New acquisitions

Sometimes I wonder if I'm perhaps a little too attached to things. When I was looking into buying some speakers for my MP3 player and talking to the photographer at work he made some joke about me being quite into my gadgets.
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I laughed it off, of course, but there may be some truth in it. I care very little about my car and am not generally very vain. But in the past few years whenever I have won some money or something similar, I have bought myself a little something.

Once it was my lovely Creative Zen player. Then there was when I bought my SLR (really must learn what that stands for at some point) camera, complete with two rather sizable lenses. I look rather like a Japanese tourist when I have it and every time my mother sees it she asks me if I have borrowed the camera from work. Umm, no, it's mine. And I do love it, although the zoom, being roughly the size of my arm, is not terribly practical for candid night out shots. I'm also quite passionate about various kitchen things, not necessarily gadgets, but I love my blender, my huge would-probably-kill-you-if-I-whacked-you-on-the-head-with-it chopping board, and, err, my Denby plates. But they were on sale. I'm a terrible sucker for offers, when I went round my friend's house and saw his fancy built-in cooker and Smeg fridge I was full of shock at the cost. He retaliated by saying that all my furniture was probably built of cardboard. It's not, by the way, but the less said about my table the better.

Anyway, there is a point to this post. At the weekend, me and HF went shopping and I bought the best boots EVER. Not only were they reduced (down from £70 to £7, yes, that's right baby), they were pink and furry inside with cute embroidery on them. The sort of boots, in fact, that my four-year-old niece has loads of and make me green with envy every time I see them cos they don't do them in grown-up size. But ha, they do, and I've got them.


I also bought a fabulous purple halter-neck dress that makes me look thin for a swanky engagement party I'm going to next weekend. That was £20 down from £70.

I bloody love TK Maxx.

Sadly, all this is not enough for me. Now I've got my eye on this strange little device called a Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC which is the size of a hardback book but acts like a full-on computer. All the reviews question whether it's actually the sort of thing anybody needs but I don't care, I want it, I can type shit up in bed while HF is asleep using the backlighting and take it to cafes and look busy when strange men try to stare at my tits. Plus it plays films and music and has a sexy touch-screen. It does cost about £800 though and as HF sensibly points out I need to buy a car slightly more urgently and book my flights to Thailand (we're allegedly going in October but have done little about it due to the chaos of moving). I still want it though, I just might be forced to wait until it comes down in price. Or sell my body to make the extra cash, with my new, 24lb lighter frame I'm sure to make a packet in minutes.

Saw Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean yesterday, that man is far too gorgeous. Loved the film but am now desperate for more Depp porn. Any suggestions?

More on that story later.

Tags (well, possibly):retail therapy,
boots,Johnny Depp,Samsung Q1