savage25 | Jul. 19th, 2005

Went out and bought Harry Potter CDs yesterday. I'm a little upset because when I inquired about pre-ordering it months ago, they said no... but found out yesterday that I could have... so I lost about $7 because of that. Oh well... I figured it was worth it to just get it now while it's still on sale at 30% off... Normally the CDs cost $75! So... I got them for $55... Good lord that's a lot of money. I'm hoping I can convince my one coworker (who loves the Harry Potter audiobooks as much as I do) to share the cost a bit because he may want to borrow them.

I also went on a Target shopping spree... gosh, I just realized I was REALLY in a shopping mood yesterday afternoon. I got Barry and I a crockpot and I also got a toy for myself: an external hard-drive... 120GB! I NEEDED that so bad... my computer was full (20GB drive) and I was so frustrated that I couldn't do anything with it anymore... The main reason my computer is full is because of all the photos I take... my camera (the Canon 20D) takes pictures at 8megapix so each picture is 2-3MB and a "roll of film" is a 1GB card (200+ pictures) so each time I go on a "photo shoot" I end up with 1GB of pictures! I need to learn to delete pictures... but just like negatives, I feel like I should never throw the originals away. Anyway... my photo taking has been put on the back burner for several months now because I had no where to put the pictures once I took them... now I can snap away again! YAY! That makes me feel good (and creative). (PS: This external hard-drive rocks! It was literally as easy as "plug it in and use it".)

Barry made some awesome chili for dinner last night... and we had two guests over: Tom and Patrick. It was my first time meeting Barry's friend Tom. He was shy and quiet, but seemed very nice. I'm sure I'm probably a little bit to "get used too" the first time someone meets me... LOL. It was a pleasant evening... we sat around, drank wine, ate, chatted, and watched a couple episodes of "So Graham Norton" and one of "First Comes Love"... a very "gay evening"... :)