You mean, besides the fact that I suddenly seem to think I'm Ken here?

Oh, stop it. You know perfectly well that Ken didn't invent the idea of talking to oneself. You did.

Oh, yeah. I forgot.

***

Not a lot, actually. I work today. This is a good thing. I love the two days off in a row, but I've really gotta start planning for it a little better. I sent D. to work today with a pocketful of change for lunch money, because it was all I had.

This morning when I mentioned it to D., he was all "Maybe you should ask if you could work like three hours every single day." Um, no. I make almost $200 most weekends. The last two weeks, it's all been spent by Monday. I just need to exercise a little more self control, is all. And absolutely no more letting D. go berserk, because "it's been a while since he got to do that." The last two weeks, that's where the main chunk of my weekend money has gone.

I want to get a new computer this summer. I will get a new computer this summer. I was talking with Vincent, and I told him ze plan was to get at least $1000 together. He said for that kind of money, we could get one on par with his machine, and if we didn't go crazy buying monitors, maybe even one significantly better than his.

That's so cool. I think that means we actually only have to aim for maybe $800 or so. I really think we can do it, if we stop buying a lot of small stupid stuff. We have the money. I know we do. It's just going to take a little bit of self control.

D's insane, by the way. He's back on the 4-4 shifts, and he volunteered to work Saturday, too. That's almost 70 hours this week, people. Good money, yeah, but damn. How does he do it?

I thought we'd have an instant extra $200, but Ford Credit is on crack. Last month, I got this letter saying since I was such a loyal customer, they would defer one month of car payments for me. I said, Sign me up, yo. I sent back the little card. A week later, I got my normal statement, payment due June 10.

I called Ford. They said they had no record of receiving the card yet, but maybe if I called back a little closer to the due date, the paperwork would have straightened itself out.

I called Ford again. They still hadn't received the original little card, but the woman said she could send me another one, to have July deferred instead. I sent the June payment.

Last week, June 15, I got an envelope in the mail: "Congratulations! Your June payment has been deferred until September 2004! Your next scheduled payment will be due July 10!" Uh, thanks, guys.

Oh well. I thought it sounded too good to be true. And it's not like I needed the money. It just would have been nice to have essentially a bonus $200. But we can still do this. I know we can.

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