We were up all night, last night, shuttling food and comfort items (including this laptop) to the beast (RV) in our driveway. I brought JJ over at 6:45 am, hoping that if I fed her in here with stuff that smells like us and her favorite blankie and scratching board, she’d feel more comfortable. OMG — she was totally freaked out and making that horrendous crying/yowling sound of distress for hours. About 10 hours later, she finally started to get used to the idea and began to act merely needy, as opposed to psycho.
We caught a couple of naps during the day, but I honestly feel like someone hit me over the head with a sledgehammer. When I’m more alert, I may fill in the details – including the story of the Stupidest Person On The Planet (at the very least, First Runner-Up) in the “Customer Service” department of the gas company.
Making a long story just a tad shorter, I joined something called SocialSpark.com, a blogging community with the goal of matching potential advertisers with bloggers. Call it a whim. Call it an effort to increase readership without telling people I may write about. And probably have written about, already. Anyway, I read this latest entry in the “Last 100 meters”, a blog by Eric Allam (using his real name? wow.), entitled “Your Tax Rebate — Don’t Choose To Consume.” He makes some very valid points, and seeing how I feel about our illustrious commander-in-chief and his giveaways to us “little guys” to try to salvage the sinking economy and by extension, his “legacy”, there is not a single point I can argue with. Except one. Eric makes the assumption that everyone (else) is going to run right out and buy stuff they don’t need. I – perhaps erroneously – presume that, while many will do just that, most are probably like me, and will use Georgie’s present to do some necessary things to keep body and soul together. Here is my response to Eric’s post:
“Unfortunately, while hubby and I haven’t even filed our tax return yet, the rebate has already been “consumed”. Not on a big screen tv or Playstation, but $895 to tent the house for termites (bigger problem here in South Florida than in some other parts of the country), and $500 to fix yet another spontaneous roof leak (suspiciously about 6″ from the one we just had fixed 6 months ago). Poof! So much for the rebate.
I suspect that, as many as there may be who are spending it on “luxury items”, there are more who will use it to buy gas ($3.58 this morning at my local Citgo) so they can get to work to put food on their tables. I’m not disagreeing with you — but not everyone can afford to be so altruistic.”
Am I wrong? or just living in a bubble?
