Hurray for impulse buys!
July 15th, 2005So now I’m like $450ish poorer because I decided I wanted a Dell 2005FPW, a 20 inch wide screen LCD. I’ve been waiting for the price on this thing to drop… for about 2 weeks. Haha, I really wanted to wait till it was under the $400 range, but looks like it’s not going to happen anytime soon so I bought it now. It will go nicely with my computer coming tomorrow! I still need a video card for it… Anyhow, mom is pissed at me for spending $450 on a monitor because her sole friend in the world got a complete system for $200 and here I am spending over double on just a monitor. I admit part of it is a waste, but to me it’s worth it. She was all like we haven’t bought a house so there is no one to impress with your monitor. I was like WTF of course, certainly didn’t buy it to impress anyone. If I did, I would have sprung for the 24” LCD… Anyhow, the value of money is different to everyone. Time and time again I get into arguments about how terrible my spending habits are, but like I said, the value of money is different to everyone. For me, having the monitor gives me greater benefits than having $450 to spend on other things. Or really more in my case to pay bills. On the same token I feel like I must mention I rather have the 8K in my bank account than going to get me the best car 8K is going to buy me. Actually I have more than that to spend on a car, but really I rather have the money especially when I have a car that drives for now. I really want my next car to be something with amazing power. I want that thing to accelerate quick!
Been thinking as well, I’m feel like I’m for sure going to take the full time position and do full time school right along with it. Kinda plan on moving out to some place in Newark to be closer to well school and work and everything else in my life. Also, should make some plans to talk to financial aid and see if I can get anything else, maybe even something like a subsided loan. With my scholarships and cash, I only have about half of what I need by August 1. Plus I ‘m going to have to buy those darn books. Even expensive when used…
Anyhow, never made it down to the real beach. I settled for the fake beach, got a bunch of pictures, 2 of them are in my coppermine picture thing (see link to the right).