Month: July 2003

Dad, you can just scroll right past this entry. I wouldn’t want to be the cause of your blood pressure increase.

Just checked my account balance….hooooboy, a whole 98 cents! What the hell? Boy, all those checks came in on the same day, didn’t they? Actually, according to my calculations there should have been more than 98 cents in there, so I guess it’s time to pull up a chair and a pencil and balance my checkbook.

Good think I looked before heading over to the grocery store. Now THAT would have been embarrassing.

I am also glad I paid for my gas with cash today. Do they make you siphon it out if you can’t pay for it, or just arrest you? (See, this is why I never pump first if I’m paying by debit/credit card).

I get paid tomorrow, supposedly by direct deposit, so it’s not a crisis, just a little surprising.

Okay, I finished the book I was re-reading, and tonight when I took Junior to Barnes and Noble I picked up Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything for almost half off the cover price. WOOO! Of course, I had to buy Junior like five books, cause that’s what you do, of course. Not five for me, noooooo.

Hey, and here’s my complaint. They have a summer reading program – if your child reads 8 books, writes down what they liked best and you sign off that they read the book, they get a free book (from a list of 25). My issue? It’s for grades 1-6. So Junior, who is actually in the early stages of learning to read and probably has the skills of a first-grader, can’t participate. I think that stinks. Will fill out the form anyway, and if they say he doesn’t qualify, *I* will buy him a book. Sheesh.