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[gogmagog]

...Goddamit, but I'm sick of being a financial fuckup. This whole maturity thing I'm supposed to get as I get older doesn't even seem to be a work in progress in my case, more like an unfinished project that stalled due to lack of funding. >_<

My birthday started off kinda crappy - until about 2 p.m. I was in a hospital waiting room while my stepdad was having that procedure done - but after that it started to get better. This evening I went to supper at Stumpy's with my parents, rathershady and courters28, and my mom read Courtney and Vinnie's tarot cards. :D

Sadly, the folks at Stump's had no lemon cake for my birthday. ;_;

Afterwards, I went over to Vinnie's with the two of them and hung out. Among other things, we watched a couple of Firefly episodes - I've converted them both to the Gospel of Joss, and Vinnie's converted his roommate Matt. (Muahaha, the contagion obsession is spreading!)

Tonight, while working on cleaning off my old university e-mail account, I found a link to my Pitas blog I started several months before I discovered LJ. I think it lasted for all of, what, a week and a half? XD Still, it has some interesting info and some of my experiences in England. Also, I DEEPLY miss being able to have groceries delivered (for, like, $5) from Tesco directly to my flat. Someone needs to do that here in America (well, outside of NYC, where I know they already have grocery delivery).

...You know, I just realized reading that: I was nineteen for all of my year in England. And now I'm 22. It totally does not seem to be three years ago. O_o

Comments

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

i runno if Peapod still even exists, but they delivered stuff in Chicagoland for awhile. i thought they might've had a regional thing going too. i might also be wrong, and i know they were in some financial trouble awhile ago.

i don't think i've seen their trucks around in awhile, so maybe they don't even exist anymore. XD

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Sadly, they probably charged for delivery, right? See, the neat thing about Tesco was if you spent over a certain amount (I think it was 50 pounds) you got free delivery. >D

But I bet Iowa City isn't a big enough area to have grocery delivery. ;_;

[courters28.livejournal.com]

I think financial trouble is a prerequisite for being born between 1982 and 1986. I don't know anyone our age that isn't either already a financial fuckup or dangerously close to being one.

Why didn't our parents teach us?!

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

See, the thing is I try not to be a financial fuckup, and I know how to, intellectually. My downfall is mostly due to two things:

1) Money burns a hole in my account. I spend spend spend until I don't have anymore, and while I generally plan my expenses pretty well and never intentionally spend more than I have (and pretty rarely go over unintentionally), I end up with exactly $0 in savings when something unexpected comes along and bites me in the ass. (Now that I'll have car repairs to deal with, it's even more important that I learn to fix this problem.)

2) As long as I have a monetary cushion I'm pretty good. But when my balance gets low, things tend to get, well, bad. If I don't check my balance every day when it gets low, I can end up with several overdraft fees because an expense I'd forgotten about (usually a check or debit transaction that takes a long time - like a week plus - to clear) goes through and sends me over.

And it's kind of irritating, because both my parents and both of my older siblings were like a gazillion times worse at money management when they were my age, but now they're all "tsk tsk, that Joseph can't handle his money." And I have to bite my tongue from saying, "Look, at least I'm not BOUNCING CHECKS AND PAYING HUNDREDS IN OVERDRAFT FEES EVERY SINGLE MONTH like you did in your 20s" or "at least I'm not blowing my rent money on Magic: the Gathering cards," etc. >_

[brandchan.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel about the whole three years ago thing. I was thinking the same thing about high school it's been six years but it doesn't feel like that and then I was like six years in three years longer then I was in highschool (10-12).

And I hate money, but I'm going to say that's because I don't have any. Damn school won't give me back my refund checks for my student loans....

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

I have decided not to hate money, merely to hate the lack of it. See, while money can't buy happiness, it generally can't hurt, and the lack of money can totally make you sad and grumpy. :(

[eikitty.livejournal.com]

Some grocery stores in large cities do delivery. Most of the ones around me do. Perhaps in the USA it's just a city thing? I always figured that it was because city-dwellers don't always own cars to get their loads of groceries home, whereas suburban people pretty much own cars by default.

I remember Tesco, incidentally. I think it was one of the first places I ever went when I was in the UK.

You're telling me about the progression of time, man. I can't believe I was only 21 when I went to Japan...

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

We were so young...now we're getting old! Pretty soon we'll all be wandering around the LiveJournal Old Folks' Home, yelling into each other's ear trumpets and hiding each other's pills. XD