I don't believe I've mentioned it here, but I recently paid off my Xterra. (**EDIT: Wow, I just mentioned it two posts ago. But I've slept since then...) It's very exciting, to have that portion of my (relatively minimal) debt taken care of. I should, in fact, have the title in my hot little hands sometime this week. What a nice birthday present to myself!
Now, the flip side of that was knowing that as soon as I had paid it off, something else would come up. It always does. Every time I've ever paid off a credit card, car payment, or otherwise gotten something truly daunting out of my hair and/or off of my plate, something else ugly has reared its head--preventing me from every *truly* getting ahead myself.
This time, I naturally assumed it was going to be the Xterra itself. It is, after all, nearly 10 years old. It's in remarkably good shape for its age, and the Xterra--despite having a super slick new look in recent model years--has something of a timeless style. However, as we all know, time is cruel, and I'm just waiting for the ball to drop.
I really hope it doesn't soon. Because the ugly spectre with the raised and howling head this time is the telly. Our behemoth died a very sudden death sometime between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. When R tried to turn it on yesterday, it was just dead. No flickering lights, no warning signals that failure was immenent. Just a black, blank screen and a whole lot of "WTF"??
Personally, I think all of the MMA fighting and mafia violence of the recently resurrected Sopranos disc set finally did it in. :D That, or all the butter and sugar in Paula Deen's cookin has soaked in. Whatever the case, we find ourselves without a tv. It doesn't trouble me too much, as I rarely watch it aside from the occasional bout of CNN Headline News while I get ready in the morning, or the aforementioned Paula Deen (along with Giada/Ina Garten/Rachel Ray during the "dinner hour"). Oh, and Thursday night NBC. Love.
Anyway. I digress. We are going to have to get a new tv, because now that I can't play with the Wii, I want to desperately even though I haven't touched it in ages. I LONG to finish watching The Tudors discs that we got from Netflix something like 4 months ago (or longer)! It's amazing, isn't it, how you always want what you can't have?
Hopefully, after we deal with the annoyance of finding someone to pick up and haul off the old telly, and setting up the new one, there will be a few months of monetary peace where I can put some of the "extra" money towards our remaining credit card bills. Until then, I suppose I should just thank Murphy that his laws had the good graces to at least wait to kill the telly until *after* my car was paid off.
Thanks, Murphy, thanks a lot. ;)
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Canooks!
I have recently been raving (to R and to my best friend and...well, that's about it, since I've got no one else to crow to) about the glory of Radio Paradise. And I DO love Radio Paradise. It is a constant joy to listen to, and the peacelovinhippiechick in me revels in the primarily happy mellow world folk rock thing they've got goin on.
But earlier this week at work I stumbled onto CBC Radio 3, and DAMN if it isn't the perfectly sexy bad boy to lure me away from my tried and true. It's pretty much all new, totally unfamiliar, dirty rockin stuff--with the occasional sweetly french pop tune thrown in for good measure. Granted, I only catch glimpses while I'm at work, and I'm dialed in right now as I write, but what I've heard I love.
I've gone a long time without discovering and appreciating new music, and for anyone who knows me, that's saying a lot. Music used to be pretty much the be-all end-all for me (have I used that phrase recently? typing it out gave me an annoying sense of deja-vu). So it's really nice to rediscover that aspect of myself. I don't think I'll ever find myself going to concerts 4-5 nights a week again, and it's unlikely that my cd collection (mp3 file collection these days, I suppose) will grow as exponentially as it did when I was working at the record store, but it's enough for me that I'm hearing some stuff that makes me pause and look up the artist name and make a note to check it out later.
In other "new stuff" news...I got my hair cut today. Woohoo. It's not really anything different, so don't go begging for photos or anything. I basically don't look like I'm wearing a pile of straw on my head anymore.
In "I can't decide which new stuff to get news", I cannot decide which skin shall adorn my new lil puter. So when I have more energy for it, I'm going to post some options here and ask for a vote of sorts. Which, I guess, basically means that Shanny will be the one who decides, as no one else ever says so much as "Boo!". :P
And, with that, good night. It's nearing midnight and the heat comes earlier and earlier these days... If I want to breathe fresh air tomorrow, I'd better get some sleep!
But earlier this week at work I stumbled onto CBC Radio 3, and DAMN if it isn't the perfectly sexy bad boy to lure me away from my tried and true. It's pretty much all new, totally unfamiliar, dirty rockin stuff--with the occasional sweetly french pop tune thrown in for good measure. Granted, I only catch glimpses while I'm at work, and I'm dialed in right now as I write, but what I've heard I love.
I've gone a long time without discovering and appreciating new music, and for anyone who knows me, that's saying a lot. Music used to be pretty much the be-all end-all for me (have I used that phrase recently? typing it out gave me an annoying sense of deja-vu). So it's really nice to rediscover that aspect of myself. I don't think I'll ever find myself going to concerts 4-5 nights a week again, and it's unlikely that my cd collection (mp3 file collection these days, I suppose) will grow as exponentially as it did when I was working at the record store, but it's enough for me that I'm hearing some stuff that makes me pause and look up the artist name and make a note to check it out later.
In other "new stuff" news...I got my hair cut today. Woohoo. It's not really anything different, so don't go begging for photos or anything. I basically don't look like I'm wearing a pile of straw on my head anymore.
In "I can't decide which new stuff to get news", I cannot decide which skin shall adorn my new lil puter. So when I have more energy for it, I'm going to post some options here and ask for a vote of sorts. Which, I guess, basically means that Shanny will be the one who decides, as no one else ever says so much as "Boo!". :P
And, with that, good night. It's nearing midnight and the heat comes earlier and earlier these days... If I want to breathe fresh air tomorrow, I'd better get some sleep!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
New Toy, Happy Early Birthday!
Ever since I became enamoured of the idea of being able to blog from bed, I've been rendered incapable of putting two words together at my desktop computer. I just can't get my thoughts together out there. To many distractions, too, too many.
In one of my typical interweb ramblings, I discovered "netbooks" and was instantly smitten. They are tiny, portable, very basic, and very inexpensive. I read and read and researched and discovered the lovely Asus eeePC 1000HE.
I mentioned it to R and, although he was skeptical at first, I think my earnest interest finally won him over and he checked it out. I was honestly going to buy it myself, having just paid off my car and feeling the joy of "extra money"...but with my birthday coming up, he was havin' none of that. The Asus would be my birthday present, and so it is! We ordered it over the weekend, and it came in today. It's black, and will soon be covered in a nifty skin of some sort--because it really is a fingerprint magnet. And because skinz are just cool.
So I'm sitting here in bed, happily tapping away and listening to CBC Radio 3. The reviews were right; the sound is far from audiophile-approved, but it's certainly fine for my current purposes. And while I could stay up all night toying with all the features and settings, I must, at this point, put it away. Summer has come early to the desert (our first 100+ degree day was yesterday!) and I have to get the hounds out the door before 6am if I don't want to roast.
I know I've said it before, but I have to say it again--I think I'll be around more often now. Writing before bed(in bed!) clears my brain of some of the flotsam and jetsam it collects during the day, and I really believe it helps me sleep better. And since I'm going to be getting up at 5:30 or earlier for the next few months, I'm going to need all the help I can get!
I love my lil netbook! Thank you baby! <3
In one of my typical interweb ramblings, I discovered "netbooks" and was instantly smitten. They are tiny, portable, very basic, and very inexpensive. I read and read and researched and discovered the lovely Asus eeePC 1000HE.
I mentioned it to R and, although he was skeptical at first, I think my earnest interest finally won him over and he checked it out. I was honestly going to buy it myself, having just paid off my car and feeling the joy of "extra money"...but with my birthday coming up, he was havin' none of that. The Asus would be my birthday present, and so it is! We ordered it over the weekend, and it came in today. It's black, and will soon be covered in a nifty skin of some sort--because it really is a fingerprint magnet. And because skinz are just cool.
So I'm sitting here in bed, happily tapping away and listening to CBC Radio 3. The reviews were right; the sound is far from audiophile-approved, but it's certainly fine for my current purposes. And while I could stay up all night toying with all the features and settings, I must, at this point, put it away. Summer has come early to the desert (our first 100+ degree day was yesterday!) and I have to get the hounds out the door before 6am if I don't want to roast.
I know I've said it before, but I have to say it again--I think I'll be around more often now. Writing before bed(in bed!) clears my brain of some of the flotsam and jetsam it collects during the day, and I really believe it helps me sleep better. And since I'm going to be getting up at 5:30 or earlier for the next few months, I'm going to need all the help I can get!
I love my lil netbook! Thank you baby! <3
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