Didja Notice?

I heard something on NPR the other day about the extra money we should be seeing in our paychecks owing to some tax break that we'd been promised. "Hm," thought I. "Extra money?" Today was payday so what better time to check out such a thing. And lo and behold, sho' nuff, not only was there extra money in both paychecks, but this had been going on for 3 pay periods. Now, it's not a ton of money...amounts to about $30/paycheck but in a time like the current time, it was an increase in the proper direction. Factor in that nearly everything is, it seems, on sale these days and it amounts to even more buying power.

Provided one has a paycheck to begin with, of course.






Carla Bruni "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"

(An aside: I think Mrs. Sarkosy is very pretty and fairly talented but I still think Michelle could take her).

For the Record

As of 10:35 PDT:

8 comments for the Plain White Ts.

12 comments for Hannah Montana (aka Miley Cyrus).

Kinda like a Google Fight without the, uh, fighting.

At this moment The Dog is barking furiously at me, wagging his tail, while he tosses his lion at me. This means he wants to go to bed. Because he sleeps with his lion...a stuffed toy he stole from The Child long ago.

I must go to bed because The Child and I have to get up early tomorrow to get to this frikkety frakking rummage sale in support of the 8th grade trip to DC and may I just say, the people who are driving this train are driving ME out of my frikkety frakkety mind? Good. Because they are. Trust. You don't even want me to get into how frakked up all this is. No? You do? 'K. I'll make it simple. I'll use army code:

This weekend looks to be a Charlie Foxtrot.

Myriad things have happened this week that make me say Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

I need to trip and fall into a bucket of money and I need to do it like, now.

Seriously.

Do you know, I haven't even had cocktails with The Neighbor since Monday? Yeah, that would be the shift in the space/time continuum that you felt earlier.

Lord, I will be so damn glad when this weekend is over. You don't even know.

I need change for a $20.

Don't forget to fall back tomorrow night. What will you do with that extra hour?