My Sunday afternoon

What a boring, boring day this has been for me today. It's Sunday, August 3rd and I even had the day off. There have been numerous changes going on with my job and one of them happens to be me working almost a forty hour a week schedule when I am suppose to be part time at twenty to thirty hours. Next on the list is of course all the homework I have to complete every week. It takes up a large portion of the day doing some of these assignments. So now lets put two and two together. If I'm not working, I am spending a big part of the day doing homework... and today was just one of those days where it all just crashed down on me. I think I was starting to get on Shelly-buttons nerve a little. I was just wanting to get the heck out of the house and go do something or go somewhere. I just can't let myself spend too much time away when I know I have homework to do. The other issues come from us just having to watch what we do. With gas prices through the roof we have to make sure we don't do a lot of unnecessary traveling, especially since I am already committed to going back and forth to school a couple of days a week. Since gas prices have went up, I make just enough to pay all my expenses and then have a little money to pay for dinner a few times or whatever I feel like doing with it. As for the other little bit I am smart enough with money to prioritize what I need to spend and how. So why are you complaining about having to work more hours then ... you might ask? Well that's where the saying different strokes for different folks comes into play. First of all, I need the time off to complete any school work I have. Other than that I've always been the type of person where I would rather make less and have the time to go and spend with friends and family rather than make a ton of money and never get to do anything. If we make it to be old enough to sit in a rocking chair at an old age and we look back on life and see what we accomplished and where we went and the all things we've experienced, to me that would be a nice reward to think about. On the other hand if you just worked your life away and never did anything, then that's the only thing you can say you've accomplished in life. You might have a lot of money in the bank but at the age I am talking about, it's not gonna do you any good except for when it's time to go buy medicine or something. But hey, if that's your cup of tea then by all means... knock yourself out. It won't hurt my feelings a bit. I would rather enjoy my time while I'm young. You never know when your time clock will tick for the last minute of your life.

So what I'm saying is today was just a bummer day for me. It was what we call just one of those days. Sometimes we all have one of those days. It just seems to be worse when you have one on your only day off work. It has a feeling of your whole day being wasted. I enjoy hanging around the house all day sometimes but not today. All work and no play is not my cup of tea... at all.

I ran into an old friend a couple a weeks ago and we decided to grab lunch and try to catch up on life while we ate. He told me that at one time in his life he was making around twelve to thirteen thousand dollars a month. That's good money. He also told me that he was miserable in life because he never had time to do anything and the fact that he had to put up with a lot of stress added to his misery. Now he is working a normal job that only requires forty to fifty hours a week of his time and he is happier more than ever just because he has the time to spend with family and friends. It just boils down to what you enjoy out of life dictates what you do and where you go.
There are times when you have to make decisions on what to do, even when it goes against what you would rather be doing. I could have went out and found something to do but I was also prioritizing my choices and the one that required the less amount of money spent was what I needed to stick to. It's ok to have days like this once in a while. Lets just hope they are few and far between.