Shopping

JCPenney

I'm shopping here because I have a rewards card that acts as a credit line for JCPenney and something called Sephora, if it is attached to JCPenney or something.  Otherwise, I ran out of money...

I'm getting 4 tops, 4 pants, a sweater, sneakers, 4 girls sports bras, and 12 pairs of socks, which I left out because they wouldn't load on the internet.  The tops and pants come in different colors.

It's so I can easily go to the gym when I go out.  Right now, I have a subscription where I can see 3 movies a week for about $21 a month.  I take the bus and can just wear this.

I needed to change my phone number on my JC Penney Rewards card / JC Penney credit line and so am waiting for a letter in the mail when I will call them back.  It's $225 + socks, and I have $500 on the line, pay back like $20-$25 per month I think.  Otherwise, I would have to wait until maybe mid-October if I didn't shop here and on eBay instead.  The colors aren't as exciting as I'd hoped, though.  I hope I get the letter soon as we creep up to mid-September.  The shipping for this is free, too.  I am also trying to cancel my Sea World and Aquatica membership because I just don't have that kind of money.  It's about $30/month, but the food is expensive and I'm not allowed to bring much food into the water park.  Maybe, someday? or ballet classes? in hopes I can audition for something for fun like a local musical.  I mostly want a successful career and am going back and learning a 2nd instrument as violin.  (You might say organ and singing are 2nd "instruments" I did, though.  I also did piano.)

So, the tunics are $5 each, so if I want longer ones I may get some on eBay later.  I got XS so it wouldn't be lose.  At least, they probably won't "ride up."

Well, okay, here's the clothes.

 

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The Third Option (2018)

Everything You Love Will Burn (2018)

Penguins (2007)

Race (2007)

Backing Up

People who research human reactions to things like art and music might be going backwards, like child's play, in their material.  That's the sort of idea of a thing that pulled me away from going straight to performing/creating artistic things, to study and "teach" artistic and musical psychology, related somewhere in my subconscious to my sequence of goals in my career life.

Dance is another thing, which I did a big end of the year project on ballet in high school, had to pick I think any scientific topic, for chemistry class.  It was probably mostly about things like physics but not extremely informed.  I probably talked about things like nutrition and maybe should have gone into emotions and mood.

So, I sorta wanted to be like an intellectual or academic, to be still and to think.  I even got an invitation to Cambridge, I think.  I was told I write well, and so was my dad, though I think we have significant differences.  Some people are very smart and in special ways that I'm not.  I see I sorta go into meaty stuff, in ways comparably ... without just sorta like a riptide of pleasure, waiting for my prey or without being what I think is voluntarily unintelligible ... though I used to write unintelligibly for the grade when in a hurry, for whatever mistake of a lifestyle, the way of things I was used to.

One reason I wouldn't go maybe is I enjoyed "taking a stab at" life in a culture I could manipulate, the US where I'm from.  I used to do music for fun, but I wished to do it professionally at that.  True, I'm a school fanatic.  I like to see myself gifted in math and good at writing.  I guess I had good grammar classes and excelled at that step.  I actually finished being familiar and quick with letters by "falling in love with" "The Letter People."

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Is classical music like special needs services?

I know classical music is a controversial topic of popularity because it's not something easy to get up and do, for some reason like electric guitar is, maybe because where there's pop singers there's pop musicians or something...

So, classical music is considered necessary and not something everyone can do.  It's not for every heritage or country.  It may not be considered respectable or even vital, but it's a symbol of tradition and something demanded as accessible.  If you can't do it and want to, people can be mean to you, if not dumping on you the mandated task that you have to learn it as an adult really hard and never really make it to the top or something, that you'll otherwise and then never amount to anything.  It's strange they don't seem to encourage this in kids in the US maybe.  You are throwing your life away because you could amount to something else, disillusioned by the idea if you love classical music your life should be comfortable and you should be able to play without being laughed at.

I've already glided over the fact that race and heritage should not be in the way of having classical musical instruments of some sort to play scientifically discovered classical music.  It's discrimination in the US and a secret way of thinking.  It's "backwards thinking."

A Big Statement

What do you think of leading young people into false promises socially/emotionally?

It's a big thing, apparently, you can get with the example of Pinocchio and "Happy Days."  Spoilers: Pinocchio is tempted to do nothing but enjoy himself, and in "Happy Days" the main character is told he is pretty much worthless if he signs a contract for Hollywood maybe nearing the end of his high school days, as opposed to doing what everyone else does, go to college, get a job, and have their own family, away from all that other "fun" stuff.

So, this is not me as a private "broken record" actually but the truth in many things now.  I came to realize that "things haven't changed."

I found a new way to save money.

When you get money, shop in this order... bearing in mind each individual, physical store, itself, is different from its other branches.

1. Dollar Tree - "Everything's a dollar." (I worked here in May, mostly at the cash register, nonstop, but only part-time.)
2. Dollar General - It's not really all a dollar but cheap.
3. Family Dollar - It's not really all a dollar but cheap.

4. Wal-Mart
5. Target

6. CVS
7. Walgreens

Also, you may have other favorites and deals.

So, obviously to you, I made a mistake.  I figured this out for next time so I don't panic.  I don't know what I lost or gained.  Each store is different, different deals, different products, some special at different stores...  I stopped and couldn't think at one of the later stores and I spent around as much as I expected but actually much more.  I didn't know what to get or what not to get.  I needed these things, not so much "fun."

Edit

I edited my last post a 2nd time.

Hello?

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This is about an Asian violinist.

It says, "Mi-Sa Yang and Jonas Vitaud have hopped over Mozart’s childhood piano and violin sonatas and gone straight for the gold in this four-strong programme: a pair each from the 1778 (K304 and 306) and 1781 (K379 and 380) sets, published respectively in Paris and Vienna just before and just after his final resignation from Archbishop Colloredo’s straitjacketing court life. The first thing to hit your ears in the opening K379 is the delectable combination of timbres from Yang and Vitaud’s modern instruments. Softly sparkling, delicately jewel-like from Vitaud, drawing all the plus points and none of the negatives of employing a modern concert grand in this repertoire. Then Yang sounding darkly stringy and lean, vibrato used sparingly. Indeed, ‘less is more’ is the order of the day here. Beautifully so too, although for some it might be a little too … little. Take the variations of K379 where, by and large, their approach to the repeats is simply to add ornamentation (and Yang’s ornaments in the first half of Var 3 are really delectable). Then compare it to the subtle colouristic and articulational contrasts of Petra Müllejans and Kristian Bezuidenhout (Harmonia Mundi, 6/09), or the even more pronounced shifts – portamentos even – to be heard from Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim (DG). Likewise compare the gentle shift of mood in Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov’s K304 Allegro first-half repeat (Harmonia Mundi, 11/18) to the pretty much verbatim one of Yang and Vitaud."

They are trying to go back in time and downsize people's popularity by attacking them in the cradle.  It's probably a "no" to me, for good, not like, "They said no, now we can say they were wrong."  Maybe, "Christina is okay, but these people are better," and I actually meant the people responsible for the ideas/inspiration of this blog post.  People keep thinking they can jog the past, (must be Democratic...)

Edit: I mainly posted this because I found they mentioned a violinist I like who is not famous and at least one other famous person who I haven't seen featured like this at random.  It's as though, it were everyday mentions.  I think Joshua Bell and Hilary Hahn are more famous but not usually mentioned.  Yo Yo Ma seems to come up with most reports.  Oh, and one more violinist who has been involved with people the violinist I noticed works with.