Sometimes, I really do despair of ever kicking the acquisitiveness habit. I know I don’t really need most of the stuff I buy, which is why I generally manage to keep my acquisitions down to reasonably small and/or consumable items — food, books, and so forth. Then, of course, present time rolls around, and I find myself going a little mad. Between last night and tonight, I have bought the following items:
Black cocoa powder, pomegranate molasses, and maple sugar from the Savory Spice Shop. The black cocoa is necessary for the Fauxstess cupcakes I intend to make for Alan Rickman’s birthday next month,[1] and I haven’t been able to find any locally. The others are just extra, bonus goodies.
A subscription to Herbivore magazine, which I’ve wanted for some time now. (See link in my blogroll to their editor’s blog.) I wanted to get one of their “Praise Seitan” t-shirts, which I think are hilarious, but decided to exercise restraint. Well, some. For now.
This is the big, major, central purchase: a video iPod, in black, of course, so that I’ll lose it the first time I put it down somewhere in my flat. Yes, I could just have bought a bigger SD card or two and kept using WinAmp to play music, and maybe ripped a few movies to my PDA, but there were several reasons I really wanted an iPod: (1) longer battery life; (2) all my music in one place, instead of scattered hither and yon among several SD cards; (3) easier manipulation of controls when you’re driving (it’s harder than it sounds to hit those little buttons on your screen with any accuracy while caroming down the highway); and (4) it’s all pretty and black[2] and glossy, and I just wanted one, okay? I only got the little 30 GB one, not the top-of-the-line 60 GB one, so it’s not like it’s extravagant or anything. It isn’t. Really. Of course, this means I now have to download iTunes, which means yet another media player on my computer, but I’ll deal.
And I still have the $50 gift card from the office holiday party left over. I plan to put that toward kitcheny stuff, including a rolling pin, decorative icing tips, and a gingerbread cookie cutter (probably one of the “gingerbread girl” ones) for the great Hogwarts Gingerbread Punks project I have in long-term planning. That’s why I need the “girl” cookie cutter: the skirts should stand in for Hogwarts school robes. The project is, of course, inspired by the famous gingerbread punks at the much-honored Post Punk Kitchen Web site, though I doubt I’ll do half as good a job at decorating mine.
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[1] No, I’m not going to pack them up and send them to him or anything creepy like that. It’s just an excuse to bring food to work and share.
[2] It’ll probably wind up in the same place as the handset for my landline, which has been MIA for, wow, maybe six months now? It’s black, too, and I’m beginning to think I’ll never find it again.
So very cool that you bought the iPod. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it thoroughly. When does it arrive? Or, did you buy it at a brick and mortar store?
Where’s the [2] in the text?
January 19th, 2006 | #
Oh, crap. The [2] should be right after the word “black” when describing the iPod. Damn and blast. That’ll teach me to blog while eating. Destroys my typing.
The iPod should arrive within 5 to 9 business days, unless I get an upgrade from Amazon. I wimped out and went with the Super-Saver Shipping rather than pay for overnighting, though I was extremely tempted. The slow shipping is probably more environmentally friendly, anyway.* (Yeah, that’s it.) You shall definitely hear the crowing when it arrives, though. It’ll be delivered to the office, so even if you’re out that day, the screams of triumph and glee should probably reach to the outer stretches of Gwinnette.
*Okay, so I honestly have no idea, and should probably research it before spouting off like that. It seems logical, though, that slower shipping methods might be less fuel-intensive than faster methods. . . .
January 19th, 2006 | #
I can’t wait until you get it. I’m really impressed with the quality of the video on Daniel’s iPod.
January 19th, 2006 | #