Money and anonymity.

I'm way behind on everything. If you haven't heard from me, that's why. Somehow it's easier to sit down and write a bunch of meaningless junk here than it is to reply to individual comments or leave comments on all the things I wanted to reply to. I'll try to get around to it tomorrow night, though. I am still reading.

At last, it's Friday and Magnus and I are both extremely happy about it this week. It's been slow and boring for both of us, in that hating-work sort of way. Today was a little better for me, because we were quite busy at the store. I really hate sitting there bored out of my skull. I wish I could take our laptop to work with me. And why can't I take it with me, you might ask? Because we don't have one. *grin* We actually did have one, but it spontaneously died last year and was deemed Not Worth Fixing. I'd love to have a new one, but I just can't really justify it. As I told Magnus the other day on the phone.. I wish I was irresponsible enough to whine about it until I got one. The truth is, we barely used the thing when we had it. I took it to Cincinnati with us when I was desparately trying to finish my senior capstone project my last semester of college and we had to go pick up Blatt. That's pretty much it for travelling. (We did use it to transfer pictures, though.)

Alas, I'm hopelessly not irresponsible about money. Indeed, Magnus and I are incredibly stingy people, a fact that we're strangely secretly proud of, I believe. We've made a lot of purchases recently, so it might not sound quite like that, but we've rather been making up for the last two years when we didn't buy anything. *giggle* I actually don't understand people who can't handle money. I have various family members who cannot manage their finances. I don't get it. If you're living from paycheck to paycheck (or from loan to loan, as the case might be) and end up having your phone shut off two or three times a year.. then why can't you see that perhaps you shouldn't HAVE two phone lines and internet access and satellite service and a playstation? Maybe you should focus on paying for your utilities before you spend money willynilly on trivialities? You can't help but feel sorry for people like that because they just Don't Get It, and their circumstances are sucky and bad anyway, but still. I would continue on in this manner but then I'd have to make the entry friends-only and I don't like to do that.

Actually, I've been contemplating the idea of having a completely anonymous blog elsewhere, where I could discuss things without fearing that my family or real-life friends would stumble across it. Any idiot should be able to find this journal in a multitude of ways, if they cared to look. I envy some of my friends who can discuss their sex lives, their weight, their family, their significant other so freely. I could use initials in a casual sort of trendy way when I spoke of people, and never have my name linked to it at all. I'm actually becoming more and more paranoid about The Internet. I still remember the first time I told someone my real first name online. It felt like I was breaking some sort of cardinal rule. It's funny, in retrospect.. he was Swedish and spent our entire conversation trying to convince me that I spoke Swedish. Smorgasbord, you know. He had a few other examples, but I've forgotten them. Never really talked to the guy much after that because he got pissed off because of ... eh, mud politics, not interesting enough to go into. Anyway, having a blog like that would never work. I write the way I do out of habit most of the time, I would still worry about people finding it, and I would be completely unable to not tell people who asked where it was at, and then I'd have to worry about links and smart readers who blackmail me into giving them lots of money or something or else they'll tell the world that ARandomGrrrl is actually me. I wonder if that's actually happened? I like the idea of such a blog in theory, though.

We're going to Cincinnati tomorrow to the grocery store. People look at us like we're crazy when we say that. It's the huge one with the international sections that I mentioned a few months ago. We're taking my cousin Angie, who can spend two hours in your average Kroger, so it should be interesting. Hopefully they'll have stocked up on Julmust since we were there. :) And have lots of fun new things, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

M: I still can't believe they have drive-throughs at liquor stores.
K: Hmph. And you said Americans have no culture.