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The move has been a little bit expensive. I’m not broke, but I need to be careful for a while about how much money I spend. So, I’ve decided not to buy anything else until payday that I can’t pay for out of the money in my pocket (which, since I work for tips, should be enough to get me by for a while).
That, however, will not stop me window-shopping. I love window-shopping, and I’m good at it, because I can exercise restraint while I do it. I see things, I like them, I save them to wish lists or shopping carts, and then I don’t buy them. My Amazon shopping cart is ten pages long. My wishlist at T-Shirt Hell has a dozen shirts in it. Rotten Cotton, where I buy my horror movie T-shirts, doesn’t have a wishlist function, so I keep an Excel spreadsheet with my next twenty shirts listed on it (one of my more bizarre eccentricities; I'm planning on a new Evil Dead shirt, and something from Psycho, as my next purchases). Sometimes, as Mr. Spock learned to his sorrow, the wanting is better than the having.
Sometimes, though, no matter how restrained you are, you run across something that you absolutely HAVE to have, RIGHT NOW, no matter what. Something that you’re willing to be short on your rent to own. That happened to me just now. I was cruising the stacks at allposters.com, looking for a few inexpensive 8x10s to decorate the new place with, and came across this full-sized wonder:
Those of you who know me well know that I have a serious Audrey Hepburn obsession. I have more of her movies on cassette and DVD than any other actor aside from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (‘cause, you know, there are obsessions, and then there are OBSESSIONS) and consider her the best and most beautiful actress in the history of Hollywood. Plus, seriously, just look at that picture. Is that a great picture of her or what? Was there ever any chance that I would be able to resist that? I mean, come on! It was all I could do to resist getting it mondo-framed for an extra, like, $150.
And it was on sale! It was only $23, including shipping! I was hooked, the order is in, and by the end of the week that poster will be on its way to my new place.
So, okay, fine, I’m weak. I won’t buy anything else before the first, I promise. But this, I’m calling this a housewarming present to myself, and I don’t care how disappointed you all are in me. It is just lovely.
That, however, will not stop me window-shopping. I love window-shopping, and I’m good at it, because I can exercise restraint while I do it. I see things, I like them, I save them to wish lists or shopping carts, and then I don’t buy them. My Amazon shopping cart is ten pages long. My wishlist at T-Shirt Hell has a dozen shirts in it. Rotten Cotton, where I buy my horror movie T-shirts, doesn’t have a wishlist function, so I keep an Excel spreadsheet with my next twenty shirts listed on it (one of my more bizarre eccentricities; I'm planning on a new Evil Dead shirt, and something from Psycho, as my next purchases). Sometimes, as Mr. Spock learned to his sorrow, the wanting is better than the having.
Sometimes, though, no matter how restrained you are, you run across something that you absolutely HAVE to have, RIGHT NOW, no matter what. Something that you’re willing to be short on your rent to own. That happened to me just now. I was cruising the stacks at allposters.com, looking for a few inexpensive 8x10s to decorate the new place with, and came across this full-sized wonder:
Those of you who know me well know that I have a serious Audrey Hepburn obsession. I have more of her movies on cassette and DVD than any other actor aside from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (‘cause, you know, there are obsessions, and then there are OBSESSIONS) and consider her the best and most beautiful actress in the history of Hollywood. Plus, seriously, just look at that picture. Is that a great picture of her or what? Was there ever any chance that I would be able to resist that? I mean, come on! It was all I could do to resist getting it mondo-framed for an extra, like, $150.
And it was on sale! It was only $23, including shipping! I was hooked, the order is in, and by the end of the week that poster will be on its way to my new place.
So, okay, fine, I’m weak. I won’t buy anything else before the first, I promise. But this, I’m calling this a housewarming present to myself, and I don’t care how disappointed you all are in me. It is just lovely.
- My body's at:704B
- ...but my soul is:
desirous - Right now, I'm digging:Isaac Hayes, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
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And that picture is beautiful. Not that she wasn't to begin with, but that's particularly nice. :o)
EDIT: It's because she was a dancer. I've discovered that almost every time I fall in love with an actress, it turns out that she started out as a dancer. I wonder if that says something about me.
Edited at 2008-08-12 01:34 pm (UTC)