I'm on to them!

So I may have came off as mildly perturbed yesterday in that post about, you know, the concert tonight. But I wasn't sulking about it. I wasn't crying or anything. Or pouting, or giving my parents grief. In essence, I was being an angel, really. I was just genuinely sad. I didn't go up to my room. I was just in the living room on the laptop. Playing music, being quiet. This was after the blog post. You see, often I seem to blog about something that I feel really emotional about (especially if I'm angry/upset) and I splatter my ideas out on this webpage and just let it out. Then, once I click "publish" its nearly impossible for me to go on feeling bad. Whatever rage I had is up on the internet and its left there, and I move on with my day/life. Its pretty great. Love ya blogger!

ANYWAY, so I was feeling ok, you know? Not enraged as I was, but just down. Unhappy, but not obnoxiously so. My mom takes my brother Jimmy to bed, and the rest of my family is just peacefully coexisting in the room. So after my mom comes back, she says to my dad, "hey, why don't we buy Brianna's laptop tonight?" My dad gives her a puzzled look. "Weren't we going to wait a month?" he asks. "Well...I thought we could get it now. I know Bri is looking forward to it..."

And she keeps giving me this look. And I'm just sadly looking back. And she keeps on timidly looking at me this same way. And I'm like ...whaa-? when suddenly it HIT me. She was trying to please me. She was doing that cliché Popular Teen Movie/ ABC family original series "Greek" type of thing -- win back my love with materialism! Even though I wasn't giving her a hard time or anything! She just wanted to make it up to me and be in my good graces again through expenditure!

And my thoughts were proven correct when she insisted on buying an even nicer Mac than we had initially talked about. She said it was because she wants it to "last all 4 years of college" but come on. I know what she was trying to pull.

I should be disgusted by this. I resisted even when she asked me if I wanted to buy a laptop that night. I told her I didn't care. And I acted very demure for a while. Saying how the other computer was more economical, even if I didn't like it aesthetically. I tried not to smile and be of high spirits. I tried til I was blue in the face. But in the end, I loved that damn computer so much! Its just perfect! And then picking out what the engraved message would be on my new iPod touch! Oh it just filled me with that bubbly sensation that consumerism unfortunately brings! Not only was I smiling, I was grinning! Like a fool.

Guess at heart I'm just a whiny, greedy kid during the Christmas season -- thanks Mom & Pop! ;)