I shouldn't have...
Oct. 8th, 2007 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladespark...but I did.
It looks like unless finances go unusually well in the next two months, I won't be buying a rainbow boa at the reptile show in November after all. Because I just spent the money I would have put towards that on something else which, when I thought about it, was something I wanted more.
I just bought a piano. A very nice second hand upright "spinnet" type. The total end cost is going to be a touch over $1k, I've paid $325 thus far, and will be making monthly payments on it until it's paid off. I normally am not willing to purchase anything I can't buy outright, but they don't charge interest, and I feel a piano is something important enough to me to go into debt for, when there's no interest accruing.
I didn't set out this morning to buy one, of course, but JJ and I stopped into a music store on our way back from running some errands, and while he looked at electric guitars and amps and pedals and things, I was sort of mooning over the pianos, and noticed the payment plans, and I sat down to play, and I just realized how badly I'd missed it, and how long it had been. I wrote, or rather arranged, a piano piece more than a decade ago. It was the one thing I always played when I had ran into a piano but didn't have any sheet music on me. I knew it by heart easily, and never forgot it, because I'd written it. But after something like five years without touching a piano... I'd forgotten it! I tried to play it, and I couldn't. And it just hit me how long it had been, and how sad it was that I was losing this talent. And thus I just couldn't resist it. JJ will probably be chipping in a small amount towards it, but mostly I am paying for it myself. It's going to be delivered quite soon (I need to clean out the living room of boxes so they have somewhere to put it!) and I really can't wait. I'm going through all my old piano books, and I may see if I can get my parents to mail me the rest of my music, which I accidentally left at home when I moved out.
I'm going to have a piano! Glee!
I just bought something that costs more than a thousand bucks! That's the most I've ever spent on anything in my life. Eeep!
It looks like unless finances go unusually well in the next two months, I won't be buying a rainbow boa at the reptile show in November after all. Because I just spent the money I would have put towards that on something else which, when I thought about it, was something I wanted more.
I just bought a piano. A very nice second hand upright "spinnet" type. The total end cost is going to be a touch over $1k, I've paid $325 thus far, and will be making monthly payments on it until it's paid off. I normally am not willing to purchase anything I can't buy outright, but they don't charge interest, and I feel a piano is something important enough to me to go into debt for, when there's no interest accruing.
I didn't set out this morning to buy one, of course, but JJ and I stopped into a music store on our way back from running some errands, and while he looked at electric guitars and amps and pedals and things, I was sort of mooning over the pianos, and noticed the payment plans, and I sat down to play, and I just realized how badly I'd missed it, and how long it had been. I wrote, or rather arranged, a piano piece more than a decade ago. It was the one thing I always played when I had ran into a piano but didn't have any sheet music on me. I knew it by heart easily, and never forgot it, because I'd written it. But after something like five years without touching a piano... I'd forgotten it! I tried to play it, and I couldn't. And it just hit me how long it had been, and how sad it was that I was losing this talent. And thus I just couldn't resist it. JJ will probably be chipping in a small amount towards it, but mostly I am paying for it myself. It's going to be delivered quite soon (I need to clean out the living room of boxes so they have somewhere to put it!) and I really can't wait. I'm going through all my old piano books, and I may see if I can get my parents to mail me the rest of my music, which I accidentally left at home when I moved out.
I'm going to have a piano! Glee!
I just bought something that costs more than a thousand bucks! That's the most I've ever spent on anything in my life. Eeep!
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Date: 2007-10-09 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 02:44 am (UTC)Congrats though :)
I miss playing, too...*sigh*
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Date: 2007-10-09 02:45 am (UTC)Nightrain has already been informed that We Are Getting A Piano when we move into a real house. I miss it so much.
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Date: 2007-10-09 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 04:39 am (UTC)--Mav
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Date: 2007-10-09 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 05:48 pm (UTC)Good thing it still feels shocking too; it's when dropping over $3000 on computers (and vacations *cough*) that I sort of stopped being alarmed over spending that much that I get worried. ;D
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Date: 2007-10-09 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-09 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 06:46 pm (UTC)But yeah, one lump sum or one big ticket item is considerably more painful, especially on non-business stuff. The slow trickle usually doesn't feel so horrific until the VISA bill arrives... ¬_¬