Thanks, willpower, ego

My thanks to bcassie, who gifted me with LJ time. I assume this was related to her getting a perm account. I sadly do not have the money to put down on one of those m'self, so the donation is doubly appreciated. =)

On the topic of money, thanks to the evil evil byrne I spent last night twitching and drooling over sewing machines on Ebay. I don't know why my brain didn't previously think of getting a cheap machine to try out over there. I suppose this is my blondness in action.

Anyway, I twitched and drooled but was a good girl and did not buy yet. Okay, granted, I put a bid in on one but I stuck to a maximum that I was comfortable with and did not go over it! Not even when I got outbid by 50 cents and probably could've swooped in at the last second and paid an extra dollar, but I didn't! Willpower! Ha! (Okay also the shipping was more than I anticipated but shh!)

I've been poking at the ol' website with the vague concept that maybe this weekend I'll get around to finally updating it to... well, everything but specifically the new design and layout at the very least. You know, if you ever need to humble yourself there ain't nothing that's going to do that faster than reading some of your old writing. Granted I've always felt my writing is a work in progress and I hope it shall always be, but even still, yipes. We'll just pretend I posted rough drafts by accident, right? Right. ;)

Also: Happy birthday ladycat777

Bad habits

I don't know if it's a show of extreme willpower or sadism to spend the day making bids on Ebay that you know you will be outbid on. I say willpower as I have stuck to my guns (so far) of refusing to pay even one dollar more than the amount I allow myself. I say sadism because the end result of this seems to be that I drive the price up for others who are bidding.

Now, granted, if I wasn't bidding somebody else just might be, but even still I admit to an immature joy in watching someone who ducks in at the last 15 minutes and outbids me get outbid by somebody else in the last five.

Hey, it's a free hobby (again, so far) and it's not like I'm doing it purposefully to drive prices up. But if fate deems it that I shall not have the items that I bid on, then I'm glad Fate tosses me an amusement somewhere else, however evil.

In slightly healthier news I just got in from a long walk. I was on the fence about this one given how muggy it was outside, but if anything's apt to make you get out there it's a newly reborn plot bunny that is best fed when you put the body on autopilot and let the mind wander where it will. I say that honestly because if my pedometer is any judge I did about twice the distance as I would have normally if I'd gone outside to walk for the sake of walking. Bring along a hungry plot bunny and suddenly one more lap isn't a torture but a necessity.

Now to decide if I have brainpower enough to do anything other than shower and stare at the TV.