Quick Relief

Most people who know me know that I am an anxiety ridden human being. I found out in college that my grandfather had a nervous breakdown when my dad was a kid and left work for a period of time. That’s a fun bit of info to learn when you’re going through your own saga.

The point of this sob story is that I’ve never been very good at making goals and plans because I stress out too much about the present. My finances have generally been a “fly by the seat of my pants” thing. I haven’t had a savings account since I was in high school and even then it was just a savings/checking account. My mom tried on numerous occasions to get me to learn to budget. She helped me open a savings account when I was ten and put me on a budget when I was in middle school. She and I planned out a budget of all my expenses, including everything from food to shampoo, clothing and even chap-stick. There was one major flaw with this plan: I didn’t drive nor did I cook dinner for myself nightly. So in the end I pocketed the money for a couple months and the whole endeavor was dropped.

Now, as a married co-dependent individual, money must be closely watched. As it turns out, living in suburbia has a lot more expenses than living in the city. I had been having minor heart attacks for a month or so since we arrived in Las Vegas. Then it occurred to me that I could get rid of all my woes and anxiety by simply keeping track of all of our finances and putting together a strict budget to help us begin saving for a house(which we hope to buy in another year or so, before the buyers market returns to a sellers market).

With that in mind I got myself set up with Quicken and organized all of our accounts and opened a savings account.

Now, all we need to do is figure out how to invest our little nest egg to make the most profit in the least amount of time…anyone care to share their investor’s knowledge?

The Hardest Part

My dad sends me emails all the time. I don’t know another soul on the planet
who receives as many power point presentations via email as I do. When I got an email from my dad today saying he wanted to share a video with me.

The email included this:

“I’m in pain from just watching this!!!! It’s definitely an inspiration!

Dance team of the “ages” YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS !!! IT’S UNBELIEVABLE!

You must watch it all.
Just when you think you have seen it all, along comes a dance team like this one.

He’s 25 and his partner, well, she’s 84. In some spots I thought her bones were going to break. She has a bit of limp at the end. It is amazing that she would try something like this at 74 let alone 84. I don’t know whether she should be congratulated or institutionalized. “

Then I watched it

Um…it’s a music video for Coldplay featuring a show from the 80s called Attitudes. Coldplay was inserted in a la Weezer’s “Buddy Holly.” Bizarre.

Polaroids Return, Temporarily

I found out that I have only color Polaroid 4×5 left. Which means I probably won’t shoot another Type55 Polaroid again.

Type55 is officially gone December 2008. I know what I’m asking for this Christmas.

Why, Polaroid? Why are you discontinuing your glorious film?