This is what they spend their time doing??

How do they sleep at night? I just don't get it.

This just makes me so @$%!&% proud to be an American. The headline: Senate Kills Minimum Pay Boost. Basically, our senate decided they weren't going to sign a bill that would raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to 7.25. Don't get excited, its not like they would get a $2.10 raise all at once, it would be gradual so those working minimum wage wouldn't get slap happy with all that extra cash lying around and go waste it on things like gas and a new pair of underwear at walmart. Imagine, making $5.15 an hour. Thats $206 a week at 40 hrs BEFORE taxes. Lets go crazy here and pretend you make some extra so you have a flat $200 a week. That is 800.00 a month to play with. Wow! I'm rich! Lets find a place to live. Now, its just you so ya don't need anything too big, even a studio would suffice. Found a place, not too bad, its better than the really tiny studio, its still a studio but the place has a pool. its $525 a month and includes everything but Electric. So add that in . Its about $600. Ya need a phone. Just for emergency. Get a US Cellular plan as then you have the free call me minutes so you don't feel completly cut off, but nothing extra. Its $35 a month. Pretend you have a car already, and bonus, its paid in full. So you still have a whopping $165 to play with. Except you don't. Feel that growling in your stomach? You're hungry. So ya go to the grocery store. But you need to stop and get gas. Thats $30 per week, at $3 a gallon. So now you have $65 to cover groceries for the whole month. But you slammed your hand in the car door and need 17 stiches. You have to go to the emergency room and now you have no money, no food and a hospital bill and no insurance. Now imagine all of this with a kid.

Instead, congress was talking about violent video games and how we need to put a better rating system on them. THEY ARE VIDEO GAMES!

Game: n. A way of amusing oneself; pastime; diversion. 2. A sport or other competitive activity. 3. A single contest between opposing players or teams. etc

IT'S NOT REAL! Just something to do. A waste of time. Kind of like what they are doing all day. Wasting time.

I forgot...

Hi Grandma!!! okay, that was really it. Just wanted to say Hi! Love you grandma. Momma said you read my blog and so I wanted to say Hi! Love you. It's late so I am going to bed now. But just wanted you to know that you rock like socks!!!!

Schedule Bids

Its been awhile. I guess I've not had much to say...or perhaps too much. Maybe its that I worry I might say the wrong thing. Whatever the case may be. We had schedule bids a few days ago. I thought this time I might give the 4x10 a try. Basically that means I work from 7:00 am until 5:30 pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. I get every Wednesday off. It will give me time to do stuff and things or nothing at all. Plus, with gas getting so expensive it will save about 45 miles on my car every week. That's about $3.50 in gas right there! Okay, so my car doesn't take that much gas. Its a Scion xA but still. Every little bit counts!

I was told by a girl at work the other day that I make people feel stupid. Now I know I make snarky and sarcastic comments all the time...cause that's just who I am... but she said that she was sarcastic and I was just mean. I don't think I am a mean person. Sure, I tend to be kinda blunt, and if you have to ask me what color the white horse is because you honestly don't know you begging for a dumb joke. I never intend to be mean. I could have said, "I'm sorry if you feel stupid, but did it ever occur to you it was because you are stupid?" No. I wanted to, oh did I want to. But I didn't. Because that would have been mean. I just apologized and told her I didn't intend to make her feel that way and since then I haven't really said anything to her at all. My HLM (hetero-life-mate) told me that, as English grads, we tend to use larger words and give our opinions more. It never really occurred to me until she said that. She is right. I do use bigger words without even thinking about it. However, it comes naturally to me. My grandma (Hi! Grandma!!!) went to college and took some grad school classes, my mom, dad, and big brother went to U of I. Both of my grandmothers and my dad do crossword puzzles. Everyone in my family reads constantly. At any given time, we all have a book in progress. Sometimes I have two...or three. All of those things leads to larger a vocabulary. Of course I am not denying I am a dork about it. I do differentiate between dictionaries. I have an American Heritage dictionary that I use for everyday things, but when I want a real definition - I pull out my OED. I *love* my OED. I look at it for fun. My HLM and I have had conversations about dictionaries and even about specific words, i.e. Plethora. So yeah. If I make you feel stupid I am sorry, but maybe you just are stupid. That isn't my fault, so don't blame me.