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Thursday, Apr. 29, 2004 - 2:46 a.m. Cost of the War in Iraq
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WARNING!!!! if you know me personally, you may read my diary, but if you do, you take the chance of hearing things you don't want to know, misunderstanding what I've written and being hurt by it. If you are unsure if it is ok to read, save yourself and me the grief and heartache, and ask first!!! Please note that this is a DIARY, ie my subjective feelings, hearsay, suppositions, and outpourings of ranting of the moment. It does not represent objective news, the whole of what I think of a topic or someone, or even a thought-out representation of any of the above. Keep that in mind. Thanks. * Here is a Diary Etiquette Read Me. Budget Tightening Nixes Croissants and Chocolate Second entry tonight. First one about my doggy, with photos here. I just calculated that it would take 1250 days of no breakfast croissants and no swiss chocolate in order to pay off my income taxes for 2003. Hmm. I suppose that will put me a bit behind. I suppose I should be all happy to be paying this, since $3600 goes straight way into the provincial pension plan. See me smile with glee and rub my hands together. Ah yes, I will be taken care of in my old age. I am now one of those middle-income earners. Ie I make too much $ to get any tax breaks for living alone (since I heat the same amount of space, have the same rent, as if I had two roomates), or for rebates on sales tax, and I have somehow reached the top of the pension plan payment. If I made double or triple the money I made now I would STILL pay $3600 in pension plan. Exactly how fair is that?? Hmm. Well, yes, anyways my plan is to not eat breakfast croissants and cut down on the swiss chocolate. Yeah, I realize that if I have cereal and orange juice at home it still costs SOMETHING, so my 1250 days is actually not right. It is more like 1500 days. So in about 4 years I will be paid off. Haha. (that is not a happy laugh) That is 4 years without swiss chocolate. Now we'll see how much of that chocolate was actually a mood enhancer, huh!! I of course, being the combination of squirrel and grasshopper that I am, have some money put away and will dip into it to bring down the # of days without chocolate. I guess that means I won't be buying a little chinese kid soon eh. I wonder if I could jump straight from "adopt a kid" to "adopt a grandchild"?? Hmmm. Other things to cut down on:
Well, that seems like a good start. I of course know that there are many other leakages in the boat, but many that I am unwilling to fix at this point. A few of these things:
Those really are my big no-no's that eat up my spare moulah. (besides the girlfriends/ boyfriends doting-upon expenses which I have NONE of now). Sigh. And now the fetish club has closed, and I have no disposable income really, I do not buy cool things to wear there. I guess I shouldn't worry too much about my spending habits, since I did put away into Registered Retirement Savings Plans (so I didn't have to pay even MORE taxes) nearly as much as I owe the gov't... so it wasn't all squandered. And I payed out $3000 canadian to print my new comic book, which I have still to sell. So I guess it is "invested" we'll say. Damn. I'd really like some chocolate right now. hehe. Back to doing my tax report (for the GST *goods and services tax) for Jan-Mar. Maybe I'll get a refund there?? hehe. Byebye and remember to look at how cute my doggy is, if you didn't already read my previous entry tonight. tah, wench77 4 People have left cute, callous or caring comments on the wench's wordiness!! Go to "notes" instead of comments ps, you'll need to email me for a username and password � previous meanderings - future past Goodbye Michael. May your next life be kinder to you. - Thursday, Jun. 25, 2009 � |
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