Lessons Learned

You get what you pay for.
Today I bought a vacuum cleaner. Matt and I had dinner party tonight (went well, by the way), and the apartment kind of badly needed a good cleaning, even though it wasn't really obvious (hooray beige carpet!). I went to Target to look, figuring a decently cheap (but not crappy) vacuum would be around $50. I found one for $39.99 and got really excited, so I bought it and used the extra money I WOULD have spent on the vacuum to buy a cute pair of green flats. ^_^
So I get the vacuum home, and it is CRAP. I should have spent the extra $10-$30 for a less crappy one. I don't like it at all, and it definitely requires quite a bit of assembly. I assumed vacuums were meant to be idiot-proof, but Matt told me that when they price them that cheap, they remove the idiot-proof features.
Spend the extra money. You get what you pay for.

Sometimes it's a good thing to own two bottle openers that sing "Boomer Sooner."
Somehow in college Julie and I acquired one of these singing contraptions. It was funny at first, then was annoying to no end. Then, soon after graduating, I acquired a second one. Since I had just moved to College Station, I wanted to cling to anything OU I could, so I kept both. I hadn't really used either of them since moving (I'm not really a big beer drinker), but since we had people over tonight, they got put to use. It was good to hear "Boomer Sooner," believe it or not. I really miss OU.
Also, there is nothing better than irritating die-hard Aggies. :) Luckily I retrieved my bottle opener from the garbage before anything happened to it.