Guess Who Just Got Their First Tattoo?
Hey everyone, life's been crazy busy. I joined The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia which means I now have yet more letters after my name [which hopefully will come in handy the next time I play Scrabble] and I currently have three jobs [I'm a workaholic, apparently] and my main job has me off ON AUDIT at the moment [which is making me yet more of a workaholic: except for booze, not work] so yes, lots going on! As always I've been buying videogames for my myriad of systems and heck, I even spent A SOLID HOUR playing ONE OF THEM the OTHER DAY so that particular form of retail therapy can't be a TOTAL WASTE.
Anyway, working the crazy hours I've been doing nudges me into the danger territory of "frivolous spending on awesome things you don't need = relaxing" and last week I finally pushed the stress needle into the red and said "You know what? I'm only going to use it at the bus stop once or twice a week, but that won't stop me dropping an obscene amount of money on an iPod!". So I did some research and found you can get iPods that play MOVIES and TV SHOWS and I'm like "Yes! I can watch Undergrads or Aqua Teen Hunger Force (again) at opportune future moments!". I knew what I wanted, and most stores carried them. It was a plan that couldn't possibly fail.
And then it failed. American Express [which is hot'n'heavy to form an Evil Alliance with the Chartered Accountant Death Star] basically offered me [as a new Chartered Accountant] a 1/4 price 80gb iPod, which I accepted.. but it doesn't arrive in the post for 2 weeks. So now I can't buy an iPod (or other music player), and I need to spend money recklessly on stuff in the meantime between Stressful Now and Hello Ipod. And then today (yesterday) the stress needle nudged into the black region, I took a long lunch hour and...
How Stella Got Her Awesome Back, Starring N/K as Stella. To paraphrase Stan Bush, I Got The Touch.
P.S. Don't worry, my next appointment in tomorrow morning at the barber's.
Anyway, working the crazy hours I've been doing nudges me into the danger territory of "frivolous spending on awesome things you don't need = relaxing" and last week I finally pushed the stress needle into the red and said "You know what? I'm only going to use it at the bus stop once or twice a week, but that won't stop me dropping an obscene amount of money on an iPod!". So I did some research and found you can get iPods that play MOVIES and TV SHOWS and I'm like "Yes! I can watch Undergrads or Aqua Teen Hunger Force (again) at opportune future moments!". I knew what I wanted, and most stores carried them. It was a plan that couldn't possibly fail.
And then it failed. American Express [which is hot'n'heavy to form an Evil Alliance with the Chartered Accountant Death Star] basically offered me [as a new Chartered Accountant] a 1/4 price 80gb iPod, which I accepted.. but it doesn't arrive in the post for 2 weeks. So now I can't buy an iPod (or other music player), and I need to spend money recklessly on stuff in the meantime between Stressful Now and Hello Ipod. And then today (yesterday) the stress needle nudged into the black region, I took a long lunch hour and...
How Stella Got Her Awesome Back, Starring N/K as Stella. To paraphrase Stan Bush, I Got The Touch.
P.S. Don't worry, my next appointment in tomorrow morning at the barber's.