It is 4 AM on a Sunday morning and I'm having a sleepless night. I had a stimulating conversation with my younger sis recently on a need to have some financial stability in life with a need to be pursuing something in my job that would be of interest to me. For the first time in my life I have written down on paper and pen 3 specific goals for this ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been quite busy for me.. mainly because of some self improvement bs that my managers have pushed on to me. It's one of those "good for your career" versus "beneficial to the company" evils. Anyway, it is well behind me now but it has unfortunately sucked up about 6 weeks of my life and more importantly my holidays. And even ( Read more... )

Sometimes during moments like this I wonder if all the stress is actually worth the money.

Do you know how ATMs make that flipping through a million dollars sound when you withdraw money. Well for the first time, I went to the ATM the other day to withdraw just a $20 (usually it's more than $20 as I'm always broke). And there goes that sound again, just as long as if I was withdrawing $200. What the hell is it doing, it's just 1 bill. I ( Read more... )

I've been trying to move myself from using Splenda in my coffee to using actual sugar. You know more natural and all that. One of the unintended roadblocks that I'm running into is figuring out how many packets of sugar I should use to get the coffee just right. I usually put 3 packets of Splenda in a large cup of coffee and as Splenda is stronger ( Read more... )

I feel for you :(

I had another weird dream last night. It's not another dead fish type of weird, it was about two people whom I do know but I don't really talk to on a daily, weekly, or even frequent basis. One of them I have not spoken to in years. And to top it off, the dream wasn't even about me. She was interested in him and he was way over her head. Once again ( Read more... )

The other night I dreamed of 2 fishes, one black and the other silvery or even orange, like a gold fish. But these fishes weren't goldfishes, they were bigger with a wide body, short fins and was in a fishbowl just big enough to hold them still. I didn't see how it happen, but suddenly the black fish had his tail wrapped around the other fish's ( Read more... )

The latest unwarranted news coverage of Palin's pregnant, unmarried, will be damned daughter just reinforces what I dislike so much about social conservatives. You're frown upon if you decide to get an abortion. If you decide to keep the baby you're damned anyway since you're having a kid out of wedlock. Sure ideally there shouldn't be teenage ( Read more... )

I saw an oddity today. This young woman wearing a cute pink shirt was holding a striped pink umbrella and walking in the rain. Her umbrella was not open, in fact it was neatly folded and secured with one of those velco fasteners. I thought maybe she just needed to cross the street, go a short distance. But as she walked past me I saw her soaked ( Read more... )