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Damn Weak Dollar
Jan. 7th, 2004 02:11 amGoddamn you, President Bush! With your upping of the budget deficit and your terror foolishness, you've cause the value of the American dollar to be roughly $1.82 to £1. I'm sure this probably only minorly concerns the rest of the American public, but it directly effects me (and anyone else forced to order bras from overseas).
Now, if I want to buy a £25 bra, it will cost me $45.50 instead of $37.50. That's $8 more! I can't afford the extra $8 on my paltry retail salary. As if I needed any more reasons to not vote for Bush for a second term. He's costing me a fortune in bra.
George Bush, I am holding you personally responsible for, minimally, the extra $8 I am now forced to pay when I order bras.
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I had another non-productive day. I slept until 1pm, getting a whopping 10 hours of sleep. As stated, this cold is still kicking my ass from here to there. I did go to work this afternoon and, aside from being mindbendingly boring, this was the first time in ages it was not a complete clusterfuck. I still managed to get all my "projects" done before 8:30, as well as make almost twice what Julie did for the day. Go, me.
I am stupidly dehydrated today and I don't know why. I'm glad that I still have Gatorade in the fridge because the water's tasted super funky today. All the pipes in town have probably frozen or something.
On a completely different tangent, I hate that nothing nice comes in silver. It's all either gold or platinum. I'm allergic to gold; I get a rash every time I wear something with it. There's no way I'm paying for platinum, either. I guess it's a good thing that I like marcasite so much; it doesn't come in anything other than silver.
I'm going to Building #19 with my mother tomorrow. I think we're on the hunt for a new toaster, but I'm not sure. It looks like they have a lot of neat things from their circular this week. I'm excited.
Oh, and scratch the kitchen off my list of things to do ~_^
Now, if I want to buy a £25 bra, it will cost me $45.50 instead of $37.50. That's $8 more! I can't afford the extra $8 on my paltry retail salary. As if I needed any more reasons to not vote for Bush for a second term. He's costing me a fortune in bra.
George Bush, I am holding you personally responsible for, minimally, the extra $8 I am now forced to pay when I order bras.
~*~
I had another non-productive day. I slept until 1pm, getting a whopping 10 hours of sleep. As stated, this cold is still kicking my ass from here to there. I did go to work this afternoon and, aside from being mindbendingly boring, this was the first time in ages it was not a complete clusterfuck. I still managed to get all my "projects" done before 8:30, as well as make almost twice what Julie did for the day. Go, me.
I am stupidly dehydrated today and I don't know why. I'm glad that I still have Gatorade in the fridge because the water's tasted super funky today. All the pipes in town have probably frozen or something.
On a completely different tangent, I hate that nothing nice comes in silver. It's all either gold or platinum. I'm allergic to gold; I get a rash every time I wear something with it. There's no way I'm paying for platinum, either. I guess it's a good thing that I like marcasite so much; it doesn't come in anything other than silver.
I'm going to Building #19 with my mother tomorrow. I think we're on the hunt for a new toaster, but I'm not sure. It looks like they have a lot of neat things from their circular this week. I'm excited.
Oh, and scratch the kitchen off my list of things to do ~_^