Do I look like a Bank?

I'm having issues with family and friends wanting to borrow money from me or just wanting a free hand out. I am so tired of this! Don't get me wrong I love helping people when they are in need even if it involves giving them money, but don't take advantage of my kindness. I know how to say NO, but I have to admit to some people saying NO is hard because I love them and I care about them.

I'm not a pushover by no means. I know how to say NO. I know how to save and budget money. I've had a checking account since I was 15yr old. I have been known to be good at saving money. I use to save money with the thoughts of "What if an emergency happens I will need money?" Then I would never spend it on myself it would only go to helping others while I wait for that emergency to happen. The emergency finally arrived and I went through all of my savings. This sucked because I could have spent some of it on me. I am glad I had money saved otherwise I would have been one of those people borrowing money.

Then reality struck one day when I realize I had less then $5.00 dollars in my "fun checking account." I thought what happened to all my money. Oh I remember! I paid a some bills for someone to help them out and didn't calculate what I had in my account. Good thing this account isn't the account I pay bills out of or I would have been screwed. I had to ask someone two days before I got paid one day if they would go with me during lunch and help me get some gas and that I would pay them back on payday. I wasn't embarrased because everyone needs a little help every now and then. It just taught me to start thinking about my needs before others. I could have dipped into my savings instead of asking for gas but I saw no need since I would be getting paid two days later. I still save money like before I just do it with a different mindset and spend money on myself instead of just for an emergency. I have spent more on myself in the last 3 mth than I have in a long time and I like it ^_^

I AM NOT A BANK It would be nice if some of those people would read my blog, then maybe they would realize how they appear and how they should be more responsible with their money.

What? Why? WTF?

I just don't understand people. I watched the BET Awards last night I have to admit it's probably been close to 10yrs since I've seen the awards. This is the same with the MTV awards I haven't watched them in about 10yrs also. I think it's a younger generation thing or if your a big music person then you watch them.

So I watch the awards and Joe Jackson was sitting on the front row. What a piece of shit! That money hungry child abuser sitting there with all his bling on for the world to see with a smile on his face like I'm getting ready to make money again. I just can't believe people were feeling sorry for his dumb ass. It is well know he abused his children especially Michael and now Joe gets treated like a king. I was VERY disappointed in all of them there especially the ones who mentioned Joe's name. It was suppose to be about Michael not Joe. Michael would roll over in his grave if he knew his children would be in the same house as that piece of shit. Joe and Katherine Jackson filed for custody and got temporary custody of the three children this saddens me :(

The children will now be exploited you will see photos of them all over the place. I'm sure photos will now be sold of them. Nobody in this world will be capable of keeping the children out of the media like Mike did. You will never see a picture of his children on my blog it's exploitation.

The media is reporting that Katherine has custody and they are not mentioning Joe hmm....I wonder why? His name is all over the legal paperwork like her name why no mention of Joe? It's just sad!!! I have ZERO tolerance for CHILD abusers.

P.S.

Rev. Al Sharpton needs to sit his ass down and stay out of it!

BS at Work!

Update soon! Just a quickie note on work today! Update may appear on Geeks in Cubicle Blog I'm unsure at this time.

A Beautiful Sunday!

This is one of my favorite paintings and it's not because I like red ^_^ I attended service this morning and I'm never let down when I go. I always feel the spirit when I'm there it is my weekly spiritual food. I don't blog much about my beliefs, but I could not resist it this time. I discovered another association with my favorite number while listening to a message this morning. You may not be able to tell by my blog that I attend church regularly. I do and my faith does not dictate what I write and how I feel. However, it does have a lot to do with how I process important issues and choices in my life. We had a speaker talk about charity and the other one on debt this morning. I feel like I have mastered these two areas :) OK, maybe not since I'm not perfect. It was one of those situations where you want someone to ask a certain question so you could proudly raise your hand. It didn't happen so I wanted to scream out loud I HAVE NO DEBT, but I held back since it would be inappropriate in the middle of service. I'm no preachy person and I believe people have a right to choose there own faith or spiritual beliefs as long as it does not infringe or harm another. It was indeed a Beautiful Day !!!

Taking my baby to the Dr.

I just realize my 100th update on twitter was "Taking my baby to the Dr" I thought that was kinda interesting and worth blogging about since I would eventually blog about it. The Baby I'm talking about is my laptop he he...It has been sick since Monday June 22nd. So check this out I decided to wait and call Dell about it since I knew the warranty expired May 23rd 2009 almost a month previous the only reason I knew the date was because I wrote it down when I called on an service issue in Dec 2008 I still have the information in my Dell file I checked and thought crap. I wasn't in the mood to to deal with a service person on the line telling me how much it would cost etc.. so I waited til today Sat Jun 27th when I didn't have to work blah blah blah.

I called and guess what? My warranty expired June 23rd 2009! Ain't that about a bitch? If I had called that day it would have been covered. So I'm screwed and where I thought I was originally I just suck it up and deal with it. Dell told me how much it would cost they thought it may be the mother board or monitor. I then took it to Best Buy to see how much it would cost locally and I ask them to hook it up to one of their monitors to rule out the mother board which I did not think it was. Tah Dah! It worked on a different monitor. I was right! ^_^ The cost for them to fix it would have been the cost for a new computer. The best deal was to call Dell back and prepay so they would send me a gurney to send my baby to them in/on.

I then went and got my monitor out of the garage boxed up in the box it came in as if it was new :) it is a nice Sony 17inch TFT LCD monitor a nice slim design with 1280x1024 resolution. I use it for my desktop computer for my personal business, but my desktop is taken an extended vacation for now. It has been almost a year and a 1/2 since I've done anything with my personal business. I'm not sure when I will start up again I'm looking at the beginning of next year we will have to play it by ear.

Long story short it works. I hooked it up to my laptop once on I pressed Fn & F8 together and Tah Dah! it works now I know it is my screen/monitor. I am writing this post with it now. I just backed up everything to my external drive in case something happens to it on its plane ride to the Dr for surgery. After this weekend I will only be on blogging during the day during the week and no weekends until my baby return ^_^

I will be checking my favorite blogs on the weekend from my crackberry I just can't comment until Monday !!!!!Mauh!!!!!