relaxing new year weekend
after months of relatively non-stop concert going two, three, sometimes four nights a week (one period in November it was seven out of ten days... the schedule remains down on the right sidebar), the last few weekends (well, except for a Disney day/night last weekend for Xmas eve) have been old-foggy relaxing home alone times... and this weekend looks like it'll be the same (with college football bowl games blaring in the background)...
Rasputin went to get Chinese so dinner was $20 (guess there was no change)... I discovered my cell bill doubled and checking the usage online, found Precious had ran up the messaging for an extra $100 and rising... I texted her "Stop all texting NOW!" and I'll check again tomorrow before I turn the service off (if the wallet bleeding doesn't stop)... Raspy tells me he's taking the phone cuz he warned her about this and they discussed why she should leave the phone home, but he says she assured him she'd stay within the limits... ooops... I hate to have to turn her phone off, but this is not the first time she's pulled more than a hundred bucks out of my pocket with the phone without my knowing it... a while back it was a few hundred bucks... sigh... she's just got no financial responsibility in her yet...
but I love her...
the brain is on vacation too as nothing seems to be growing or falling out in recent days... wait, that's not true, I wrote over in two of my live journals just last night... ok, so I forgot... I've not slept much yet this weekend...
oh yeah, now I remember... I had a wonderfully tearful night last night before napping... it was time to revisit with Harry Chapin and Verities & Balderdash, Legends of the Lost and Found, and Cotton Patch Gospel flooded me with memories and emotional catharsis as I sang and sang and wrote in the LJ mostlydead and an entry in candoor over there to boot and I visited some LJ friends...
the brain forgets, but obviously was babbling and rhyming and singing and catharticizing last night... yay for emotions... even if nobody's around to share them... hope you are enjoying your new year weekend whether it is relaxing, cathartic, busy, or however you like it...
Rasputin went to get Chinese so dinner was $20 (guess there was no change)... I discovered my cell bill doubled and checking the usage online, found Precious had ran up the messaging for an extra $100 and rising... I texted her "Stop all texting NOW!" and I'll check again tomorrow before I turn the service off (if the wallet bleeding doesn't stop)... Raspy tells me he's taking the phone cuz he warned her about this and they discussed why she should leave the phone home, but he says she assured him she'd stay within the limits... ooops... I hate to have to turn her phone off, but this is not the first time she's pulled more than a hundred bucks out of my pocket with the phone without my knowing it... a while back it was a few hundred bucks... sigh... she's just got no financial responsibility in her yet...
but I love her...
the brain is on vacation too as nothing seems to be growing or falling out in recent days... wait, that's not true, I wrote over in two of my live journals just last night... ok, so I forgot... I've not slept much yet this weekend...
oh yeah, now I remember... I had a wonderfully tearful night last night before napping... it was time to revisit with Harry Chapin and Verities & Balderdash, Legends of the Lost and Found, and Cotton Patch Gospel flooded me with memories and emotional catharsis as I sang and sang and wrote in the LJ mostlydead and an entry in candoor over there to boot and I visited some LJ friends...
the brain forgets, but obviously was babbling and rhyming and singing and catharticizing last night... yay for emotions... even if nobody's around to share them... hope you are enjoying your new year weekend whether it is relaxing, cathartic, busy, or however you like it...
Labels: bills, blogs, brief, catharsis, food, livejournal, money, music, yay
posted by candoor at 9:01 PM
3 Comments:
i never text anyone, but i know unlimited text messaging (at least on my t-mobile acct) is available for an extra $10 a month (or maybe $5), so if you love her, let her text all she wants, i mean you already paid 10 months worth of unlimited texting this month alone, you don't want to pay 10 more months the next time she forgets you ever told her to stop texting, which may be next month...
plus any teen knows texting is way cooler than talking, cannot breathe unless you text, lookat you texting your entire life on the web, same shit, it's unstoppable once the texting bug has infected you.
serenity and i have decided you are the only enlightened being we know, please be our guru and show us how to liberate ourselves from suffering.
much obliged,
opaquely endarkened sheep z0tl
I'll second the z0tl nomination. Just so long as you (the guru) provide an unlimited supply of chocolate in all of your lessons. :) But maybe your first lesson will be to instruct z0tl to be the chocolate provider.
Yay!
Love you, hug you, chocolate you.
I wish it was so easy... Cingular doesn't have an unlimited text plan... she was given the choice between 3000 texts or 1000 texts plus internet on the phone... she chose the 1000 plus internet even though I told her she'd be tempted to instant message a lot and each one was counted as a message... she understood and promised she'd not go over and she went over by 3000 messages... what I didn't know was that she talked Rasputin into taking the phone up north promising she wasn't over and wouldn't go over... he wanted her to leave it here so he could use it to call the Ukraine... she was already 2000 over before she left... I should have checked sooner, but she was so adamant about understanding and being trusted and responsible when she chose the plan that I gave her the trust cuz she just turned 18...
Raspy is the actually more upset cuz she is going to pretend she didn't know she was way over when she was promising him she could be trusted before she left for the holidays... she's a very smart girl, she knew she was averaging 100 messages a day... that's why he wants to take the phone from her... I should have checked myself earlier in the month, but I wanted to trust her to keep her word...
it frustrates me because she's going to be on her own at college in less than a year and seems so self-destructive or at least apathetic when it comes to being responsible for herself and her things and things people give to her (she lost a $300 iPod, a $100 CD player, broke her first phone broke two $30 headphones, and a bunch of other things)...
while I agree, if it was just $5 or $10 a month it would be easy to give her unlimited messages, on the other hand, she's going to have to learn how to take care of things and work within limits very suddenly this coming August and I want her to realize there are limits in this material world she loves so dearly... so maybe Raspy is right... he wants to take the phone until she can pay the bill... her friends have had jobs and saved thousands...
sheeesh, I sound like a old person... must be cuz I didn't have any chocolate today... there's none in the house and I intend there to be none until February, at least... gonna put some limits on my indulgences (might as well be a role model if I'm insisting she do it too :)
the gym is the next change I want to do for myself... getting back to it regularly... then fall in love again (with someone who falls in love with me, for a change)... then all I'll need to do is win the lottery and everything will be just fine :)
Happy New Year! :)
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