Pierre Phaneuf&#39;s Diary

or friends with a washer/dryer... who live close by even...

*laughs*

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should we make a feeble attempt at biking on saturday before party at bibi?

there is also a "quand est-ce qu'il vient chercher les ventilateurs?" thing to be delt with.

sorry didnt want to add stuff to your to-do list.

on the other hand, I am rather time free these days ( it is a wonder how much free time I find when I am BROKE ) so if you wanna hire slave labour I am your man :P

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you have a job with a paycheck, you leave at you parents, and you are broke ? Come one. Don't piss me off with these annoying complains, better learn how to NOT spend.

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but he has to bring beer for that :-)

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of course you are perfectly aware of all my finances, including the over 1100$/month I have in medical expenses? Or old schoold debts I haven't finished paying? or the exact amount of my paycheck come to think of it.

It is easy to say do not spend when there is little information about the situation.

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mayhaps it was this post where you clearly stated there was an issue... or something.

mayhaps posts like that should be filtered, so that people don't get the wrong/right idea.

:) Nancy

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i know.

hub jsut had the badluck of being the third person today to say "you're broke? but you dont even pay rent!"

as if no rent = no expenses.

in fact the only thing that annoys me mroe than "you're broke? but you dont even pay rent!" is " you're broke? but you don't even have kids!"

meh.

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mayhaps that should tell you something then...

budget, mayhaps? whine less in unproperly filtered posts, mayhaps? or... take it like a man, or something.

:) Nancy

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Found out that the laundry place is very close by, but that'd be nice anyway!

I had some really urgent laundry, but don't worry: there's more! Now, I just need time to go visit and do that! *gah!*

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why does that annoy you? :(

We struggle...1 job paying for 5 people, but it was a choice we made and we accept it...it's just hard for people to understand...not me, I see single friends worse off than I am :)

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well one could say that the washer/dryer are accessible 24/7. if you drop it off... it could even be done... and picked up the next day... or something.

*laughs*

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because althought I understand there are lots of people worse than me, there are other reasons for not having much money left besides rent and kids.

I budget and get all my stuff paid on time, i am not badly off, not by a long shot, but ther eare medical and legal expenses I am incurring that make a huge hole on my income ( which contrary to popular beleif is not that high ).

so yeah, it annoys me because some people assume that rent and kids are the only big expenses one can have.

MEH.

Not a good day for me.

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I must be totally missing the mark here.

I do believe that w/o having to pay rent or for the needs/wants of children... one should be able to budget for their day-to-day living w/ minimal angst.

You're right, they are not the only big expenses people can have... like anything else...

I think what annoys me... is that there are those that incur voluntary expenses.. . stuff that they do not need... but rather want... those impulse purchases or instant gratifications... even elective medical expenses, i.e. laser eye surgery... and then say that they are broke.

I understand... but sympathy is not in my vocabulary today apparently.

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I feel sorry for your loss...

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well, that one is paid by work so that hole in my bank account will only be there until i get my refund. but there are other things i am paying for right now that i have no choice. medical and legal.

but hidden expenses aside, I still don't understand.
yes it is a conscious choice, i sacrifice some going out some restaurant some small expenses to have a big one instead.

Not looking for sympathy here, at all. I am not really broke I jsut spend the money on stuff I really want instead of stuff I just want a bit. Just some kind of understanding that some people can still not have enough money to go out eventhough they don't have rent/kids.

To paraphrase someone a couple of weeks ago "I have two kids and can still go to the restaurant at least twice a week, you don't have kids, why can't you?"

MEH

would it be better if I said I had to cut down on certain expenses so i could afford others, instead of saying I am broke ( which in my head means not enough money for all I need to get done )?

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well, actually talking about money... is uncouth. I was raised not to discuss my finances or the finances of others. It's not done in polite society. But this isn't polite society...

To each their own, as it were.

Salut Susana!

:) Nancy

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no finances, no politics, no sports.

hell, its the weather or sex it seems!

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No way! If I have laundry done at your place, I'm staying a while and visiting, none of this "drop off and pickup" thing!

:-)

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You know me, how well raised and polite I am... ;-)

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Biking saturday would be nice! If I jam my bike in the car and go to your place, I should be able to take the fans on the way back.

Now, though, my main issue is having exactly one showing of Fou de Shakespeare, which I really wanted to see, at 20:15 saturday (it lasts 50 minutes), but it's not looking too good, considering party at bibi... Stupid lack of time! *hateful*

There's a few others shows I wanted to see. …and on and on and on and on… is friday at 14:45, I'll just go! A Girl's Guide To Screwing Herself has a show friday at 23:30 and one saturday at 17:00, maybe I'll be able to slice it in somewhere?

My finances aren't too brilliant either, so payment of slave labour will have to be in nature. 8-)

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