Vacation Is Over For Another Six Months
Here it is, folks, the last day of my vacation. Art and MrJames went back to work today, and Lil’ Art went home, after staying with us for several days. So, I get the house to myself.
The responsible voice in my head says I should take this opportunity to clean the house, as it’s shedding season, and so the house is covered in a fine layer of pet hair. The not-so-responsible voice (also known as the lazy voice) says I should just sit on my ass all day and piddle around on the computer.
Guess who’s winning so far? Heh.
Tomorrow I go back to work, slaving away at a job that I’m steadily growing to hate more and more. Effort will have to be given to locating a new job, if there’s one to be had. The problem I face is that the current job pays me just enough to make it difficult to get another one. I have to make the same money or more, and right now, finding a job that pays what I’m making is difficult at best. I’m likely going to have to get two jobs. Joy.
In the meantime, I have other goals that I would like to accomplish this year. The major goal this year is to eliminate our debt as much as possible. The evil Credit Card Monsters have us by the short n’ curlies, and we need to do something about that. I also need to start a retirement fund of some sort, as the job is never going to provide one. Next on the list is to lose some goddamn weight. Swimming at Gencon was embarrassing enough that I only went the once. Nobody wants to look at my jiggly ol’ gut squeezed into a swim suit. Ick. I’ve got about thirty pounds that absolutely have to go. Of course, this means exercize. Ug.
Other goals include saving enough money to put in a fence for the dogs, and redecorating Lil’ Art’s room, as promised. We were going to do that this week, but we lost some money. No, I mean seriously, physically lost some money. I had left an envelope of cash for Squatch, in case there was a vet’s emergency, and it’s gone. There was no one here to steal it. It was there Monday night, and gone Tuesday morning. We even searched the trash. I have no idea where it went. I’m officially baffled.
I also have plans to meet my folks for dinner later on. I think, in the meantime, I’ll go crack out on FFX, and enjoy my last day of being a lazy cow for awhile.
