I was perusing a website that sends me an email every Monday updating me on Cultural things happening here in Denver called This Week in Denver. Its a pretty good site, I am quite sure that all the events are commission based listings but every now and again I see something that seems interesting enough to actually consider the posibility of staying up past my bedtime and going... I don't but baby steps in thinking that I might.
So I am looking at the side bar and the blog roll and I see a link for "restroomcritic.com", why link to a site that is not at all what it sounds like it is really? There isn't anything in there except reviews of Moen faucets, that anyone can get searching Apartment Therapy, Treehugger or any of the other 10,000 design blogs. Boring site. Seriously. They might know the person behind the blog but there isn't anything there. And besides... there aren't any critiques of anything really. I have more bathroom reviews on my blog than they do. And I have pictures. Whatever. I am just saying don't link to a site / blog that has no amazingly new and valuable content. Oh wait... they do have some... but its Apartment Therapy type things and not at all what their name portends to be. Good luck Dave. If you want someone to do actual public restroom and bathroom critique, I am your gal and I take pretty decent interior shots. Just saying.
Not wanting to do my job today. I slept like ass last night waking up like every 2 hours and fidgeting. And now I am paying the price that I can't concentrate whatsoever. But thankfully things are quiet on my desk today so I can chill out and relax accordingly.
On a personal note:
Last night my Grandfather told me that I didn't appreciate the value of a dollar because I haven't been through a Depression like he had and have always gotten what I wanted.
I was furious.
I had to bring up the fact that I do know the value of a "buck" that I have been without and have gone through a period in my life where I haven't had anything, where literally I was lucky to have the roof over my head. My Dad and Mom were sitting at the table and I think by my saying that I know what they went through, that I appreciate all the lessons that I learned (but much later since I was like 10 when everything went down) because of their struggles and the fact that I am completely aware now of what we didn't have. It made me really mad. Really really mad. I write about it here only because I might want for nothing, I have a great house, cable tv, cameras, food in my freezer, but most important I don't buy what I can't afford after I put money into my savings, slush account, IRA, money market account and my "cash stash". I am incredibly cheap (proof point... Blogger is free). I would love nothing more to have a second bedroom, a den or extra storage but my mortgage is so inexpensive that when I was out of work I could afford it and not give up my cable. I don't buy what I can't pay cash for, sure I put it on my credit card because I get points, but that is the only reason... that gets paid off sometimes twice a month. I have no debt other than my car payment (which I will pay off a full year early I hope) and my mortgage/hoa payment. How dare he say I don't appreciate the value of the money I earn daily? I am only spoiled because I know what its like to have almost nothing. I might not have lived in a national time of economic downfall when I was little, but I might be now and I am financially fine. And it IS because I know the value of the dollar.
I know that at 97 he has a right to call me a spoiled whipper snapper or whatever but it made me so mad because I work my ass off for everything that I have right now. I save nearly a 1/3rd of my income every month. I don't live above my means. I shop with coupons. I value every single "thing" I have. Let him believe that I didn't appreciate any of it. But I felt this need to set him straight. I don't know if I got through to him, but I am glad I said my piece. I never get to and needed it last night. And now its out there in the world for everyone to know as well.
I feel better that I have set that straight.
On a personal note:
Last night my Grandfather told me that I didn't appreciate the value of a dollar because I haven't been through a Depression like he had and have always gotten what I wanted.
I was furious.
I had to bring up the fact that I do know the value of a "buck" that I have been without and have gone through a period in my life where I haven't had anything, where literally I was lucky to have the roof over my head. My Dad and Mom were sitting at the table and I think by my saying that I know what they went through, that I appreciate all the lessons that I learned (but much later since I was like 10 when everything went down) because of their struggles and the fact that I am completely aware now of what we didn't have. It made me really mad. Really really mad. I write about it here only because I might want for nothing, I have a great house, cable tv, cameras, food in my freezer, but most important I don't buy what I can't afford after I put money into my savings, slush account, IRA, money market account and my "cash stash". I am incredibly cheap (proof point... Blogger is free). I would love nothing more to have a second bedroom, a den or extra storage but my mortgage is so inexpensive that when I was out of work I could afford it and not give up my cable. I don't buy what I can't pay cash for, sure I put it on my credit card because I get points, but that is the only reason... that gets paid off sometimes twice a month. I have no debt other than my car payment (which I will pay off a full year early I hope) and my mortgage/hoa payment. How dare he say I don't appreciate the value of the money I earn daily? I am only spoiled because I know what its like to have almost nothing. I might not have lived in a national time of economic downfall when I was little, but I might be now and I am financially fine. And it IS because I know the value of the dollar.
I know that at 97 he has a right to call me a spoiled whipper snapper or whatever but it made me so mad because I work my ass off for everything that I have right now. I save nearly a 1/3rd of my income every month. I don't live above my means. I shop with coupons. I value every single "thing" I have. Let him believe that I didn't appreciate any of it. But I felt this need to set him straight. I don't know if I got through to him, but I am glad I said my piece. I never get to and needed it last night. And now its out there in the world for everyone to know as well.
I feel better that I have set that straight.
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