Thou Shalt Not

I was mildly useless at work to-day and started looking at the mp3 players. Most of us know that I'm a bargain shopper. The bad kind. The kind where I'll buy the sort of ugly dress I'll never wear because who can turn down something at 80% off, but I don't need the cast for my fractured limb because insurance won't cover it and I hardly use that arm anyway.
On top of that I'm prone to succumbing to spending sprees. "You never buy stuff anyway, so it's not like this time matters much." After telling that to myself a score of times this past christmas I ended up with a bill that I'm still reeling over a little. (Also, some of the gifts are still sitting on my bedroom floor. Either left behind or victims of procrastination.)
This is why, after wanted an ipod so badly for so long I have decided I will give myself a list of goals. For each goal accomplished I will give myself $20. There will also be a list of Goal-nots that I will take $20 away every time they occur. The system will take some fine tuning. My main problem is that I love my cd player so much. I've never been much of a CD person. It's a bit too much trouble for me and I don't own very many (too expensive). But I love that CD player. It's round and a dark silver and has never given me any trouble when I've bothered to use it. The linux penguin sticker that has stayed on it all these years is just the icing on the depressing cake of my betrayal.
However- what with the coveting and the idolatry- I really do want the Ipod. But I haven't spent all these years personifying and befriending my little Sony walkman to give it up so easily.

-- G 'Bye, Sonya --

. ( 3.4.05 ) .