I think gambling is really only an activity for the semi-wealthy.  $20 for me isn't a lot of money but it's like Damn I could've bought so many things with just that.  I dunno, I work hard for my money, I think I'd feel better about myself by just giving $20 to my church or to a homeless mother.  And gambling really isn't that fun anyways. I think i'd rather spend it at the movies or buy my GF lunch :D

I think it's stupid when someone has plastic surgery and everyone knows about it!  What the heck, doesn't that defeat the purpose of it all?  Although it's pretty funny when you see a woman a year later and her boobs are ginormous and she completely denies it hahaha

You're just using the drugs to deal with your pain.  Many people use drugs as an outlet to fuel their pain, even for a moment, just like in the poem.  When my girlfriend of 2 1/2 years broke up with me, it was soo hard.  I felt like my heart had been ripped out and all I craved was Coke.  It was really the reason she broke up with me in the first time, she'd come over late at night to suprise me and I'd be coked out of my mind.  Then, in the end I felt like it's all I had left.  I hope you and I can learn to deal with our pain in a healthy way.. but it's scary in so many ways.. I'm slowly considering rehab..

"There ain't no feeling like being free...
When your mind's made up and your heart is in the right place."

Well, I've been an addict all throughout high school and all of my best moments have been when I was either stoned, drunk, or on some kind of drug.  But now that I've made a commitment to stay sober, I'm like what now?  I'm at that stage where I don't know how to have fun without being f****d up and it's like making a different person.  I'm ususally so loud and crazy, but now that I'm not drunk all the time, like at parties and even just chillin with my friends, it's not the same!  Anyone else been here before?

So you left your job and everything?  I think it'd be hard to work as a software engineer while staying at a dairy farm.  That's awesome though that you found a great treatment facility that worked for you. Most people aren't that fortunate ya know.  I've been to many treatment centers where I knew from the first day it was going to be a waste of money.  It seems like you've turned your whole life around from living in your car compared to now.  That's amazing to hear a story like yours, it gives a lot of people hope. 

Perhaps you are one of many kids or a parent maybe that's had to pay for a texting bill costing around $500?  That would be around 12,000 text messages in one month.  You might be one of the millions of people who have Excessive Texting Disorder, or whatever that would be called.  The editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry lists texting in the category of 'compulsive-impulsive spectrum disorder.'  Think you might have it? 

1) excessive use, often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic drives.

2) withdrawal, including feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression when the computer (or cell phone) is inaccessible.

3) tolerance, including the need for better equipment, more software, or more hours of use.

4) negative repercussions, including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation, and fatigue.

This is almost as bad as the story in the news about a Pastor that stole money from his church to feed his gambling habit.  Apparently he lost his job and is being investigated.  I guess he was a Pastor since 1991, and church the arch bishop said he had a "very powerful" gambling habit. 
People that choose to get money this way seem like regular people at first, it's wierd because you'd never expect them to do it.  This Pastor probably would't steal money for crack or a prostitute, so why would they steal it to gamble it away?