On Our Way To Crazy

I recently got a Mac at work. The screen is huge – I feel like I’m doing my work on a movie screen. But it is really cool, even if it’s taking me a while to get used to it. The major downfall, though, is that I can’t use Rhapsody anymore. It doesn’t work on Macs. This is a problem, because Rhasody is the greatest thing that ever happened to office dwellers. All the music you can listen to for $10 a month. I’m going into a bit of withdrawl.

The upside is that I recently discovered Peel, a service that automatically downloads the free songs from mp3 blogs and gives you the option to add them to your itunes. My itunes list is slowly growing, and I’m finding all kinds of new artists I’d never heard of before. Current favorites: The Morning Benders, The Go Find and The Wrens.

My ankle is strangely swollen today. It is a little sore when I walk, too. Weird.

Our friend Josh came in fourth on Nashville Star. He was slightly robbed, but gets to go on the top four tour, which is a great opportunity for him. It did end up a brother-sister final two, and the sister won, just like I said she would. Because I am awesome.

I’m currently reading Garlic and Sapphires, a Kari reccommendation, and I am just flying through it. It’s by Ruth Reichl and is about her job as the New York Times food critic. She talks about restaurants and disguises and the business of journalism, and makes them all funny and interesting. But the good stuff is when she’s talking about the food. It’s food that I would probably never eat (rabbit soup seasoned with blood? Bubbles filled with squid ink?) and will probably never have the opportunity to eat, but she describes it beautifully and with so much passion it makes me want to try. So interesting.

I’m thinking of dying my hair next week, but I have no idea what I want to do with it.

I got two fabulous pairs of shoes last week with a gift card at a buy one get one free sale. One is pointy and spike-heeled and black, the other flat and satiny and floral. Love them both.

The weather we’ve been having lately makes me wish I had a big backyard with a hammock. Maybe I should buy a house that has those things.

Someone left a comment on my last post that just about gave me a heart attack when I read it. I literally had to catch my breath. I thought I had a situation on my hands.

It’s 4:23 on a sunny Friday afternoon and my brain has completely checked out.