Reasons not to have children

I know a woman who has a son that is my age, 22. That is where the things we have in common end. He won't hold a steady job. Its not that he couldn't, its that he won't. The fact that he won't hold a steady job leads him to not have a steady income.

Q: How can you pay all the bills that a 22-year-old accrues without a steady income?
A: You can't.

Well, this woman that I know, she is constantly having to bail her son out of money trouble. Anytime he can't make his car payment, phone payment, he needs new tires, needs to buy gas, etc. guess who pays for it? Mama does.

It doesn't matter that Mama might not have enough money to pay her own bills if she helps out her son, she'll still give him her debit card and he'll be on his merry way, lesson not learned.



Reason #2 not to have children:
They may someday turn in to money sucking adults that can't fend for themselves.

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Things that made my day.

-Finding out that I didn't need 4 new tires, just the 2. Saves me some money!

-Getting my new shoes delivered to me by the cute UPS guy.

-Running into Suzi at the mall and consequently shopping with her.

-The progress the girls made at tumbling.

Good morning, have a flat!

So I get into my car just after 5:30 this morning to head to practice. I'm driving down the road and something just doesn't sound right. I turned off the radio and listened. Yeah, something definitely wasn't right. I pulled over and got out. Sure enough, I had a flat tire.


I thought about freaking out and calling a man for help, but the fact that the sun wasn't even up yet made me think twice. Determined, I decided to figure it out by myself. Yeah, you heard right, I changed the flat out for the spare all by myself! I hate to toot my own horn, but thats the first time I've done it, so I'm pretty proud.

This is how dirty my hands got...

I feel I also must apologize to my neighbors because I'm afraid my pants my have been falling down in the process. I hope no one woke up to that sight because it can't have been pretty!

So now I guess I have to get new tires. So much for using my stimulus rebate money on something fun...

Things that made my day.

This one is from last night
-The model that won on ANTM.

...and for today
-Getting hit on twice within 45 seconds at the gas station.

-30 MPG!

-Getting my stimulus rebate check.

-Matt encouraging me to run a 5K

Sadly, thats it. The rest of the day hasn't been so great.

What did you love about today?

Finally, a fun Wendover experience.

In honor of Traci's upcoming 22nd birthday, we took a Trip to Wendover. Sean, Traci, Mike and I went along with Mike's parents, Traci's parents and aunt. We watched season 2 of The Office in Sean's car on the way down, what a great way to pass the time on the road.

After we check into the hotel, we went down to the casino to meet Traci's mom and aunt and were there for less than five minutes before I got ID-ed. We went over to the Nugget to meet up with Mike's parents where Traci and I promptly got ID-ed again. I guess we looked like a couple of teenagers playing "Let's pretend to be adults." I don't love to gamble so I didn't take much money down to play. Traci loves the penny slots so I played with her and ended up losing nearly $20 on them. Lame.

Later we all hit up a blackjack table at the Nugget. The dealer was this guy named Jesus. I hated him. He was so pushy and rude. He kept saying stupid stuff such as, "You can't say no to Jesus." as a means to get us to play or bet more. Watch out for that guy if you're ever in Wendover. He's no good, I lost $20 at his table.

Dinner led to a new experience for me. At dinner, everyone except Traci and I were eating shrimp that you had to peel. It was so gross, they still had they're legs on! I don't eat seafood so this is something I've never come across before and it was something I really could've done without.

After dinner we wandered around for a while and ended up at the Rainbow casino. Sean, Mike, Traci and I were playing video poker for a while. After a bit, Sean left to find a restroom, the next thing I know some guy comes up, sits down and asks if that seat next to me was taken. I responded with, "I guess not." and prepared to ignore him. No such luck however. "Aren't you here with anybody?" the strange guy asked me. At this point I knew where this was going and got ready to drop the boyfriend word. I gestured to Mike and Traci who were to his right and said, "I'm here with my boyfriend and our friends." He turned to Mike and started talking to him at which point I stopped keeping up with the exchange due to the fact that we were sitting right in front of the live band. Next time I glanced over, the seat was once again empty. Later Mike told me that he introduced himself as "Tip" and announced that he was "kinda drunk." Too funny.

Next we squeezed our way into a nearly packed blackjack table. There were three men at this table that the dealer seemed to know by name. Turns out they're there a lot, but none of them knew each other. There was one guy that kept running to the ATM and coming back with $100 bills only to lose the entire $100 on one hand. He did this over and over. I kept begging him not to bet it all on one hand because it was killing me to see him throw all that money away. I have no idea how much ended up losing that night, but I'll bet it was more than I make in a month. Sean and I sat at that table for probably 3 hours, both of us slowing winning. I ended up winning back everything I had lost that day. It was great!

It was nice to finally spend a night in Wendover and actually have a good time with good company.