Savi
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Post by Savi on Sept 5, 2010 20:12:54 GMT 2
I bought this today... a wonderful "evil brown damn cat pillow". Found it in our IKEA store in hanover and I fell in love with it immediately. Maybe I have to call her " Mrs Cat" because a good friend of mine owned the same one in black and he called his pillow " Mr. Cat" ( very creative, I know, but its much better than Mr. Cow or something"
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Crystiannia
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"Here is the deepest secret nobody knows..."
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Post by Crystiannia on Sept 9, 2010 5:12:32 GMT 2
Savi that's wickedly wonderful!!!!
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Post by nordenstam on Sept 9, 2010 21:55:16 GMT 2
Ahahah, Savi this is so awesome! When I saw the pic I thought that it must be from IKEA and then I read Your post. I have to check our IKEA stores not too I love cats... little balls of fur. x) Cutties. (Sorry ) Today I bought a book and - together with my bf - I got a new cell phone. My first one - really MINE. (No other owner before me... and only my money). I took it and found out that with my old ones - I was living in stone age ;D
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Post by Socke on Sept 9, 2010 22:47:44 GMT 2
Today I bought a book and - together with my bf - I got a new cell phone. My first one - really MINE. (No other owner before me... and only my money). I took it and found out that with my old ones - I was living in stone age ;D Haha, I could still put off this shock once more when I got a used old one from someone after the battery of my previous phone became so fucked up that it wouldn't even last a few seconds long call. Really don't want to know what you can do with ordinary phones nowadays, just hope you can call and write messages still at least
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Post by swordmaiden on Sept 10, 2010 7:31:18 GMT 2
That is a cool pillow Savi. It is wonderfully evil looking. Haha, I think I am still living in the stone age with my cell phone. I got it in 2004 hahaha, but it still works! I finaly got a job today so maybe I will buy something soon Last week I did buy 2 books: One on Late Gothic Art and one on Early Byzantine Art. They were only $3 each. Used bookstores are awesome!
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Post by Bartbär on Sept 15, 2010 5:50:55 GMT 2
What are these "cell phone" things you guys are talking about? I've owned a cell phone briefly, but it was more of a "minute phone" and only cost 15 dollars a month. I had it for about.... 2 or 4 months and stopped using it. I don't talk on the phone really ever and never really enjoyed it: plus most of the time I just got texts and I HATE texts. haha The only thing I've really bought has been... well, books at my campus library book sale that they have going on every year, this time with a TON more books. I think the last books I bought were one on Ancient Greek history and Goethe's Master Wilhelms Apprenticeship, which is AWESOME because I can never afford to buy my most beloved German authors works in English. The only down side is I don't know how potent the translation is as I haven't been able to start reading it yet... I'm still waiting on purchasing a new pair of shoes which I desperately need... my feet and legs can get quite painful from wearing heavy boots probably a good 10 hours a day for 2-3 years straight, and the same brand and type of boot before that for what was probably 4 years... maybe I should be just a tiny bit more into "fashion" if it would mean helping my health, haha.
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Post by swordmaiden on Sept 17, 2010 20:42:17 GMT 2
I bought a new pair of jeans on clearance, and they are straight-leg jeans which is like finding a needle in a haystack. I still need some long-sleeved shirts though. This is what happens when I do not go shopping in over a year, everything is falling apart and I need new clothes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2010 16:12:34 GMT 2
I bought a new pair of jeans on clearance, and they are straight-leg jeans which is like finding a needle in a haystack. I still need some long-sleeved shirts though. This is what happens when I do not go shopping in over a year, everything is falling apart and I need new clothes. Hah! You are right about the jeans, so hard to find..let's say normal ones? I have an old pair of those which I treasure a lot, am not very confident I can find another like those or other great ones I had.
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Post by Arivse on Sept 20, 2010 22:41:15 GMT 2
You guys been buying cloths and pillows.. I bougth a sword, a katana to be exact ;D Well just kidding, its just a shinai, a bamboo sword which is used in Kendo
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Post by Bartbär on Oct 28, 2010 0:09:44 GMT 2
Lamenting the death (errr... murder) of my crystal flute, I decided to replace it with 3 books... well, actually I "had" to get the 3 books anyway to use for my upcoming presentations. Perhaps I didn't need them, but I figured now is as good of time as any to get them before I don't have money and they are no longer available. So the following three were purchased: The Saga of the Jomsvikings, Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. Both of which are Lee M. Hollander translations, which for me is a MAJOR selling point. I already have a copy of Heimskringla, but it's a dover edition, which sadly often means there is very little information on the Editors and Translators, and in this case absolutely no introduction or even preface. Not to mention that Hollander is just one of the best translators of Old Norse that I've come across: his Poetic Edda, although in some places challenging for someone who is not a Grad student, is the best in terms of keeping Skaldic measure and wording alive. The third book: Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson and translated by Peter Fisher. I was debating on whether I should get this one, but after a quick look at a review of it on Jstor I was quickly decided for it. I've made the mistake too many times of buying books impulsively as they were available before checking into the Editors or the Translators. Of course though just because some academic type says a translation is good doesn't always mean it is, but then again if you are critical of the reviewer to begin with than academic types reviews can be very helpful indeed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 9:23:17 GMT 2
Don't have time to write more A. , but a short: I want those too!!!!!! ;D
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Post by maris on Nov 9, 2010 13:15:35 GMT 2
just ordered a Beer Hunter t-shirt hope it gets delivered soon
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Post by Bartbär on Dec 16, 2010 6:22:10 GMT 2
The time has come for me to share my latest book purchases: mind you like always this is not extensive, as I seem to buy books any chance I get as long as they are cheap or my wallet is big, and thankfully lately they've been cheap. The latest purchases from the second-hand bookstore: www.amazon.com/War-Middle-Ages-Philippe-Contamine/dp/0631144692/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292470752&sr=8-1This book seemed great to me, and for 8 dollars compared to it's list price is a steal, especially since it was in pretty good shape. I laugh at reading the reviews sometimes: giving a detailed book 2 stars simply because you find it dry is odd to me. I fail to see how history books detailing on such a topic are dry, but then again I'm used to reading things like the Philosophy of Locke and it's harder to get more dry than that, and even I don't find it that dry. www.amazon.com/Ermengard-Narbonne-Troubadours-Conjunctions-Religion/dp/0801489253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292470785&sr=8-1I took a chance with this one, but I think I'll be pleased with my purchase. I love Troubadours and I've just recently fell in Love with Medieval France thanks to my Medieval History class. Plus being from a University press always attracts me: it doesn't guarantee it's a great book, but it usually at least guarantees that the information is peer-reviewed and thus as reliable as can possibly be with the current knowledge we have. Lastly I bought 2 new books thanks to 50% off coupons (I love holiday shopping season sometimes, even though the traffic does suck) one on guitar theory since I'm tired of being clueless in regards to musical concepts and terminology. And secondly I've gotten this for my upcoming Kierkegaard and Nietzsche class: www.amazon.com/Fear-Trembling-Repetition-Kierkegaards-Writings/dp/0691020264/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292473168&sr=1-6Which reminds me, I also got this sometime last week: www.amazon.com/Monty-Python-Philosophy-Popular-Culture/dp/0812695933/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292473220&sr=1-1I normally dislike books like this, because they usually revolve around things which have little to do with Philosophy, however this is Monty Python and thus automatically an exception. You have to admire a comedy group whose comedy from decades ago is STILL high-brow.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Dec 16, 2010 6:31:23 GMT 2
That's a great haul! Huge thumbs up on the Kierkegaard purchase. That book has been responsible at one time for pulling me out of an existential abyss, and Kierkegaard and I have been on very close terms so to speak, as I wrote about earlier. Make sure to find his "Concluding Unscientific Postscript" somewhere - some used online places have it really cheap. The title may cause wonder, but the content is ground breaking and absolute food for thought. Makes me want to learn Danish just so I can understand him as he expressed himself. Rating a book low for being dry is strange... It's like rating the sky low for being blue. It's just the way it is ;D When a person can't even adjust to the book and expects the book to adjust to himself, something's wrong. I have seen that Ermengard book ever since it came out, standing on the shelves of this or that place. Let me know how it is! Been wondering about it, but knowing nothing of troubadours or the French side of medievalism, I've been wary of immersing myself into unfamiliar territory when there's still so much ground to cover in my own field University Press is always a plus.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Dec 16, 2010 6:37:00 GMT 2
Goethe's Master Wilhelms Apprenticeship, which is AWESOME because I can never afford to buy my most beloved German authors works in English. The only down side is I don't know how potent the translation is as I haven't been able to start reading it yet... . Is it the trade-sized softcover in white with a blue column and red cursive text title? That translation is damn good, READ IT ALREADY! That is one of my absolute favorite books of all time. You will kick yourself hard for each and every day of your life you haven't been reading it until the day that you do. You will understand this comment soon enough... That book's characters is like a circle of friends you want to spend your whole life with, and one of those books that was hard to finish because I didn't want it to end. Contains some of Goethe's most lyrical poetry as well. As well as his unique take on Shakespeare criticism.
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