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askye at 02:51am on 27/12/2002
askye at 02:51am on 27/12/2002I have a new chair for my computer desk. My computer desk sucks, but I've only had it 2 yrs. It's not so much a desk as a folding table with an area for the keyboard cut out and made to tilt.
Anyway. New chair. Executive chair. It's very nice. I can lean back and prop my legs on my tower, rest my head back...
My old chair was falling apart and rightly so considering it was roughly 9 yrs old.
Generally when I get things I tend to wear them out. Clothes, shoes, glasses, etc.
I was going to set my old chair out by the side of the road but Dad said he'd use it, he's been using a dinig room chair. I asked himwhy he didn't buy a chair and he said he never thought about it. So, my old chair will probably be in use for several more years. It's so nice to stand up and not have the back of my chair slide down.
Also I got a new purse. I saw a Guess one marked way down at Ross, but then I saw another off brand almost just like it except $15 cheaper, so I went with the off brand. I ended up spending the $15 on a sweater.
Also acquired more books w/money Grandma E gave me. I got:
Best Short Stories of Jack London. A "permabook" cover price of $.35, I paid $.95 though.
Moby Dick--I've never read it and it's not in the Library of Classics Mom got from a Garage Sale.
White Fang and The Call of the Wild--Jack London
To Build a Fire and Other Stories--Jack London. Now technically because I got this book, I didn't need the first one I listed, however the first one is such a cool looking book --a small pocket sized hardback--for a $1, I had to get both
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Lost in Place--Mark Salzman
As Xmas Gifts I got:
Jamie Oliver's second cookbook, Smoke and Mirrors-Neil Gaiman, and HTML for the WWW --Elizabeth Castro
Books I scavanged from what a neighbor had on the street:
Rivers and Mountains: Poems by John Ashberry
The Sex Book: Sex, Woman, Man (three books) they are anthologies of poetry and stuff
Old Goriot-Balzac
Jack London and the Klondike by Franklin Walker
The Moon and Sixpence--W Somerset Maugham
Words in Flight: An Introduction to Poetry
Anyway. New chair. Executive chair. It's very nice. I can lean back and prop my legs on my tower, rest my head back...
My old chair was falling apart and rightly so considering it was roughly 9 yrs old.
Generally when I get things I tend to wear them out. Clothes, shoes, glasses, etc.
I was going to set my old chair out by the side of the road but Dad said he'd use it, he's been using a dinig room chair. I asked himwhy he didn't buy a chair and he said he never thought about it. So, my old chair will probably be in use for several more years. It's so nice to stand up and not have the back of my chair slide down.
Also I got a new purse. I saw a Guess one marked way down at Ross, but then I saw another off brand almost just like it except $15 cheaper, so I went with the off brand. I ended up spending the $15 on a sweater.
Also acquired more books w/money Grandma E gave me. I got:
Best Short Stories of Jack London. A "permabook" cover price of $.35, I paid $.95 though.
Moby Dick--I've never read it and it's not in the Library of Classics Mom got from a Garage Sale.
White Fang and The Call of the Wild--Jack London
To Build a Fire and Other Stories--Jack London. Now technically because I got this book, I didn't need the first one I listed, however the first one is such a cool looking book --a small pocket sized hardback--for a $1, I had to get both
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Lost in Place--Mark Salzman
As Xmas Gifts I got:
Jamie Oliver's second cookbook, Smoke and Mirrors-Neil Gaiman, and HTML for the WWW --Elizabeth Castro
Books I scavanged from what a neighbor had on the street:
Rivers and Mountains: Poems by John Ashberry
The Sex Book: Sex, Woman, Man (three books) they are anthologies of poetry and stuff
Old Goriot-Balzac
Jack London and the Klondike by Franklin Walker
The Moon and Sixpence--W Somerset Maugham
Words in Flight: An Introduction to Poetry