Word of mouth is a weird thing. About 6 months ago, I first heard my favorite actor(not to mention incredibly attractive) Jason Schwartzman's, musical project Coconut Records.
I immediately knew I would love it, so I ordered the CD before I heard one song. My instincts were right, and Coconut became one of my all-time favorite bands. Part of me wanted to tell someone about my excitement, but the other part of me wanted to keep it to myself. When my CD finally arrived in the mail and one of my best friends was over, I couldn't contain it any longer. We listened to almost the whole album then, and she asked me to burn it for her. She let someone else hear it, they let 2 more people hear it, and now it seems like everyone is asking me to burn them the new CD. A song is even on a Dentyne commercial! I wish I didn't feel like it's my music and only mine, because I hate when other people do that.
Now that I have my laptop back (it had a virus for a month and everything on my hard drive disappeared) I have got started on one of my new year's resolutions - learning Italian. I got the Rosetta Stone program for Christmas, but as of yet wasn't able to start it. 2 nights ago I got it set up and it's kind of addicting. I have learned a lot, but I think maybe I need to take it slow because the last few sections haven't registered as much as the first ones did.
So far my other resolutions have been going smoothly also. I've kept up my exercise for the whole month so far, and the other day my mom got me a book called How To Cook Everything Vegetarian that's very thorough. So, now I am set to start on cooking good meals instead of just eating anything I can find without meat in it.
Another resolution was to save a set amount of money each month. I hadn't spent much of my Christmas money until about 2 days ago when I blew a lot of it on the new Coconut Records CD and a Obama t-shirt (gotta have something to show the grandkids, right?). If I keep it up this way, I should be able to stick with my goal for saving.
The only thing I'm a little concerned about is a few items I really need (want) now that Little Laura Laptop is out of her coma.
-First off, a new music player. My iPod just...stopped working...in September and iTunes is now gone because of the computer crashing thing. I hated the way iTunes worked anyway, so I have my heart set on a big, bad one 'o these.
I plan on getting the 120 with a Virgo thing from one of the artist series on the back.
-And to go with that, some of these, in black and gold.
I understand that they are over-expensive and really the only appeal of them is the cool designs...but that's just the reason I want it. And hey, it's my money right?
-And finally, before my spring break trip I really want a nice camera. I only wish I could get a Canon Rebel like one of my...aquaintances, I wouldn't call us friends...has, but he says it cost about 700 bux. And that's not my style, man. Another friend of mine has a Sony CyberShot. It's not the most fancy thing, but it takes way better pictures than even my last camera did. And that's really all I need.
If I don't get that, I'll get something of the like. I have the money for these things now, but I don't want to blow it all at one time. I really need to get a job. I should start putting in applications soon...
I have to write either 2 3-4 page papers or one 5-6 page one. I think. And I also have to do some research, and decide what my year-long paper will be about. It's already 8:15 and I still need to exercise and get a shower along with that stuff, so I should get off the computer.
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