{"id":1717,"date":"2009-11-30T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:48:20","slug":"whoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/whoops\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoops!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just blew my accumulated Amazon gift certificates on a present for&#8230; myself. So much for using my credit card points to buy presents for other people. In my defense, it&#8217;s one of those little GPS &#8220;watches&#8221; that lets you keep track of your miles\/heart-rate\/etc. So it&#8217;s not a <em>present<\/em> present. More like a training tool. A rather expensive training tool. That was on sale. Ish.<\/p>\n<p>I am just not getting the hang of this whole presents thing. They&#8217;re for <em>other people<\/em>. Not me. Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad, really, because I have all sorts of great ideas for myself. Starting with Sephora and going all the way up to the $1000+ Canon lens that I&#8217;ve wanted for a couple of years now.<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, I really love buying presents for other people. I find it oh so very satisfying to figure out just the right gift. Extra bonus points if you make the person cry. Not, &#8220;Oh my God, how could you decapitate my favorite stuffed bunny and then wrap up the ears&#8221; tears, though. No, no, no. I prefer the &#8220;Oh my God, how did you know that this is exactly what I&#8217;ve always wanted&#8221; tears. Also, &#8220;This is so unbelievably thoughtful&#8221; tears.<\/p>\n<p>Does it make me sociopathic to enjoy other people&#8217;s tears of joy?<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorite past presents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A book of photos from my nephew&#8217;s first year for my sister (tears, boo-yeah!)<\/li>\n<li>A replica of a beloved childhood toy (one that was stolen by a neighbor) for my uncle (my grandmother cried, I think that counts)<\/li>\n<li>A Brita filter for my mom &#8211; not exactly sexy, but she was touched over my concern for the water quality at their house. Plus? She&#8217;s still using it. So I win.<\/li>\n<li>Pretty much anything that I&#8217;ve ever sewn\/quilted for anyone<\/li>\n<li>And who could forget&#8230; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=1691\">Superman Cape<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The older I get, the more I realize that it really is better to give than to receive. I mean, the last time a present made me cry, it was a weight-loss book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just blew my accumulated Amazon gift certificates on a present for&#8230; myself. So much for using my credit card points to buy presents for other people. In my defense,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,31,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-girl","category-nablopomo","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yggS-whoops","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}