The Adventures of EclectiKat

Why I love NetFlix

For Christmas, Jon must have been very good, because Santa brought him a new XBox 360 Elite, which is now sitting below our flatscreen.  All hooked up with HDMI cables and games to keep him happy for the next six months, I am more excited about the FREE NETFLIX TRIAL!!!  I thought we’d never get sucked in (we don’t watch that many movies!) but apparently this is because we don’t have access to the RIGHT movies.  You can’t make a mistake!  If it sucks, pick a new one on the instant queue. 

Scene opens on Kat sitting home alone on a Saturday night.  Finally got to watch that filmed-for-TV version of Into the Woods and FaceBook is now getting super boring.  Idea: Watch a girly movie to get it off the instant queue.  The selection?  Confessions of a Shopaholic.  Please understand that this was not a great movie.  It probably wasn’t even good.  But oh, the clothes!  And the shoes!  And the handbags!  Purely presented as a cautionary tale cleverly disguised as a romantic comedy, the film missed its mark.  I immediately felt the need to scour the local cheapie stores for deals on really out-there fashion.

Enter another guilty pleasure: Craigslist.  There is an unpaid “internship” at a RI-based fashion magazine that is going to be published (they’re trying it again).  Fate?  I think not.  I spent the next 15 minutes weighing the pros and cons of being the fashion guru of Rhode Island.  A scoop of ice cream later, I turn in my dreams of Prada for a box of Kleenex and start the cry-fest that is Steel Magnolias.