Leelanau Whippersnapper

I’m a lush for technology.  OK, more like I just enjoy spending my money.  There were a couple of important items that I lost in the “divorce” so today I went out and purchased them.  My paychecks seem to be getting bigger and bigger at the moment so I figured I would take advantage of it before the $4.35/gal gas prices actually started sinking in!!  Today I purcahsed a new “all-in-one” printer, scanner, copier at Best Buy.  I need to have a printer and I have been looking at the multi function units for quite a while.  Today I got the HPC4385 all in one unit and I love it.  I’ve spent the last 45 minutes scanning pictures (see below) and it is SOOOOOO much quicker than the hand-me-down scanner I got from dad (thanks though).  I also picked up another wireless router since Jirar will be taking the one we have (not much cost involved there).

I’m off now for the long weekend.  I have 3 days off!!!!  Amazing.  Things are getting to crunch time now.  I’ve got “the letter” prepared for the landlord and ready to be sent off on the first of June explaining the situation and the fact that I’ll be moving.  I’m nearly decided on a storage unit to put all this shit and with the exception of my school loan, I’m nearly debt free (I still have a credit card out there that I’m paying on).  Things are looking good for me right now and I’m pretty happy about that.  Getting out of this house though is the biggest challenge in front of me.  There is just so much to do and I have just so little time to do it.  I’ll get there.

I’ll leave you tonight with a picture from my childhood.  Sarah, I don’t know what is going through your head here but wow, clearly your son (though me) will have easy access to LOTS of embarrassing pictures of his mother and his grandmother!!!!!  Good thing you live in Iowa.  You want to bet that by the time he’s 3, he will know how to use a mouse and will know more about technology than you and Brain???  I think I was a senior in high school before I mastered a mouse!!  Love ya.

So today was spent going through shit in the house trying to prepare for a move this fall. Jirar is only likely to be home a few more times in the next several months so it’s pretty important that we go trhough shit while he is here. One of my own goals before I move is to convert my entire CD collection over to MP3’s so I don’t have to lug my CD’s around with me anymore. It’s been years since I’ve purchased a CD (I get all my music in digital form now…and yes, I do pay for it). I was going through them and came accross Sarah’s premier CD titled “The Folk Songs”. I figured my sister would not mind a little publicity, so sit back and enjoy this great piece by Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls:

You Left it Up To Me

So I’m off now back to rip more CD’s. The Roommate has returned home and will now occupy the remaining 3 1/2 days of Jirar’s trip home so I won’t see him again. Oh well, I guess I will get to do everything myself.