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*loves*

Love.  This.  Man.  Love that this speech came out on my birthday.  Happy birthday to me.

Barack Obama: 'A More Perfect Union' (Full Speech)

This Present Chagrin

I despise video games.

Not because they are bad.  I don't believe that they cause violence or cancer or rot the brain in any way.  Some of them can actually improve fine motor skills.

I despise them simply because they grate on my last nerve.  With their tinkling, irritating muzak and constant beeping.

They don't have to even be loud.  Our poor residents - there they are, sitting over there, socializing, having a good time, not breaking any rules.  They are being so good.  And still, I kinda want to make them go to their rooms, because I'm just not sure how much more of this I can take.

I'm going to need the residents to find something better to do with their time.

One day, when I have kids, one of them is going to call me late one night.  "Mom, I'm in jail.  But don't worry - my pimp is going to post bail."

And I'm going to take a deep, cleansing breath and ask, "But were you playing Smash Brothers?"

Because I can handle them being bad.  Just not annoying.

 

QotD: Saving For A Rainy Day

What are you saving up for? 
Submitted by Star. 

I am saving up for...nothing yet.  My main financial goal right now is to pay off debt.  So I guess I am saving up for that, if that counts as saving. 

Ideally, I will be saving by the end of the year.  That is my goal.  I would like a cushion.  Most money gurus will tell you to have a two- or three-month-salary cushion in your savings, but that is so far beyond any realm of reality that I have experienced that I can't imagine having that.  I'm just hoping to save enough that I can get a broken bone fixed if I fall (which, let's face it, is pretty likely) without having to take out a bank loan.  Or enough to go on vacation to somewhere besides Mom and Dad's at some point without having to eat Ramen for six months before the trip.

I would love to save.  I've got to get me one of those jobs that will pay me enough to actually do that.  Or, you know, drink less wine and eat less sushi.