The Lights Stay On!
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Nothing can kill your inspiration quite like trying to pay bills while “robbing Peter to pay Paul”. All day today I’ve found myself playing “Wack-A-Mole” with utility bills, apartment rent, and loan payments. All while trying to squeeze blood out of a turnip, as my Grandma would say. Even now with most every option and angle worked out, I still find my head spinning with the wheeling and dealing I’ve had to do. But to my average reader I ain’t telling you anything you don’t already know.
It’s just when you think you’re three moves ahead, something
new comes along that drags you back to the starting gun. I hate talking about
money, I wish my life by now were comfortable enough that what I made would be
enough. But it never is, is it? Light bulbs go from costing $1 a piece to $4
with a promise of costing you least. To buying a pretty new shiny light up
keyboard to help the strain on your glaucoma-laden eyes. I know I picked a
shitty time to write anything right now, but what better way to get out the
frustration than pounding on these shiny new keys.
So with the kids upstairs letting me know they made it from
school safe, to the sinus headache I’ve had since I started this adventure,
life never promised to be easy. But at least by this final paragraph I’m
smiling to myself at the ridiculousness of the whole endeavor. Why bother,
nothings ever going to change. Not the moon or the stars or the ruthlessness of
a payday loan shark. But I am breathing a lot better, knowing that for at least
one more month, the lights stay on.
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