Another Exciting Update

[xifeng]

So, here's the score.

+ I do indeed have an ear infection. Medically, I'm clear to go back to work, which both makes me feel better (because it's not like I OMG HAVE TO stay home) and makes me unhappy (because, um, I hate my job and all).

+ Amoxicillin is my special friend.

+ End result: most of my paycheck, which I picked up today, got blown on frivolous luxuries such as my car payment, gas, and medical care. If I can't find another job soon, I don't know what I'm going to do; it'll probably involve willing myself to die.

+ We had a storm last night, which uprooted our tomato plant. This makes me want to cry, but I don't have any energy left.

Comments

[daturabelle.livejournal.com]

amoxicillin has been my friend on numerous occasions... sympathies for the ear infection, know what you're going through there.
no! can't you rescue the tomato plant?

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Amoxicillin is good stuff! Thankfully, the ear infection has pretty much subsided, but I'm still popping those giant pink pills until they're gone.

"Uprooted" turned out to be a misnomer, but the tomato plant got snapped off low on the stem, and couldn't be re-potted, so the path of least resistance may prove to be just getting a new one. Fortunately, they're in-season and cheap *g*

[tara]

You're having a bad run of it right now :(

Have some ♥ to keep you going.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Things have improved. My m0mmy bought me ice cream, also shells and cheese (one of my favorite crap foods). :9

Also, in non-suck news, the lawyers are okay with her proposed changes so she does get the full severance package. Unfortunately, they deposited it to her account in a lump sum and took like $3K out in taxes (which, yeah, they have to do, but). Still! We're okay through the beginning of July or so.

Thank you for ♥, as always. H dropped me a brief line and I'm not sure what I did to deserve him, either. ♥

[tara]

I'm really glad that the severance package has all been worked out for the l0lm0m. If they're going to be asses, they should at least be fair asses.

You do (and are) many things to deserve H. And much other stuff as well ♥

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but today she got a letter from them stating that she was eligible for the quarterly incentive (a kind of profit-sharing/bonus), and a check for about $50. So that was nice. :) Also she gets outplaced tomorrow, and one of the topics is "Selling Yourself", which we're both crap at. *g* (Mom's tack is to be all, "lol i cans has job nau plz??? :D" and mine is to be all, "NOTHING STANDS BETWEEN ME AND THE APARTMENT IN BLOOMINGTON. >E")

He believes in me, for whatever reason. He shouldn't, given my propensity to be a world-class fuck-up, but that's okay; I'm not going to argue with him. ♥

[tara]

Free money is always good. People should send us random cheques in the mail at least once a week, I think. When we rule the world, we'll have to put that in the global constitution.

My first thought upon reading "Selling Yourself" involved a street corner and a very short skirt.

You are not a fuck-up. And if you say that again, I will be forced to give you a Stern Look. So there.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

No amount is too small! Unless I can't even get a Coke from the machines at work. Then it's too small.

Totally. And people with nice racks will be required to show a certain amount of cleavage at all times. Ours will be a pro-boobies regime. :D

Trufax: My father used to work for a company in Evansville that conducts clinical research and studies for meds that require FDA approval or further investigation, which is in fact how we got to this part of the state. Anyway, they used to have T-shirts for the study volunteers that said I'M A RESEARCH STUDY BODY. These were, for a brief period of time, translated into French and Spanish, but were discontinued when the literal translation was found to read I SELL MY BODY FOR SCIENCE. Of course, I guess it's purer when you do it for Science!. *g*

Oh noes!!!! Plz don't give me the Stern Look Of Doom! DDDD: I recant all the nasty things I might otherwise say about me. Are you satisfied now?

[tara]

I think we should make it so that all of our vending machine choices are free, actually. Why should WE have to worry about having change?

I kinda want to have a tee shirt that says "I sell my body for science" now. In another language, naturally. It's not as fun if it's in boring old English.

Hmmm... for now...

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Or we could at least require vending machines to accept pennies. They don't in the US, you know. D:

If I ever find any, I'll save 'em for you. *g*

*hears and tremblingly obeys*

[tara]

They don't here, either. Then again, we don't have pennies. We don't have one cent pieces any more, either :(

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Dude, I ttly wish we had no pennies. Or one-cent pieces. Seriously, they're a pain in the ass. They're not worth the trouble it takes to produce them, for serious. D:

[tara]

Your pennies ARE a pain in the ass. If you're going to keep them, you really need to have a two cent coin as well, a la the UK and former!Australia. I know that I ended up with 4598734958347 pennies in my purse both times I went to the US. 4598734958347 dollar notes as well. I'm still finding those about the place *g*

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

When you are dead and your heirs are cleaning out your estate, they will find pennies all over the place. Pennies, like the poor, are always with you. *g*

We do have $2 bills, or used to, but they are very rare, hence the saying "queer as a two-dollar bill".

You might have the decency to share your stupendous $4,598,734,958,347 fortune :( I mean, $4 billion is $4 billion.