What not to do when you're stressed: go look at something you can't buy and REALLY want

[annathepiper]

Things which I have done over the last 48 hours:

1. Gone out for bike riding with Dar for the sake of getting the hell out of the house and enjoying some of the sunshine. Dar originally suggested going to Lake Forest Park and having lunch, but I wanted to go to Fremont and go to Dusty Strings and see if they had any bouzoukis I could play with.
   
   
2. Angsted, a LOT, over the fact that Dusty Strings did in fact have a LOVELY zouk for just under 400 dollars and I can't afford it because I don't have a stupid JOB. :(
   
   
3. Worked on ripping the rest of my CD collection to my MP3 player, finally, which I had never gotten around to doing since that time I'd had to reformat the unit's hard drive.
   
   
4. Acquired a new CD rack from Silver Platters, for the sake of reorganizing my CD collection, which had become sort of scattered around several different racks. This was something to do in parallel with ripping the CDs to the MP3 player.
   
   
5. Also acquired DVD #4 of the Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman releases being done, and the first series of Red Dwarf on DVD as well. Which was good, because I needed some funny and some cheesy to watch while doing other things.
   
   
6. Pulled a bunch of old logs for flashfire off of an old backup tape, though I still need to get another file for him, which sort of needs to wait until I'm done with--
   
   
7. --pulling old backup files for Ben and Euphoria off of the same tape, since Euphoria had asked about a bunch of old photos she needed copies of. Though this is driving me batshit because I keep trying to burn chunks of data to disc and I keep getting weirdo "Virtual CD database error" messages that I don't understand. :P
   
   
8. Wrestled with being angsty about not getting that job I interviewed for on Friday morning. Stupid xbox team. :P I'm not entirely certain why this one has hit me harder than others I haven't gotten lately... possibly because if I'd gotten this job I could have been assured of employment through September. Possibly also because I'm getting tense about my unemployment running out soon. And possibly just because it felt like it was a good interview, but damned if I know anymore.
   
   
9. Posted stuff to the Two Moons MUSH timeline and fixed a bunch of broken links, both on my personal page and on the TM one.
   
   
10. Sent out another couple of resumes.
    
    
11. Had to tell the player of my character Faanshi's last love interest on AetherMUSH, who has been trying very hard to get me to come play on a sort of "sequel" MUSH that has opened up, that I really can't cope with playing Faanshi right now. Not when she was far and away my most angsty character and I've just got too much I'm depressed about in my life at the moment. Besides, it would be stupid to try to go play on another MUSH when I'm still exhausted with all the annoyances of having to ask people's permission to tell a story the way I want to tell it for a given character--especially when I have decided to put a version of that character into my own story. I think I'd probably be overburdening myself to try to be playing a version of Faanshi on a MUSH and writing about a version of her at the same time.
    
    
12. Had two treadmill workouts because I desperately needed them to work off stress.
    

Still to do: must pay bills and balance the checkbooks and TRY TO WRITE GODDAMMIT. Or at least do more worldbuilding work.

Comments

I understand the wanting without ability to purchase thing

[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

This is what I wanted and have debated over - but still cannot find a way to afford (since I'm paying off bills since I was unemployed):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4156&item=2826194680&rd=1

Re: I understand the wanting without ability to purchase thing

[annathepiper]

That's pretty.