iPod and other events/purchases

I am beginning to realize how many purchases I have made this summer all in the name of China. I have purchased luggage, shoes, sandals, pants, shirts, iPod..... Oh yes you read that correctly, I am now the proud owner of a beautiful little 20gb iPod. Thanks go Jonny Meyer and his ethusiasm for the new color iPods, I purchased it for 200 dollars and can now run around life with the soundtrack of my choice. Although I have been doing some thinking about how ridiculous it is that I would desire so badly a device that for 20 years of my life I was perfectly fine without. I do try to resist commercialism in some of its forms, but I have to admit I would probably be even worse about technology than I am now, if I actually had steady income. Just think about it in the past 3 years I have purchased a computer (actually the parts for one that was then put together by my brother), two digital cameras (one broke), and an iPod. I guess I am more mainstream than I would like to think. In other news the countdown for China is getting smaller and smaller, I feel like there are a million things to do, and I am beginning to get anxious that I will somehow forget one of them! must make myself a to-do list, yes, right as soon as I....