SweetMisery’s Neighborhood

I got statements in the mail today for two accounts that I have with my broker (darling guy I used to work with at the big bad insurance company - my accounts are with them). I let him do whatever he wants with the allocation (although he always checks with me first). Although they've always run well, he changed things around last year. If I remember correctly, last year's growth was around 9%. My statements today are for the first half of 2008. The pure growth (not counting money I put in) for only six months is 3.7% each. I'm a happy gal.

So I'm back from what I still maintain is the Best Double Feature EVER.

I'm sure all those who want to have seen The Dark Knight by now, so I won't discuss it much except to say, "That was AWESOME."

Heath Ledger was amazing, and Christian Bale did his usual great job.  I love Harvey Dent and bravo to Maggie Gyllenhaal for making an awful character much less awful.

And the X Files.  Well, the movie wasn't as great as I hoped it would be, but I had a fantastic time and it was so, so great to spend an hour and 40 minutes (yes, I'm bitter about the length) with Mulder and Scully.  I hadn't realized how much I'd missed them.

I do want to see both movies again. :)  I will likely buy both as well. 

(Incidentally, the movie was a very good standalone--you don't need to really know the show to be able to follow it, I don't think.  You may be a little confused in at least one part, but I don't think it'll ruin your enjoyment.)

I've got the opportunity to put an ad in the upcoming Construction: The Magazine, which is circulated not just to this city, but pretty much every single contractor, supplier and builder in the interior of BC.  The small ads (business card sized) cost almost 300 bucks, and let's face it... no-one sees those.  My options are narrowed down to 1/2 page ($700) or full-page color glossy ($1200).  I can even request inside front or back cover for a further $300, but that's probably a little much.

However, if I get even ONE (1) job out of this, it more than pays for the ad, plus it'll probably pay for my gas for the rest of the year.

However, it is also more than our mortgage, and even though the banks upped Throkky's credit limit to somewhere in the range of nine grand, I still don't wanna blow this much money on something that might not work.

However, I am probably three (5) seconds away from grabbing a pickaxe and going to Burger King just so I can get out of my hole.

Anyone have teh advices?

Prince Tantra likes to sit in the window so that people inside and outside have the opportunity to worship His Purrfection.

Prince Tantra's Window

Fluffy Puffy Tantra

Big Princely Yawn

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I'm allllllllllll alone in my area, with the exception of new chick, whom I don't particularly care for, and supposedly she's not feeling well anyway, so hopefully she won't feel chatty. I'm shocked she hasn't left already, actually, since she doesn't seem to feel she has to put in the same number of hours and days per week as the rest of us. New admin chick is here, too, but she doesn't sit close by, and we won't even get into what's wrong with her. Everyone else is on vacation and LBJ just left for something to do with one of her kids. It's been a hellish week here, and LBJ and I have been hoping for Friday since Wednesday. Sortaboss will

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be back for three days next week, then he's off again until the 12th or something like that. Maternity girl will be back on the 12th as well. Boss and girl in front of me are back the week before that. When people are away, it's either dead or hell, never just chugging along. Anyway, needless to say, I don't feel like doing too much for the rest of the afternoon. Monday is time enough for more serious work, of which I still have plenty.

I have had Jazz Butcher's "Grey Flannelette" going through my head but couldn't find a video to post for you. Sorry.

It's absolutely lovely out today. LBA, LBJ, and I had a great lunch out on a patio at the pub up the road. They have a fantastic buffet for super cheap.

What else can I bore you with? I really should try to do stuff around the apartment this weekend (if that sign-up sheet isn't loaded, anyway), but knowing me, I'll only get a fraction done of what needs doing. C'est la vie, yanno?

I'm disappointed that as soon as I discover that loltheist is still up and running, they haven't posted anything new in two days.

Okay, off I go to do a bit of work for the last hour. Please feel free to leave a comment with your own Friday inanities. Really. Give me something to do other than work. Please.

Nothing happening in the life of the Amester. Not even sure you care to hear about my lack of interesting happenings. Other than pinching my thumb in the wine opener thingie last night. Yowza! You'd think I'd have that down to a science by now.

I was thinking about going to a wine tasting tonight at the Wrigley Mansion, which would be fun with much schmoozing potential. Then I was invited to a political fundraiser event, which could also be a lot of fun and probably even more schmoozing potential.

But I'm signing up for more triathlons so I thought I'd just go to the gym and then go home to hang with Elvis and watch "Buckaroo Banzai" from Netflix.

I was just reading the X-Files movie review in the paper when I spy a little ad for one of our two art/indie movie houses. Up The Yangtze, a film about the building of the Three Gorges Dam in China. I just watched the trailer and I really want to go see it. I think that's what I'll do, but I still have a few hours to decide on any of the above options.

On another note, I called my vet about Little Black Stray Cat. If I can catch him tomorrow - it won't be hard if he's around and he's often not - I'll call and take him in to get tested and/or vaccinated. Elvis would not like another cat in the house AT ALL and I don't want to try and figure out how to keep their food separate (Elvis is on super expensive prescription food), but I'd like to see if I can find LBSC a home. I don't dare bring LBSC into the house unless I know he's disease-free.

Okay, that's about it. Playing my sax solo in church on Sunday. We'll see how well my lack of practice serves me. o_O

Sunday night will find me on the trails with my mountain bike trying not to crash. That's as exciting as gets around here.  

Well, gosh that's it. Oh, and maybe some election plans! And maybe a CONTEST!!!!!! But not now.  Now I'm squinting at my toe, trying to will it back to it's normal pink non-puffy state.

July 25th is Threading the Needle Day.

I'm hoping this is a euphemism for something else because I've posted a sign-up sheet outside my apartment door.