So I was driving to work today and Im driving along and I hear what sounds like a little clicking noise. Not really sure what it was so I was looking around the car checking things to see whats up with the noise. Turns out I had a giant scrw in one of my tires! Unfortunately I figured it out when the damn cheap tires went flat on me about a half mile down the road.
Had to call a tow truck because the spare tire wasnt any good and the wheel lock key wasnt in my car. Gotta love it right? Wrong! So now I have to go down to the tire store and spend $300 that I dont have on some new damn tires. At least if it happened in the winter I could buy some snow tires or something, but geez, in July? What a waste of money!
Can I just say how much I hate cars? Whenever you turn around you have engine trouble, wheel problems, flat tires, stupid wheel lock keys… ugh. Well anyway if youre looking for me I’ll be down at Pepboys shopping for some new damn tires. Excuse me, where’s the cheap tires section?
I’m really excited, the fantasy football season is almost here and my league will be up this weekend. Yahoo set up their fantasy football system and released it the other day so I basically got no work done while I was sorting through endless amounts of stats… all on the job of course. What I realized is that there are a ton of new guys so I will be relying on my 2009 PPR fantasy football cheatsheets more than ever this season.
In the past I used to wing it on draft day because everyone was a household name. I guess there is a changing of the guard in football these days with some of the older players getting close to retirement and a bunch of unknown youngsters taking the league by storm. Last year Matt Forte came out of nowhere and just had crazy games all year, and guess who traded him for an aging Brian Westbrook? Yup, you guessed it… this guy.
Looking forward to a fun season though, my fantasy football league is really competitive and has a lot of guys who are very active in the league so that makes it fun when people actually care who wins or loses instead of just being all gung ho about it at the draft and losing track come early November. Plus I think Yahoo has a nice setup on their site. These guys are in it for the long haul, for the ultimate prize… the fantasy football championship trophy…haha!
I really don’t know what to think about this whole stimulus package thing. As a financial advisor it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to spend MORE money to get everyone out of a rut. If you lose your job does it make sense to run out and buy a sixty inch TV on the credit card and then go buy a new SUV to bring it home on?
I guess everyone doesn’t see it like me. Being a financial adviser for a while I guess I understand things more from the inside than everyone else does. On the surface it does look like a good idea, you know spending a lot of money to make new jobs but if we build bridges and roads and stuff what does that do for a 57 year old woman who just got laid off from her job as an accountant? Sometimes mortgage unemployment insurance just doesn’t take care of all the bills. I’m not guessing she is just going to pick up, grab a shovel and start laying tar down to fix potholes. Sorry if that sounds sexist but we really have to use our brains on this one.
The worst part is that some of the reps are getting a lot of flak for opposing this whole unwieldy spending spree, but when was the last time that looking closely at the details of a billion dollar plan was a bad thing? Sometimes I think all this rhetoric is just set out to demonize the other party to be sure to lock up the votes for the next go round.
It’s frustrating for a financial planner like me just seeing things that don’t make sense like this. It sounds great on paper but it just doesn’t work when you put it all in to action. I guess I just have to stop paying attention. Baseball can’t come soon enough, I need a distraction ASAP!
Wow work has really been crazy lately. Everyone is very concerned about losing their job down the line so it’s one of those weeks where we have to give 200% on everything we do, and hope that it’s still good enough. Even management seems really concerned and layoffs would be up to them so that should give you an idea of how difficult things have been lately.
Top it all off and we have auditors lurking around and I don’t care how exact you have your work, if you have someone going through everything you do with a fine tooth comb they will find something, be it a signature out of place, taking too long to process something, you get the idea. It’s just frustrating to have someone looking over your shoulder at all times.
Oh yeah last week my computer decided it didn’t want to load up so I had to take a few hours out of my day to have IT come and reload it. It was weird, it would let me log in like I normally do but when I did it would not load anything except my background. I could do the control alt delete trick, but that wouldn’t let me get anywhere either.
Unfortunately I lost almost everything I had saved to my hard drive so I have to redo a bunch of stuff now like that spreadsheet that took me about 3 weeks to wrap up, now it’s gone, kaput! So in between worrying about my job, polishing my resume, and dealing with auditors I need to re-do a three week project and not fall behind on my regular work. No pressure right?
Anyway I’m sure we will be fine, but it’s just concerning with everything that has gone on lately. At least I have a good track record and a lot of happy clients so I can hang my hat on that one. I guess if they have to give me the axe then Ill find something else, I’m smart enough and I have more than enough experience, I guess I just got very comfortable with my current lifestyle so it would be a big adjustment.
There are a lot of people in the US that are a lot worse off than me though so I just need to keep things like that in mind. I guess I just have to keep an eye on the silver lining instead of on the dark cloud.