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Saturday, 07 May 2005 13:23:32
"I think you ought to know, I'm feeling very depressed." Actually, its true. I went to bed at about 9 oclock because I had a luggage load detail at 0400. What was suppposed to be a volunteer thing(but I was voluntold)for 1500 on Friday afternoon, turned into a 0400 detail, and they called me at 10oclock to tell me that I needed to report at 1600 on Saturday afternoon. As you can see, because my boss doesn't see working in an office as "real" work, my weekend is slowly being pulled to pieces for no good reason. You know, I thought if I got it all out, I'd feel better...I don't. So, I get up, and I try to watch "The Phantom of the Opera"...and, I'm enjoying it...Its not even really a good movie. But, I like it nonetheless. But, my children...They LOVE it. So, when it comes time for me to try to get them ready for me to take them out to lunch...they won't budge. Where's my wife in all this? National Scrapbooking Day...Whatever the hell that is. Of course, it is a source of constant amusement to me that (now she won't even say it) my daughter calls the film "The Fambly in the Operar" So, I'm going to clean my children up, clean myself up, head to Red Lobster, go buy some DVDS, and spend an exorbitant (Well, for us)sum of money and generally try to get along with each other as well as we can... In an edit, I relate this story...I said "Its time to go upstairs, do you want me to take Phantom upstairs so you can keep watching it." My daughter: "No...I want to watch something good." Nobody's pleased all the time, I guess...
Saturday, 07 May 2005 22:44:30
Ok my Dad got laid off from work a few weeks ago and we went on unemployment of $309 a week. We also got evicted from a garage we were storing a lot of old truck parts and spent 3 weeks clearing this place out (hard dirty work). So money has been tight and the rent is due, time to cash in our “savings account” (Bottles and Cans). We got to Aldi’s first and get $7.50. We then head over to Tops hopeful that we will get our needed $8. Dad: Maybe we can take what’s left and get a small pizza Me: It will be one small ass pizza. Dad: Maybe a couple of slices? Me: Slice of pepperoni is more like it. So we get $4. Still $4 short of what we need. Off to Dollar General and we get $0.80. We come back home and grab all the bottles for Wegmans ($0.75 worth) and a bunch of Canadian quarters and head off to Wegmans. I turn in the bottles and head for the service desk and fork over the cash and $4 US in Quarters and $0.75 (the service charge) in Canadian Quarters and get my money order for Rent. I hope I don’t have to do this again.