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Tuesday, September 28, 2004
it's all about money today
With overtime money looming on the horizon, we're finally able to take care of some things that have been sitting in that "someday when we are not so financially strapped that we scrounge in the couch cushions to go buy milk" category. Such things include:
Paying library fines. We like to check out a lot of stuff at the library. When each person in your family has about fifteen things checked out, and you miss the due date for all sixty (SIXTY!) things by one day, that makes for some rather substantial fines, considering that they range from 25c to 50c per item. (yes, I know there is a cents sign that I can make with alt-codes. I'm just too lazy. It's a diary, fercryinoutloud. If you want to see perfect usage, pay me and I'll help you with your resumé). So now I have that pristine pure feeling that comes with owing the library nothing. I can look the librarian in the eye when I check things out now.
Buying collars for the cats. This is well-timed since yesterday was the first day they were allowed outside post-spaying. They love being outdoors. They have been giving us accusing looks for two days because we've kept this no-ceilinged, dirt-floored nirvana from them for so long. Sorry, girls, it was for the best. Anyway. It was kind of a shock to whip out the checkbook and write a check for ten bucks for two cat collars -- but hey, at least they're the special snag-safe ones where they'll come off or break rather than strangling the poor little beasts if they get caught on a branch or what have you. That's the kind of thing you look at and say, "dang, too bad I didn't think of that first."
Um, groceries. yay!
We are going out to dinner! Even bigger yay. Sorry, but it has been too long since I even got to go to Burger King, let alone sit down in a clean, pretty restaurant and tell a nice person what I want and have it brought to me. Especially since, oh, what I want is so delightfully GOOD. mmm. zucchini sticks, here I come.
