buying books on this outing is that I am doing it while biking to the shopping center in nearby Woodinville, which is a 15-minute drive but a lot longer by bike. So anything I purchase has to survive being carried back in my backpack, and several books would get squished.

Also, yeah, I have a lot of To Reads I really need to go through, and one of the things I hope to do while I am recovering next week is put a dent in them. After I plow through spazzkat's copies of all the Harry Potter books. :)

TOS is definitely my Trek inclination. But I've seen the Captain Pike pilot, too. solarbird and I want to catch the version of that that's unedited, since the one that gets aired on the Sci-Fi channel is damned near incoherent with the editing!

The only problem with TOS, though, is that the boxed sets are over my budget, I think. $50 or under! So probably what's going to happen is that I will buy whatever the Target's DVD section has and that's cheapest (hopefully that'll be Firefly) and ONE of the books off my list. :) That'll satisfy my budgetary constraint AND the need to comfortably carry the items in my backpack on the way home.