Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Should have just gone to the golf course



After returning home from work and making a stop at Wal-Mart (for like the 5th time this week) I decided that tonight was the night...I was going to make a budget. I continued to put it off for awhile by playing with the dog, cleaning up after my dad and brother, watering plants and then taking random pictures in hope of finally using up my film. I have been taking my dog down to the golf course near our house to let her run around but I thought I would dodge the West Nile bullet another day and stay in.
I grabbed all bills and dusted them off. I have this belief, if you can't see the bill(s) they don't exist. I can tell you about some of the phone calls I have gotten, this is not true. I sat down at the computer and was going to make a cute spread sheet (I say cute; your'e thinking nerdy) and it was going have all the information I needed at my finger tips. I was trying to set it up so that I could put a payment in and it would magically change the amount owed. I was going to just enter in a bunch of payments for fun and see my balances become zeros. Then the evil spirits of computer land became to powerful to overtake, and it would not let me do anything I wanted it to do. I even called my mom who's job is to work with computers all day, and she couldn't figure it out. I just decieded to ditch my hightect ideas and just enter in all the data. As they began to add up, I didn't think numbers could go that high, but I kept crunching the numbers. Just as I am on the edge of madness, my brother walks by the office and asked what I was doing. I replied "Drowning in debt." He didn't say anything for a minute and then "Oh yeah, I was really thirsty today so I had to drink your water. I went and bought you some more." and then walked off to get pimped out to go see his girlfriend.
I finished my budget and figured out the monthly amounts I would be paying. Then I stared blanky at the final results for God knows how long. I came to the conclusion that West Nile would have been more fun but that would of meant I would need to make a new spread sheet with another bill.

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