(no subject)

It's all perspective, really.

So I'm sitting at my computer this afternoon and I'm balancing the checkbook and taking a look at all the transactions that we had failed to record, and at the end of this water torture, I turned to Josie and said, "Well, this is going to be a tight week. I had to pay the mortgage and the car payment this week, so we'll only have $150 to live off of until next Friday."

Josie grimaced, but Tiger, my 5 year old, was standing around and overheard and tugged at my shirt. "How much did you say?" he asked, with wide eyes.

"$150," I repeated.

"Wow!" he said, jumping up, fists into the air. "We're RICH!"

So, there you go. We're rich. Which one of my esteemed LJers would like to be the first one to receive their own Cadillac, as a little token of our affection?

(no subject)

I know my body's of so frail a kind
As forces without, fevers within, can kill;
I know the heavenly nature of my mind,
But 'tis corrupted both in wit and will;

I know my soul hath power to know all things,
Yet is she blind and ignorant in all;
I know I am one of nature's little kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

I know my life's a pain and but a span,
I know my sense is mocked with everything;
And to conclude, I know myself a man,
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (1599)