Filth disease -- ha! I mean, ugh. Or phew.

Also, I love that pizza article for including the New England Greek pizza! You never see that discussed anywhere.

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I have been living paycheck to paycheck in the "one missed check and I can't pay the mortgage" sense. I spent a lot of last year paying off credit cards. It wasn't even that large an amount, but for a while what I could pay toward it was less than the charges I'd add in a month. That got paid off in December, and then this month I finally got some backpay I'd been owed, which made a big difference. So my financial goals for this year are to pay off any balance on the credit card each month, and finish paying off the HELOC (which should be done by the end of this year, possibly sooner). And then actually build up more savings. I'll still have the mortgage & condo fee as fixed expenses but I can't really do anything about that.

But I'm feeling relatively flush now, which is a nice change. (So Jesse: done.)

I don't have an ATM card. Because if I did, I wouldn't realize how much I was spending. I probably get cash twice a month, and try to pay for day-to-day expenses out of that.

I'm thinking of, at long last, making the Clinical Depression Mix

I made a series of mixes like that in HS. One was called "The Bell Jar Mix" but I don't recall what was on it. I'm sure The Cure, Pink Floyd, & NIN were represented heavily.

Oh, and also the Boomtown Rats! "Diamond Smiles" and "Wind Chill Factor Minus Zero." ("Like Clockwork" went on the Insanity mix.)

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Couch looks so so nice! But I noticed that he got lots of water on the just cleaned floor.

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"I Hate Everyone" -Get Set Go
"Somedays" -Meredith Brooks

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I had to stop off on the way home and get a margherita pizza.

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I'm thinking of, at long last, making the Clinical Depression Mix

"Opheliac" and "The Art of Suicide" by Emilie Autumn.
"Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time" by The Smiths.
"A Quitter" by Rasputina.

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Actually, probably anything by The Smiths would work.

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Just for fun, here's a "blind item" I just came across that is supposedly about someone we all love (in whitefont at the end):

This is a B lister. I almost think of our actress as the epitome of a B lister. She has done television and films and is probably more of a B lister for the television, but she does have some great film roles. Anyway, this week at Sundance. Oh, I guess that will narrow it down some huh? At Sundance this week, our actress was walking down the street and spotted a teenage girl who was sitting on a backpack, shivering and didn't have anything on but a sweater and jeans even though it was after dark and well below freezing. Turns out the girl had come out to Park City to hang out with a guy she barely knew but he blew her off for some other girl, so she had no room and no place to stay and didn't have the money to change her return airline ticket which was for three days in the future. Our actress didn't really believe the girl at first but then the girl showed her the airline ticket and her i.d. That was enough for our actress. She took the girl to a store and bought her a jacket, and then took her back to her hotel for food and fun. The actress called some friends over to cheer the girl up, got her some dinner and then had everyone take turns calling the jerk who traded her for another girl. Our actress changed the return date on the ticket, paying for the change and even upgraded the girl to first class for the flight home. She let the girl spend the night, got her out to the airport the next morning and gave her a few hundred bucks.

Eliza Dushku

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Actually, probably anything by The Smiths would work.

See, I find The Smiths cheering, because I realize my life is not as bad as a Smiths song, and I start giggling.

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This is why I already have playlists called "Everybody Hurts" and "The Black Parade"...

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