Where's Abby (+ Dylan and dogs)

Usually these should be thoughtful, reverent, admiring, or any number of nice thoughts... Today's is not necessarily. Instead, I'm just thanking God for a slip still with tags and a receipt to return and deposit, plus scrounged up change to save my terrible budgeting butt.  Next paycheck. I'm rocking it! I just know it.   And aplologies to Starbucks for bogarding your free wifi with no drink purchase. Since we canceled our wifi to just use our phones and then my phone  died all day because I broke the charger, I couldn't exactly afford the charger must less the coffee. I'm sure I'll be paying you back soon enough.  Or maybe not. Since I'm "rocking my next paycheck" and all.

Strangely I'm getting pleasure from my recent times of economic struggling. These are some of the thrilling experiences plus homeless tricks I've been using... For a little background on how ridiculous it's been, I got paid last Friday. I had $11 in my account by Monday. And I wasn't even buying my booze that weekend. That was practically all bills. Come Tuesday I had to pay for car insurance, so I had to dive into my elephant money for exactly the right amount.   I used the ten dollars left over for my gas. That was gone in two days. I figured I'd make it through the weekend without a car, but I was actually working on a Monday and wasn't getting nanny money til Tuesday. (Or so I thought...That hasn't come in yet though). So I rode my bike to Publix in hopes of exchanging a gift card with a stranger for money... The gift card was empty. I had a Walmart card too, but not enough gas to make it there.  Les and I tried to scheme to find ways to make money, like...