Shopping List - My pal

Shopping List - My pal Flash from down the street (not his real name) has been hearing my endless list of things I want/need to get when I finally get a job above subsistence level. He said I should put it on my blog - so he wouldn't have to hear it anymore.

Fair enough! So without further ado, Mitch's Post-Unemployment Shopping List:

1. 15 gallons of paint- due to dreadful planning last fall, I finished scraping and priming the house, just in time for the weather to get too cold to paint. Naturally, I planned to finish the job in the spring. No job, no paint. Gotta finish it - my house is an eyesore on my street.
   
2. A Bunch of Lumber - I need to build new beds for my daughter and I, not to mention kitchen shelves and a decent bookshelf in my bedroom.
   
3. Major Overhauls - for my pickup truck and my computer.
   
4. Presents - Both of my kids have had birthdays since I've been on the beach. Both have gotten very simple birthday parties, with not a whole lot of presents. Not bad, really, in the great world scheme of things - but I'd like to throw them a slightly bigger to-do.
   
5. Kitchen Stuff - my kitchen is a disaster. Not in the sense women think of "disaster" (the china clashes with the wallpaper) or in the "Queer Eye..." sense of the term (the pots are so 1998). No, I mean in the "avalanche wipes out Austrian Village" sense of the term disaster.
   
6. A TV bigger than my Toaster - I don't watch a lot of TV. I surely don't like my kids watching much. But my TV is about the size of a security camera monitor. Not that that's a biggie, but for the rare occasions when I actually do want to watch something...
   
7. Windows - My house is about 118 years old. Most of the windows are, if not original equipment, at least dating to before WWII. I'm tired of heating the neighborhood.
   
8. DVDs - I haven't had a working VCR in years. I always hated videocassettes - big, delicate, subject to degeneration. I bought a cheap DVD player for Christmas, and was converted instantly - just in time to have my entertainment budget drop to near-zero.
   
9. New Camera, preferably Digital - I need one, badly. I've been way too remiss in taking kid pictures - sorta the anti-Lileks. I need to fix that, and I need to do it now.