Land of the free home of the rich
What really scares me is that they all have significantly cheaper health care AND education, which means Americans not only make they least, they pay the most.
health care yes but I lived in australia for a year prices are much worse over there believe me!
Corporations in the US are making record profits by squeezing their workers, denying the decent wages and benefits.
The are not content being multimillionaires, they want to be billionaires!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPVb7X6mQ4
Just watch!
The past week.
Things really sucked for a while because on Thursday at some point I lost a $50 bill. I have no idea where the fucker is, I practically tore my apartment apart trying to find it. It is not the end of the world but I could have bought a lot of food and it made me feel really shitty.
I did manage to go see “Pacific Rim” and it was awesome. When the first kaiju appears and destroys the Golden Gate bridge, I actually felt like a kid again watching my first Godzilla movie. It was an excellent film.
I text’d hunter afterward and we geek’d out over it. She also said that she was going to visit sometime soon. That is always fantastic. She had to cancel her last visit because of Father’s Day and ever since then my mom keeps asking “When is Hunter coming to visit you?!” I just tell her when she feels ready too, I don’t want to push the issue. She called last night and ask for the 100th time and I told her point blank that I did not know and neither did Hunter and I would gladly inform her when she did. I got a little annoyed.
Anyway, she also told me that she is going to BronyCon and will bring me some treasure from it. It is in Baltimore and I have no money to attend. Hopefully she will bring me something cool. When she when to FWA she brought me some kick ass pony badges. I still have them hanging in my room.
Once I pay rent and tuition it will take me some time to work and recover. I should also have my pistol paid off by then. Once again, that missing 50 spot could really come in handy. But once I get my nursing degree, I can afford to do things like go to conventions and commission art. Maybe afford some of the finer things in life instead of scraping my pennies together in the hope of buying a $15 box fan at Big Lots.
I have it worked out though. My landlord is pretty friendly with me. If I ask her to delay my rent until the 15th then I can pay both and not starve for most of the month of August.
Speaking of which, my birthday is the 15th. I feel old. So very old.
Happiness
I often have people regurgitating that old idiom “Money can’t buy happiness” at me.
To which I reply, I have been poor and miserable my whole life. Being rich and miserable would be a nice change of pace.
Who can claim to be unhappy when they don’t have to work and can, on a whim, hop on a private jet and spend a month or two in Rome or London? They only have one problem: How to spend all that money.
Maybe two if they are bound and determined to somehow take it into the after with them.
Money
Around the 20th of February I filled my taxes and here it is almost 4 weeks later, I have yet to get it. I have not found anything wrong, and the IRS only lets you track it if you know the exact amount you are going to get back. Which is kind of stupid considering that most of us leave that to accountants and what have you, and they compile not only earnings, but the reams of tax receipts that I got by giving every thing I can to Goodwill.
I am counting on this money. I have been out of work for a week due to the break, so I am going to feel that at the end of the month. Another thing that pisses me off is that if it does not come by the end of the week, I can’t afford to go to the horror convention with Will. Also, I found a pistol in a pawn shop in Wilkesboro that is perfect and cheap. I laid it away but if I get my check, I can pay it off and try it out.
Some more details of my mundane life since last I posted. I had no money to send anything to my mom for her birthday so I tried to avoid the issue until my next pay day. Between that and picking up the slack for my lazy bastard co-workers, I had to stay over 2 hours extra almost every day that week so I was exhausted. My mom called me and started telling some facetious, bitchy story of how she hoped I married some one who would remember shit so she would get fed when she is old because I am so fucking unreliable and forgetful. After making me fell like shit she hung up. What was I supposed to tell her? I came home home and went straight to bed that day because I was not allowed to leave work until I finished everything? That my co-workers did not show up?! That a 11 hour day was not tiring? Or that I didn’t have enough cash in my pocket to even send a card? Besides, cards and phone cards are just signs that you don’t care enough to send a real gift! Besides, I just love how she had to set me up and knock me down with that super hypothetical story! I wish, I wish to almighty God that she would do this shit to my dope-addict sister! Every time I slip up it is the end of the world. But a more realistic story would be her allowed to starve because her pill-head daughter and her scum bag boyfriend stole everything that wasn’t nailed down for pill money or slit her fucking throat to get it. Being emotionally neglected being the least of her worries! I am a college graduate with a not-to-glamorous but steady job and my sister is a degenerate drug addict that got her kids taken away from her, stole from family and stranger alike, and ended up in jail for 5 years. I think I am doing pretty God damned good for myself.
But, I could never do that to her and she knows it. She says that I am more like her in that we have a no-combative, gentle nature. Or it is more likely that we have a passive aggressive, bitchy nature. But the difference being that I can’t bring myself to hurt her like she hurts me. I am reminded of what Ms. Ruth, a kindly Jewish lady that I work for says. You always hut the ones you love, because they don’t abandon you as readily as others. For better or worse, you always come back.
Fuck…
On a lighter note, After hunter visited and we watched “The 4th Kind”, I ordered a book about the Sumerian civilization, because I need to know more about them. Everyone should really, because of everything that they gave to us.
Hopefully, my money will show up soon and I can actually have a little fun. Haru Nakajima is going to be at the convention. I need to thank him, his movies made my childhood so much more bearable.
