Brave Enough to Burn

I just realized that Hershey bars now come with opening instructions printed on the wrapper.

If you're not smart enough to figure out how to open it on your own, then you don't deserve the goodess of a chocolate/almond bar. But that's just my opinion:).

I have figured out two thing since returning to PT retail:

1) I greatly miss being able to hop on the net at any time. I think I'm addicted.

2) I have to recondition my feet & legs to standing for 6-8 hours per.

All and all it hasn't been too bad going back to E. Since I am just a peon now, and therefore have no "real" responsibility, I can sit back and enjoy the job. And I do enjoy it. I get to work with artsy crafty stuffs all day. It's overall an easy job, and they are totally understanding about my needing most weekends off. I just have to avoid buying all the new papers as they come in. That, and make sure I bring my lunch so I'm not paying for overpriced fast food.

I think the coolest part has been all the regular customers who were so happy to see me back. I've gotten so many hugs and such the past few days! Either they really liked me, or in the year I've been gone things have been bad. Or a combo of the two.

The extra money will be nice going into the holidays, esp since they're putting Lynson on salary- but just through the winter, supposedly. At least we got them to agree to the figure we wanted, so that's good. We'll still miss those summer overtime checks, though!

Speaking of Lynson, he gets to stay up all night tonight. In a attempt to discover why he's been having violent muscle spasms over the past few years, he's been going through several tests. The one tomorrow is (another) EKG, this time sleep-deprived. Fun, fun, fun. So far all the tests have told us is that a) he doesn't have a brain tumor, and b) that (the spasms) aren't normal.

I'm slowly moving back into the Muses art community. I've entered a Halloween ATC swap that'd due on the 21st. So I have to find my stuff! At least I have the basic idea; sandykidd has given me permission to use one of her writings in the piece (thanks again!). I just have to decide if I want to go trendy/cute or artsy/vintage with it.

I'm tired and I'm babbling. I think it's time to say "'night y'all"

So I'm packing, and making the dust bunny colonies angry with me. I have the TV on for random noise, as I often do.

Once of those stupid "bundle your services" commercials comes on, starting off with a couple complaining about the oh-so-high bills and ending with "OMG we have cash back and saved money! (Him) I can buy this! (Her) I can buy this!"

I'm having a serious Obvious-man&trade moment here:

So, If you're so strapped that that the 10, 20, or 30 you save by bundling your cell,cable,phone,and internet into one "package" makes a difference, then wouldn't the $250 cash back be better spent on something OTHER THAN FRIVOLITIES?!? Like paying other bills? or buying food? or putting in an Emergency Fund for when little Timmy crashes his bike and winds up in the hospital? Get elated about saving the money, NOT about being able to buy more crap!

*sigh* We have become a spending culture. We have been raised to believe that it is normal to live paycheck to paycheck, have 20 maxed out credit cards apiece, and be a slave to car payments and house payments for the rest of our life. It's a sad, sad thing...

I've never claimed to be the paragon of sensible spending. I like to buy stuff. I like my comics. I like my art supplies; I like my books. I like to go out and have a nice dinner w/ my husband. I was raised that money was these little plastic cards and if this one doesn't work, then try that one. I have paid my share of stupid tax-with LOTS of zeroes on the end. But I haven't used credit for personal use in over 2 years. It was only recently that we conceeded to using credit for the business, mainly because when you're paying $1600 for an event space, the people want a major CC- not a debit card.

This whole house-buying thing we're doing; it's not the best time for us to do it. We're really rushing our plan by a year, but hey, since when did Life like to stick to a plan? As I've said before, the first year, it'll be tight. It would be less tight if we weren't locked into making $500@month payments for This piece of orginal artwork, something we agreed would be our "splurge" for the year (last year was the 4 days in Disneyland) waaay before the need to move earlier than planned had been brought up. But we can make it. We just each loose our monthly "blow-money envelopes". Meh, no biggie. Bills still get paid, just like before.

Ah well, I'm rambling, and I still have packing to do. Probably a good thing that eclectic_spirit had to bail on our dinner date; so much to do, so much to fdo...