Impulse Buys (Part 1)
It’s 8:30am in the morning, and I’ve just woken up. This is completely unnatural seeing that my schedule revolves around the nighttime hours. Usually I would blame my noisy neighbors, a phone call/text message, or even the cold… but this morning there was something else on my mind that brought me to my computer. First being, I didn’t blog when I got home early this morning. Not that I always feel obligated to, but I did have a couple thoughts that I wanted to share and exhaustion just got in the way. (That and sleeping pills.)
When there’s something that I know that I want to purchase for myself, I sit there and wonder how long it would take for me to earn enough money to make it happen. There are a couple things that I want which I have placed in my wish list, but there are obviously more pressing items that are desperately calling for my attention. I can keep making excuses for myself like: my paycheck hasn’t come in yet, I’m out of my house as soon as stores close, the economy sucks and I need to save money… but those are all excuses. It shouldn’t stop me from attaining my heart’s materialistic desires.
Let’s play a little game…
I’m going to post all the things I’d like to buy before the day is over and when I get home tonight, I’ll post what I actually did buy.
Wish me luck! I’m going to try and go back to bed if the internet doesn’t keep distracting me.
I’m going with Resident Evil 5 for 360 and Plantronics
Put your money where your mouth is!
:D
50bucks says u get 3 out of 4
I already tried but it was to hard to eat with paper bills instead of teeth
:P
headf set and re5 soulkd be at top of list i like re5 its so nice
-mac19pm
RE5 is definitely a good choice, and those headphones look like a good investment. Esp considering i have a similar pair that has lasted two years.
30 bucks says she gets 2 out of the 4
Money is ultimately for spending. You’re right that those excuses shouldn’t stop you from attaining what you want. Happy spending on whatever you buy!
Get a new mouse! The G5 is so last gen lol.
Just buy it all….oh and hi!!
When you got home early this morning?
Goddamn, what time do you get off work?
Its Saturday night and she is probably partying right now. Getting blowed or she smoked too much and she went to bed. She’ll update the site.
I went into work at 5pm today to edit the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice awards and I’m still here at work ‘coz its a big ass event, and I don’t usually get home until fucking 3am or 4am anyway so you guys can srsly take a chill pill.
… Jesus shit dude. I didn’t really peg you for a long hour worker, even if you did like your job.
Do you know what I do?
Well hopefully you get to buy your things tommorrow and what DO you do ?
.. Not exactly.
Do you just wait until I reply to these comments before you actually listen?
Go back a couple blog posts. I even linked my work.
My phone won’t load the link lol, sorry I’m pissing you off
I just don’t see how you guys can remain ignorant about what I do when you obviously have access to that information.
Well, I kept in my head that you were an image editor but I thought there was something else.
If there isn’t anything else then, umm.. sorry.
Kk I’ll shutup now.
Fuck, man. If these are the kind of “fans” I have, then I really don’t need to leave my site open to the public.
Christ dude, I’m sorry. I’ll be sure to keep up with your fan-base expectation.
Or maybe grow some common sense.
I’m going through troubles here but I know you don’t like excuses or bullshit…
I will farm some common sense.
Shuffle!? I am disappointed.
@GameFreak, just ‘coz your life is shit doesn’t mean you have an excuse to act like an idiot.
@Mike – Dude, I was totally bitching about how the shuffle was pointless and stupid… but this guy at work, (I’ll give you a link to his blog he’s the greatest geek I’ve ever met), he gave me a reason to want the damn thing.
It’s not that it’s stupid, it’s the fact that you already have a device that satisfies the point of the device and does even more! Also, this device has introduced a required authentication chip that third party accessory providers have to purchase. Don’t support this. :(
a) I’ve been going to the gym lately and I’ve already experienced the unsatisfactory feeling of a giant iPhone banging against my hip pocket. I don’t know about you but when I run, it’s pretty much 1hr of high level running with 15 min jogging cooldowns and a walk around the gym. After doing that long enough, oh and dropping the fucking thing twice, I really don’t mind dropping 80 bucks on a 4gb MP3 player that can make the experience at the gym better than what it has been.
b) I don’t give two flying fucks about 3rd party supporters. I’ll support the company that keeps me happy and satisfied. It seriously is worth every penny I’ve thrown into them.
*edit* OH and I think it’s brilliant how Apple’s keeping their dirty claws ontop of their own technology. It’s smart as fuck, and if I were to ever run a company where my competitors are always trying to steal the tech to make it their own… I’d be as stingy as they are.
@MoeTuesday13 – You’ll see what I purchased later tonight when I get home.
@ J-Mack – If only I had the funds to do so. Oh Hi back.
ok then, forget everything I said on this post. I’m screwing myself everytime I type something in.
And the shuffle? Must’ve been once convincing blog to made you change your mind.
You know you could just try “Wii Fit” XD
a) I guess I underestimate my stature, for the iPhone is a tiny device, I barely even notice it’s there.
b) The point is not the well being of third parties, I could care less if they have problems because of this new impediment, it’s Apple’s branching control scheme that you should be aware of. Just because they make devices and software that make you happy, doesn’t mean you should turn a blind eye to their actions.
a) Haha also the iPhone against your hip is not nearly the same as it is on mine. The iPhone on your hip might be much more comfortable than the iPhone on mine.
b) There are many things that make me unhappy with Apple. Just because they are limiting other people from developing headphones which might make others’ experiences with the product better, OR worse, isn’t really one of them.
Am I upset that they take forFUCKINGever to release technology that they’ve been holding back? Damn straight. But, all the same, me buying a shuffle doesn’t affect what they do today, or in the next five years.
Why don’t I just enjoy what I can now, until the next better shit comes along? It’s not like I’m pledging to a cult or something ;)
Holy fucking shit what happened here? God dammit gamefreak you’re the reason we can’t have nice things around here.
@Gamefreak
All right, here’s the end of your misery. I don’t normally go to this extent in having to explain myself to random idiots, but it seems like this is never going to end unless I make a clear example out of someone.
“… Jesus shit dude. I didn’t really peg you for a long hour worker, even if you did like your job.”
This is what I see out of that particular comment.
1) You have absolutely no understanding of what it is to actually have a job that you completely love. Have you ever worked at a job that you did not like or felt like wasn’t getting you anywhere? Have you ever had a job at all?
2) Your assumption of me not being a long hour worker could have come from something as silly as Twitter post, a mobile photo, or even word of mouth. But, you obviously have access to this site and my blog to know better. If my previous posts have not been clear enough to you that I’m actually posting my daily life’s blurbs, then you can GTFO here ‘coz I want none of that on this site.
If you REALLY need a dumbed-down explanation of what “nocturnal shift editing at Getty Images” means, then sit the fuck down and I’ll explain it to you. Take out a crayon and some note cards so you can follow, please.
I work for a company called, Getty Images. What they do is they send out a production team, (that means someone with a camera, and someone holding a microphone with a list of celebrities they want to talk to… Celebrities are the beautiful people you see on the magic box they call a televsion) to various red carpet events. Events such as: Academy Awards (that’s the Oscars), Fashion Shows (like Victoria Secret, Dior, Chanel, John Varvatos) Charity Events (Where people donate money for good causes, like saving fluffy animals), Movie Premieres (I Love You Man, Watchmen, Monsters vs. Aliens), and maybe something you might be more familiar with, which I recently worked on tonight: Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards.
As soon as they are done shooting the event, celebrities, interviews, shows, etc. they take the footage that they’ve just shot and they send it back to the offices for an editor to cut. (That would be me, Cami, if you are still following.) Usually these events happen at night (that’s when the sun goes down and its dark outside). So, in order to get these clips up and ready for sale, they need someone that can cut rather quickly and proficiently to make it up to the website as soon as possible. (Again, that’s me.)
Once the clips go up on the site, there are many companies that purchase the footage to use.
Not everyone can make it to these events in order to do certain segments on it. Whether it be the news, an entertainment channel, a documentary, a commercial, or whatever the fuck it is you see on television… they just purchase it from companies like Getty. Oh, and a little note to attatch to your wonderfully growing coloring book of information: These events happen ALL OVER THE WORLD. Not everyone can go to London for one event, and then fly to New York for another, and make it back in time for another event in Japan. Getty is stationed all around the world to collect the footage from certain events so that the people who don’t have the funds, or the time, to put this all together can just use a third party company like Getty to make the magic happen.
Again, I don’t expect you to have known this at all since it’s rather obvious that you don’t even want to try to understand something you have no familiarity with. Instead you would rather slur out comments as if you already knew everything there was to know.
Fucking Christ, I don’t even talk about my job because there are more things that I want to talk about. But, it’s a damn respectable job and I’m insanely proud to have, especially in times as hard as these. Sorry if it isn’t being a game developer, or a girl gaming whore, or even being dressed up in a Chuck-E-Cheese outfit. Something that you probably have more respect for.
End of comments. Anything after this, will just get deleted. I’m hungry.