My sofa has an imprint on it that is roughly the same size as my ass. It makes me want to slap my own forehead because I imagine it is the only lasting impression I am making these days. I have been sitting in front of my laptop for almost an hour trying to get inspired to write something so that I don’t fail at my goal to write a post every day for a year. I am about six weeks into the self-imposed challenge and I am already struggling. Looks like another failure in the works over here in Butt-Imprint Land. I have to come up with something before my husband comes home, because whether he knows about my blog or not, he doesn’t want to share his time with it and I have silently agreed to not blog when he is home out of respect. There were a lot of prompts that I was working with today such as:
1) The Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise. I don’t have many surprises in life anymore. I don’t get worked up about much. Wait, there was one, which leads to my second near-prompt.
Not something that happens every day, and not my surprise today, either. Photo courtesy of jokeroo.com.
2) Money: The only thing that surprised me today is that I managed to figure out how to pay my rent (late), make sure my water and TV don’t get shut off, and pay my son’s tuition (late) without having to skip groceries. What’s really surprising is that my husband is making $80,000 a year and we are still struggling to make ends meet. You’d think we live a lavish life… but we don’t. I don’t want to talk about money, though. It is frustrating to me. Needless to say, I’ve taken over the reigns and we will get out of the 6-year financial hole we’ve been in.
Photo courtesy of fahv.com
3) Underage drinking on shows. I will address this in tomorrow’s WTF Friday post.
4) The draft that keeps blowing over me. It feels like someone has opened a window just to the right of me. I keep feeling a cold wind on my face and hand. I keep hearing Haley Joel Osment telling Toni Collette that the cold wind on the back of her neck is “them.” I am a bit freaked out right now.
Could you please direct your chilly breath elsewhere? Photo courtesy of scienceinseconds.com
5) How lame of a mother I feel I am now because I seem to have lost the zest for being a SAHM. I used to hate the TV, now it is on most of the day. You don’t have to tell me I am shite, I already know it. Maybe I will make getting rid of the TV one of my New Year’s Resolutions.
I still hate the TV.
6) Outing my husband’s new favorite TV show: Gossip Girl. Yes, we are a day (or six seasons) late and several hundreds of dollars short.
Photo courtesy of CW.
December 27, 2012 at 11:03 PM
I think a lot of people can relate to #2. I know the past three years since I had to give up work haven’t helped our situation, but somehow, you learn to be frugal.
Good luck in your endeavour to create a post a day, I’m using the Daily Prompt at the mo until I find my feet and have something to talk about.
December 28, 2012 at 6:35 AM
Did you follow the prompt about the sculpture? I contemplated that, but all I could imagine were the Watts Towers in South Central LA.
December 28, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Yeah, I did, the daily prompts are the only thing keeping me going at the moment.
December 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Wow, that’s a lot of pressure to put on the daily prompts. Hee, hee, hee. I hate getting high-centered on writing. Blah. I am going to go read your piece now.
December 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM
I went to the grocery store today to pick up a few things. $104 later…blah blah blah. This happens about once a month…add that to the $150 (or more) that I spend weekly for a family of 3…. That’s about 10K/year…just so that we can eat. We probably are in the same neighborhood in terms of household income…. But sometimes we struggle, too. It’s just so ridiculous, isn’t it?
December 27, 2012 at 8:34 PM
It’s depressing how expensive being an adult is. That’s why we are allowed to have vodka.
December 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM
I’ve knocked out so many over your posts that there’s now a permanent jizz-burn on my monitor… so that’s two impressions you’ve made
December 27, 2012 at 8:26 PM
Oh snap, Fierce P!
December 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Did you make Mrs. Fierce Panda clean that up too?
December 28, 2012 at 7:10 AM
In ways that would make you shudder
December 28, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Oh no. I shuddered just reading that.
December 27, 2012 at 4:20 PM
I can sooo relate to #2. Sigh. I’m tired of juggling bills. #5 – I’ve been a SAHM for over twenty years. The boy is 25 and moved out this year (not that he has needed me home for many years). I may have to venture out into the workforce this coming year if I want to change this vicious circle. I work from home now, but it doesn’t generate the income it used to. I’ve even got your #4 from our drafty old house.
You had good prompts.
December 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM
Good prompts, but my ambition and motivation is severely lacking on this cold, cold day. I think I am stuck to the sofa. I am going to move to the other end tomorrow… maybe things will look different.
December 27, 2012 at 4:54 PM
other end of the sofa –
December 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM
The cushion is always cushy-er.