After work I went to Whole Foods, where I found some wonderful freshly baked honey challah. I love that stuff like nobody's business. Ran to my friend's house to enjoy the last night of Chanukah with her and the kiddos. She makes the best matzo ball soup I have ever had in my life, and I was thrilled to see the big pot stewing with balls, parsnip, celery, and fresh dill. Oh my.
As I watched her struggle with her two children and attempting to feed herself in the process (don't worry, I jumped into to help), I realized that nothing is permanent. They were a perfect couple. I couldn't imagine either one without the other. Then, when she was 6 months pregnant, he filed for divorce. Pretty damn cold in my opinion. It reminded me of when my sister had her two babies, and she came back to live with us after her husband beat her up. I remembered sitting there paralyzed with my sister as she screamed at her kids, but it was really her own frustrations and fears that she was projecting. I haven't experienced that for about 12 years, and there I was again last night. My heart goes out to her for what she's going through, and I can only hope that by letting her vent, helping with her kids when I can, and getting manicures and pedicures with her will ease some of the pain she's constantly feeling.
I'm feeling a little blah today. Matzo ball soup and latke hangover? PMS? Perhaps. But, here I am in my jammies, just lazing about. I have many holiday presents to wrap and cards to mail out. That's right, I'm getting good at mailing out cards this year, dammit!
I told myself not to go overboard with the presents. I tried so hard to control myself at Barnes and Noble the other night, but it's out of my control and the shopping gods have taken over this part of my brain. There is a new Brian Froud book (my favorite faeiry guy) out, but I did hold back. A new Nick Hornby. A comic I really want to get into. There were movies I wanted so, so badly. I stood steady though, and did not give in. I did go crazy getting presents for others though. Huge ouchie on the wallet. I've resigned myself to the fact that this month is not the right month for saving money. I also have not gotten my holiday bonus, which I know is coming, but still it's hurting the pocketbook right now. I was hoping for the bonus, so I could go shopping with it...not pay it back to my credit card after the damage has been done! I'm not anywhere near the redzone though, and there is an upward lift in moving finances, just this month is very rough and I'm not tucking as much away as I have been. But today, I will check out and wrap my stash, and see if I'm really done shopping...oh that would be heavenly.
The bf's mom got us VIP passes to the Cirque du Soleil right after Christmas. This is the bf's birthday present. He's a lucky, lucky guy and I get to reap some of the benefits of that!
I should also be hopping to the gym. I am too late for the asskicking class of last week, which is mighty fine with me. I need to build up more stamina before doing that out again.
I'm signed up on all of these job alerts, so I get daily emails of new postings. Apparently Geico has a legal office right near where I'm going to be. I hurriedly went to apply and upload my resume...BUT...my trial microsoft word has expired and it's completely locked out of editing. So no more uploading resumes! This is a HUGE pain. I do have microsoft works, but hardly anyone is compatible with that program. I did find a temporary solution to this though. I can open wordpad document, then copy and paste my works resume into it. That works for a little while, and then for some weird, unknown reason, it converts it into microsoft word 2007 and is flippin' locked again! This is making me a little wonky. I did manage to upload the resume, and I started filling out the next few pages of the application. The page timed out, and everything was deleted. So instead of getting hotheaded about it, I just closed the damn thing out. The microsoft word issue could pose a huge, annoying problem for me as I head into this next semester with a full load. I will be horribly annoyed at having to convert everything over and then having lock up issues. The only solution I can think of right now is to do my assignments in wordpad, and then immediately email it to myself, so I can toy with it at work. I should just buy the program, but it is mighty expensive!
Time to turn on the tube and wrap some presents!
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Hey Dangerdo -
ReplyDeleteI'm a coupon freak, so I'm hoping this coupon link http://printable-coupons.blogspot.com/ that I use will help you. It updates on a regular basis, and might make your holiday shopping less painful.
As for the Microsoft Word issue, I think you need to get the program somehow or another. The hassle you're going thru doesn't seem worth it. I think saving money in some other areas, like no more cigarettes, might help in your savings for this program and your presents. Just giving you one more reason stop smoking. ;)
-Munchkin
Thanks for the link Munchkin! I'll be sure to check it out.
ReplyDeleteYes, the word issue is a huge pain! I do need to figure out a more permanent plan for dealing with it. You are very right about the quitting smoking. It would save a ton of money. I am getting *there* with my goals though! I've been consistently going to the gym, and early January I can enroll for the rest of my classes, which will be IT for school. The quitting smoking is the roughest one of the bunch for sure, but taking baby steps here and not trying to be too hard on myself!