I'm going to a friend's B-day party tomorrow evening. So, after work, I went shopping for a present.
Now, I'm known for choosing crazy/funky/kistche things....I often wear crazy shirts like my favorite teninis T, which is a tennis raquet hanging around my neck--the gut strings are chain stiches, not print! I also wear funky Swatchs for work, because their big face is easy to see when I need to follow the seconds. Right now, I'm wearing one that has a pink hippo in the middle of the face, and pink, gray and blue hippos dancing on the band. I forgot to change it to a more sedate watch the other day, when I went to a family get together and wore a kimono (the traditional Japanese costume), so go figure the gasps I got from my aunts, uncles and cousins.
Well, anyway, I found something called "Aunt Merry Cushion Pillow" which is in the form of a sleeping sheep, and has a vibrator in it. The catch phrase on its case says, "When your back aches (yeah, Craig

), place this against your back and lean on it which will make it vibrate." Now, I have a chronic back ache that isn't too bad, but I need something for relief from time to time. So, I buy one for my friend, and one for myself...and tried it out just now. OK, so it's like my chair here's turned into a massage chair....but how the heck do I stop this thing, shake it, push it, arrrrg, it's still vibrating....I had to pull the batteries out to stop it...Please don't tell me it's the only way to stop it!