Day One: Three Minutes To Six Hours After It Ended.

Day One. This will be an adventure. Me? Giving up buying cd's for 40 days? It's pretty much asceticism at its finest ;). In preparation for this day, a week or so ago, I began a list in a little Notepad file of cd's I want to buy when I'm done. You see, I'm giving up buying cd's so I don't go broke (again), or hungry (again) because of said aforementioned brokeness. 'Tis for Spiritual Formation. It shall be a rather grand venture. It may end up being all for naught, because the day it's over, I'm most likely going to go on a ridiculous cd-buying spree and be almost (if not exactly) as broke had I not given up buying cd's. I also feel like God wants me to take the money I would have normally spent on those cd's and give to something/body. The Esther Fund? Compassion and/or World Vision and sponsor a child like I've been meaning to do for a while, but never had the funds, nor a credit card to be able to. Me having the funds may be debateable, but me saying that it's debateable is most likely just an excuse. That's why I have a credit card ;). Another thing I'm going to try to accomplish in the meantime is paying off my credit card. I originally put a few hundred dollars on it at registration to help my parents out (which, to this day, they still do not know and I plan to keep it that way because I would most likely end up getting a lecture on putting a bunch of money on my credit card when I see it as a lesson in financial responsibility. Hm. I put $300 on it, and because my limit's 5, I figured I'd be good to give'er and at the moment, I have yet to go over the $300 I originally put on it, with what I've been gradually paying off with money from work. That said, for the most part because of buying cd's, it has practically been, for every two steps forward, I've been taking 1.75 back and even though I do not believe I have gone back to $300, with a few purchases I made over the past few days, probably brought it fairly close. I will take time to declare here and now that I, Chris Lear, am actually retarded. Hey, who knows, it's all good :D :P. Also, yesterday, as part of my day of mourning (even though it was technically two days ago now, seeing as how it's ten after six am on Thursday), I went to Blessings and bought more cd's. Oh woe is me. Vanity! Vanity! All is vanity! I have a dream that one day, we will never give up. Never surrender. *decides here and now that there will be a random quote mash-up at the end of every entry from now until ever because it's really, really fun. Then again, that might just be quarter after six in the morning without sleep talking.*