schizophrenia and bad habbit I need to break
Hi, I’m Mark and I have a problem. I spend money like mad house, if there is something I want, I get it. Here are two cases to prove my point:
Schizophrenia (Schizo for short), is now mine. What am I talking about? No its not the disease in my case, but a Leopard gecko. Here are some pictures of him:
Case 2: I’ve been wanting a new phone, a smart phone, so when Android was announced, I got real excited. So when the G1, the first android enabled cell phone was announced, I was hooked. The first day it was out, I bought it, and I have yet to regret it. Here is a picture of the beauty:
and yes, it does hover just like that. It blew away all expectations I had of it, it was more responsive, more user friendly, and easier to program for. Before it came out I had a pretty basic sms message logger, now that I have it, I have made it even better by making so it will log both incoming and outgoing messages, and counting how many times each word is sent or received. I believe some features I will work on are:
- Make it so you do not need an internet connection, making it simply uses an internal SQL database (sqlLite).
- Make so it will count how many messages per phone number (in and out) so you can see who you talk to most.
This phone is so amazing, you can get everything on it, full internet, calendar that syncs with google calendars, your contacts sync with google contacts, this phone pretty much syncs with everything Google and I love it!
Little Big Planet is an amazing game, I have had it pre-ordered since they announced it. Amy and Brandon have had a hoot playing it as well so it shows me how much the game really rocks. For those who don’t know, Little Big Planet or LBP is a multi-player platformer game. You are a sackboy, or sackgirl and you run through levels to defeat the “collector” who is stealing content from everybody and not sharing! How horrible!
Another thing I did was buy myself a blanket set, a smaller one for just me, and another one for sharing. I got them from http://fauxpawfurs.com/, I got the Sierra fabric, and it looks exactly like a wolf’s fur and feels really soft, but without it being actual fur! Here are some pictures:
It has been very nice to have, not that my apartment gets really cold, but it is nice to have something warm and fuzzy to have just in case.
So, if you haven’t noticed there is a trend going on there. Everything on this list is something that I bought. And most of them cost more than $100. So i’ve made a promise to myself and to Amy that I won’t buy anything like that for at least 1 year. This includes Video Games, movies, pretty much anything except for things I need to live, like food and rent and stuff.
I did go out and buy Mirrors edge, a game, but I traded in seneral other games so I only spent about $18 on it instead of the normal $60, and it was worth it, Amy and Brandon say they get sick when they watch me play it, but I just have tons of fun and run around and jump and punch and run again! it is a lot of fun.
My life is changing a lot lately, and I hope all is for the better. Drop me a comment, tell me what you think.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Hmm, fauxpawfurs.com sounds very familiar
That actually looks really cool. My house is huge and so it gets pretty cold. I could probably use something like that.
I think this will be a positive change. Stay on top of it for a bit and you’ll be amazed at how much more money you have than you thought.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I think Schizo is adorable and I want to see him, in person.
As for the spending money thing…saving is a good idea.