Showing posts with label New Years. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Years. Show all posts

Monday, January 04, 2010

New Years Devolutions

Seeing that most New Years resolutions are abandoned quite quickly, I find it appropriate to include "buy a bunch of things I want" in mine.

So here's what I'm salivating over.

A new camera. I have ideas at the bursting point for which I need a decent camera. I bought a point and shoot about two or three years ago for $300. In the eighties, wouldn't that get you something that would last? This thing sucks now. Sometimes you just want a photo to remember things. Artistic superiority would be nice, but recolection is the minimum requirement. I either have early onset alzheimers, or my camera sucks. I'm going with the later.

Canon Digital Rebel xTi: ~$700 or something like that.

Guitar Pedals. More, bigger, better and weirder than I already own. My effects pedal hunger is an unsatiable one. It would be great if I could break this one, but I promise you I will not. I got an early start and ordered the EHX Cathedral pedal for 20% off or something the day after Christmas. How can you not agree to that deal? I kick myself for not also ordering the EHX Memory Man with Hazarai. But wait, that money could go to a new camera.

EHX Cathedral reverb: ~$190 (with discount)
EHX Memory Man w/Hazarai: $214
Countless other blow-your-mind effects: $lots

New hand soap for the bathroom. I'm running out of my Method minty foam soap. That one smells like the time I moved to Atlanta. Because that's when I bought it. 2010 calls for a new scent. Let's get creative.

New hand soap: $7?

Sticky pans. Nonstick pans are bad for deglazing. They don't make any glaze with which to deglaze. Major cooking fail.

Calphalon 8-piece cooking set: $399

Albert's BBQ sliders. These things are delicious. And on one night a week, they are cheap. Can't remember what night. So here's the first prerequisite resolution of the year: figure that out.

BBQ sliders at The Albert: $1 a piece

I should put "do more exercise" on this list, but I don't want to abandon that one.