Is this thing on?
May. 1st, 2014 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Well, I've once again lapsed in my LJing. :/ I don't even know if people are still here. I miss the days when LJ was the place to go to catch up with friends, before all this damn social media crap started happening.
LJ has always been good for one thing throughout the years... as a record for all the goings on in my life, big and small, that's sometimes really helpful down the line when I want to recall when something happened. I can't do that if I don't write, so here I am, trying to get back into the groove.
I even have a theme! Which hopefully will make it easier to blog daily. It is about my recent shopaholism. You see, over the past few months, I have spent a mind-boggling amount of money. Some of it on necessary things, like replacing my garage door (which, when the spring broke, trapped me inside my house for a few days) and fixing the roof. But most of it has been just me going on a shopping... "spree" seems overused and not strong enough a word to describe what I've been doing. A shopping tear. A binge. I don't think I have ever in my life spent as much money on things I want as I have in this short time period.
I'm actually reminding myself of that super annoying protagonist from the Shopaholic series, except that unlike her I'm not driving myself into deep debt or risking the roof over my head. However, I know, intellectually, that there are about 1,000 better ways to manage/spend my money, including paying down my mortgage or paying off my car. But none of those practical options satisfies me the way purchasing something outlandish and unnecessary does. :/
The reasons for this, if I examine myself psychologically, come down to deep unhappiness in my current job. But I don't want to talk about that, because I hate it so much that spending even this much of my free time talking about it makes me feel like I'm being stolen from. So. Basically, to counteract my suckass job, I buy things that make me happy.
My plan is that once per day, I will share with you some guilty pleasure purchase that I've made over the last few months. LJ will serve as my online shopping confessional.
Louis Vuitton "Noé" in Damier Azur
I love Louis Vuitton. I know it's not as in vogue as it used to be, and the brand is a far cry from the heights it reached when Audrey Hepburn carried its iconic Speedy bag. Nowadays, high school girls have LV or LV knockoffs, which drives its "must have" value down considerably. Still, there's something about its classic monogram canvas and look that just appeal to me.
This Noé is made in the Damier Azur canvas, which is still iconic but much more subtle in LV branding than the classic monogram.
And because handbags are given new dimension when they're actually seen carried, I'm going to try and include pics of that when I can. Bonus if I can find a shot of a celeb carrying it! :D
Megan Fox with a Louis Vuitton Noé in Damier Azur
Okay... I grant you, this is not exactly a celeb I'm particularly keen on emulating. Here are a few more generic shots:
LJ has always been good for one thing throughout the years... as a record for all the goings on in my life, big and small, that's sometimes really helpful down the line when I want to recall when something happened. I can't do that if I don't write, so here I am, trying to get back into the groove.
I even have a theme! Which hopefully will make it easier to blog daily. It is about my recent shopaholism. You see, over the past few months, I have spent a mind-boggling amount of money. Some of it on necessary things, like replacing my garage door (which, when the spring broke, trapped me inside my house for a few days) and fixing the roof. But most of it has been just me going on a shopping... "spree" seems overused and not strong enough a word to describe what I've been doing. A shopping tear. A binge. I don't think I have ever in my life spent as much money on things I want as I have in this short time period.
I'm actually reminding myself of that super annoying protagonist from the Shopaholic series, except that unlike her I'm not driving myself into deep debt or risking the roof over my head. However, I know, intellectually, that there are about 1,000 better ways to manage/spend my money, including paying down my mortgage or paying off my car. But none of those practical options satisfies me the way purchasing something outlandish and unnecessary does. :/
The reasons for this, if I examine myself psychologically, come down to deep unhappiness in my current job. But I don't want to talk about that, because I hate it so much that spending even this much of my free time talking about it makes me feel like I'm being stolen from. So. Basically, to counteract my suckass job, I buy things that make me happy.
My plan is that once per day, I will share with you some guilty pleasure purchase that I've made over the last few months. LJ will serve as my online shopping confessional.
Louis Vuitton "Noé" in Damier Azur
I love Louis Vuitton. I know it's not as in vogue as it used to be, and the brand is a far cry from the heights it reached when Audrey Hepburn carried its iconic Speedy bag. Nowadays, high school girls have LV or LV knockoffs, which drives its "must have" value down considerably. Still, there's something about its classic monogram canvas and look that just appeal to me.
This Noé is made in the Damier Azur canvas, which is still iconic but much more subtle in LV branding than the classic monogram.
And because handbags are given new dimension when they're actually seen carried, I'm going to try and include pics of that when I can. Bonus if I can find a shot of a celeb carrying it! :D
Megan Fox with a Louis Vuitton Noé in Damier Azur
Okay... I grant you, this is not exactly a celeb I'm particularly keen on emulating. Here are a few more generic shots:
