Thanks! Yep, it's my birthday, the big 3-4.
Just a baby! Happy birthday, Nora. You share a birthday with my little sister.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Bobbi - Sep 15, 2007 11:36:52 am PDT #842 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.
shrift - Sep 15, 2007 12:02:52 pm PDT #843 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I just now realized that the reason why I'm feeling grumpy and loserish is probably because I'm getting a cold. Oops.
Sue - Sep 15, 2007 12:07:30 pm PDT #844 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Yeah, the problem with the million dollars thing is that, after taxes, let's say that you'll have $500,000.
I've decided that even if I won as low as $300K in the lottery (lottery winnings are taxfree in Can.) I would quit my job. Not forever, but the win would let me pay off my mortgage (my only real debt besides a little bit of credit card debt) and live for a couple of years and maybe go back to school or start a little business. Once the mortgage was paid off, I don't need a lot of money to live modestly. It wouldn't give me a life of leisure, but it would get me out of the rat race.
Sue - Sep 15, 2007 12:09:52 pm PDT #845 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Happy Birthday Nora.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2007 12:25:09 pm PDT #846 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It wouldn't take much money for me to quit my job! Although if it were like $100K, I'd have to get a new one pretty quickly, after paying off debt and etc.
Theodosia - Sep 15, 2007 12:25:54 pm PDT #847 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Truly, it is a modest amount of money compared to a million dollar lottery win, but first the severance pay and then the Unemployment benefits extension so that I can go to school fulltime for a year feels like such a tremendous gift, so much so that I don't seem to be able to stop talking about it for long.
Eventually I'll start grumbling about school, I'm sure. Hopefully, the shiny will have worn off before I've driven all my friends away with School Loves Carrots.
Anyway, back to my point: the amount of money is only somewhat correlated to the amount of happiness it buys.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2007 12:27:27 pm PDT #848 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I really think that money just buys options.
Consuela - Sep 15, 2007 12:35:31 pm PDT #849 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Happy Birthday, Nora!
I also think it's Vonnie's birthday, and so although she doesn't post in Natter ever, I say Happy Birthday, Vonnie!
I made the pie anyway, so I'll just be fashionably late. The big question is whether I should stop and buy vanilla ice cream on the way. Whattaya think?
Zenkitty - Sep 15, 2007 12:47:37 pm PDT #850 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
options = happiness
pie = yum
pie + ice cream = happy joy yum
I don't really have anything to say, do I?
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2007 12:50:08 pm PDT #851 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
nom nom nom