I just now realized that the reason why I'm feeling grumpy and loserish is probably because I'm getting a cold. Oops.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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.
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
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
Liese S. - Sep 15, 2007 12:50:52 pm PDT #852 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It's funny, though, 'cause money sometimes doesn't buy jack. The amount of money we had before is so much more than the amount of money we have now. But we were pants at managing it before, so it was always gone and we always felt poor. But having less meant we had to pay attention to what we were spending, and how. We shifted to a small allowance of spending money, but I now always feel like I have plenty, because I have cash in my pocket to buy an extra coffee or to save for whatever.
Probably if I won something I'd pay off the house-to-be, and then invest the rest in something with a dividend. Whatever less I had to earn each year could go into that fund. Then step 3, profit!
Also I think that ita shouldn't censor any complaining and Theo shouldn't censor any school loves carrots. It's what we're here for! Also then I don't have to censor any building a house! In case you didn't know! I am! Building!
And then we can repeat ourselves. Because that's what we do. And that's how community is formed. With our families, we tell the same stories over and over again. It's our common bond, our shared history. I don't see why we shouldn't have the same conversations here round and round. We had different things for lunch today! We have a shared history of cilantro opinions! That's just what it is.
Err.