Praha, Pivo, Prosim

As I slowly check things off my moving/stuff to do checklist, I’ve posted a pic of the most expensive from the checked off column. I don’t usually consider myself cheap or miserly but I hate spending this kind of money on something I really don’t need. Perhaps a less expensive model could have/should have been purchased or even an inferior (don’t kill me PC lovers for using that term) brand, but for nothing other than aesthetics and WOW factor did I buy the new aluminum MacBook. I’ve expounded on my female-driven/estrogen-laden love for Macs in previous blogs (since deleted) so it’s fair to say that I’m forever a convert to the Apple brand. It just sucks that their systems are pricer than most others. To that I say boo.

On the other end of things I’m justifying this expense for a few reasons…
a) I never make huge purchases
b) I wanted this particular (new!!) machine
c) this will be my main mode of communication to people thousands of miles away
d) I hear the new version of iLife is just sick…

The next step is to move my iTunes from my current iMac to an external hard drive. I’ve read up on this and it might be more complicated than it seems. Not looking forward to that. But, after all that business is complete, I’ll check another expense off my list and go ahead and buy an iPod. Truth be told I wouldn’t mind an iPod Touch, either. Again with the need factor as I clearly do NOT need the Touch but they are amazing and pretty and so much fun. I do need to get my music on a portable player and while a larger capacity iPod would be feasible my chick instinct might force me to buy an iPod Touch. Damn, sometimes this vagina renders me weak and powerless to the shopping Gods. If anyone has any input on the iPod vs. Touch debate, please leave a comment. I need to be pursuaded.

UPDATE: 9:45 pm…. Several times today after posting this initial blog, I confess I was THIS CLOSE to throwing my budget to the wind and purchasing a 32GB iPod Touch. Real restraint exhibited today.

And a few other things….

The latest installment of WHAT’S ON MY NEIGHBOR’S DOORSTEP

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Well, it seems my neighbor has expanded her garbage repertoire this holiday season to include a few new and unique items. While the poop bag pile is at a minimum (or perhaps because it’s mostly hidden), she managed to stack on a box from JC Penney as well as the dog box/carrier thing that is apparently no longer of use. I don’t think the dog kicked it as the poo is still clearly present. I’m curious to see the upgraded canine accomodations.

And here’s a snippet of how unorganized and generally messy my apartment is today. No, I don’t have inches of guano all over the place nor is the carpeet littered with fast food containers. My place is certainly habitable but if I had important guests arriving (let’s say the Queen of England), she would be unimpressed even if I did buy the fancy rose-scented soaps.

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Yes there is an iPod Shuffle here but frankly, due to it’s lacking capacity, I don’t consider it a ‘real’ iPod. A coworker told me he has nearly 200GB of music (you read that right) and while I don’t have anything NEAR that but I’d like to have all my tunes on a player rather than be required to swap them out when I’m bored. Two hundred GB of music is excessive and there just isn’t any way one can really enjoy ALL that stuff. Hell, at present I’m deleting a bunch of files from my paltry 16GB worth of tunes because I neither want nor need music that I skip over.

Good God, using Wordpress is so easy. I heart it. That said, I’m blogging twice in one day. I know, quite a feat.

So, as promised I’m posting a pic of the neighbor’s latest poop pile. Although this photo doesn’t fully display the record number of poos stored in plastic bags, I still think it’s awesome and hilarious in a gross kind of way.

While the last image of the purple bagged doggie poo was more cohesive in an aesthetic kind of way, this one just really piled up. Perhaps I should have photographed from eye-level rather than above so one could truly experience this visual masterpiece. Oh well. As I said in the previous post, I presumed there to be approximately a dozen or so in that pile; I’m upping that count this time and going for a 15 ballpark. No, I did not pick any specimens up I’m just going on what I saw.

Here’s something interesting I learned about my neighbor… My neighbor on the other side is a coworker and he saw her outside a few nights ago. He told me that she had apparently taken the dog outside to the front lawn of the apartment building so that said pooch could do some business. Neighbor lady then proceeded to bag up the poo and add it to the pile at the door. WTF, dude. If you are already OUT THERE why not take the stuff and toss it over the rail into the dumpster. For any reader who has never been to my apartment building, the dumpster is maybe 25 yards away and you don’t even have to use any stairs to get to it. It’s that fucking easy. So, the pile of poo is now just a pile of mystery. It’s a quandary, a conundrum and an enigma all tied into neat little grocery bags. Hell, it’s a pile of shit.

On another note, here’s the latest installment of WHAT’S IN MY REFRIGERATOR THIS WEEK…..

Yes, that is a nice round number of 18 beers. And it was a belated birthday gift that came as the Best of Belgium beer pack. Ahhhh. Go try a Leffe Blonde right now; it’s one of my all time favorites! I have the best friends! Thanks Alli May!