Day Seven: Partie un.

So, in giving up buying cd's for 40 days, I assumed that it would save myself some money and hope to be able to pay off my credit card debt and things. Lo and behold, Sunday, I went on a little venture to EB and bought some games (Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and Same & Max: Season 1). Oh silly me that in thinking that, "Oh, because I'm giving up buying cd's, I'll have more money left over."

I am a silly, silly boy.

That said, in a lesson of teaching myself some financial responsibility, I have decided to reward myself. If I do succeed in paying off my credit card debt by the time lent is over, I am going to reward myself with an Xbox 360 for Windows controller, because I would like to have a solid controller to play various games and such :).

Day Four: I need more sleep.: The Sequel: I still need more sleep.

It's currently 1:41 AM and I just realized something I forgot to put in a package I mailed to one of my best friends for his birthday which was Wednesday. I included this because it is still relevant subject matter. You see, I picked him up a copy of Tyler Burkum's solo demo LP at Audio A's last Canadian Show ever..........LAST November. For Christmas. This is OCTOBER THE FOLLOWING YEAR. I am a rather silly fellow, I am.

It's really nice when you find out from a mutual friend that someone who you think is an incredible musical talent likes your poetry. At least six months to a year after they would've seen you read some. It's just a cool feeling and it's almost as if it kind of validates you as a writer that you might actually be kind of good at something that you love to do. It actually made my day to hear that even though it didn't take that long to converse :). Funny I'm typing this now. So far, this entire entry has been typed while listening to her stuff. I love her voice. She's almost got a Leigh Nash-ish vibe going on, with Leigh Nash having one of my favourite voices ever. I'm not even kidding. When Burlap to Cashmere was supposed to open when I saw Jars of Clay at Forward Baptist Church last year and then I found out that they couldn't and then I saw her walk out, I was seriously like, ":|.......No. Fricking. Way. :|.......:O..........8D"

One of my other friends is also giving up the purchasing of cd's for 40 days as well. He works at a record store and gets a ridiculous discount. Sucker ;). (Sorry Joel, but I can make cracks at that because I know that you will most likely never read this, so it's all good :P. And if you somehow [freakishly] do, then you know I mean it all in good fun ;).). But it's cool, because we were talking about what we're going to be doing with the money we're both not spending on cd's and I totally respect and admire where he's at and what he's going to be up to, so that's really cool :). I definitely tip my hat off to you, my friend. I tip my hat off to you. :)

You know what? Because I know that I have to give up buying cd's for 40 days and because I know it will be good for me (despite copious amounts of awesome that are being released within this timeframe that I would love to/probably will purchase anyway somewhere down the line), it won't be as hard as I thought it would be :).

In the awkward silence, my heart screams, "Your eulogy is like poetry, but your mouth is like a magazine."

Day Two: I need more sleep.

It's 4am and I'm drinking a Coke. I am an idiot. I just wanted to get that out there. I've decided to try and write a journal every day even if a bunch of them end up rambling on and on about absolutely nothing whatsoever......much like now. Insolent drivel, really.

So, I'm hanging out at Timmie's tonight and then, right when I was way too tired to even breathe properly, lo and behold, I ended up getting myself into a conversation about music. And then it reminded me of more cd's I want to buy/probably will when all is said and done. Now, speaking of the list, here is what I have on it thus far:

*looks for the notepad file that had the list and ultimately tries to no avail* Because of that, I shall make another list at another time. Needless to say, I was rather saddened when I found out that the new Angels & Airwaves album GOT PUSHED BACK TWO WEEKS from the day BEFORE Lent (which would've let me be able to buy it at launch) to THE FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, WHICH TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK MEANS, "Chris, we at Geffen hate the very being of your soul and thoroughly relish in the thought of torturing you by pushing that release date back two weeks, which will not let you be able to purchase it until December. Have a wonderful day :)."

I will survive. I swear I'll take just one lifetime, 'cause every new day seems so new.



And with this post, I'm starting a contest for whoever can guess what is being quoted randomly (or not so randomly.........?). Comment with your guesses :).

Day One: Three Minutes To Six Hours After It Ended.

Day One. This will be an adventure. Me? Giving up buying cd's for 40 days? It's pretty much asceticism at its finest ;). In preparation for this day, a week or so ago, I began a list in a little Notepad file of cd's I want to buy when I'm done. You see, I'm giving up buying cd's so I don't go broke (again), or hungry (again) because of said aforementioned brokeness. 'Tis for Spiritual Formation. It shall be a rather grand venture. It may end up being all for naught, because the day it's over, I'm most likely going to go on a ridiculous cd-buying spree and be almost (if not exactly) as broke had I not given up buying cd's. I also feel like God wants me to take the money I would have normally spent on those cd's and give to something/body. The Esther Fund? Compassion and/or World Vision and sponsor a child like I've been meaning to do for a while, but never had the funds, nor a credit card to be able to. Me having the funds may be debateable, but me saying that it's debateable is most likely just an excuse. That's why I have a credit card ;). Another thing I'm going to try to accomplish in the meantime is paying off my credit card. I originally put a few hundred dollars on it at registration to help my parents out (which, to this day, they still do not know and I plan to keep it that way because I would most likely end up getting a lecture on putting a bunch of money on my credit card when I see it as a lesson in financial responsibility. Hm. I put $300 on it, and because my limit's 5, I figured I'd be good to give'er and at the moment, I have yet to go over the $300 I originally put on it, with what I've been gradually paying off with money from work. That said, for the most part because of buying cd's, it has practically been, for every two steps forward, I've been taking 1.75 back and even though I do not believe I have gone back to $300, with a few purchases I made over the past few days, probably brought it fairly close. I will take time to declare here and now that I, Chris Lear, am actually retarded. Hey, who knows, it's all good :D :P. Also, yesterday, as part of my day of mourning (even though it was technically two days ago now, seeing as how it's ten after six am on Thursday), I went to Blessings and bought more cd's. Oh woe is me. Vanity! Vanity! All is vanity! I have a dream that one day, we will never give up. Never surrender. *decides here and now that there will be a random quote mash-up at the end of every entry from now until ever because it's really, really fun. Then again, that might just be quarter after six in the morning without sleep talking.*