Every­one does one last bit of shop­ping before a big spend­ing freeze, right?  Well, since we are sav­ing up for some­thing big in August, we have to put a spend­ing freeze on every­thing except for bills. Every­thing has to go into savings.

That’s gonna be hard for me because I typ­i­cally never have to save more then 2–3 pay peri­ods for any­thing. Oh, well. Time to be an adult. 

As a result, I got a few things on my last avail­able week­end down in LA. Mostly col­lectibles, but I got some make up/bath stuff too since I won’t have the money to make another trip down there for another 6 months at least.

Actu­ally, the 3D case, I bought a cou­ple of weeks back. The front sticker/protector was what I pur­chased today. It’s actu­ally sit­ting on top of one of those ZaGG (or what­ever) pro­tec­tors, so I actu­ally have two skins on my iphone.  Mostly, this is because I’m para­noid about my screen get­ting cracked or scratched. Thank­fully, it hasn’t affected the sen­si­tiv­ity of my screen, so I can carry on like a weirdo.

Mobile phone/card case because Richard says I lose my phone too often. “You lose it in your hand.” He even thinks that I’d lose it in the case while it’s sit­ting around my neck.

Phone stand! I wanted to buy a cra­dle, but when I saw this thing, I jumped for it.

You can see how grossly large my san-x col­lec­tion is get­ting in the back­ground. 

Found a Swim­mer bambi headband/earmuff at Q-Pop! Amaz­ing find, con­sid­er­ing that these have been sold out for like 5 months.

My largest pur­chase of the day. Lit­er­ally and finan­cially.   A giant kori­lakkuma pul­low. It takes up nearly the whole width of my bed. I’m not really sure if I want to take it out of the pack­ag­ing because I’d hate for it to get schmutzy. Maybe I’ll just pull a granny move and keep the plas­tic on the pil­low. 

Every week, I spend about 4–5 hours just down­load­ing and test­ing out apps. I focus a lot on cam­era and social media apps, since that’s pretty much my pas­sion. I love pho­tos, and I love to con­nect with oth­ers. 

I think I should fea­ture ones that really stand out to me, that I don’t end up delet­ing a month later!

Let’s start with one I found recently, and am cur­rently just head over heels with.

Snappeee

Snapeee is a purikura app avail­able here, iTunes and is also avail­able for Droid users! There’s only one lit­tle dif­fer­ence; you can use it like you use insta­gram. It posts your photo to a larger feed, and you can com­ment, “rec­om­mend” pho­tos, and follow/connect with other snapeees. So far, it seems like it’s a small com­mu­nity, but among Japan­ese kawaii enthu­si­asts, I can see it get­ting big­ger. So far, next to say, DecoPic, DecoPetit and oth­ers, this prob­a­bly one of the bet­ter deco appli­ca­tions that I’ve used so far.

The inter­face is smooth and in Eng­lish for inter­na­tional users. The stamp sets are free and I think they have monthly spe­cial stamps! The cur­rent ones will be avail­able until Feb­ru­ary 15th. After that, they will dis­ap­pear for­ever. I guess it’s like “Get it while it’s hot” type sets and then trade if you find some­one else with stamps you want?    There’s lots to choose from and I’m excited to col­lect more stamps and frames!

I think the only thing I didn’t like about this app was that there wasn’t any fil­ters that I could see to use. I hope they add them in the near future. That’d make this app just over the top!!! If you sign up, fol­low me @happiimilk. I’ll fol­low back because I love see­ing other people’s snaps!

Bonus~*

My week has been noth­ing but Christ­mas. Richard’s fam­ily is really into it. We went and bought a tree where his mom forced the tree boy to take a tip by putting it in his Schmoe’s (cen­sored for his pro­tec­tion) vest like some Chip N’ Dales dancer.

I’ve been wrap­ping so many gifts that I’m actu­ally sick of it and shop­ping too. (Hell must have frozen over. LOL) I bought more stuff for Richard’s sis­ters than I orig­i­nally planned to. I guess I have some resid­ual feel­ings that maybe I should try harder to get along with his fam­ily despite some seri­ous clash­ing. They seem appre­cia­tive so I sup­pose it’s ok.

Nabbed a rare item for myself, and then because one of them really likes Poke­mon too, I sniped one for her too. These lit­tle guys came out when I was a lit­tle kid and now they can get as high as $130 in auc­tions. I sniped hers at $6.25 shipped. (also, I can post this because nei­ther of of his sis­ters reads my blog)

BEHOLD! The orig­i­nal poke­walker; The vir­tual pikachu pet/pedometer!

It’s really hard not to wanna shake this thing to earn watt points.

And then the rest of the week has been just vis­it­ing his fam­ily, exchang­ing gifts to put under our respec­tive trees. I took the girls shop­ping too and bought Boom a whole new ensem­ble. (pho­tos later)

Not a good angle for Richard but this photo is for his Maataa.

Oh yeah, did I men­tion I built an entire plat­form bed in the mid­dle of the night?  

In case I didn’t;
I built an entire plat­form bed with 6 draw­ers in the mid­dle of the night/wee hours of the morn­ing.