Day Two Hundred - Game Show Winner

It's not often in my life that I pursue the materialistic. And yet, my house is filled with crap. I have closets [and chests of drawers] filled with clothes and shoes and everything else, I have a half dozen bookshelves filled with books, hundreds of CDs [yes, I still buy CDs - shut up], there are currently four computers here and lots of unused furniture even [lamps, TV, a brand new mattress, a slightly broken VCR, computer desk, phones, etc.]. Truthfully, I don't enjoy shopping at all - it's not something I would willingly do or make sport of like most other women [okay, except for grocery shopping]. By nature I am cheap with money and I accept the limitations of having a small living space so much that I do dread bringing new things into it...so most times I don't. I just hold on to what I've got for years and years and sometimes even longer than a decade.

Every so often though I become entirely convinced that I need something new. I do convince myself that it's a "need" and then Joseph becomes convinced of this so then we research and search and then buy that one missing element in our lives. A recently identified "necessary" item was sought out today after much careful consideration and today I am the proud owner of a digital camera. Right now I can't remember why this item was so necessary. It had a bit of something to do with this project and my desire to keep on a-bloggin' after the year is up [haven't decided on format yet]. Also, the desire to share photos easily online with family I guess...though Joseph and I are hardly cute or worldly enough for that to be even vaguely interesting. But yes, digital camera acquired - and with that I make the leap into the twenty-first century. And no, there won't be a photo with this entry as I'm totally into being ironic.

However, I did feel a bit like a game show winner [old fashioned game shows where they had a showcase of prizes that just might have included a camera and a fridge, not new game shows where you are given vast sums of money just for not being a total moron or picking a suitcase or some rubbish] today as we also got a new fridge. Brand spanking new. Although not my first-ever new fridge, this is also exciting. Can't get enough of that new fridge smell. I should probably take a picture of it.