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10 April 2006

Your Weekend: Priceless A Monday morning thread for fun. The rules are simple. Describe your weekend in three or more lines, listing three events, the last one "Priceless", as in the TV commercials.

post by: Miko at: 08:30 | 41 comments

Several pints of Guinness: $25
Subway fare home for 2:$4
Leading your newly reconciled better half on a drunken sentimental (and successful) quest to find the row house your father grew up in: Priceless.

posted by jonmc 10 April | 08:35

I'll try it.

Quail sausage and demi-glace with gralic-scallion mashed potatoes at a cool new restaurant: $12.95
Cover and drinks at the Porch Rockers show: $25
Maine tax bill, form completed Saturday, money due next week: $1900 (oof)
Realizing I'm only a month away from sailing in Key West: Priceless

posted by Miko 10 April | 08:35

Two bottles of cheap red wine under the culvert: $7
One pint of vodka in the freight car: $5
The two thousand-mile walk back to NYC from Santa Fe: priceless

posted by Hugh Janus 10 April | 08:40

This is harder than it seems.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 April | 08:41

Black eyeliner: $7
8 shots of Jack Daniels: $32
Additional half-day rate at hotel for 6pm checkout: $35
Not having to wake up 3 burgeoning rock stars before 4pm: Priceless

posted by ferociouskitty 10 April | 08:42

Dinner at Wendy's because of a huge fuckup with the lawn men: $5
Black iPod: $400
Bad Ass Shoes: $40
Getting laid for the first time since Halloween: priceless.

posted by YouCanCallMeAl 10 April | 08:45

(interesting side note: we spontaneously decided to go on this vision quest after failing to find a copy of American Graffitti at the local Blockbuster-a turn of events that disgusts me beyond measure, BTW. I noticed that we were just a few blocks from 48th (my old man's old street) and I led pips south toward Laurel Hill Blvd. When we got to the edge of Woodside, we found some Irish dive called (no joke) the Shillelagh, where we stopped in for a quick one. I briefly harmonized with some sozzled paddy on the Skyliner's 'Since I Don't Have You. As we got up to continue, the barmaid was all 'Leaving so soon?' and we told her we were looking for my dad's childhood home. She merely looked at me and nodded. We Irish are a sentimental people. She also added that there were 'plenty of bars between here and Laurel Hill.'

I'll be back at that bar soon, I tell you what.)

posted by jonmc 10 April | 08:45

Getting laid for the first time since Halloween: priceless.
Was it the dinner at Wendy's, or the shoes that did the trick?

posted by Wolfdog 10 April | 08:49

Compost, seeds, manure, ferns, pansies: $80
Probable costs of starter plants & incidentals over next 3 weeks: $200
Post gardening beers at the bar: $15
Realizing that it would probably be less expensive to buy organic vegetables at the swanky grocery store all summer long instead of slaving away to grow them: priceless

posted by mygothlaundry 10 April | 08:59

Ticket to Leeds: £2.60
Twelve pack of Carling: £8.99
10 pack of Regal King Size: £2.60
Missing the hail on the way home by 2 minutes: Priceless.

posted by seanyboy 10 April | 09:07

Walk around the monastery grounds of Waltham Abbey in the sunshine: free
Pie & chips with gravy: £4
Watching Man Utd stuff the Gooners: Priceless

posted by essexjan 10 April | 09:18

Watching Man Utd stuff the Gooners: Priceless
Booooooo!
Booooo!
Booo!

posted by seanyboy 10 April | 09:20

Mac mini: $699.
CD copy of Quake: $9.99.
Port of GLQuake for OSX: $5 donation.
Deathmatching like it's junior high school again: Priceless.

I fear I may be too nerdy to live.

posted by Zozo 10 April | 09:22

For reals:

A few Guinnesses: $18
Onglet Frites au Poivre: $13
Bottle of champagne: $35
Jay: $?
Politely averting my eyes when a giddy jonmc can't help but smooch Pips: priceless

posted by Hugh Janus 10 April | 09:28

2 gallons of gas to get to the trail: $3.40
2 pnut butter & honey sandwhiches: $1.50
6 hours for 33 miles: priceless

(I didn't do a damn thing else all weekend, so I know it's weak, but what else am I gonna write?)

posted by omiewise 10 April | 09:30

Ha -- at first I read that and thought "OmieWise went hiking! How nice."

Then I realized you probably ran it.

Priceless!

posted by Miko 10 April | 09:36

Four burritos: $50
Too many margaritas: $150
Two taxis: $40
Laughing and smiling with old friends: priceless

posted by I Love Tacos 10 April | 09:57

Burritos? Traitor!

posted by omiewise 10 April | 10:01

One pair New Balance Cross Trainers: $25
Two yummy vegetarian cookbooks: $11
Sunshine: Priceless

posted by JanetLand 10 April | 10:20

$150 in margaritas? Were you sharing?

posted by small_ruminant 10 April | 10:32

Train fare to Ozuki station: ¥790 each
Strawberries & lunch along the way: ¥1200
Actually finishing the 30K walk even after realizing just how freakin' far it was (and doing so in time to get a badge and certificate): priceless

posted by MightyNez 10 April | 10:35

Tripod Plus account: $4.95 a month
Years of writing Web sites in HTML: agony
Redoing your home page with CSS in one afternoon: priceless

posted by halonine 10 April | 10:39

Papa John's pizza - $11.30
Six pack of Pete's Wicked - $7.99
Getting sick and ruining the first "alone night" I've had in 8 months - priceless

posted by tr33hggr 10 April | 10:46

Looking for work - $0.00
Doing free admin work and banning trolls - $0.00
Getting drunk finally on Sunday $25.00
Throwing up on the floor of the mall - priceless

posted by keijo 10 April | 10:50

Hey, this has kind of fun results. We'll have to do this again. I now wish mine was better, but as you see, my weekend lacked a strong narrative.

posted by Miko 10 April | 11:36

Booooooo!
Booooo!
Booo!
posted by seanyboy 10 April | 09:20

I don't care how horny you are, if you're a Leeds fan, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!

posted by essexjan 10 April | 11:38

The curtain may already be closed on this thread, but here goes my not too exciting weekend:

Ordering-in yummy Thai food: $18
Ticket to see Parts and Labor, the Ex Models, and Oneida @ Northsix: $11
Re-doing all of my previous image touch-up work to go from 300 to 800dpi: priceless.

posted by safetyfork 10 April | 12:58

Breakfast for 3: $15
Company sponsored Easter Egg hunt: $0
Putting the kid to bed early so you can get it on: priceless

posted by jrossi4r 10 April | 14:18

I've tried to do this several times, and I just can't do it. I quit.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 April | 14:21

Aw TPS, it doesn't have to be good. look at mine; it didn't even have a theme.

posted by Miko 10 April | 14:25

Ummm, ok....

Hitting on one of your ex's cute friends at a bar: $0
A long Sunday afternoon nap: $0
Groceries for a Sunday night "Grey's Anatomy" dinner party: $20
Having a great weekend: Priceless.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 April | 14:40

I need to jump on this. WTF is a Grey's Anatomy dinner party? I suppose the food might be rather offal.

posted by keijo 10 April | 14:43

No theme whatsoever:

Two tickets to see David Sedaris Saturday night: about $70, although I didn't pay
New earrings won on ebay: $13 + S&H
Late night feta and spinach omelette, hash browns, and toast from a diner I love: $5 and my health
Passing the MPRE exam (a requirement for admission to the PA bar) with a kickass score: Priceless

posted by amro 10 April | 14:49

Oh, the party itself wasn't a "theme" party or anything- we weren't eating food shaped like body parts or anything. They just came over because we all wanted to watch Grey's Anatomy, and I made dinner because I love to play hostess.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 April | 14:57

Yeah I thought you went by the local hospital to get the ingredients and paid $20 to the night clerk. Oh well.

posted by keijo 10 April | 15:03

OOh, amro, you reminded me of my late-Friday-night IRC and eBay bonanza. So I'm gonna do another one. (By the way, congrats on passing the test!)

Two Belgian ales at the Pepperland Cafe: $10
Inspired by KevinSkomskold's band picture (and perhaps by the strength of the Belgain ales), winning a beautiful 1940s green and gray wool gabardine Western shirt on eBay: $16.29
Shipping and handling: $5
Being coached, cheered on, and otherwise warmly supported in the final moments of bidding by the late-Friday-night, slightly drunk, and very funny IRC crowd: Priceless.

posted by Miko 10 April | 16:16

Two tickets to see a performance of Bach's B minor Mass on Saturday night: $70
Present for my youngest niece's 15th birthday: $60 in cold, hard cash
My tax return landing magically in my account on Saturday, just in time to pay for my flight to Dublin today: Erm, not really priceless, I guess, but a relief, none the less
Spending six straight hours on a writing high (almost 7,000 finished words, check it out!) on Saturday: priceless, definitely

posted by jokeefe 10 April | 16:46

Tickets to Auckland: AUS$1000
Taxi from the airport: NZ$60
Bottles of bubbly: $$$
Drunken singalong after the funeral: priceless

posted by nomis 10 April | 17:57

Baking bread and assorted other sundries from scratch that I can't eat otherwise because of my low-iodine diet: $42
Giving up from exhaustion and subsisting mostly on salt-free matzoh crackers with honey: $3
Enjoying the "aw, you poor baby, let me make you feel all better" mind-blowing sex: priceless

posted by scody 10 April | 21:12

Working Friday 1745-0500 (while your friends go party): sucks

Working Saturday 1900-0500 (while your friends BBQ, party, and whoop it up for the weekend): sucks more

Working Sunday 1700-0130 (while your friends party, recover from partying, party more, talk about the great weekend they had): really sucks

Having three days off during the week, with forecasted nice weather and knowing your friends are miserable at work: Priceless*

* (or at least I keep telling myself this so I don't fall upon my figurative saber in agonizing jealousy)

posted by hyperlith 11 April | 08:26

*CENSORED*: free
*CENSORED*: free
*CENSORED*: free
*CENSORED*: priceless

posted by matildaben 11 April | 12:21

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