The Mac Book

Well, the Mac Book. Why haven’t I delineated in detail in my usual fashion all my thoughts about buying  it ? Well, actually, the bottom line is that it is a not-cheap article and  because it is something I wanted but didn’t need.

You know, it took me quite a while to think this out. I probably would’t have ever written this entry if pbreader hadn’t asked me why! {So, thank you, N! } So, this is how the process  went.

 I was in our local Mac store a couple of times first getting my IPod battery replaced and secondly getting a cover with a clip for said IPod. Both times I {of course} looked at the computers and the second time I had a nice young lady named Katie show me the details of the Mac Book. Now, I knew I wanted a smaller laptop to take with me on my travels. The one I have, a Sony Vaio, is much too heavy to take anywhere. I bought it back when I wanted a laptop to use in different parts of the house. At that time, my eyes were bad and it does have a lovely crisp, sharp screen. {And now, thanks to cataract removals and lens implants, my eyesight is the best it has been in my whole life.}  But, the Soney  computer is heavy.  So, I was kind of in the market for a lighter one. But why a Mac? Well, as regular readers know, I thrive on learning new things. Yes, I could have bought another PC–in fact I have a friend who has a Sony so small that he carries it in a zip-up book cover–but I thought it might be interesting to try a Mac.

There are two other reasons I didn’t discuss the process. First, I wasn’t sure I was going to keep it. If it couldn’t be attached to my network, I was prepared to take it back. And, as it happened, I found *I* couldn’t attach it because I didn’t understand the Mac terminology. But I paid someone to come over and do it and now I have a reasonably good idea of what to do  if there is ever a next time this has to be done.

The second reason was a quite surprisingly large blob of guilt about spending money on myself. Yes, you read that right. Spending MY money on MYself. I have actually worked quite hard on getting rid of this feeling left over from the days when I was a single parent and lived paycheck to paycheck. I seldom spent money on myself back them because I was at the bottom of the priority list. I had rent, food, gas and a teenager who literally grew out of his clothes every three months from 14 onwards! And, of course, I didn’t grudge him anything he needed because when you are a parent, your children’s needs {not necessarily wants!} DO come first and that is the way it has to be.  These days I am not rich. But since I share the cost of rent and food with Fred, I have money left to spend on myself.

And finally, part of this discomfort about spending still more money on myself is that I have actually spent quite a lot recently. The tuition and the cost of staying with an Italian host  for six weeks is not cheap. {The money for my ticket to Italy was given to me by my sister before she died so, although I have not yet bought the ticket, it is actually "paid" for.}

So, there you have it.

QUOTATIONS FOR THIS MONTH: "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so."

Hamlet 2.2.255-256

“Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?” Jim Rohn (motivational speaker/philosopher)

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