Saturdays..

It's amazing how uneventful Saturdays can be in a big city.. Living on the edge of Dallas means 30 minutes of driving to get downtown in light traffic and spending twice as long on something you expected to do in a short time, so much of what needs to be taken care of there is done in the morning. I'm just glad I leave early enough in the weekday mornings to avoid heavy traffic.

So saturdays are the days i get to do my laundry at a laundromat (the one in the complex has never been fixed) which means a stop at the bank for quarters.. 3 hours are spent washing, drying, and folding clothes while other people get to peek at your undergarments.
Then there is grocery shopping.. I've learned not everything is a bargain and that not ONE location houses the cheapest products.. I have to shop around between the Sac N' Sav, Krogers, Tom Thumb, and Albertsons. Luckily the local postman throws circulars for these stores every saturday in my mailbox and I no longer throw them away. My diet consists of Chicken and rice with a random can of vegetables.. I have not mastered cooking pork and beef is now 2 bucks a pound.

Then there is the event that happens once every four saturdays.. the dreaded day of paying all my bills.. my poorest of weekends.. its amazing how quickly money can leave you and how hard it is to save it. Rent is the worse though. Every time I go down to the office, I loath the fact I am giving them money for a room I can do nothing with. The money is better spent on a house where I can be USEFUL.. do some gardening, paint a room, fix the plumbing.. I don't feel like a man unless I am being helpful and productive in my own home.

Oh well.. that time will come eventually. In the mean time, I am happy I feel like an adult. This blog entry may sound like I am upset at life and saddened by the burdens of the world.. well, maybe I am a little.. but I am HAPPY I have these experiences because it means I am no longer a child or just some dumb kid who dropped out of college...

Now I am "just some dumb bloke trying to earn a living for his family."

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