Have you ever wondered what your life is worth? I mean, you can calculate how much it costs in gas to drive back and forth to work, and how much the "man" pays you per hour - but have you ever wondered what your life is REALLY worth?

(note: EMO dudes, please take one big step back... I am so not asking it in a death/suicide kind of way)

To cut to the chase, I've finally dumped a bad little habit of mine. As of this afternoon I have gone cold turkey in a stone-cold kind of way. First stop, Ebay where I unloaded nearly 27 packages worth of PS1, PS2 and old PC games. Stop 2, my local used bookstore slash "den of liberalism and pot smell" where I traded in a pile of DVDs, a handful of PS2 games that were worthless on Ebay, and my PS2 and Gamecube (which were worth more there than at sucky EB Games).

Stop 3 was the hardest. I logged onto World of Warcraft and liquidated the entire inventories of my two characters that I have been playing for a little around 4 months and gave all the gold away to random strangers who passed me by. I thought this would be the easiest step, but for some reason, most people thought I was joking...

All in all- at the end of the night I had liquidated nearly 8 years of videogaming from my life. Now, this wasn't the first time I'd done this. Several years ago, my obsessive habit of keeping all my Transformers, GI Joes and other 80's toys in mint condition with all the original packaging netted me nearly $3K on Ebay and paid for the renovations to my first house. Today however, I considered this not only a spring cleaning of my collection, but also of my mind. You see, I just felt it was time to move on. Warcraft really showed this to me. For anyone who says that it is addicting and life ruining, they are completely correct! But before anyone says anything, NO, I did not get into a martial-brawl, or lose night of sleep, I just wasted hours of time that I could have been putting to better use.

Truth known, I have been wasting the last few years of my life doing things that net no rewards. Videogaming has a place, and I still own my DS (which is surpisingly fun) and I dont regret a minute of what I have done. I just feel it is time to move on, and I have made a promise to myself to spend more time improving my art, and working out at the gym. (two things that have fallen to crap over the last year.) SO WHY DO I POST THIS HERE? For one, I find it funny. Second, I hope it may also fall upon like ears.

So for anyone who wants to know what their life (or at least their obsessive videogame playing aspect of it) might be worth, it was $936.31 and 65 World of Warcraft gold pieces.

Now onto bigger and better things =)

SHIT! I've gotten all whiney and mopey again! ARG! BTW, ignore what I said... =)