holy hell- just looked at the forecast - high of 80 today, and then only in the 80's til monday!!


on a different note, sure snoopys hot dog day was cheap, but was it really worth it?

6/30/2010 9:54:36 AM

today, we shall make a budget

6/30/2010 9:58:24 AM

^ you didnt already have one?

6/30/2010 10:03:59 AM

I keep saying I'll make a budget but I never do

6/30/2010 10:07:21 AM

I am in such a funk this morning for no real reason

6/30/2010 10:08:43 AM

^^ if i didnt have one i probably couldnt pay my rent

6/30/2010 10:09:31 AM

yeah, I just don't spend my money on anything other than food and limit going out to eat or drink and it usually works out

6/30/2010 10:13:48 AM

7 minutes of phone interview and I am already moving up the food chain.

Do want

6/30/2010 10:16:12 AM

my brain hurts...

i probably shouldn't have drank a diet coke, 2 cups of coffee, and 3 bottles of water before 10 a.m.

6/30/2010 10:17:15 AM

i had a budget while in college

our financial situation has changed significantly in the last month, though. rent, higher electric bill, inherited her car payment, two paychecks now, etc.

i guess i should've said "today, we will make our new budget"

6/30/2010 10:17:18 AM

^aww how cute

[Edited on June 30, 2010 at 10:21 AM. Reason : clarify]

6/30/2010 10:17:57 AM

^^^ wow thats a lot to drink

[Edited on June 30, 2010 at 10:19 AM. Reason : asdfa]

6/30/2010 10:18:02 AM

being dual income / no kids would be fucking sweet

6/30/2010 10:19:21 AM

we call ourselves THINKERs

Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement

living is cheeeeeeeap up here, too

[Edited on June 30, 2010 at 10:21 AM. Reason : that reminds me, i need to check into a vasectomy]

6/30/2010 10:20:26 AM

i feel like i could support a live in gf without really taking any sort of hit financially, where im at right now

my bills would be about the same.

if she had a job, and a job where she made close to what i do...

well then. it'd be hot.

6/30/2010 10:21:54 AM

Quote :

"being dual income / no kids would be fucking sweet"

....why do you think we have been avoiding kids? i'm not sure i'll ever be ready to have kids, because living financially comfortable, vacationing when we want, buying stuff if/when we want - yeah, not sure i wanna give that up

6/30/2010 10:23:12 AM

crotch fruit is expensive

boats are better

6/30/2010 10:23:56 AM

dude i am terrible with my money. i've tried using mint and all that other budget stuff and it just falls apart

6/30/2010 10:24:21 AM

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"crotch fruit "

fucking LOL, never heard it that way before

6/30/2010 10:24:25 AM

yeah i lol'd hard at crotch fruit

6/30/2010 10:24:41 AM

the last thing i want is crotch fruit.


but i'm with pshoes, give me a woman that makes close to what i do and we'd be set. as long as she isn't a trainwreck or nutcase

6/30/2010 10:26:10 AM

I've been thinking about that lately. I know I really want kids at some point, but I keep getting happier with my life as it is now, and I don't want that to change for quite a long time.

6/30/2010 10:26:21 AM

y'all should check out some of the forums/websites for people who avoid children

they use terms like "crotch fruit" and use "breeders" as a derogatory term for people who have children

it's interesting to see the whole subculture that exists

in the same way, you can check out the websites where people have umpteen kids and call folks w/o children selfish, etc.

6/30/2010 10:27:25 AM

Kids are annoying and I do not like them. Maybe I'd like my own :-\

6/30/2010 10:28:05 AM

i'd be cool with mine until he/she was like 4. then i'd want to ship them off. If it's a boy, he can come back when he's 21 and in college. If it's a girl, since i want to be the gun-toting father, i'll let her come back when she's 16 so i can embarras her and threaten her boyfriends

6/30/2010 10:30:17 AM

I don't like a lot of kids because they're spoiled bitches with no discipline. Mine will not be that way. So I hope I'd like them, but you never can tell.

6/30/2010 10:31:04 AM

i think we're all underestimating the innate rationale that you like your own kids more than any others

6/30/2010 10:31:46 AM

^^ that's what you get when you have the parents these days that want to be friends with their children, and not their parent

f that shit

6/30/2010 10:32:08 AM

IF I HAVE KIDS I WILL BEAT THEM EVERYDAY TO SHOW THEM WHO'S BOSS.

6/30/2010 10:32:32 AM

^^ I just don't get why like 98 percent of parents feel that way now.

6/30/2010 10:33:16 AM

i'mma make a list

-shower
-install filter for fridge
-go buy fuel filter
-go to sheriff's office
-go fill out auto draft form for electric bill (why the fuck can't you do this electronically online???? fuck you PEMC)
-install fuel filter/fix mower
-budget

6/30/2010 10:34:10 AM

^^ i don't either... my sisters aren't like that thank god. i'd call em out on that shit if they were

although one of my sister's friends is like that - and the child is vicious. at her bday party, she started attacking my niece, pulling at her eyes stuff like that.... her punishment was a calming voice asking her not to do that. wtf is that ?!

6/30/2010 10:34:13 AM

I feel like you need to have a healthy balance with your kid. Don't be their bff, but be someone they can talk to. I would consider my mom one of my closest friends BUT at the same time, I'm scared shitless of her and she's still my mom above all

6/30/2010 10:35:55 AM

google not working for anyone else?

6/30/2010 10:37:31 AM

Yeah, you def don't have to rule with an iron fist, just don't be one of those parents who is like "stop jumping on your brother, pretty please" without a hint of firmness.

6/30/2010 10:41:24 AM

i feel like my childhood progressed pretty normally with my parents (esp my mom). or at least what i'd consider normal.

as a kid...yay mommy loves me! except when i'm bad then she is very scaryyyyyyyyy. so i try not to be bad cause she's too scary and i know i will be punished. and there are chores regardless of my behavior.

teenager...mom/teenage daughter butting heads and me doing things to purposefully piss her off and then getting in trouble and me being like "I HATE YOU"

late high school through college...definitely more of a friendship (still got in trouble for things - mostly not managing money well). which i feel is normal. the older you get the more your parents become your friends. they're always your parents, though.

i don't understand either the parents that try to befriend their 6 year old kid. i agree - balance is important though because even when my mom and i were going through our teenage daughter/mother relationship, i knew i could always talk to her about ANYTHING. so even though she would punish me and we fought about boys, clothes, going out, etc, etc i still knew that she was there for me. and if a parent is TOO much of a disciplinarian or too harsh the kid might not feel comfortable coming to them....which can lead to horrible situations.

6/30/2010 10:42:21 AM

facebook drama cows.

LOL

6/30/2010 10:42:30 AM

i need a job so that i can pay off my debt and buy a new bike

6/30/2010 10:49:01 AM

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"Yeah, you def don't have to rule with an iron fist, just don't be one of those parents who is like "stop jumping on your brother, pretty please" without a hint of firmness."

My mom was the type to go up to a kiosk at Busch Gardens when we were all being assholes, ask for one of those paddle ball things, rip the ball off, then give it to the cashier and say "I won't be needing this." Then she told us the dancing bears would dance across our ass if we didn't cool it.

That was enough for me, and all the girls... Kyle was the only one who got the dancing bears

6/30/2010 10:56:04 AM

^ haha that's awesome

6/30/2010 10:57:16 AM

haha. yea my mom was definitely a pull the mini van over on the side of the road type woman

trust me you did NOT want to see that threat followed through

6/30/2010 10:57:37 AM

hahaha, that is hilarious. My mom is like that in theory, I think, but I guess I was just a really well-behaved kid because I don't remember it ever actually happening.

6/30/2010 10:57:57 AM

She always asked me, "Do we need to go the bathroom?" and gave me the Scorpio death stare

That meant business. I usually was asked this question after hiding in clothes racks for a long time.

6/30/2010 10:58:29 AM

my mom kept a wooden spoon in the mini van

you could thwack some legs without having to pull over

lol

6/30/2010 10:58:29 AM

^ hahaha yes.. my mom/her bff shared "the ugly girl paddle"... it was this wooden little girl paddle thing she got at Russel's in Swansboro. It went with Ms. Kris when they moved to AZ.. word on the street is, Kyle got it many times on that cross country trip

6/30/2010 10:59:18 AM

^^ hahaha

my mom also liked to grab my arm and dig her fingernails in if i was being bad in public

ouchies

i also got my mouth washed out with soap more than once. i just wasn't good with "because i said so" as an answer to why i couldn't so something. so i'd be like why? but WHY? BUT WHYYYYYY??

in high school it was really awesome when she'd tutor me in math. i suck at math. and she was a math teacher. so we'd sit there for hours and she'd be like "FOIL!!!!!!!!!! WHY DONT YOU UNDERSTANDDDDDDD"

but everyone else thought she was the nicest tutor ever. little did they know the math wrath.

[Edited on June 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM. Reason : .]

6/30/2010 11:01:12 AM

My parents had a wooden paddle that had "attitude adjustment" written on it

6/30/2010 11:01:45 AM

we had a wooden paddle over the chalkboards at our schools....

they were used.. no doubt

6/30/2010 11:03:28 AM

ohhhh. i didn't have that in school. and my parents didn't have one. i just got good old hand to ass spankings.

my mom still tried to spank me when i was like 11 and 12

that is when i started plunging full force into my overdramatic teenage years and would threaten to call child services



[Edited on June 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM. Reason : .]

6/30/2010 11:04:57 AM

My parents would use a wooden spoon. My mom also threatened with a count (1...2...3), and if she got to three we would get smacked if we didn't stop by then. She still uses the count these days

6/30/2010 11:08:01 AM