{"id":469,"date":"2006-04-26T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2006-04-26T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T17:19:00","slug":"i-may-be-past-my-best-before-date-but-at-least-im-not-spoiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/i-may-be-past-my-best-before-date-but-at-least-im-not-spoiled\/","title":{"rendered":"I may be past my best-before date, but at least I’m not spoiled!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing with our all-memes-all-the-time theme… As seen at Decomposition <\/a>and Mystery Mommy.<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you spoiled? (My initial answer before completing the meme is a resounding YES!! And I like it that way!) You are if you can check of 40 of the following:<\/p>\n

Do you have…<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u0090 your own cell phone (we have one for the family, but I don’t have my own)
\u00c2\u0090 a television in your bedroom
x an iPod (not an iPod, but an MP3 player)
\u00c2\u0090 a photo printer
\u00c2\u0090 your own phone line
\u00c2\u0090 TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
X high-speed internet access (i.e., not dialup)
\u00c2\u0090 a surround sound system in bedroom
\u00c2\u0090 DVD player in bedroom
\u00c2\u0090 at least a hundred DVDs
\u00c2\u0090 a childfree bathroom
X your own in-house office
x a pool (12′ seasonal kiddie pool)
\u00c2\u0090 a guest house
\u00c2\u0090 a game room
X a queen-size bed
\u00c2\u0090 a stocked bar (does three bottles of red wine and half a bottle of something called firewater count?)
X a working dishwasher
\u00c2\u0090 an icemaker
X a working washer and dryer
\u00c2\u0090 more than 20 pairs of shoes
\u00c2\u0090 at least ten things from a designer store (is Roots a designer store? If so, my answer is yes. I am all Roots, all the time. Cell phone, purse, clothes for me and the boys. It’s all a little embarrasing, actually.)
\u00c2\u0090 expensive sunglasses
\u00c2\u0090 framed original art (not lithographs or prints)
\u00c2\u0090 Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
X a multi-speed bike
X a gym membership
\u00c2\u0090 large exercise equipment at home
\u00c2\u0090 your own set of golf clubs
\u00c2\u0090 a pool table
\u00c2\u0090 a tennis court
\u00c2\u0090 local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea
\u00c2\u0090 your own pair of skis
\u00c2\u0090 enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
\u00c2\u0090 a boat
\u00c2\u0090 a jet sk
\u00c2\u0090 a neighborhood committee membership
\u00c2\u0090 a beach house or a vacation house\/cabin
\u00c2\u0090 wealthy family members
\u00c2\u0090 two or more family cars
X a walk-in closet or pantry (closets)
X a yard
\u00c2\u0090 a hammock
\u00c2\u0090 a personal trainer
X good credit
X expensive jewelry (define expensive? Real diamonds and pearls and rubies? Yes. Worth keeping in a safe deposit box? No.)
\u00c2\u0090 a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get (there’s waiting lists for designer bags???)
\u00c2\u0090 at least $100 cash in your possession right now (snort – I had to fish money out of my desk drawer to buy a sandwich)
X more than two credit cards bearing your name
\u00c2\u0090 a stock portfolio
\u00c2\u0090 a passport (expired last year)
\u00c2\u0090 a horse
\u00c2\u0090 a trust fund
X private medical insurance (additional drug coverage through work)
X a college degree, and no outstanding student loans (but Beloved is still paying $400\/month)<\/p>\n

Do you:
\u00c2\u0090 shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week \u00c2\u0090 do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores (is Farm Boy a specialty store?)
\u00c2\u0090 pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning) (I wish!!)
X go on weekend mini-vacations (these are the *only* kind of vacations we go on)
\u00c2\u0090 send dinners back with every flaw
\u00c2\u0090 wear perfume or cologne (not body spray)
X regularly get your hair styled or nails<\/s> done in a salon
\u00c2\u0090 have a job but don’t need the money OR \u00c2\u0090 stay at home with little financial sacrifice
\u00c2\u0090 pay someone else to cook your meals (again, I wish!)
X pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs (what does daycare have to do with being spoiled?)
\u00c2\u0090 regularly pay someone else to drive you (does the bus count?)
\u00c2\u0090 expect a gift after you fight with your partner (hmmmm….)<\/p>\n

Are you:
\u00c2\u0090 an only child
\u00c2\u0090 married\/partnered to a wealthy person
X baffled\/surprised when you don’t get your way (who, me?)<\/p>\n

Have you:
\u00c2\u0090 been on a cruise
X traveled out of the country
\u00c2\u0090 met a celebrity (define celebrity? define met? I once cornered Margaret Atwood in a bathroom for an autograph, and shook Mikhail Gorbachev’s hand… I’m going to leave this one as a blank.)
X been to the Caribbean (I was nine. Barbados.)
X been to Europe (Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, France in 1995, then Paris on our honeymoon.)
\u00c2\u0090 BEEN TO HONG KONG
\u00c2\u0090 been to Hawaii
\u00c2\u0090 been to New York
\u00c2\u0090 eaten at the space needle in Seattle
\u00c2\u0090 been to the Mall of America
X been on the Eiffel tower in Paris (twice!)
\u00c2\u0090 been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
\u00c2\u0090 moved more than three times because you wanted to
\u00c2\u0090 dined with local political figures
X been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast (but in different countries)<\/p>\n

Did you:
X go to another country for your honeymoon
\u00c2\u0090 hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
\u00c2\u0090 take riding or swimming lessons as a child
\u00c2\u0090 attend private school
\u00c2\u0090 have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you<\/p>\n

Twenty-six. As unspoiled as the virgin wilderness! (I know, I’m having a hard time keeping a straight face too.) To paraphrase Andrea, the Internet has decreed me as not spoiled, and so it shall be known forevermore.<\/p>\n

And that sound you hear? It’s Beloved’s and my mother’s eyeballs rolling in their sockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing with our all-memes-all-the-time theme… As seen at Decomposition and Mystery Mommy. Are you spoiled? (My initial answer before completing the meme is a resounding YES!! And I like it that way!) You are if you can check of 40 of the following: Do you have… \u00c2\u0090 your own cell phone (we have one for … Continue reading “I may be past my best-before date, but at least I’m not spoiled!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}