green is not my color...

or: the Kaos family's further adventures in tech consumer whoring...

Once upon a time babies Mr. Kaos had all the cool tech in our house and I had none.

Sad huh? He had is nice computers and recording equipment and palm pilots... and to be frank I was a little too busy to deal with anything except my basic computer.

You know... I was a little busy with the kid, wanting desperately to move back to Portland from the sub-suburbs and trying to figure out just why I was feeling like a libido lacking frumpy lunatic...

Once all that got worked out (well I still have to deal with the child... but what can I say... I love her) I somehow, slowly, over time, started to acquire some fun tech. For the past year or two I would say that I have been the spoiled queen of technology goods in my house. I've been very lucky and Mr. Kaos has been very good to shower me with the computery devices I coveted most... even though I am silly enough to call them "computery"...

But now with a single purchase I feel as though the tide is starting to turn.... He has a new computery thing that I love and covet... even though it's only been in our house for a few hours I can't help lusting over it. Looking at it longingly. Dreaming of holding it in my hot little hands and pressing its half scale keys...

Oh EEE PC how I yearn for you... in pink.

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Mr. Kaos decided to go sideways on the technology road. He was considering giving up his Treo in favor of an iPhone but decided to add on this hot little tiny computer instead. he says it's the hot tattooed chick of the computer world...

I guess he has a type with computers and women...

riptide

MrKaos: Do you know what I was thinking about?

CamiKaos: no what?

MK: I used to have this old girl and she started looking kind of dowdy but she was really nice and reliable and did all the things I wanted her to do... if you know what I mean.

CK: *fit of giggles*

MK: And then I saw this hot new chick, slim and sleek and shiny... And you can't get her out of your mind cause she just keeps popping up everywhere...

CK: Is this the whole why are fat girls like a scooter joke.... oh. no, you're thinking about my iPhone...

MK: And I would get her if I could be sure she would do all the things my old girl would, like let me stick things in her slots...

temptation

I've been thinking about temptation quite a bit lately. While I am a lusty lady and the first image the word temptation brings to mind is a passionate one... it isn't what has been on my mind... We all struggle with temptation don't we?

Things I have been tempted to do this week:

*drink another cherry coke
*take a nap when K is at school instead of doing chores
*have an all night movie marathon instead of sleep
*make a pitcher of Miki Tikis all for myself
*lay naked in front of the fire reading a book
*rip the counter, cabinets and floor from my kitchen and start from scratch
*take a jack hammer to my bathroom floor cause I can't keep it clean
*cry for an hour for no real reason I can discern
*buy a whole new wardrobe
*book a trip with Mike and K to Hawaii
*book a trip with Mike and K to Germany
*book a trip with Mike and K to Scotland
*turn the heat up to 75
*scratch my tattoo
*drink yet another cherry coke
*build a green house so I can grow veggies year round
*paint our picture rail again
*lay in bed and watch Scooby movies with K
*make creamy mushroom soup from scratch
*get another toy for K for Christmas
*buy a ton of toys for the toy drive
*bake cookies
*get new boots
*look at the present Mike & K got me that sits unwrapped covered in a plastic bag in the family room
*go for ice cream
*stop eating meat altogether
*have a nice steak
*meditate in a sun beam
*tip over a rock tower
*write my own letter to Santa Claus
*wrap up all the Christmas presents
*dance with Mike
*find an old friend
*have another child
*join the circus
*ask my brother and S why they don't get married
*shoot a portrait of my family the way I see them
*put every candle in the house in one room and light them
*take another portrait of my family in the candle light
*take a bath

That's not all, but it's a good chunk. Most of them I haven't done (except that cherry coke one, damn thing gets me every time). Some of them would be wonderful. Others are harmless or crazy. Some would have real lasting impact, even though it wouldn't seem so. Some I do not do out of laziness. Others wisdom, time, money and insanity. Some are passing thoughts others dwell in my mind... Some I know I won't do, some I will do on a smaller scale and some I think are great ideas all on their own.

Some of these things are good, some are bad, some are just impossible so why are they all temptations?