Okay, my birthday actually isn't for a few more weeks but today I went down to the silent auction they were holding in the breakroom at work for the American Cancer Society and there on the table, was a blank bid for an ipod. It started at $150. Now, I do have a stashed away account for Christmas and dancing lessons I could pull the money from. Hmm... I asked one of the women running the auction about it and she said it was a brand new ipod classic 120GB. They had recieved it at a fundraiser for bringing in over $6,000 and their team had donated it to the auction. I checked out the ipod online, apparently 120GB is quite large, the biggest one apple is currently selling to tell you the truth. (They stopped selling the 160GB). And it sells for $249. When I went back, someone had outbid me by two dollars so I upped it two more and got it. What was really funny was the other bidder was also named Sarah which caused a bit of a stir I understand as they were not sure "Sarah" understood how the silent auction worked. For years I have wanted an ipod but the laptop came first and the camera came second. I had just started poking around in the adds to start my research. (I save up for something, research it, and then buy it.) I was SO EXCITED when I got it for $154. I told myself it could be an early birthday present to myself. I still can't believe I actually own one. It's so weird. I am hoping it will motivate me to go excercise so I can loose the extra fat that has built up over the last year. I have really wanted something to listen to while I go in our excercise room to work out. And now I can download the podcasts from LiveWire! and listen to them and laugh any time I want. I understand that by the end of the day, many of the people in my agency at work knew I had got the ipod. Now if I could just figure out how to use it... Maybe I'll ask the Willamette students I'm speaking to next week.
So here is my wish list for my birthday.
-A red case the ipod goes into to protect it.
-A gift certificate to itunes to buy music.
-Someone to show me how to use the blasted thing.
