zedzdead pretty much sums up why I am hesitating with this – ought I get a garage before I get a cello? So I’ll have somewhere to stash it when I lose interest? Except, I don’t really collect expensive things in that manner. Or do I?

Buy it. A good instrument makes a world of difference and you’ll be making beautiful music, for yourself and everyone else. Money’s just money.

Where do I send my $50?

Despite the forgoing questions, we only pass this way once and therefore, anyone who plays a cello should have one even if they have to rent or borrow one.

so i guess the question is, how much will it cost? clearly there is a maximum limit in your head, too.

anne: she’s got both the pale skin/dark hair and the wide-mouth-frog mouth of liv tyler, without either quite the height or the rock-star dad. liv tyler with knives, and harps. and more muscular shoulders.

on egotism, my philosophy is we have to be, no one else is going to be egotistic for us. in the long run, we have to be egotistical for our relationships to work, and for the sake of our children if we have them, we must be, for we want them to be happy and they learn by example. we can’t say: look, i’m miserable because i never thought of myself or actually i thought of myself but i was miserable and i thought about how miserable i was all the time and wished i could do something for myself and take what life offered me but i let it pass and don’t you make the same mistake. we can’t say that we have to show them how we want them to live.

but what i’m wondering about right now is, we want something or need something, and life seems to present us with a chance to actually get it, if sometimes in a way we had not imagined. and we sometimes chicken out. can’t blame life for that.

re, jonesing: definitely not materialistic, i don’t think you have to worry about that. (i won’t even DARE try to answer the other questions, lest my bill here grow exorbitant…)

ok, so do you accept paypal?
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