Wikipedia taught me that today is the Twelfth Night celebration.
In Tudor England, the Twelfth Night marked the end of a winter festival that started on All Hallows Eve — which some now celebrate as Halloween. A King or Lord of Misrule would be appointed to run the Christmas festivities, and the Twelfth Night was the end of his period of rule.
So, it started on Halloween, and ends today, huh…?
Remember all those big plans I had about doing work, and rewarding myself? Remember?
Yeah, I do too. That was a good talk. I was all gung-ho, oi oi oi, lets get stuff done!
Well.. uh… apparently the sloth has set back in, or something. Perhaps its a side effect of feeling like all I do is work, but I haven’t gotten much done lately.
But, I still want to reward myself.
Now, I’m being frugal about it. I bought, in a horrible fit of monitor envy, a nice 21 inch LCD monitor for the desktop, Newegg had it for cheap, and then with a $40 dollar rebate. I looked up at the heavens and said “BJ, if you don’t want me to get this, let me know now.”
When the power came back on, I ordered it.
Cha-ching.
I spent some money on something that I’m not allowed to tell you about right now. Again, I was frugal, did a few days worth of research, and bought it. NO, its not a sex toy. Although…
More cha-ching.
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But thats not laziness.
The laziness is in the fact that I gave up, yesterday, looking for school classes, because I got overwhelmed. For that 5 minutes, the urge to just not do it came back. “Yes, I can go back anytime”. Indeed.
I still haven’t registered. I’m leery of doing it on Saturday, because I don’t want to start treading babysitting waters, and I’m leery of doing it online, because I think I’ll suck at that.
Whats a boy to do?
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Superego: Suck it up, AT. You’re being a lazy bastard.
Id: BUY THINGS. IT MAKES HAPPY.
Ego: Yeah dude, you could probably use a new video card to go with that monitor. I mean, you have one, if you want to call it that. I mean, 128 MB of memory? And you’ve been playing drums, but I don’t see how with those crappy cymbals… you could probably use some of them. Hell, you got money!
Id: SPEND MONEY. BANG CYMBALS MAKE NOISE.
Ego: Seriously dude. If you buy hi-hats, you’ll need a decent stand.
Superego: That is why your legs are sore, AT, because you’ve been playing drums, so there is a bit of merit there with regards to getting in shape. However, you need to be frugal. Do not try to live beyond the means that you’ve been living by for the past…
Id: STUPID UNDERLINED WORDS MAKE ID ANGRY! ID SMASH!!!!
(scuffle scuffle bang bang)
Superego: Ouch! Ouch! Mphhfh meheen menbhen
Ego: Dude, you stapled his mouth. Damn! Hey, watch it maaaaan.. aaaaaaeee!
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NOW ID WRITE WEBSITE.
ME BUY THINGS AND BREAK THEM. ME LAZY AND WATCH TV.
WHAT WAS ME TALKING ABOUT?
