September 1, 2007
Screw saving for an iPod.
For $39.99, I can buy myself a Sansa Clip 1GB MP3 Player
It's the competitor of the iPod shuffle.
It's about the size of a matchbook, but unlike the shuffle, it has a small OLED screen that displays playlists and currently playing tunes.
But!
It's also compatible with both MP3 and WMA files, an integrated FM tuner, and a microphone for voice memos, and it comes in 1 and 2 GB capacities.
I wants it. I will has it.
$40! I can totally afford that.
I have been wanting an MP3 player for years, I just couldn't afford one.
A 1 gig iPod shuffle is $80. I can't ever justify spending that kind of money on myself.
I mean, do you have any idea how many times I've had more than enough money to buy myself a really nice digital camera or iPod, and couldn't be "selfish"?
Yes, I said selfish.
I'm one of those moms who bestows guilt upon herself for wanting to buy nice things for myself.
I can't do it.
I go clothes shopping for me, and I head straight for the clearance racks.
When we went school shopping, I bought myself one new pair of shorts.
Guess how much they were?
The regular price was $12.99, and they had been marked down the first time to $7.99, and then they ended up on the clearance rack for get this, $1.99.
I bought myself a 4 pack of mens Hanes, black, 1 pocket t-shirts, on sale for $4.99.
I bought the boys whatever clothes and shoes they wanted, and even though I didn't spend much, they get the goods, I get cheap.
Self imposed mom guilt for wanting and having nice things.
But I can totally spend $40 on myself for a really cute MP3 player.
Isn't it cute?
Look how small it is?
I won't care if when I order it, I don't get to pick the color, black or pink, blue, whatever. I can always get a cover for it if the pink would start getting on my nerves.
I'm totally going to get it.
I deserve it ya know?
I work hard, I do all this household bill paying and raising of children on my own.
I deserve to have one small thing just for me.
May 29, 2007
Tonight's the night!
*SQUEAL!*
OMGD!!!
I'm so stoked, I can barely contain myself. I'm cleaning the house cuz Tina and Norman will be here, the boys are baby sitting, we're going.
This is gonna be so awesome!
I gotta write down the directions to the sundome, do the dishes, make dinner for every one.
I totally wish I could sneak a cam in like the people who took these pics I've been using, but I always tend to get caught. Hahaha.
I'll just use my cell, they'll be crappy, far away pics, but at least I'll have some.
Gotta make sure I charge my cell. *adds that to the list of today's to-dos.*
Ack! Weeeee! OMGD! Yay!
Photo credit to the t.d.n.: live flickr group.
May 28, 2007
1 day till TOOL!! Aaaaahhhh!
I'm taking the day to chill out and rest, so my back can handle the hard concrete floors and steps of the USF Sundome tomorrow night.
OMGD! It's almost time!
I will finally get to see them play live.
Photo credit to the t.d.n.: live flickr group.
May 9, 2007
In 20 days, at this hour, I will be at the Sundome.
Seeing TOOL!!!!
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Look at Maynard!
He has a mohawk again!
I can't freaking wait!!!!
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April 30, 2006
Bad thing, happy thing.
Amazon just emailed and said my new TOOl cd, 10,000 days
Yeuuuusss!
So, pissy things are definitely over-written by happy things.
The cosmos are in perfect harmony with me and want nothing more then for me to be blissfully happy.
yup.
I got mad and realized how truly shitty people are behind your back yet to your face they act like they care.
Next time you made a cake and want to share a few slices with us, consider shoving them up your ass. I don't want anything given in false pretenses.
But then the stars said "Hey there ms. kat, don't be sad or mad, be happy. Your new TOOl cd is on the way. People like that are not worth the energy nor the space they take up in your head. Let go of all the stupid people who waste your life away. And one more thing, next time they need a free babysitter or their son wants to tell lies about all the people in the hood including his own father, slam the fucking door in his face."
Later
Who are you to wave your finger?So full of it
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
Fuckin' hypocrite
When you pissed all over my black kettle
You must have been high, high
You must have been high, high
April 22, 2006
10,000 days (Marie Pt,2)
"10,000 days in the fire is long enough.
You're Going Home.
You're the only one who can hold your head up high.
Shake you're fist at the gates saying
I've Come Home Now!
Fetch Me The Spirit, The Son and The Father.
Tell Them their pillar of faith Has ascended!!!!
It's time now! My time now!
Give me my, give me my wings."
*edited lyrics after 20th listen.
The new cd is absolutely fucking brilliant.
I'm so just, wow.
Really, you all must buy this on May 2nd.
Yeah, I cheated and got it a tad early but I'm still going to buy it when it's released because if there's any band worth supporting it's them.
It's just so personal this time.
"Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescence.
Difficult to see you in this light.
Please forgive this bold suggestion:
Should you see your Maker's face tonight,
Look Him in the eye, look Him in the eye, and tell Him:
I never lived a lie, never took a life, but surely saved one.
Hallelujah, its time for you to bring me home."
August 12, 2005
Lateralus
Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.
Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see there is so much more
and beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected
enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
of our divinity and still be a human.
With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in,
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out,
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going, going...
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