My sister's 28th birthday is tomorrow, and I still haven't gotten her anything yet. It's not because I don't want to; I just haven't had the money. I've had to use what little bit I had to buy flea products. (Hey, there's an idea. I can send her the leftover Zodiac treatments. From one flea to another...) I tried to find a cheap movie for her Friday since movies, thanks to media mail, are fairly cheap to send. However, I couldn't find a movie in Best Buy that was both in my price range and screamed, "Tina." When it comes to movies, my sister has fickle tastes. She'll watch something a hundred times and then never watch it again.I also thought about buying her the board game Clue. It's only $10 at Wally World. When I was home at Thanksgiving, she brought out her 15-year-old version of the game and asked me and Chandler to play it with her, but we both declined the invitation. The set is missing half of the pieces, and neither one of us wanted to play with the pieces she supposedly made. I thought if I got her a new set, she might actually stay home long enough to play a few rounds with Chandler. (Okay, I won't hold my breath on that one, but it could happen...theoretically.) However, the game would cost more to ship than it would to just by it, so if I choose that path, my mom is just going to have to tell her that I'll bring the present when I come home.
One last idea was to find something for $10 or $11 at JCPenney's. I got a coupon in the mail for $10 off any $10 or more purchase, so basically if I could find something in that price range, the gift would pretty much be free. The only problem is my sister is hard to shop for when it comes to clothing and shoes. She has expensive, Oscar de la Renta type of tastes. That's why her Christmas lists, while short, always end up costing more than my long ones. For instance, she wants this $150 flat iron this year. What's wrong the much cheaper one my mom got her last year? Nothing, if you ask me. She just always wants bigger and better.
Tian also tends to dress at times like she's still 15 and doesn't have a child, at least when she goes out. She's two years away from the big 30. She has a child that will be nine soon. I think those are both signs that she needs to stay out of the junior's department. But who ever said that my sister was good at reading signs? Not me.
What I really want to give my sister for her birthday is a new MySpace page. If her clothes are too high school, her MySpace page is too junior high. It's all pink, white, and glittery. She used one of those free templates off the Internet; thus, the page is full of advertisements and loads super slow. I want to hack into her account and just redesign the whole thing. To do that, however, I would have to admit that I know she has a MySpace page and that my mom and I have been using it to spy on her. (We've just been looking at the page; we're not logging into her account or anything bad like that, so calm down.). Even if Tina didn't kill me for looking at it, she'd most likely change the url or her account name, and then how would my mom know what she was doing at night? It wouldn't be from Tina telling her, that's for sure.
Anyway, I wish she had been born earlier in the year. That way I wouldn't have to come up with two presents all in the same 10 day period.
