Yes, ladies and gents, that's right, your resident cool kid hath returned. Why was she gone for like, forever? Well, you see, what had happened was, I went to college for two semesters, had marching band, and then got addicted to Skyrim. I. Fucking. Love. Skyrim. It's my shit.

In fact, I love Skyrim so much that I bought the legendary edition on Amazon, along with some other Xbox loot, mostly because it was cheaper than getting all the DLCs separately, and my best friend (who must really love me) basically perma-loaned me his copy FOREVER ago, and I kinda need another one. It spent a lot of time in the top of someone's closet before I got it -- now I have no idea why anyone would leave a perfectly innocent (maybe this isn't the right word, since, you know, it's about killing dragons and murdering everyone but the essential characters, sexy ladies, and the children), otherwise perfect game in the top of a closet, but we'll skip this part for now and just say it's getting to the point where I'm not exactly confident it'll be readable too much longer -- and it was used when he got it, no case, etc. 'Nuff said, I need to give that thing back before it quits working and I get shanked and accused of defiling it. (Geddit? De-file? As in you can't read the files? .. Okay, okay, not exactly appropriate. My bad.)

Anyway, see, it's a known fact that I'm rather broke, so, you may ask how in the hell I paid for this (and the bajillion other games I snagged over the past week, including Oblivion, Dead Island Riptide, and Samurai Warriors, and then the Microsoft store credit and gold subscription but that's beside the point) ... Between some old, unused gift cards I found under my bed, I had enough to cover all but the last 10 or so bucks.

How did I come up with the rest? Simple.

These two sites:

Bing Rewards

And yes, that's a shameless referral link, haha, but I really do highly reccomend this program. I make about $8-$10 per month just searching. That's at least 2 gift cards per month, easy money! Considering it's entirely free and only takes at most a few minutes a day if you do it legitimately, that's pretty boss. They even have a few bonus offers to speed you along the way to your next redemption, and unlike most other sites, I've never had a problem with my orders, or with points not crediting. Gift cards can deliver to your address or straight to your email, and there's a wide selection to choose from. Especially if you're an Xbox junkie short on funds to fuel your addiction, this is the way to go.

InstaGC.com

InstaGC is another good site if you're hunting for free stuff. I haven't used it quite as long as I have Bing Rewards, but it offers a wide selection of mostly digital gift cards, and has quite a few offers that are easy to complete. The interface is pretty solid, and I haven't had issues with any offers not crediting. Like most other sites, it works on a 100 point per dollar scale, and most rewards you can redeem are around the 500 point range. Once you get used to it and know the right kind of offers to hunt for, you can make a pretty quick profit, all for free, and snag a card, maybe even get a few free samples on the way (There were some awesome tea samples I got in the mail today, aha) while you're at it. After that, well, what you do with the money is your business. Or maybe it's Amazon's... Lately I seem to use most of my redemptions from EVERYWHERE to cover their ridiculously exorbitant shipping. Pff.. Anyway, long story short, InstaGC is pretty damn cool.

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Aaaaand, that's about it; other than failing College Algebra about six months ago, nothing's really happened in my life. Sure, I did the marching band nerd thing (it's paying for my education, shush you! lol) and went through a ton of bad relationships and wrote some terrible songs and did everything under the sun a 19 year old, broke gamer-slash-artist-slash-musician-slash-writer could possibly do to get into trouble, it's pretty much sames-ville here now. Well, okay, I lied, I did get internet, and like I said, those gift cards. I guess I'm doing alright, ehe. Oh, and I started TribalWars again; click the link to join me if you dare. What about you?