Achievement Unlocked: Maintain Blog for 1 Year...

Oh! I almost forgot!

It's my blog's first birthday!!

Yay, blog! We've made it a whole year!!!

Helllllllp

Guuuuyyyyys....

I need help.

I feel a shopping binge coming on...an entirely unnecessary one, at that!

I know that mindless shopping is a means of coping with stress [I don't handle stress very well], but knowing doesn't do much to quell neither the urge to shop nor the stressors in my life!

Soooo, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to post the things that I'm really, really tempted to buy right now. Then, I'm going to need for you guys to tell me, "Hey, silly! You don't need those things!!" Sound alright?

Silly potential purchase #1:

Really feeling the urge to click 'buy' this Stitch Kigurumi.

Kigurumi Shop - Stitch

Adorable as this is, it costs $70 before shipping. And I already own 3 kigu...which may or may not be 2 more sets than any responsible adult ever needs...but the keyword there is 'responsible.' Soooo, yeah....maybe I'm not the best judge there. /cheesysmile

Silly potential purchase #2:

This cute little utility cart from Ikea.

Raskog Utility Cart - Ikea

[I don't know the keyboard shortcut to produce the properly accented 'a' for the product name :( ] I want this cart just because I want the cart. Also, the color is one of my favorites. Both of these are not 'valid' reasons for actually purchasing said cart...but I want it!

Silly potential purchase #3:

Remember Me. Specifically for the PS3...which can be purchased from the PlayStation Store for about $30 right now.

This would be a silly purchase because I've got several games that I'm in the process of playing through right now. Buuuut, this one looks so cool and is from Dontnod! [Dontnod made Life is Strange...another one of the games that I'm playing right now] If I don't go ahead and buy this game now, what if I completely forget about it?!?!?

Silly potential purchase #4:

Any number of assorted anime collectibles and memorabilia.

These would run the gamut from novelty pens and pencils that cost a few dollars...all the way to 'limited edition collectors versions of  full-scale prop replicas' that cost hundreds. None of these thing are 'needs.' And none of them would ever be 'needs.'



There are several more of these that I should probably post...but, there's been an un-ignorable shift of hostilities in the room and I can no longer type. Ugh.

Are You Highly Sensitive?

Hi, there!

By now, you guys probably know that I'm a fan of most things psychological...including, but not limited to, personality types and theories. Right? Right! [Clickity here to see some of my posts on personality stuffs...]

Another personality facet that I've been giving some thought to, lately, is that of being 'sensitive.'

Now, this isn't necessarily referring to whether or not a person tends to exhibit socially acceptable behaviors [e.g., not laughing at a friend who has just witnessed their dog getting run over by a car, not telling the mother of a newborn that the child looks like a hellish troll spawn, or being the 'friend' that is always the first to remind someone that their haircut looks like crap.] Rather, in this case, sensitive refers to a person's thresholds for overwhelming stimuli and their responses to said stimuli.

Are You Highly Sensitive?

26 Signs You're A Highly Sensitive Person - BuzzFeed

Hilarious movie...

The above links lead to a questionnaire to help determine if you might be 'highly sensitive' and then to a BuzzFeed article on the same topic.

I selected 24 items from the questionnaire as pertaining to being at least somewhat true...which makes me think that there's a good chance that I'm correct in identifying as 'highly sensitive' [So, looks like I might be able to add HSP or 'highly sensitive person' to my list of researchable traits! Me
lika do tha research!]

If you're familiar with the MBTI type INFJ, what do you think about the pairing of INFJ and HSP?

Tiddly Bits...

Hey, hey, hey!

Who's up for some more thinking bits?!

- I've come to realize that I'll probably never stop watching cartoons. Aaaaand, I'm perfectly okay with it /grin

- I need to learn how to speak my mind a bit more freely. I've been bottling up things...and that's never good

- Listening to talk radio feels like a much more gratifying way to spend my driving time than listening to music...not that I'll ever completely cut music out of my drives, I just feel like I might actually learn something rather than just pass the time

- Heat + humidity = the worst combination possible

- Is it possible to somehow read books, watch movies, catch up on tv series, and play video games at the same time? I want to do all of these things. At once.

- I think that we need more stationery shops. I miss the ones like they had in Korea...everything was so cute! They even had scented pencil leads!

- Flying insects with stingers are the bane of my existence...they're right up there with everything that lives in the ocean.

- 'Shark Week' is a terrible, terrible week's worth of programming...I mean, have you ever seen a Megamouth shark? No? Google it real quick and you'll see why I'm cringing! [I'm sorry!]

I'm A Happy Nerd!!

Big news!!!! [To me, anyway]

I just found out that two of my favorite Naruto characters end up together!!! /squee

[Just a heads up, I'm not talking about these two characters, sooooo no spoilers here!]

Kushina and Minato...I loved these two, too!!

INFJ Things...

It's been a while since I've posted psychology stuff...here are a few INFJ things from my Pinterest boards!

I felt like all of these were pretty accurate...which probably isn't all too helpful for anyone who isn't an INFJ or someone that knows an INFJ...ummm, they'll be helpful for anyone who is having a hard time relating to an introvert. ^_^