Diana Presley Blog

If you want to rent a movie in today’s world you don’t have a lot of choices anymore. You can go to a Redbox vending machine, try to find a blue Blockbuster machine, or look all over town for a small independent video rental store. Or you can sign up for Netflix online or subscribe to the Comcast “On Demand” service. The cheapest way around here is to just pony up the $1.30 at a Redbox.

So I signed up for Redbox with my little dollar limit credit card, just in case something weird happens by using my card in their machines, and once or twice a month I want to watch a movie, so I drive down the local convenience store with a Redbox machine out front and take home a movie for the night. I find it interesting that their return deadline is 9:00 pm no matter what time of day or night you actually rent the movie.

Not really understanding how the machines work on the inside, I wonder why they can’t just burn a DVD on demand from inside the machine. How do inventory all those movie and game titles inside that little metal box that is smaller than most people’s refrigerators? From a huge Hollywood Video or Blockbuster Video store down to a refrigerator sized box. Amazing.

I wonder how many people in America actually have a piggy bank? If they have one, do they use it for a planned savings effort or do they just use it to catch loose change when they empty their pockets at night?

To answer my own question about what I do, yes, I do have a piggy bank. It is a big pink plastic pig that holds about $200 in loose change. I know that because I have emptied the piggy bank out twice and cashed in the coins at my bank. Both times the dollar amount was very close to $200. That’s not a deliberate savings plan, but it helps!

I’m exhausted and can’t deal with cooking dinner. I think I will order pizza and have it delivered. I have not had pizza for a long time – I can’t believe that I used to eat pizza at least once a week and that now I rarely get it. The pizza is a lot more expensive these days, and I think I am losing my taste for it, too.

Today I wanted to buy a helmet for riding on a motorcycle. For one thing, it is the law that requires people on a motorcycle to wear a helmet. For another thing, I take safety very seriously and I want a helmet that is mine, that I know fits, and that looks good.

There are several different styles of helmet and I tried on a couple that I thought looked pretty cool. But then when I looked in the mirror and saw what they looked like while perched on my pumpkin, I didn’t like them after all. And to my surprise, I had to wear an extra large size. I ha no idea that my melon was an extra large one! But I guess it is good to know that now and not try to buy something size sensitive over the internet only to find out that what I ordered is too small for me.

Saw this clever graphic on someone’s Facebook wall so I grabbed it. I love the twilight series of books. The movies are good, too, but the books are a lot better. I find it interesting that the author decided to give the vampires some remarkably different abilities and vulnerabilities. The sparkly skin is a pretty cool idea.