MayuAmakuraTheGreat

"Love the mess."  It's a mantra I have to repeat to myself over and over when I'm looking in the mirror.  Although it could apply to any number of deep thoughts, for today, this is purely about vanity.  If you're hoping for something introspective, this probably isn't the best entry. I'm pretty critical about my appearance.  I know I'll never be a beautiful person, and that's okay.  Not everyone gets to be, and if beauty is the only merit by which I am being judged, then that says we as a people are at a pretty sorry state of affairs as morality goes.  "Everyone is beautiful" is not a valid statement, by the way, and if you want to know why,

Right down to business.  If you'll recall the previous list... Rent - 585 Electricity - 100 Loans - 67 Gas - 40 Phone - 15 Cable - 132 Groceries - 75 Lunch - 60 Retirement - 40 Misc - 50 ...I have put this budget into practice over the last month.  Rent, loans, gas, phone, cable are unchanged, obviously.  Electricity I managed to work down to roughly $80 of its projected $100.  The apartment is nipple-achingly cold, but layers during the day and a heating blanket for about an hour before I go to sleep is working out decently well.  Groceries are still up the air as estimates go, because I had my 25% discount day for working on Than

Starting with some lighter stuff, because this gets depressing further down.  I finished Tomb Raider, which... well, I wish I had played it on Easy Mode instead of Normal.  I did it because I was recording it for an audience, but it's a cover-based, third-person shooter, and as I quickly found out, I am NOT GOOD at that kind of game.  It lacked the actual tomb raiding of the previous games and was instead very action-driven.  There were optional puzzle tombs, and I kid you not, a braindead monkey could have done them, they were so easy.  The story was decent, even if the ending was stupid and annoyingly scripted, and it had some fantastic set