Big Girl Pants

Maybe I shouldn't air my money troubles on the Internet. Many people seem to think that subject is "private". Well, I think my sex life and reproductive tendencies are private, but others don't seem to. So I'm going to talk about money.

NO! I'm not pregnant.

Chris and I have been married for going on two years. We are already over $30,000.00 in debt. Debt haunts me. We hates it.

Now, a lot of that is student loans, and that's not really real debt. But then there's the car we bought when Chris's crapped out. Why we didn't roll it down a hill into a tree and collect the insurance on it, I don't know. I guess 'cause that would be wrong. And because we'd have to kill the mechanic to cover our tracks, and he's a pretty nice guy.

And of course there's credit card debt, which we haven't tackled yet. We're waiting until after we've assassinated an insanely high-interest "supplemental loan" Chris got for school. A word of advice: Say NO to Sallie Mae.

To top that all off, Chris had to have two root canals. Two. That shit's bad enough without having to worry about how you'll pay for it, or why exactly you should pay for someone to drill holes into your teeth. Gitmo must be rolling in it. Anyway, the root canals were performed about a month apart, and we still haven't gotten the bill for the first one. Another thing we hates is suspense.

Oy, being a grown-up sucks. Just had to vent. Better now. On the bright side, we've never made a late payment and we've never had to beg for money, so we must be doing something right. Either that or God has some plan for us that doesn't involve debtor's court. My money's on the God thing.

Ask Liz

Just when I said I had nothing to give. I'm so full of it.

And to prove it, I have an online advice column for your perverse pleasure! Every Sunday, I will be contributing my wisdom to Fleegan Central in the form of snide, snarky, bad advice. And in answer to your next question, yes, I do take your question submissions. Please limit two per week, as I have a day job (I'm looking at you, David).

That's not to say I won't be posting here. Only God knows whether or not I'll be posting here.

Hiatus

It has now been five weeks since my last post.

It has been three weeks since I have read a single post from anyone else...including derfleeganforum.

What's up with that? I tell you, I have no idea. I have nothing left to give the Internet right now. Just know that all is well and that you should probably stop checking this thing every day until further notice. Unless you have nothing better to do. To each his own, I guess. Trespassers will not be shot.