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Amazon Will be the Death of Me
Published on 21/03/06
by John Phillips
Hello, my name is John and I’m addicted to buying. All of these damn sites on the web need to have some kind of registration that checks your buying habits to not allow people (like me) to spend even more money than they should. It could be worse though. I could be spending my last bit of money and go broke, but have a hot new gadget. I’m not that pathetic though. So anyways, my course of destruction this time came in the form of Amazon.com. The first purchase was this new book called CSS Mastery. It’s to help me brush up on my design skills and learn more. So that was definitely worth spending the money on….not that it was expensive anyways.
My second purchase was the dagger, and hopefully won’t get me into trouble (not financially). My living room was in need of an upgrade. A sound upgrade. So I decided to start where I was annoyed the most. The subwoofer. I genuinely hate my subwoofer. It was built very poorly, and I never turn the volume all the way up on it, yet it still rattles. I’ve tightened all the screws countless times, and yet, more rattles. So I figured that this needed to change asap. I had been pricing subs for the past month or so, trying to get the best one possible for a good price. The one I had really wanted was this Klipsch but nothing what-so-ever sounded appealing about the $500 price tag attached to it. I’m not that crazy, so I started looking for other solutions (because yes, this is a problem). Along came Amazon that had tons of different options, for good prices. The verdict: The JBL S120P II. The price tag was a little more friendly, for just about the same size, little bit less wattage. So I got it. As much as I got a good discount on it, shipping for it was a swift kick right in the balls. The trouble I could get into is that it’s apparently loud. House-rumbling, glass breaking loud. So after about 8 months on South Shore Drive, I might meet my neighbors. I won’t get too retarded with it, but you better believe that I will be listening to that THX movie opening like 10 times when I first get it. It will be lovely!
So thats all I bought…………yesterday. I was home this past weekend so of course I had to do a little shopping there too(please refer to the first sentence of this blog if you are confused). Got a some business attire clothes though. My mom wanted to take me and my sister shopping so what person in their right mind would turn that down. That’s like free clothes. My mom offered to buy me these shoes, but I told her no because I didn’t want her to spend the money on them. I’ll pat myself on the back for that one because you will rarely see me turn down free shoes that I like! I spent my own money too because she wouldn’t have agreed to buy some of the stuff that I wanted……..no big deal. I like buying stuff anyways. But i’m done for awhile. After Kell’s diamond earrings for our 2 year, my shopping over the weekend, and my current wave of electronics, I’m fucking done. My account took quite the hit over the past couple weeks. It needs time to breath.
I didn’t get to spend St. Patty’s day in E.L. like I had planned on because I had to go home to see the fam. My grandpa is kinda sick and the family needed to be there. I won’t go in depth about that because I don’t really feel like it. But anyways, my St. Pattys day was spent in Chi Town, and it was quite the fun one. It was a slim line-up of me and Steve in attempt to take down the city. First we went to this place in Wrigleyville. There were TONS of people out, it was ridiculous. It was hard to even walk up the street without bumping into people. We went to this place Sluggers. This place was a close resemblence to the crowdedness on the street. It took a good 15 minutes to even get a drink. Not fun. The DJ sucked. Not fun. My brother had called me and said that he was going out to Zentra, so it was a no-brainer about where we were going next.
After our drinks, me and Steve hopped in a cab to meet my brother and Craig. We got right in, and it was like a breath of fresh air. Good music, lots of people, but not too many where you couldn’t get a drink. This big name dj was there, Derrick Carter, and that’s why we went there. He put on quite the show, and played bomb music all night, as did the dj’s that were on before him. Good music makes a night so much better. So we partied pretty hard there and just kicked it til who knows when. Alls I know, is that when you get home at 5:30 a.m., and didn’t go to jail nor get in a fight or something, it was a fun night. Three hours later I had to get up to go to breakfast with my sister, so I was pretty cashed out all day…………well all weekend actually. I think I’m still catching up on sleep from Friday night. So although I didn’t get to spend the holiday up here like planned, it still turned out alot better than I expected. Zentra is the shit, I think i’m gonna move in there on day!
So it was a good weekend, now its time to start another week, which might turn out to be a big week, but more on that later. Don’t want to jinx myself. Im out.
peace