this weekend on a stress relieving shopping spree, a stress coping technigue inherited from my mother :), i purchased a sort of mp3 player. those who know me well can attest to the number of cd players i have gone through in my lifetime (i can think of atleast 7*) so i thought that i could hitch to the very end of the mp3 bandwagon and break my bad luck portable music streak at the same time. but alas. i did just get the $100 memorex thing, so it wasn't as though i killed a 300 ipod or something. and really, i don't think i killed it. i think it was DOA. i loaded the software, i put in the battery. all as per directions. honestly, i read the directions. boxes were supposed to pop up. drives were supposed to be accessible. and well, you get the picture. i gave up for the moment and cooked dinner and came back hours later to try and press my luck and lo and behold there was an error. please re-format data. how does one reformat data to a drive one can't access? i am going back to bangor tonight, and i shall return said device. and i shall buy a cheap-ass cd player and when that breaks i shall replace it with no hard feelings. i think i saw pink ones at target. oooooh.


amy the mas is going to overnight bread from the yummy bakery to my parents. is she not the coolest? how thrilled will they be? there's nothing they like more than eating.


* a portable cd player was my birthday gift every year from age 12 until college. i remember going to service merchandise (does this place exist anymore) with my dad and everytime he would say "didn't we do this last year, don't you have one of these?" and i would say yeah, i broke it. and he would tell me to be more careful with this one. every year. not that it helped. i swear they broke of their own accord. like the family's new video camera that i borrowed once and it broke because i hit record. i swear that's all i did. they had to buy a new one.