Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Insuffcient Funds


It was payday today, thank god! My phone ran out of credit the other day and when I tried to send a text to Mrs. Finndego, Vodafone came back and said I had "insuffcient funds" to send this message. All I could think was "if you only knew". As a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever had "suffcient funds". To be honest, I don't think any one has ever had enough. I'm pretty sure Bill Gates wakes up in the morning and checks how Microsoft stock went in the night. Why? He already has a gazillion dollars, why would he care?
I earn enough to say that we are solid "middle class". As a matter of fact, barring the dog and the white picket fence and "the gimp" that we keep in the garage we are middle class personified. Yet, now that Fletcher has started Kindy, talk has turn to Mrs. Finndego going back to work to give us "breathing room". (I don't know what's happening to me, but I can't stop using "quotation marks" tonight). We have no "needs" but "wants"(I can't help myself). We are conservative in spending, don't have any debt (well except for that little mortgage thing) but besides that we live paycheck to paycheck, save when we can, spend when we can afford it. Yet, we still feel the need for more and yet both of us will go to our graves claiming that we are not "consumerists".(Stop me before I quote again!). Sometimes, I wish that I could win the lottery just to show everyone that the money wouldn't change me. I mean I would still hang out with all my old friends. Sting, Beyonce and Bono. I would still find time to come out of my hyperbaric chamber to fly on my private jet to a global warming conference to rail against carbon emissions from the "fat cats" (I didn't need quotations marks there but it had been almost two sentences since that last ones). I would still only drive the Hummer when absolutley necessary, like when I needed cigarettes or something.
I saw a list today of 75 albums that I "absolutely" (I'm just messing with your head now) had to have. I could take it or leave it to be honest but I found a few in there that I'd like to give a go. Apparently, "Explosions In the Sky" (not my fault, good grammar requires I use them there) a instrumental band from Texas is so uplifting that anything you do while listening to it becomes more enjoyable. I couldn't think of anything better to have then while reading this post. "Enjoy!"

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