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OMG I cannot stop listening to Guns N'Roses! I've listened to "Estranged" about 20 times today. I can NOT stop. What's wrong with me? The last time I listened to GNR on purpose was when I was fourteen, and that was 15 16 years ago! Am I becoming a teenager again? Oh no, is this because I tried on my plaid flannel shirt last weekened to see if I could take it on my cowboy vacation? What have I done????

Here, share my pain with me:

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Other things I cannot stop:
- Thinking "Oh! Pretty!" whenever I see Dean.
- Work (not by choice)
- drinking green tea
- posting random things to lj at inappropriate times and then not find the time to answer comments

Could it be that I have a problem stopping things? Wait, I'm sure there's a terminus technicus for that, *googles*, *can't stop googling*, yep, it's lack of self-control.
*laughs*
Then again, it might just be lack of sleep.


*listens to Estranged again*
It's that one part about 1min 13 sec into the song that keeps me coming back and back and back. Last time this happened with a song was Led Zeppelin "When the Levee Breaks", which - just like Estranged - really isn't one of the greatest songs in the history of songwriting, but at min 2:34 ... Something about Chicago, I think.

And then there was that remarkable weekend in London where I spent every waking moment listening to Led Zeppelin's Ramble On. At least that's not a reason to be ashamed.

Unlike the time I listened to George Strait's "The Big One" about fifteen times on my way home to work, trying not to DANCE on the street.

I wonder why the EU hasn't made it obligatory to put warning stickers on iPods yet."Careful, this device might ruin your reputation by making a fool out of you in public. Unless you have no reputation anymore, because you lost your last bit of dignity the night you spent sitting on the cold bedroom floor in your parents' home listening to Take That's "Never Again" again and again and again. Which, no sir, wasn't me, nuh noh.

Tell me about the songs you have been listening to without pause in a fit of insanity?

I spent all day working on my files while at the same time importing my CDs to my laptop and then transfering them to my shiny new Ipod.
Yesterday evening I did the same, only instead of the working, I read NCIS fanfiction and watched the second MacGyver movie.

Clearly I was born to multitask. Oh wait, of course I was, I'm female. Heh.

Anyway, with all the working and uploading and drinking too much coffee, I didn't really have time to took more than a short glance at my flist.

What I learned:
The English word for MOPS is pug.
This may not be groundbreaking news for most of you, but it was to me.
See, the Mops is just that. A Mops. It is the perfect word for it. So perfect that I had never even wondered if other languages maybe had other words for it. Not that I talk about pugs a whole lot, so maybe it just never came up, but today, when I found out that yes, indeed, Mops isn't a universal word, I was actually surprised.
Wow. Not a Mops. A pug.

Pug is fits the Mops as well. Not as good as Mops, but it's okay. Pug is short and puggy, like the dog in question.
Mops is...everything.
Mops expresses that the pug makes weird breathing noises when it walks, that it curls its tongue when it smiles and that its eyes move into different directions when it yawns.

In my first dog book, the description about the Mops said:
The Mops is lucky that its mother is also a Mops, for no other dog could love his looks.
Which is true, because they are incredibly ugly. They might be cute, but they are incredibly ugly. I'm sorry if I offend your pug, but there really is no other word for it.

When you see a pug in the park, you can often see how other dogs top to point and laugh at it.
Poor pug.

Apple offers the pretty, and I want it. WANT.

But I still haven't decided if I want to spend that much money on an mp3 player, and the US version (pretty!) is even more expensive than the normal one.
And then there is still the ipod mini to consider, which is pretty as well, plus there is potential green- or pinkness.
My situation is like that: theoretical I would have the money. I wouldn't have to ruin myself.
Practically, I think that 379 Euro / US Dollar is a lot of money, and I'm not sure if I want to spend it on something that I could probably live without. I mean, I have lived without any kind of mp3-player so far.
On the other hand, I'm going to be spending a lot of time away from home in the next year, possibly the next few years. Why have 400 CDs if you can't listen to them? And they could ALL be on my ipod. Not all of them would fit in the mini.

I know, I've been on and off about that for half a year now, I just can't decide. The white ipod is sort of ugly, but I think there are skins that would turn him pink? Maybe green? Hm, will have to figure that out. The U2 one is definitely pretty.

Anyway, my question: if you have an ipod (any kind of ipod), is there anything you'd have wanted to know in hindsight? Does it scratch easily, did the battery break etc. If there is anything you'd have wanted to be told before buying it. could you leave me a comment and tell me what it is?
Oh, and the last time I asked (yes, you are not hallucinating, I did ask before) people were so nice and told me about alternatives to the ipod. I looked at them, and while some of them are probably even better (and cheaper), let's face it: I am shallow and I want the pretty. It's going to be an ipod, or I'll try to survive with my tapes and my walkman for a year.
Gee, I sure wish I was less spoiled.