Mac-ity mac-ity

please come back-ity!

Uh, yeah, song in head. Anywho, last week I was talking to our
neighbours about petsitting and dude asked me, "Can you record from
tape to CD?" I thought it was a rhetorical question, you know, like,
"Is it possible to record from tape to CD" and I was like, "Yep." He
immediately hands me a tape.

Yeah. So, I just found said tape, and thought, "Oh boy, here we go
again, this is gonna take me like, half an hour to set up ... where's
my cable?" Fifteen minutes later, whilst talking to a friend on the
phone, I not only found my cable but also configured everything and
had it working to the point of hitting "record." In fact, I would
have had it recording /earlier/ than that, but I spent five or ten
minutes trying to figure out what was wrong because I had no sound in
my headphones. If I had done this just once before and really read
what I'd chosen about quality and buffering, I would have noticed
that if you record the way I'm recording, you don't get to hear
anything.

Macs are great, GarageBand is just unbelievably awesome - the mac
alone is worth close to what one pays for it; adding the apps to it
is exponentially worth every penny and then some. So, I'm just
waiting for this tape to finish up, then I'll meet my *husband* for
lunch and an AAA meeting about our trip out west. Fun, fun!! And
later I'll be headed to my friend's house so we can go fishing (me -
and her baby mind you - for the first time). YAY!

Lessee... anything else... I was in a bit of a funk all last week (or
two), but methinks I'm out of it. I realized I was in need of my
independence, and once I finally admitted that to myself, it's like I
felt I had the option and it just sorta melted away. I'm glad; it
sucked, being sad whilst happy. But now I appreciate happiness all
the more so it is all good. Could have been just the drop off of
getting married, too - I've heard lots of people go through that; I
didn't think I would because I had no big plans for the wedding,
nothing MAJOR to look forward to, therefore nothing MAJOR to drop off
from. I expected everything to pretty much stay the same afterward.
And it has. Still, marriage does have some implications I guess, and
maybe that's where the independence thing came from.

At any rate, it's passed. Speaking of things passing, I ran into an
acquaintance last night at work. I'd met this guy over two years ago
and took a liking to him (okay, so it was really more of a strong
interest). I was fighting off the concept of relationships but was
half-hoping he might ask me out. He never did, and now I'm glad of
it because it could have occurred just before I met Dale, and I may
not have started dating Dale at all - VERY scary thought, that.
Anywho, the guy still seems just as nice, but I realized that it was
almost as if I saw in him an element that I was ready to accept, and
Dale's got that element plus everything else I was hoping to find in
a lifelong partner. Kinda like a foreshadowing of what was about to
come into my life - a noble gentleman with that same type of calm,
delicate character that attracted me as I grew into who I am now.

And by delicate, I do mean that in a manly way. LOL.

Anywho, off to meet the man of my dreams now. We're gonna eat at
Burger King and do our trip thing and YAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So awesome, he and I. *happy sigh*

~nv