So, starting tomorrow, I'll have yet another funky new work schedule---not that I mind--over the years I've worked weird hours, long hours, 7 days a week, 1 day a week...my weekly pay checques have ranged, in the past 12 months, from 22 dollars to 367 dollars (halve that for pounds)--the weird thing is...those two pay cheques that I got this year (both this summer), represent both the lowest week's wages, and the highest week's wages, that I've had, in the past 25 years.

My new hours: Tues-Fri. 9-2 and 6-8, Sat. 2-4pm, and Sunday 2-7pm. Funky, ey? Still have all day Monday, off--if I want it, I'm told. Told them I'd think about it.

Ah well. Doesn't leave much room to get a second job tho', I must confess. Still I've been bringing home a 172 dollar weekly pay cheque lately, so going from 22 to 35 hours will be a big help--especially in light of my 689 dollar loss of monthly income in April that I hadn't planned on--and the 3 689 dollar pay cheques the govt. is threatening to make me pay back. Man, I hate being a poor American, I hate it so much. I would give anything to be a citizen of another country.

Social Security is refusing to even discuss my case--and won't even tell me how the hell I'm supposed to pay them back. The mental health advocates office is constantly busy--or, I get an answering machine and they've yet to return my messages. I'm scared and deeply depressed over this--but trying to "maintain" through a combination of humor, loving the cats, and a healthy dose of Dr. Who. It's all I've got, so I must make the most of it.

I had treated a co-worker, a few weeks ago, to a soda--and Sunday, she returned the favour by bringing me some Starbucks coffee. Nice gesture--but...yech!!! You call that coffee? Well...overpriced coffee, at any rate. I am a die-hard Green Mountain Roasters user--and sometimes, Paul Delima, a commercial blend that's also available at the local convenient store, under the store's own name. I'm very picky about my coffee--I like it smooth. Starbuck's is far to bitter, for my taste--and way, way too expensive! I pay 75 cents to $1.25 for coffee, most places--Starbucks is almost $2--or more, depending on what you get. I can get a bag of freshly ground Green Mountain coffee for 6 dollars at WalMart's and get 10 to 12 cups out of it. Green Mountain Caramel vanilla creme--yummmy!
I want to try their their other flavored coffees: chocolate raspberry truffle, mocha nut fudge, hazelnut cream, toasted almond, southern pecan..ummmm!

Well, I'm off to WalMarts...yuck! Have to get cat food and look at vacuums--the carpet sweeper just isn't working well, now that the cat's are shedding--and with my bad foot/leg, sweeping the rug with a broom, I've found, is just a wee bit more painful than I'd like it to be. I can't afford a vacuum--but I can't not afford it, either, unfortunately.

Well now, that's different.

Right after I saved this entry, I happened to glance at the GoogleAds box..."Tickets to Heaven and Hell. You have to buy tickets, now? I'm screwed. Stuck in the grave or Purgatory, for me--knowing my luck, Hell will be the cheap seats, and Heaven will be full of rich neo-conservative Republicans.

I'm guess they're a band of some sort--or a stage play, maybe? Never heard of it. Still, it took me aback, for a moment, seeing that ad.