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delayed gratification

02 Saturday Dec 2006

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now.jpg I want it now!!!

I think it was Woody Allen who said that the only thing wrong with instant gratification is that it takes too long.

I was reminded of this today when I went to get a new mobile phone. It turned out that I could get phone for free if I switched from pay-as-you-go to a monthly contract, so I decided to do that and picked out a really cute one . . . and then!!! . . . the computer was down at the store and they couldn’t process my stuff and they said I’d have to wait until tomorrow. But I had already been really looking forward to playing around with the phone and figuring out how it worked and was even feeling impatient about having to wait the 10 hours while it charged up and so I ended up feeling soooo disappointed that I couldn’t take my new toy home straight away. f_wah.gif

And well okay, I’m over it … honest. No, really. Well, almost. But anyhoodle, this incident reminded me of how crap I often am with having to wait for something I want.

How about you? Are you any good with this delayed gratification thang?

dream home?

08 Wednesday Nov 2006

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dream-home.gif Where would it be?

Mine would be a place just like in the opening scene of Cinema Paradiso. It shows open balcony windows with a ceramic bowl sitting on the balcony ledge and white gauzy curtains gently moving in the breeze. Just beyond the window the Mediterranean sparkles under a clear blue sky.

When I first saw that scene at the cinema in Toronto in 1990 I knew I had to move to Europe and find that place. It didn’t have to be the Mediterranean, just that window and that type of sea view. Well, so far I’ve made it to Sevilla, which is by far the most beautiful city I have ever seen. And I am very happy living here. But I still hope to one day find that place … I have a feeling it isn’t far away.

november

03 Friday Nov 2006

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ravens.jpg

November . . .

No shadow
No stars
No moon
No care
November
It only believes
In a pile of dead leaves
And a moon
That’s the color of bone

No prayers for November
To linger longer
Stick your spoon in the wall
We’ll slaughter them all

November has tied me
To an old dead tree
Get word to April
To rescue me
November’s cold chain

Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You’re my firing squad
November

With my hair slicked back
With carrion shellac
With the blood from a pheasant
And the bone from a hare

Tied to the branches
Of a roebuck stag
Left to wave in the timber
Like a buck shot flag

Go away you rainsnout
Go away, blow your brains out
November

– Tom Waits

Gotta agree with Tom that November is pretty depressing. How do you deal with the November blues?