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I completely lost track of my spending last weekend. All it takes it to stop doing something for one day and then you’re track’s completely broken. So, didn’t make it a month. Plus the spending I did on Tuesday would completely wreck my percentages.

That said, I’m very happy with my Tuesday purchases. I’ve been looking for some decent black jeans for about two years, plain black, not very dark grey. Black. I found some amazing ones in Bay. I also got this weird dress/top thing from New Look which looks really cool. I’m clueless with fashion, but the stuff that’s in fashion is a bit weird at the moment. I got some other things too… basically spent too much money, but for some reason I felt like I needed to.

I am managing to hold back on buying a new mobile phone. I really dislike my current phone, but until that breaks I really have no excuse to purchase an extravagance that costs 150 of the English pounds. It won’t offer me many benefits, better mobile internet, but who really needs to be connected 100% of the time… and it’s pink. And shiny. But. I’m going to wait until summer to make a decision about this, hopefully by that time I’ll be earning, and that would be the sensible thing to do.

Going home tonight. Easter break. Gonna get some Ben and Jerry’s on the way home and cuuuddllle up with mah hunnnie.

Redyed my hair – it’s now half black and I rebleached the other side so it’s really bright blonde. That side is going to go pink in a week or so

I’m not doing so well with the not spending unnecessary money it would seem. I’m going to try to rectify that since I only have about £100 to last me until April 16th…

I also missed a few expenses off of this, car insurance because while it’s come out of my account I’m still not 100% sure how much it was because they made changes. When it shows up on the statement I’ll consider it gone. Also, I ordered two books off of amazon – totaling about £12, but I plan to get reimbursed for that as Easter presents.

They were…

I’m working towards a goal of a more varied and healthy diet and I’d heard good things about these books. Once they arrive I’m going to aim to try one recipe a week and work out what I like, don’t like and can grow to like. I’m an incredibly fussy eater and a huge cheesatarian so it should be good to get some variation…

Monday 19th March

Broccoli £0.42
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream £2.50
Curly Fries £0.99
Waffles £1.69
Pepper £0.78
Organic Goats Cheese £1.29
Pasta £0.85
Crisps £0.48
Quorn Escallops £1.99
Bagels £0.70
Lindor Egg £0.50
Cheese Baps £0.20
Butternut Chunks £0.75
Houmous £0.99
Birthday Card £1.85
Gift Voucher £10

Totals so far…
£192.71
Necessary £141.46 73.41%
Unnecessary £51.25 26.59%

Anonymouse, who are yoooou?

Adbusters have announced ‘Slow Down Week’ (see the animation here). The premise being:

For one week, instead of running to catch the bus or zipping in and out of traffic, try walking to work. Instead of grabbing take-out on the way home, cook a meal with your family. Leave the TV and computer off, and play an old-fashioned board game, or just sit and catch up with family and friends. If possible, take a day off work — and then while it away with a long walk and an afternoon nap.

It sounds interesting, but then one has to have been going fast in the first place for that to work

I checked out the latest Adbusters in the liiiibary t’other day, it was a roundup of 2006 edition, which, as per usual, scared me senseless. It’s very interesting though. Always worth reading.

Also, it being new year and all, I thought I’d share this link with you – yes everyone claims to have the secret to willpower, but this kind of thing I think would actually work if anyone actually tried it.

And now, I must go blitz my Play to Create project………..

ETA: I’ve been chocolateless since Sunday…. similar to last year I’ve given it up.

Happy new year. Do not drink wine. That is all.

I can’t believe it’s 2007. That’s all kinds of scary. I’ll be 20 this year, no more teenagerness. Although, twenteen

I’m working on an essay about imagined communities, joy. Ed’s playing Sonic Heroes, I’m jealous. But I’m listening to Placebo, so it’s ok. And I have cake. Good cake.

Also, if you’ve never heard of Girls are Pretty and have a few decades to waste reading amusing things, you should go there now.

I want waffles oh yes I do, I want waffles and so should you.

Time and memory fades all too quickly. All those amazing moments and experiences, gone, lost.

Is the fact that we’re allowed to have those moments at all the reason we’re not allowed to keep them all? Is that the price? Is that why we’re told to live in the now? Is there only room in one’s head to keep some of them? All of the above? I do hope not. I want them all.

If there’s nothing to look back on, what do we have to look forward to? How would we know?

Sometimes people walk into your life, knock you off your feet for whatever reason, and you wonder what you did to deserve them. People are the most amazing things. They can also be the most annoying things, but that’s ok. It makes the good ones that much more special.

If you can’t be bothered to get out of bed in the morning, do it anyway. You never know what might happen.

Thanks for sharing my random moment.

The compilation album thus far:

1. I Know a Song that’ll get on your Bananaphone
2. I Bananaphone
3. A Little Bananaphone
4. Take a Bananaphone

I found a quote in Remediation (Bolter/Grusin) which I quite liked by Meredith Bricken, I don’t think it just applies to Virtual Reality, but that’s just me. Anyway, I found it on the web, citing it from this linky

“you can be the mad hatter or you can be the teapot; you can move back and forth to the rhythm of a song. You can be a tiny droplet in the rain or in the river; you can be what you thought you ought to be all along. You can switch your point of view to an object or a process or another person’s point of view in the other person’s world.”