I finally ordered a book shelf with my freakin' Overstock.com store credit card. It was $72apprx and I utilized a 10% off coupon which made the cost more like $65. I'm a Club O Gold member ($20/year), so the s/h was free. It may have been free anyway since a lot of their merchandise if not all of it is free to ship if you get $45+ worth of it. Anyway, it was $65-ish, no tax, s/h included....no added tariffs or santa clauses. Just $65(ish)
I don't know how that compares to what WalMart.com has to offer. I spent hours upon hours a ways ago looking at TV stands at WalMart.com and if I remember correctly, the best option @ the lowest price was something for $40. So I can't imagine $65/$70 is too much more than I hypothetically could have paid somewhere else. The only catch I see is that I need to put it together when it gets here, which may mean I'll have to hold off on putting anything in or on it..........don't know when I'll be able to put it together. Of course -- it's not even here yet, which makes that fact kinda duh, except I hadn't explicitly said I didn't order overnight s/h and that it was successful..............
Anyway..............
I now owe Overstock $700-ish. (eer). My sis ain't gonna be happy to hear this.
I wouldn't care that much except I got so many books on my media shelf that sis & her husband gave me that I can't hold more than 1 or 2. The bottom shelf is the only option for books, it's not sturdy enough to support a book collection, hence the dubbing "media shelf".
I think I'll forgo Rhapsody this coming month. I have a buttload of CDs, many of which I bought over these past few weeks. Was listening to Enya's A DAY WITHOUT RAIN. Some of the lyrics are kinda stupid. There's this one song called "Pilgrim". According to the lyricist, finding "who you are" is a long journey. My eyes can't roll far back enough to explain how utterly stupid that song is. It's crap like that where "new age" becomes a synonym for pegeanism rather than merely a genre of music. Until the 1960's or thereabouts, midlife crises were not expected from anybody in the United States. Why? Because this nation rested on God Almighty who provides security and comfort. People knew where we as humans came from, we understood the nature of our history, and we understood how it pertains to our destination and we were looking forward to it. Then these activists started making a big fuss about the presence of God in this nation and since then people have been tinkering with the weight of the pros and cons of allowing students to pray in school. My history teacher pointed out that Christians would be offended if a Muslim stood up and started praying or if a Buddhist bowed down and started chanting. I agreed with his argument then, but that's because I was raised in an anti-Christian household and had no real knowledge of what Christianity was except some set of beliefs, i.e.: "just another religion". But I now realize that is A) a weak and cowardly argument and B) incorrect and C) dangerous. It's C) in the sense that offensive speech should not be outlawed. We as a people spent almost two decades fighting censorship of literature and movies. Now people want the government to censor direct quotes from actual people? And B) -- bigotry does not go hand in hand with Christianity. Bigotry goes hand in hand with narrow mindedness and having a religion does not automatically make a person narrow minded. Yes, most high schoolers and young folk who are branded Christian are "that way" because they were raised to be that way. Since when is that a bad thing? People seem to think that because The U.S. Constitution includes a section about freedom of religion that all religions are equally valid. No religious text that I'm aware of inspired that tidbit from the Constitution and the anti-Christian interpretation that people have of it has nothing to do with the text at hand or the inspiration of that text. The Constitution does not say you're not allowed to debate the merits of one religion over another. It's basically just dictating that if someone disagrees with the idea that God is who we as a people circa 1776 say he is, then the government is not going to imprison him or deprive him of his rights as a citizen, which would be freedom of speech. If a non Christian starts talking, we are not required to stop talking so he can be heard. As a Christian society, we should have never sat back and allowed such people to walk about freely without trying to persuade them of their error(s). The U.S. Constituion isn't about SOCIETY. It's about GOVERNMENT. Christians have just as much right to speak as non Christians. Republicans have just as much right to speak as Democrats and smart people have just as much right to speak as stupid people. If someone says something wrong, the government --- nor anyone else --- should be free to beat up or shoot someone for saying something wrong. You win an argument by talking it through. If a civil and well paced discussion is not on your menu, then you need to sharpen your sense of civilization.
What's done is done tho. There's no turning back. God forsaw this and warned us of it in the Book of Revelation. On the upside, Heaven will face a stunning renovation that makes the old one as breathtaking as it already is pale in comparison. It's just sad that so many of God's creation want no part of it.
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