Accounting for my hotmail account

Officially, what is the deal with hotmail?  I've had the same email address since I was sixteen years old and I truly see nothing wrong with it.  It does all the things I've needed it to do.  What is wrong with having a hotmail account. 
I was at the car dealership (an entirely different blog post.) the other day and I gave my email address to the sales person for some unknown reason and my brother commented; "Does anyone have a hotmail account anymore?"  Now, I'm aware that hotmail has gone the way of MySpace but I'm not quite sure why.  In social networking it's all about who's going where to see pictures of me drinking.  But with email I don't quite understand how this server that I must say has served me well can go by the wayside.  Maybe I don't know enough to know what I'm missing but I now have a gmail account and can't really tell that difference except that everyone I've ever really known knows me at hotmail and no one does through gmail. 

You might explain it to me if you know more than I do.  Right now it seems a jumble.

It's okay to be nice to myself.

I don't like spending money and I really don't like spending it on myself.  No matter how much I have or how much I've saved I always have this vague feeling that sometime in the near future I'm going to really need that money and if I spend it now I won't have it when I need it.  I do that with a lot of things. 

I decided to do myself a favor and get a new fancy smart phone.  And oh boy is this thing ever smart.  It is my new favorite thing in the whole wide world I've been playing with it non-stop since I bought it.  It makes the computer I bought look like a hunk if crap.  Which it is. 

Yesterday as I was driving home from work feeling pretty sorry for myself I came to a decision.  This whole being burgled thing is not going to get me down.  It is the perfect reason to get that new phone I've been wanting and so I did it.  I'd been itching for a new phone for months.  My cell contract was up in October so I could get one of those deals with the cell company where they sell you a phone for cheap if you sign a new deal with them.  I don't know anything about cell phones and even less about smart phones.  What usually happens is I break a phone and go to the cell phone store and ask them what the cheapest phone they have is and I buy that one.  But this time I wanted to get something good but not so good that I wouldn't be able to understand it.  I'm not tech savy and I don't use my phone for a lot so I wanted somehting pretty simple.  What I ended up getting was the LG Optimus T (pictured above.  It's the one on the right).  Pretty snazzy.  My favorite thing is the calorie counter.  It's awesome.  Getting excited about gadgets and toys has never been part of my personality but this thing is just so cool.  I'm sure I'll get bored with it at some point but I'm so glad I did something nice for myself.

It's hard sometimes when you're stuck in the grind of life to remember that we are all just little kids on the inside that we need to take care of ourselves and nuture ourselves the way we would a child.  Little Julie is so happy and excited about her new toy and I feel like the hero parent in Christmas morning.  All around good feelings.

What's something you've done for yourself lately?

New Year's Resolutions

Did I spell that right?  Never mind, I don't care. 

I don't, in general, make new year's resolutions.  I don't see much point to them.  I'm in a more or less constant state of reevaluating myself.  The idea that I would wait until January 1 to change my bad habits seems like a long time to wait.  But I do like the idea of a new year.  Brand new.  Anything can happen.  Clean slate.  Start again.  Reboot.  So I guess in a way I do like resolutions.  It's such a good time to think about how things went in the last year.  What you wanted to happen and how that matched up with what actually happened.  I complain a lot about 2010 but it wasn't all bad and I'm excited about the groundwork layed that will serve me in this coming year.

So here goes with setting some goals for the next year.

1- I would like to lose 25 lbs.  I really felt my best at the weight I was 25 lbs ago and would like to be there again.  I will keep you dorks posted on the progress.  So far, the exercising is at least off to a GREAT start.

2- I would like to book a National Commercial.  I have been working hard and think that I am in a great place to make this happen.

3- I would like to get paid for comedy.  I'm not sure if this is a realistic goal for where I am with my stand up but I'm setting it and we'll see what happens.  So some time in the next year we'll see if someone wants to pay me for making funny.

4- I would also like to rewrite/recover the play I wrote that was stolen with my laptop.

I wrote a number five but really couldn't think of anything to write.  Am I that contented with my life that I can really only think of four things that I would like to happen?  Craziness.  Who knows I could get all four of these in the next three months and I'll have to reevaluate all over again.  Luckily, I won't have to wait until next Jan. 1