I'm super super excited to finally have a nice wine bottle opener. Don't get me wrong, our standard corkscrew worked just fine, but these guys are so much easier. We've always put off buying one, though, because they can be kind of expensive and we didn't really need one that badly. Well, at the wine tasting last weekend, they had a wine and wine accessories gift basket. My sister really wanted the contents of the basket, except for the opener (they already have an even nicer tabletop opener). So to encourage her to bid the price up so she could win the basket, I told her that we'd give her $10 for the opener. And she ended up with the highest bid! My brother was a little angry when he found out how I scored the opener (his corkscrew is even worse than ours!) and tried to pay her $15 for it, but a deal's a deal. I'm thinking we'll definitely be having a bottle of wine later this week--you know, just to make sure it works and everything. And maybe we'll even give our old corkscrew to my brother--as a consolation prize or something for not thinking of paying off my sister himself.
I almost scored another deal from the silent auction, but some lady had positioned her husband next to the item during the final five minutes to make sure that she ended up with it. Meanies. I really wanted the watch--look how gorgeous it is!
Sigh. Hopefully I lamented enough about losing my bid on the watch that Darrell takes pity on me and buys me one. I've only been saying since Christmas that I want a new watch, and now he knows what type of watch I'm looking for, so it's only a matter of time, right? A girl can wish.
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