{"id":134,"date":"2005-03-01T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2006-04-03T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:21:16","slug":"i-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"I DID IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/5638871\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos3.flickr.com\/5638871_e851e1143b_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/5638871\/\" \/><br \/>\nYes, I did it. I swear I almost threw up on the way home. I&#8217;ve cried about 7 times.<\/p>\n<p>There is a reason for my over re-acting to the camera purchase.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do stuff like this. The craziest thing i&#8217;ve ever done was buy tickets to Las Vegas for The Fonz, Sister and myself about 6 years ago. I was going to blow me some cash in Vegas!<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t of course because someone pulled the remaining money out of my account and I couldn&#8217;t even gamble or buy my dinner. When I got home the money was back in the account. The money I didn&#8217;t spend in Vegas was spent on computers, wood working tools and clothes. (not what I would have bought with my money)<br \/>\nThe next crazy thing I did was buy my dive gear. This was about 10 years ago. It wasn&#8217;t my idea, but in retrospect there was nothing I wanted more than my scuba gear so I have no regrets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten things in my life. A van (the first one) a computer (about a million years ago) a trip to Maui.<\/p>\n<p>I am blessed for the things I do have. I just really don&#8217;t know how to buy something for myself and just enjoy it without fear of someone saying, &#8220;Well, if you had not bought THAT then you would have money right now!&#8221;<br \/>\nOr someone making me feel guilty for buying something that is just for me.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving home and all I could think about was someone saying to me, &#8220;You are so stupid for buying that.&#8221; or the fear that I was going to have to hide it from people so they wouldn&#8217;t get mad at me.<\/p>\n<p>When I got my car when I was 20 and pregnant we had to say my mom and dad bought it for me because DA&#8217;s exgirlfriend (who had his son&#8211;and we will just call her &#8220;freak of fucking nature&#8221; for now on) would have freaked out and never let us live in peace. I was never allowed to enjoy anything we bought because it was &#8216;rubbing it in&#8217;.<br \/>\nI had to hide the fact that I bought a house for TWO YEARS because she would have freaked out.<\/p>\n<p>I know now she&#8217;s just a freak of fucking nature and I shouldn&#8217;t have let what she thought dictate my life. But I was young&#8230;and I am still feeling uneasy about sharing the fact that I bought something so nice for ME.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any &#8216;fucking crazy&#8217; purchases or horror stories about not being able to tell anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I did it. I swear I almost threw up on the way home. I&#8217;ve cried about 7 times. There is a reason for my over re-acting to the camera purchase. I don&#8217;t do stuff like this. The craziest thing i&#8217;ve ever done was buy tickets to Las Vegas for The Fonz, Sister and myself about 6 years ago. I was going to blow me some cash in Vegas! I didn&#8217;t of course because someone pulled the remaining money out of my account and I couldn&#8217;t even gamble or buy my dinner. When I got home the money was back in the account. The money I didn&#8217;t spend in Vegas was spent on computers, wood working tools and clothes. (not what I would have bought with my money) The next crazy thing I did was buy my dive gear. This was about 10 years ago. It wasn&#8217;t my idea, but in retrospect there was nothing I wanted more than my scuba gear so I have no regrets. I&#8217;ve gotten things in my life. A van (the first one) a computer (about a million years ago) a trip to Maui. I am blessed for the things I do have. I just really don&#8217;t know how to buy something for myself and just enjoy it without fear of someone saying, &#8220;Well, if you had not bought THAT then you would have money right now!&#8221; Or someone making me feel guilty for buying something that is just for me. I was driving home and all I could think about was someone saying to me, &#8220;You are so stupid for buying that.&#8221; or the fear that I was going to have to hide it from people so they wouldn&#8217;t get mad at me. When I got my car when I was 20 and pregnant we had to say my mom and dad bought it for me because DA&#8217;s exgirlfriend (who had his son&#8211;and we will just call her &#8220;freak of fucking nature&#8221; for now on) would have freaked out and never let us live in peace. I was never allowed to enjoy anything we bought because it was &#8216;rubbing it in&#8217;. I had to hide the fact that I bought a house for TWO YEARS because she would have freaked out. I know now she&#8217;s just a freak of fucking nature and I shouldn&#8217;t have let what she thought dictate my life. But I was young&#8230;and I am still feeling uneasy about sharing the fact that I bought something so nice for ME. Anyone have any &#8216;fucking crazy&#8217; purchases or horror stories about not being able to tell anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}