the great iPad debate

It all started while we were grocery shopping at Wal-Mart. We often browse the electronics section to see if the TV mounts are on sale or if the $5 movie bin has anything to offer us. This time, I was looking at the new fancy "3DS." A 3D gameboy! what the!?
"Blake, I want a gameboy for my birthday." I told him. (15% joking, 85% serious)
"Seriously Jessica?"
"yes! for trips to Canada! so I can play tetris and not get bored outta my tree!"
"well if we're going to get a gameboy why not just get an iPad?"

nuh uh gurlfriend! ain't no ipads in THIS house!

That is when the word first TRULY entered our home. After that, Blake would spend his evenings googling the great things iPads can do, and searching the App store for anything he could use as leverage to convince me to buy one.

"Nope," I would say, "an iPad is something you have to earn in life. There are plenty of other, better, SMARTER things to spend that amount of money on. Let's put that money towards my student loans! Now THAT is a good idea. And besides, you can't always get everything you want. Not to mention we don't NEED one!"

(my arguments are obviously never any good because a lot of the time we both get exactly what we want.)


so the days go on, Blake continues to drop the subtle hints that an iPad would make life easier, better.
Nope nope nope was the only reply. We are going to Vegas, we are lucky and spoiled, we DON'T NEED AN IPAD!

Enter the scene: We have arrived in Vegas. I am excited, Blake is excited. It is his first time here. We do not own a camera to document our trip. This makes me sad. We need to go buy a cheap cheap camera so we can take pictures of our trip, I say. So we stop at Best Buy. While I am looking at cameras, Blake heads over to the (wait for it...) iPad section! I call him over, he approves the camera choice (a Canon obviously) and he drops the cash for my new little baby (thanks darling!). I assume we are home free! Okay, lets go now! The strip awaits!
"Jess, come look at this." Over to the iPad section he goes, wife in tow. He proceeds to explain some really neat and amazing things about the iPad to me, and that they have a 32 gig one for 30 dollars cheaper bla bla bla...
"Not right now Blake! We just bought a camera!" (poor guy always gets the shut-down from his crazy wife.)

We head back to Aunt and Uncle's house to eat and get ready for a night on the town. Blake corners me while I'm getting dressed...
"I really really REALLY want to go get that iPad." and then he did his cutest puppy dog face....



I guess it's true that you can't always get what you want... this time it was I that had to learn this lesson.
jokes on me I suppose!

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