something I WANT
Jun. 15th, 2005 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Well.
Shoulders are killing me today. Got up early, puttered, wanted to do some more of my Hosta Project (where I uproot all the hostas in places I don't want them, and put them in a place where I don't mind them being), but my shoulders really ache so, no. (Dave's cousin, the one with the kittens under his porch, has kindly volunteered to give some insight into perhaps better handlebars, as he's a semi-pro bike racer. I may take him up on that. My cocktailing shift this afternoon will be rather unpleasant given that trays of drinks can be heavyish and you can't carry them on your hips.)
I have to be at work at 2, which is too bad: it's a gorgeous, spring day out today (as opposed to the late-July weather we've been having for most of June). I did take a nap in the hammock, in long sleeves and jeans and a blankie, which was lovely and pleasant and restful. I want to keep on napping, but I have shit to do today.
Got a card from Katy and Adam. It was a graduation card for Dave, which contained in it best wishes to him and congratulations to me for having supported him. And a check, made out to me, for $200, for something I want. If I don't use it for something I WANT, I have to give it back. Well, something we want, ideally.
So what should I spend $200 on?
The other day I saw a couch I really wanted, which was $500, and Dave miraculously liked it too. I remain tempted by that. A real couch, that's not secondhand. Temppptinnng. Don't really have the other $300, tho'. Not really. But sorta. Almost. Kinda. If Dave were to get a job soon, and I were to not need to pay all the bills so I could pay down my credit cards instead. Then there would be $300 left over. Well, ok. Not really left over. So no.
I also really wanted to get some kind of rug for the living room, and then learn to sew so I could make slipcovers for the rest of the furniture, that would match the rug, and we'd have, kind of, almost a real house.
But both of these things are very much signs of Staying Here, which I will be waiting until I see Dave's first paycheck to completely believe in.
But I firmly believe that something like that should be used towards something tangible, rather than blown on booze and food, so I think I'll ponder it over some more. :D
I have to say, since Dave graduated, his mom has been randomly giving him money from time to time. Our last three or four Eating Out events, he's paid half. It just makes me feel rich, is all, to have spending money that was neither budgeted for nor sweated over. (Some people think of tips as easy money. They ain't.)
Shoulders are killing me today. Got up early, puttered, wanted to do some more of my Hosta Project (where I uproot all the hostas in places I don't want them, and put them in a place where I don't mind them being), but my shoulders really ache so, no. (Dave's cousin, the one with the kittens under his porch, has kindly volunteered to give some insight into perhaps better handlebars, as he's a semi-pro bike racer. I may take him up on that. My cocktailing shift this afternoon will be rather unpleasant given that trays of drinks can be heavyish and you can't carry them on your hips.)
I have to be at work at 2, which is too bad: it's a gorgeous, spring day out today (as opposed to the late-July weather we've been having for most of June). I did take a nap in the hammock, in long sleeves and jeans and a blankie, which was lovely and pleasant and restful. I want to keep on napping, but I have shit to do today.
Got a card from Katy and Adam. It was a graduation card for Dave, which contained in it best wishes to him and congratulations to me for having supported him. And a check, made out to me, for $200, for something I want. If I don't use it for something I WANT, I have to give it back. Well, something we want, ideally.
So what should I spend $200 on?
The other day I saw a couch I really wanted, which was $500, and Dave miraculously liked it too. I remain tempted by that. A real couch, that's not secondhand. Temppptinnng. Don't really have the other $300, tho'. Not really. But sorta. Almost. Kinda. If Dave were to get a job soon, and I were to not need to pay all the bills so I could pay down my credit cards instead. Then there would be $300 left over. Well, ok. Not really left over. So no.
I also really wanted to get some kind of rug for the living room, and then learn to sew so I could make slipcovers for the rest of the furniture, that would match the rug, and we'd have, kind of, almost a real house.
But both of these things are very much signs of Staying Here, which I will be waiting until I see Dave's first paycheck to completely believe in.
But I firmly believe that something like that should be used towards something tangible, rather than blown on booze and food, so I think I'll ponder it over some more. :D
I have to say, since Dave graduated, his mom has been randomly giving him money from time to time. Our last three or four Eating Out events, he's paid half. It just makes me feel rich, is all, to have spending money that was neither budgeted for nor sweated over. (Some people think of tips as easy money. They ain't.)
