Confession: I have yet to own an Ipod. They started coming out in highschool (more than 8 years ago), but I figured it was just a phase for those wicked people who stole music off the internet. The mere ownership of one suggested support of copyright infringement! As they became more common, I figured my $15 CD player, and amenities included car stereo was just as good as a $300 i-pod which would be limited by the music I own.
That last cognitive conviction stuck for relatively 8 years.
My best friend gave me her old computer when I came home from an LDS mission in 2008. It had over 5,000 songs on it--some legitimately purchased, others downloaded from questionable sites, others "shared" from friend's computers. I figured that so long as I am not the one who took the music in the first place, then I can't be to blame for owning it when someone else would have thrown it away.
I used her folders, her organization, her huge conglomoration of music that is slightly off-skelter with my choices for the last three years. I finally bought my own first laptop in November 2010. 25 years old and finally have a PC just for me! With this new sense of empowerment given by a personal piece of electronics, I decided it was time for me to organize all the music in my posession and USE it in the fashion directed by the new millenium.
Step One: Review all songs on laptop and delete songs I don't like. "Songs I don't like" is a generous way of saying "songs with profanity, songs referring to violence, sexual violence, or general disrespect of people."
Step Two: Upload CD collection onto computer.
Step Three: Organize all of the above into folders. "Dance music," "Feelin' lovey," "Drive to the Beach," etc. We all have them, and they are all cheesy.
Well, I've been on Step One for two months now, have deleted roughly 400 songs, and am still in the early "F"s of the alphabet. The Iphone I have been hoping for since Christmas is coming tomorrow, and I won't be able to use it as an Ipod for another 20 letters, or probably another 4,000 songs.
I really don't know how people feel like this is worth it. Or maybe I'm just not benefiting from the obsessive commitment of focusing on it in my teenage years.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Scars no more!
In class the other day, the professor asked if any of us had some favorite scars. As a kid I would have jumped at this question. As an adult, I really had to think.
My childhood scars have all faded--a medication I started taking about two years ago even has the side effect of controlling my acne--I have a burn on the back of my hand from cooking around Thanksgiving--but I don't like it, and I have two scars on my left calf that came from tripping over household furniture that REALLY hurt, and just made me mad at the furniture.
As a kid I would have pointed out the burn on the side of my arm from a curling ironing accident, the fact that my nostrils are slightly misshapen from the time I broke it when I was nine (I liked the idea of being an LA girl and telling people I'd gotten a nose job), and a chip removed from my collarbone that came from a humorous event when I ran full sprint into the foundational supports of a 3 meter spring board at a public pool.
But really, those all happened between 7 and 20 years ago. I've either gotten more boring, or more coordinated.
Only future blogs will be able to tell!
My childhood scars have all faded--a medication I started taking about two years ago even has the side effect of controlling my acne--I have a burn on the back of my hand from cooking around Thanksgiving--but I don't like it, and I have two scars on my left calf that came from tripping over household furniture that REALLY hurt, and just made me mad at the furniture.
As a kid I would have pointed out the burn on the side of my arm from a curling ironing accident, the fact that my nostrils are slightly misshapen from the time I broke it when I was nine (I liked the idea of being an LA girl and telling people I'd gotten a nose job), and a chip removed from my collarbone that came from a humorous event when I ran full sprint into the foundational supports of a 3 meter spring board at a public pool.
But really, those all happened between 7 and 20 years ago. I've either gotten more boring, or more coordinated.
Only future blogs will be able to tell!
22 months and still strong!!
Dale has been working at Farm Bureau Insurance for just over a month now. He's got his cubie all decked out with Slovakia stuff and toys--as indicative of my sweetheart's playful nature--and of course, at least 5 pictures of me :) What can I say, I like that my husband loves me!!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Travelouge: Prep work
We're going to London in 26 days.
This trip was first thought of in May of 2009, due to a wedding gift from an at the time to-be-sister-in-law.
Enter September 2010--we hear about offer expiring. We decide to go during my spring break of that academic year, come rain or shine or coersion to get time off for Dale at whatever new job he got!
December 2010--AIRLINE TICKETS ARE PURCHASED! Dale and I barter for the window seat on the coolest parts of the trip.
February 2011--Travel Itinerary is finalized. My now-is-currently-sister-in-law, Lana, has been living in the English countryside for going on 3 years now. I didn't really know what one does on a trip to England, and she has had plenty of practice taking people around on visits. She and Dale were pretty amazing travel agents on this whole thing. I'll save the intense detailing for later, but let me just say, I'm pretty stoked for a trip to Cambridge, Westminster Abbey (which--believe it or not--is an actual functioning Abbey... with Nuns and stuff!), the Brittish Museum (Ooh! Mummies!), Windsor Castle, Chatsworth (that sweet house that Mr. Darcy lives in for the A&E Pride and Prejudice movie), Dover and the White Cliffs (where Sabine jumped off for her execution in the Disney 3 Musketeers Movie), and OH SO MUCH MORE!!!
I'm SO stoked. Pictures to come in 41 days when I actually get back. WOOHOO!
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London really does deserve it's own entry and justice, but I couldn't figure out how to separately post this idea. I mean really, the decision over how to post under what title, which one first, and is "first" the one that appears on top, or the one that was actually given the earliest time stamp? ... it was all just becoming too much!
Story:
Dale and I did our taxes this year and it was the first year we'd processed where either one of us had earned over $10,000. 2010 was good for us! When we saw what our tax return would be, I stepped back a little. We don't have any immediate needs. Savings is important, but we're contributing to it already... "Honey, if we were just going to blow this money, what would we spend it on?" About two hours later, Dale came back with ideas for a -- wait for it --
Coming to blog spaces near you in September of 2012...
This trip was first thought of in May of 2009, due to a wedding gift from an at the time to-be-sister-in-law.
Enter September 2010--we hear about offer expiring. We decide to go during my spring break of that academic year, come rain or shine or coersion to get time off for Dale at whatever new job he got!
December 2010--AIRLINE TICKETS ARE PURCHASED! Dale and I barter for the window seat on the coolest parts of the trip.
February 2011--Travel Itinerary is finalized. My now-is-currently-sister-in-law, Lana, has been living in the English countryside for going on 3 years now. I didn't really know what one does on a trip to England, and she has had plenty of practice taking people around on visits. She and Dale were pretty amazing travel agents on this whole thing. I'll save the intense detailing for later, but let me just say, I'm pretty stoked for a trip to Cambridge, Westminster Abbey (which--believe it or not--is an actual functioning Abbey... with Nuns and stuff!), the Brittish Museum (Ooh! Mummies!), Windsor Castle, Chatsworth (that sweet house that Mr. Darcy lives in for the A&E Pride and Prejudice movie), Dover and the White Cliffs (where Sabine jumped off for her execution in the Disney 3 Musketeers Movie), and OH SO MUCH MORE!!!
I'm SO stoked. Pictures to come in 41 days when I actually get back. WOOHOO!
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London really does deserve it's own entry and justice, but I couldn't figure out how to separately post this idea. I mean really, the decision over how to post under what title, which one first, and is "first" the one that appears on top, or the one that was actually given the earliest time stamp? ... it was all just becoming too much!
Story:
Dale and I did our taxes this year and it was the first year we'd processed where either one of us had earned over $10,000. 2010 was good for us! When we saw what our tax return would be, I stepped back a little. We don't have any immediate needs. Savings is important, but we're contributing to it already... "Honey, if we were just going to blow this money, what would we spend it on?" About two hours later, Dale came back with ideas for a -- wait for it --
TRIP TO EASTERN EUROPE!!
(Including Prague, Vienna, and Budapest)
Coming to blog spaces near you in September of 2012...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Can you believe these people made it into graduate school?
Things I have witnessed today from graduate school educated people
1. Pronunciation of the word "measure" as "may-shur"
2. One mouth breather in the computer lab
3. One woman in computer lab who took 3 minutes to figure out that rather than just shaking the mouse on its pad, she had to actually turn on the computer
4. Inability to understand what a "normal curve" is and how it relates to graduate level research
5. Inability to create a flow chart
6. Inability to create a legible genogram
1. Pronunciation of the word "measure" as "may-shur"
2. One mouth breather in the computer lab
3. One woman in computer lab who took 3 minutes to figure out that rather than just shaking the mouse on its pad, she had to actually turn on the computer
4. Inability to understand what a "normal curve" is and how it relates to graduate level research
5. Inability to create a flow chart
6. Inability to create a legible genogram
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Standing for Something
Just a follow up: once I had been able to process the beginning of school for about 10 days, it has seemed a lot less insurmountable.
Maybe that's just me pretending that the work doesn't exist.
Just thought I'd share with the blogging world that my alarm went off an hour and fourty minutes ago. I would ideally be at work right now. But instead I am still in my pajamas absorbing some needed mental health on the computer.
I'm taking a stand for sanity this morning.
Maybe that's just me pretending that the work doesn't exist.
Just thought I'd share with the blogging world that my alarm went off an hour and fourty minutes ago. I would ideally be at work right now. But instead I am still in my pajamas absorbing some needed mental health on the computer.
I'm taking a stand for sanity this morning.
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