I Like Books
I am in the middle of cleaning my room, or at the very least tidying up my bookshelves.
I am like my parents, in that I like to read, and have a big collection of books. And thanks to Borders and TradeMe that collection is only getting bigger. It only bugs me when the books I want are not available in New Zealand yet, or even worse, books that are out in hardback but are not in the massmarket paperback (which are a) cheaper and b) matching the rest of the series).
As I have mentioned before, I am working on completing a goal of reading 29 books in 2009 and I have added a section to my sidebar that reflects what I am currently reading. My shelves are only going to get more full as time goes on.
I am so proud having bookshelf #1 all tidy and organised for once I wanted to share it with all of you!
Click image to learn more about what’s on these shelves.
So now I need to get into bookcase #2 and make room for even more books that I know will be put on these shelves.
Lost Without My Music
About a week ago, after a bit of troubles that were fixable, my iPod finally called it quits on me. Oh, it turned on and everything, but it refused to play music and videos. I tried ye olde restore, and that seemed to work.
Oh, wait. No it didn’t. All it did was clear the thing of music after telling me that my iPod was corrupted.
This was, in one way, neither better nor worse than what it was beforehand. Either way, I was left with a $400 piece of equipment that played a generic group of iPod quizzes. Yeah.
Took it back to the place my parents got it from (it was my 21st birthday present) and after a few false starts (I brought it back in because it would not work, you’re gonna have to do more than just recharge the thing) it’s finally being checked over properly.
Let’s hope my baby gets fixed, or I get a replacement, because it’s a lonely life without it. My comp is crap so running iTunes while using any other program causes it to go super slow (Yoda forbid you try and run iTunes and Firefox and OpenOffice at once), and most of my music is just mp3 files, so grabbing my old CD player leaves my music collection rather limited.
I want my baby back.
Sigh
A guy I know had just proposed to his girlfriend.
This came as no surprise to me, as he and I were talking that stuff over, as he was trying to decide whether to push the date of proposal forward by a good half-year because of outside circumstances (basically, it was a case of when, not if).
This had only remind me that, in the dating-sense, I am a very slow developer. Actually, I have not developed at all. Here my friend is, not much younger than I am, and engaged. One of the guys I lived in the hall of residence with is married and babied (and has been for a few years now).
I, meanwhile, have never been on a date.
I’ll be 21 and a half in about a fortnight…
Oh well. At least I am not like certain LJ mommies.
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D-S.net is the personal blog of Catherine, a 22 year old girl from New Zealand with a love of modern tech and ancient history and with aspirations to become a published author. 
