How Do You Spell "Hhhhhhhhhggggmmm"?

I have been absent.  Sorry.

I don't know why, but I've been in a rather, erm, lethargic mood lately.

I also have failed to write several posts that I have promised to write, about Amazon, and others.

I have been totally failing, and I'm working on it.

I would like to share a great link with you: http://www.ashtangayoga.info/practice/asana-vinyasa-series/  It's a very informational site.

Also, check out the free books on Amazon in the Kindle Store.  I got some great ones.

That is all, back to our usual programming.  See you tomorrow!

I Never Could Get the Hang of Thursdays

Oh, wait, it's Friday isn't it?

Well, I'm rather busy today, so I am going to have to short list all the excitement of Friday.

-Went to a Yoga class this morning: Good.
-Discovered my credit card number was stolen whilst in Europe: BAD, which I will describe later.
-Moving tomorrow: Good, I think.
-Wings lost last night: Disappointing
-My parents got me a Kindle for graduation: GREAT! THANKS MOM  AND DAD!!!


Run away!  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Music and Obsession

I love music.  I want to have all the music in the world.  I am also an incredibly indecisive person at times.  Which can be a bad thing.  Because in the case of indecisiveness about music means I NEVER KNOW WHAT I WILL WANT TO LISTEN TO.  Which also means that I have to predict what I want to listen to before I leave the apartment every day.  HA!  Not likely.  And I have waaaaay too much music to fit on my phone, or even my phone and the nano I've had for like 8 years.

So, I began looking at iPod touches because those are pretty sweet looking and have some pretty cool apps.  I first looked at Amazon because we all know, I LOVE Amazon....  then at B&H Photography and then I went to the beast itself: apple.com  DUN DUN DUN!!!  And this is what I found:



I didn't even know they were still making the classic iPod!  It makes me happy though, because a 160GB classic iPod costs about the same as an 8GB iPod Touch.  Same price, 20x the memory!  Weird thing to be excited about, I know.  But! This means, to my indecisive mind, that I can put any and all music I could ever possibly want to listen to any given day on it!  And probably any music I would ever want to listen to in an entire year too.....

Unfortunately, I won't be able to afford such an awesome use of space for a little while.  So, SANTA!  If you happen to stumble across this and decide to get this for me, I'd really appreciate it! It's on my wish list on Amazon and everything!

I believe in Santa Claus, I DO I DO!

And if Santa fails me, hopefully I can win the Wish and Win Sweepstakes that Amazon is having right now.  $100,000 shopping spree is the prize.  But I highly doubt that will happen, Amazon has what, 80 billion customers world wide?  Although, to win a contest of that size would be pretty cool, not going to lie!  If I won, I would buy my iPod, then I would buy some coats and toys for kids.  Probably more coats than toys, since it is hard to enjoy toys if you are cold. 

Right, well, because of my own internet-induced ADD this post has taken forever to write.  So, I'm done now.  Those of you who aren't quite done with the semester yet, you got this, good luck on your exams!!

Amazon and "The Kids Are Alright"

First, a note: shortly after I posted about the points left I needed to get my Amazon card, I got them and I was able to buy four of the books on my Wish List.  After I read one of them, I may give it away here, I don't know yet....  I'll let you know :)  I also managed to end up with the email that had the redemption code in it end up in my spam folder last week and didn't know it.  That sucked, but I got it! 

Alright: Next up, The Kids Are Alright

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their birth father into their family life.

**** (out of 5)

The movie was unconventional, and didn't leave the audience with warm fuzzies.  It had a very real feel to it; I enjoyed it.  The Kids Are Alright emulated the roughness and unknown of real life, something that is often missed in mainstream movies.  It gives a look into the functionality of a homosexual relationship, showing that they have the same problems as many heterosexual relationships, and some very different ones.

Worth a watch.

1700 Points....

.....and I made a rice bag!  Well, two actually. We have an MSU themed one that I think Adam's Mom got for him, but it's a tube and not really useful for backs or other wide areas (like my ass) so I had been meaning to go to Joann Fabrics and get some fabric for a wider one.

Then Saturday after a five hour rehearsal Friday night, I awoke to muscle soreness in my back (new!) and a pulled hamstring (which I knew about 10 minutes into the rehearsal).  Then my procrastination at getting material became a serious lack in judgement.  As I'm laying there, I think WAIT!  I have a ton of left over material from my previous projects! Why get new material when I have some I can use already?!?  So I stumble my way out of bed and picked out a purple handkerchief print I used to make my shoulder bag (and my lunch bag) that I had purchased the rest of the bolt because it was half off (and I loved it!)  I cut out a big section and started sewing.

We didn't have any rice.  And I had to go to rehearsal with Jenny.

Sigh.  My heated relief had to wait.  There was an upside though - the driver's seat in the car is heated!  So that held me over.

I rehearsed with Jenny and I went to the store to get rice.

Lee had a pillow she wanted me to fix, so after I did that, we sat and chatted whilst I finished my first rice bag!  I haven't seen her in weeks, so I was really glad we could hang out for a little while.  She's graduating in a few weeks and moving out of state so we have to get our happy visits in while we can - flights are expensive, even within the U.S.

Anyway, I only made one with Lee there and I made the second one much faster after we watched The Kids Are Alright (I'll write about the movie later).  I was planning on doing a tutorial for those who wanted to make their own when I made the second one, but I forgot.  Ooops, sorry!  So I will make more and remember to make a tutorial the next time!  I have all kinds of material and rice is cheap :-)

And now you're probably wondering what does 1700 points have to do with rice bags?  Well, nothing.  But, I use MyView Survey to earn points towards rewards and I am 1700 points away from a $25 Gift Card from Amazon which I am ridiculously excited about!  Then I get can some of the things on my Amazon Wish List!  I have too many things I want, and sometimes I hate that about me.  But I also really want to expand my sheet music library, book collection and I need heavier weights and a heart rate monitor for when I'm doing P90X.  But the fact that I have four lists separated into "categories"kind of irks me.  Ugh.

Anyway, I only need to do 1 1/2 more full surveys to get the gift card and I can't wait!  Woo!!

**EDIT** I now only need 850 points :D