Fact: Drained account to the zero mark exactly
Fact: Mark deposited first paycheck since November.
Fact: $137 to last until Friday.
Fact: It’s Wednesday
Fact: Paid Friday
Fact: We are BINKS. Barely have Income, No Kids, but we remain afloat despite the fact we’re idiots. Thank you Ye Comptroller.
Entries Tagged as ‘The cold hard facts’
March 25, 2009
Fact: We are a couple of fuggin idiots. Update
March 24, 2009
Fact: We are a couple of frackin idiots
Fact: We’ are a couple of idiots.
Fact: Our account is negative
Fact: On the phone with Blue Cross Blue Shield. Can’t afford health insurance. Deducted $189 the day I signed up, but takes a month for approval. Fuck them. Fuck privatized health care.
Fact: Got news of new job last week.
Fact: Spring weather plus new job news lead [...]
March 20, 2009
New season, new job
My time as a temp in this university department is coming to an end. I received the news calmly last week. The position is being eliminated. No problem. I understand. Never was supposed to be permanent. Uh huh. Sure. OK. Yeah.
Then my insides flipped out. I’ll spare you the details, save to say that this recession has done [...]
December 30, 2008
Putting that journalism degree to work at the grocery store
Returning home from China, career-wise, has been slap in the face. And by that I mean, I couldn’t find a steady job for five months. Granted, before getting hitched last month, I was living in Michigan, our country’s worst-off state, but, still, I felt like a loser. (Un?) Luckily, when I moved to Chicago last [...]
September 8, 2008
The Facts
Fact: I am cheap but still strive for fabulous. It is possible.
Fact: I’m about to be a Girl Gone Settled, which is wild.
Fact: I live in my parents’ basement.
Fact: I am 28.
Fact: I drive my grandpa’s ‘82 Honda. Rhonda. She’s plaid inside.
Fact: I am unemployed.
Fact: I am getting married in Mexico.
Fact: My fiance is a [...]
