Define need

I think I can definitely declare my computer healed. It's been well over 24 hours with no blue screen. This is a good thing. Yep. A really good thing. I really didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a shiny new toy. Nope. I don't need to have the newest, fanciest gadget just to have it. I don't need to keep up with the Jones' with their ipods and their blackberries. (Ok, I may have those things, but because I really needed them. I swear.) I don't need a faster processor and a bigger hard drive. I don't need a built-in webcam.

But I want those things. I really, really want those things. And for a few glorious, frustrating days, I thought I would be able to justify getting those things. But then I had to go and fix my stupid, perfectly good old one. (One corrupted file was causing the whole problem. File disabled means computer works like a champ.) So no shiny, pretty, super thin, new laptop for me.

But while I was at Best Buy scoping out the laptops, I may have wandered over to the flat screen televisions. I didn't know how much cheaper those have become. One can buy a 32 inch flat screen for under $500. And it is basketball season now. Think how great it would be to watch the defending national champion Kansas Jayhawks play in high definition on a shiny new flat screen... (In case you're wondering, my high quality 27 inch television works just fine, as does the 19 inch flat screen in my bedroom.)

My name is S and I'm a shopaholic.