OK, so this morning I poured myself a cup of coffee
retail value: 5 bucks
I smoked a cigarette: retail value 2 bucks
I put on a cotton t-shirt: retail value 30 bucks
I filled out Loretta's school picture form : retail value 50 bucks
I drank a glass of milk: retail value zero
something is wrong here
talk later,
Annie
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
afterschool activities
OK, so the kids have been bringing home tons of papers I am supposed to read. I have been putting them in huge pile and this morning got them out and went through them.
OK, so we have school picture forms to fill out, we are supposed to be selling stuff for fundraisers. Stuff that you would never buy. Candles that cost as much as an oil change. Chocolate covered pretzels in a box the size of a stick of butter that cost half a days pay.
They are selling T-shirts with the school logo on them. When I was in school we took a magic marker and wrote "Griffins" on an old white T-shirt.
Now mind you my kids are only in Elementary school.
Now you get to the pile of "afterschool activities".
First of all there must not be any afterschool bus anymore, this is not mentioned anywhere. Of course my kids are like me and want to sign up for EVERYTHING.
Swimming lessons, 30 bucks a kid, afterschool workout classes 50 bucks a kid, painting classes, 15 bucks per kid. You have to pick up child when he or she is done with these activities.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am all about kids doing things but it sure is different from when I was in school.
They offer Bible study at our school here for "free" but you have to pick them up.
When I was a kid, we used to have "church school" on Wednesdays, the bus picked you up at public took you to the Catholic school, then it picked you up when you were done. This is where I was introduced to the Sisters. Very different from the school I was attending. I had a hell of a time adjusting. I still have nightmares.
If the kids sign up for all these activities I. will have to hire someone to pick them up. I will also have to hire a secretary to tell the person picking up the kids when to pick up each kid and where to pick them up.
Gotta go and pick the "background" for the pictures Wednesday. This could take all afternoon.
Talk later,
Annie
OK, so we have school picture forms to fill out, we are supposed to be selling stuff for fundraisers. Stuff that you would never buy. Candles that cost as much as an oil change. Chocolate covered pretzels in a box the size of a stick of butter that cost half a days pay.
They are selling T-shirts with the school logo on them. When I was in school we took a magic marker and wrote "Griffins" on an old white T-shirt.
Now mind you my kids are only in Elementary school.
Now you get to the pile of "afterschool activities".
First of all there must not be any afterschool bus anymore, this is not mentioned anywhere. Of course my kids are like me and want to sign up for EVERYTHING.
Swimming lessons, 30 bucks a kid, afterschool workout classes 50 bucks a kid, painting classes, 15 bucks per kid. You have to pick up child when he or she is done with these activities.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am all about kids doing things but it sure is different from when I was in school.
They offer Bible study at our school here for "free" but you have to pick them up.
When I was a kid, we used to have "church school" on Wednesdays, the bus picked you up at public took you to the Catholic school, then it picked you up when you were done. This is where I was introduced to the Sisters. Very different from the school I was attending. I had a hell of a time adjusting. I still have nightmares.
If the kids sign up for all these activities I. will have to hire someone to pick them up. I will also have to hire a secretary to tell the person picking up the kids when to pick up each kid and where to pick them up.
Gotta go and pick the "background" for the pictures Wednesday. This could take all afternoon.
Talk later,
Annie
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the price of cotton
Not to sound redundant, but right after the idiot on the news talks about the price of coffee going through the roof he talks about the price of cotton.
"Clothes will be higher this year with the bad cotton crop".
You have got to be kidding me.
I am sure this will include the price of cotton candy and not to mention cotton balls.
Has anyone looked at the clothes on the racks lately?
Everything is made out of polyester, has been for years.
OK, here is tomarrow's headline:
"We interrupt this program to tell you that all the polyester worms in Bangladesh have died this year. The price of clothes will be much higher due to this unforeseen tradgedy."
Who the hell are they kidding.
I gotta go take an aspirin I am getting a headache.
Talk later,
Annie
"Clothes will be higher this year with the bad cotton crop".
You have got to be kidding me.
I am sure this will include the price of cotton candy and not to mention cotton balls.
Has anyone looked at the clothes on the racks lately?
Everything is made out of polyester, has been for years.
OK, here is tomarrow's headline:
"We interrupt this program to tell you that all the polyester worms in Bangladesh have died this year. The price of clothes will be much higher due to this unforeseen tradgedy."
Who the hell are they kidding.
I gotta go take an aspirin I am getting a headache.
Talk later,
Annie
The price of coffee or wtf?
OK, so I ran out of coffee and ran to Tops to get some. I get instant for Tim's work and regular for the house.
The price on the can says $8.99. Must be a misprint.
I put my dollar store readers on and take a closer look. "Yep, that's the correct price", says this lady standing behind me.
"WTF"!
OK, so tomarrow is picture day, I need to come up with 1 million dollars for those, I need a quarter of a million dollars for coffee for the week and I haven't even hit the snackie section yet.
Snackies will have to be fruit and home made crap this week.
I am looking on Craigslist in Columbia for a coffee slash tobacco slash snackie farm with a neighboring distillery slash cotton farm.
wtf
Talk later,
Annie
The price on the can says $8.99. Must be a misprint.
I put my dollar store readers on and take a closer look. "Yep, that's the correct price", says this lady standing behind me.
"WTF"!
OK, so tomarrow is picture day, I need to come up with 1 million dollars for those, I need a quarter of a million dollars for coffee for the week and I haven't even hit the snackie section yet.
Snackies will have to be fruit and home made crap this week.
I am looking on Craigslist in Columbia for a coffee slash tobacco slash snackie farm with a neighboring distillery slash cotton farm.
wtf
Talk later,
Annie
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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