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In which I get free money, odd compliments, and am very cold.
November is a three-check month.
To someone on a two-check "budget", that's music to my ears. FREE MONEY. To top it off, I've already maxed out on 401K, social security and some other random contributions. So my checks for Nov & Dec are for larger amounts than during the rest of the year. MORE FREE MONEY. I'm starting to feel a little delirious.
Free money = dangerously exhilarating!
People say the weirdest things.
Two "compliments" I recently received:
1) "Some day you are going to make a really really good stepmom." (This was said very very sincerely by someone who loves me and was clearly meant to be a compliment.)
My reply (that I did say): "What on earth makes you think I would date a boy with fucking kids?"
2) "You and Sashi are kind of alike; very gruff on the exterior, but secretly behind the scenes you do really really sweet things for people."
My reply (that I did not say): No more iPods for you, girlfriend! Ha!
Odd compliments = strangely disconcerting.
I realize it's not the dead of winter, people, but you could put the fucking heat on.
The temp outside yesterday was supposedly between 37 (morning & night) and 47 (midday), but with the windchill (the wind was nutso yesterday) it felt about 17 at the most.
Yesterday morning cab = no heat. Driver leaving window open up front.
Last night at Allstate Arena = three hour concert. NO HEAT. Never took my coat off all night. Helloooo I was wearing a snowboarding jacket, not some leather blazer or something.
This morning cab = such a chill breeze I kept wondering if my door was open (not) or the window (not) or perhaps the air conditioning was even on (perhaps).
I am fucking chilled to the bone, people. Where is a boy to warm me up?
Posted by Duff at November 17, 2006
it's freakishly warm here. like walking around in my bathroom after a hot shower. it totally sucks.
Posted by: maryse at November 17, 2006 08:31 AM
Hmn. Interesting about the temperature. It was 20 celsius here yesterday, which is, oh, about 68 in your temps. Ridiculous! It did rain though, and I had sweep to the garden because it's full of leaves (it still being officially fall), so I got wet. But still prolly much more relaxed than frigid taxis.
Posted by: marrije at November 17, 2006 09:02 AM
That is the weirdest thing to say, the thing about being a stepmom. The hell? Michelle doesn't understand.
Posted by: michelle at November 17, 2006 09:12 AM
My mom said that to me once - that someday I was going to be a great stepmother.
I was like - What? And also, fuck you very much.
Posted by: Juno at November 17, 2006 09:59 AM
Gruff exterior, nah I don't see that one. The good stepmom one, that's just weird since your "goodness" would depend on the children not being devil-spawn. Of course I have no children or pets so this observation is just an intellectual enterprise. As for the cab drivers, I can only assume they were men and men are never cold.
Posted by: Sil at November 17, 2006 10:29 AM
I miss 3-check months. Stupid monthly paycheck, trying to make me keep a budget or something.
Posted by: alice at November 17, 2006 10:53 AM
It's still summer here, what I wouldn't give right now for temps in the 30s.
Posted by: jackie at November 17, 2006 11:24 AM
Oh Crap!! Now I really have to leave a comment! Let me try again - just wanted to convey to my favourite cousin how she always does incredibly nice things for people and really looks out for her family and friends, and although I don't know Sashi that well the same goes for him. I'm not even going to try and explain by what I meant to convey by "gruff" for fear of digging myself deeper into my hole ( can I just pretend that its a UK expression that got lost in translation??). I really must work on compliment giving skills... (and not just to get another i-pod ;)
Posted by: rachel at November 17, 2006 11:45 AM
i think you also said "you both have very tough exteriors"... :)
Posted by: Duff. at November 17, 2006 11:56 AM
I am always happy to know that someone out there is as cranky about being cold as I am. Thank youn for the inadvertant moral support!
Posted by: Mary at November 17, 2006 04:42 PM
Like riding in cabs isn't already an ick experience. What is wrong with these people? Have fun with the freeeeeeee money!
Posted by: Mary at November 18, 2006 08:05 AM
Got your comment on the CD trade. I mixed you up with another friend of mine who reads my blog. She's probably very confused about the email I sent her yesterday. Anyway, send me an email at poohba(at)yahoo(dot)com and we can make arrangements. Thanks!
Posted by: sara at November 18, 2006 10:09 AM