Music!
I don't know how often people buy music, but I do it pretty often. In fact, ever since I was 11-years-old and bought my very first CDs (Goo Goo Dolls and Savage Garden, if you'd like to know), I've been hooked. Before that, I even had a growing thing for tapes (Queen, Matchbox 20, Tracy Chapman, and The Police), even at age 9-years-old.
After that, I don't know, I just kept buying a new CD every so often, usually with hard-earned and hoarded money. I never bought weird little random toys with my money--it was Books and CDs, all the way. Later, I had to balance these with a growing interest in movies and anime, and in PS2 games. These last two are the most underdeveloped, possibly because they came onto the scene late.
But, music has been getting worse and worse ever since iTunes came to be, because suddenly I didn't have to debate whether or not I should get a new CD (especially since the previewing bits of the tracks let me know that at least 3 are just not in my city, let alone in my alley). I could buy a song for the amount of money that if it dropped out of my wallet somewhere, I wouldn't even likely NOTICE, let alone care! Even when they bumped up the price a little more for popular music, I still don't even blink. Whole albums are less, and they make me feel better now because they come with 100% less plastic than physical incarnations.
It had one, teeny, tiny, itty, bitty backfire though: I spend more on music than I ever have before in my life. It's because I can do it in such small chunks that it becomes a Thing That I Do every month or so. Truth-be-told, the longer I go without new music, the sadder I get. When I had to cut out a bunch of expenses during our real super-penny-pinching days, it was tough to have not even the extra cash to dish out $1 for a song. I have two really big gaps in my library, and that's one of them.
However, this hasn't been the case for even recently, when we have a butt-load of expenses coming up, because we're just not so strapped for cash that we cannot live our normal lives minus some luxuries. This happily includes my music addiction love.
In the past few weeks, as I've felt better and better, I've bought more and more music. Some new additions to the Happy Athena Music Library are:
1. "The Hideout"-Sarah Harmer
2. "Come On Get Higher"-Matt Nathanson
3. "Luka"-Suzanne Vega
4. "Boys Don't Cry"-Plumb
5. "Wonder"-Natalie Merchant
6. "Flagpole Sitta"-Harvey Danger (a song that I lost when it refused to burn to a CD back when I had to transfer everything over manually from my dying desktop WMP to my laptop's iTunes)
7. "Let Love In"-The Goo Goo Dolls
8. "Needs"-Collective Soul
9. "Satellite"-Collective Soul
10. "Run"-Collective Soul
11. "Christmas/Sarajevo 12/24"-Trans-Siberian Orchestra
There's a few more, and I'm not sure how far into it to go, since unless you know my library already it's sort of like...uh, I could just keep listing ALL the music and you'd never know! XD
In fact, I managed to purchase a nice chunk right before I got sick so I was okay for a while, but there's a good 2 month gap between purchases. And my last real buying spree (6-11) occured a month ago. One of my best resources for finding new music is Pandora. I sometimes get a lot more songs I already have than I really want...or songs that are just super weird, but I've gotten enough new things that it's definitely earned it's place in my heart. Especially since sometimes it's taken several listens before I've realized I like the song, and as long as I didn't thumb it down (which I try not to do unless I HATE it), Pandora will keep throwing it into the mix.
Some examples of this:
1. "The Hideout"-Sarah Harmer
2. "Luka"-Suzanne Vega
3. "32 Flavors"-Ani DiFranco
4. "Car's And Guitars"-Tori Amos
5. "Suddenly"-Athenaeum
6. "Pumped Up Kicks"-Foster The People
7. "What I Am"-Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
8. "Suddenly I See"-KT Tunstall
All songs that I went, eh, whatever the first time they played. And then thought, hm, this isn't so bad, on the 2nd play....and then somewhere between 3 and 10 plays afterwards went, you know what, I like this song! Sometimes that happens with me--I need some time to warm up to the song. However, I can COUNT these types of songs (maybe 150 total out of 2113 songs my library). For Brian, it's pretty much this way ALL. THE. TIME. It drives me crazy whenever I try to ask him for help in picking out new songs. He'll be really unimpressed by all of them--only to have 7 favorites out of the 10 songs I finally choose on my own as of 2 months later. Ah, the strange quirks of our partners...
Anyway. I just wanted to have a post completely unrelated to my pregnancy or apartment for a change. With one tiny added detail: I've got to start eating more, and higher calorie meals. At first I was happy that I wasn't gaining a lot of weight, but I actually dropped another pound, which now puts me instead of "at the good end of the weight gain range" into "not gaining proper amount." Mind you, all the doctors will tell you that as long as you're eating when you're hungry, and not TRYING to diet, that things will be OK. But, I think that all my added activity (from a life of months of activities like staring at the wall) recently has started to burn even more calories, and I'm actually not getting ENOUGH fuel for the baby, which is almost done making the big things and now just needs to focus on developing those and gaining weight (this is where the extra calories need to go). So, I have a new strange goal of Eat More And Gain Some Weight! XD
After that, I don't know, I just kept buying a new CD every so often, usually with hard-earned and hoarded money. I never bought weird little random toys with my money--it was Books and CDs, all the way. Later, I had to balance these with a growing interest in movies and anime, and in PS2 games. These last two are the most underdeveloped, possibly because they came onto the scene late.
But, music has been getting worse and worse ever since iTunes came to be, because suddenly I didn't have to debate whether or not I should get a new CD (especially since the previewing bits of the tracks let me know that at least 3 are just not in my city, let alone in my alley). I could buy a song for the amount of money that if it dropped out of my wallet somewhere, I wouldn't even likely NOTICE, let alone care! Even when they bumped up the price a little more for popular music, I still don't even blink. Whole albums are less, and they make me feel better now because they come with 100% less plastic than physical incarnations.
It had one, teeny, tiny, itty, bitty backfire though: I spend more on music than I ever have before in my life. It's because I can do it in such small chunks that it becomes a Thing That I Do every month or so. Truth-be-told, the longer I go without new music, the sadder I get. When I had to cut out a bunch of expenses during our real super-penny-pinching days, it was tough to have not even the extra cash to dish out $1 for a song. I have two really big gaps in my library, and that's one of them.
However, this hasn't been the case for even recently, when we have a butt-load of expenses coming up, because we're just not so strapped for cash that we cannot live our normal lives minus some luxuries. This happily includes my music addiction love.
In the past few weeks, as I've felt better and better, I've bought more and more music. Some new additions to the Happy Athena Music Library are:
1. "The Hideout"-Sarah Harmer
2. "Come On Get Higher"-Matt Nathanson
3. "Luka"-Suzanne Vega
4. "Boys Don't Cry"-Plumb
5. "Wonder"-Natalie Merchant
6. "Flagpole Sitta"-Harvey Danger (a song that I lost when it refused to burn to a CD back when I had to transfer everything over manually from my dying desktop WMP to my laptop's iTunes)
7. "Let Love In"-The Goo Goo Dolls
8. "Needs"-Collective Soul
9. "Satellite"-Collective Soul
10. "Run"-Collective Soul
11. "Christmas/Sarajevo 12/24"-Trans-Siberian Orchestra
There's a few more, and I'm not sure how far into it to go, since unless you know my library already it's sort of like...uh, I could just keep listing ALL the music and you'd never know! XD
In fact, I managed to purchase a nice chunk right before I got sick so I was okay for a while, but there's a good 2 month gap between purchases. And my last real buying spree (6-11) occured a month ago. One of my best resources for finding new music is Pandora. I sometimes get a lot more songs I already have than I really want...or songs that are just super weird, but I've gotten enough new things that it's definitely earned it's place in my heart. Especially since sometimes it's taken several listens before I've realized I like the song, and as long as I didn't thumb it down (which I try not to do unless I HATE it), Pandora will keep throwing it into the mix.
Some examples of this:
1. "The Hideout"-Sarah Harmer
2. "Luka"-Suzanne Vega
3. "32 Flavors"-Ani DiFranco
4. "Car's And Guitars"-Tori Amos
5. "Suddenly"-Athenaeum
6. "Pumped Up Kicks"-Foster The People
7. "What I Am"-Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
8. "Suddenly I See"-KT Tunstall
All songs that I went, eh, whatever the first time they played. And then thought, hm, this isn't so bad, on the 2nd play....and then somewhere between 3 and 10 plays afterwards went, you know what, I like this song! Sometimes that happens with me--I need some time to warm up to the song. However, I can COUNT these types of songs (maybe 150 total out of 2113 songs my library). For Brian, it's pretty much this way ALL. THE. TIME. It drives me crazy whenever I try to ask him for help in picking out new songs. He'll be really unimpressed by all of them--only to have 7 favorites out of the 10 songs I finally choose on my own as of 2 months later. Ah, the strange quirks of our partners...
Anyway. I just wanted to have a post completely unrelated to my pregnancy or apartment for a change. With one tiny added detail: I've got to start eating more, and higher calorie meals. At first I was happy that I wasn't gaining a lot of weight, but I actually dropped another pound, which now puts me instead of "at the good end of the weight gain range" into "not gaining proper amount." Mind you, all the doctors will tell you that as long as you're eating when you're hungry, and not TRYING to diet, that things will be OK. But, I think that all my added activity (from a life of months of activities like staring at the wall) recently has started to burn even more calories, and I'm actually not getting ENOUGH fuel for the baby, which is almost done making the big things and now just needs to focus on developing those and gaining weight (this is where the extra calories need to go). So, I have a new strange goal of Eat More And Gain Some Weight! XD