I am a lost cause with money

So, you know when I told you (I think I told you) that when I got the money for my first editing job a couple of months ago, I saved out the money for the trip my sister and I are going to take in June, and I gave it to her to hold for me? I was a smart woman for doing that. I got paid for a second editing job a week or so ago, and I've been good with the money up to now (all of my May bills are paid, and the rest is in my checking account). And then I went to Walmart yesterday to get groceries. And I took about half of my dead watches with me. I don't think I've ever mentioned in here that I collect watches, so you may not know that about me unless you're someone who knows me in real life, but I do. I have 39 of them (it was 40, but I left my Tazmanian Devil watch in class a couple of weeks ago, and someone took it. Bastard. I hope it dies on them), and before yesterday, only four of them had working batteries. Now 21 of them have working batteries. And I bought a new watch while I was waiting for the good jewelry people at Walmart to put in all of those batteries. I'm not mentioning any dollar amounts here, but you can do the math. The batteries cost about $3 a piece. The watch cost $22. Yup. I have a serious problem. But my watches are pretty, and I can't wait until I get to choose one to wear tomorrow.

See? Pretty, right? Okay, you may have to be a watch loving person like me to appreciate them. But trust me, they're making me happy. And I don't just collect watches, I collect fun watches, so mixed in there you will see (if you look closely enough) Sylvester the cat, Tigger, Spiderman, Bugs Bunny, Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola and lots of other fun most likely cartoon characters. The new one I bought yesterday is the red banded one on the bottom left - next to the butterfly. It's an antinque looking Mickey Mouse, and very cool (it might win the contest for which one I wear tomorrow).

Okay, and now that I have completely bored you, I'll move on past the watch obsession. I am having a great weekend, even though all of that oldness stuff that I've been talking about apparently comes with an inability to sleep in (which probably goes along with the inability to stay up late). I have gotten up both yesterday and today at 6:30. Sigh. I used to be able to sleep in, I swear I did. Oh well. Getting up early just means I get to start playing my Sims earlier. And doing my laundry earlier. So it's not all bad.

And now I guess that's all I have to say for today. So since I forgot to do this last entry, I'll tell you the following:

Watching: Re-runs of the Gilmore Girls that I tape everyday on ABC Family Channel. I am currently watching the episode that was shown on Monday. I'm a little behind.

Playing: the Sims, of course. The house I'm playing has two teenagers in it (twins), and the girl went on a date the other night, and her date came and brought her a poker table in the middle of the night as a gift. Why didn't any of my dates ever do that for me? Sigh. Also, the guy is - okay, this is hard to explain to any non-Sim playing people, but I'll do it anyway because I know at least two people reading this play the Sims. I created a family in my game that is my family from when I was a kid. My Mom, Dad and my four older siblings. My siblings and I are all currently teens in the game. The teenage girl in the family I'm playing went on a date with the Sim patterned after the brother closest to me in age. In real life he's a bit of an ass, and I could never see him buying a poker table for a girl, so it made me laugh. Okay, I'm ending the Sims talk now.

Reading: Just finished reading Child of My Heart, which was decent. I would rate it 3.5 out of 5 stars. I was going to read a book called Marley and Me (I think is the title) that Sarah lent me, but it's at work. So I'm just starting Good Faith by Jane Smiley. I may switch to the other one when I get to work tomorrow though. Maybe.

And that's all I'm doing right now (unless you want to know that I am drinking a Diet Pepsi, and am therefore a little wired - yes, you can blame this entry on the caffeine), so that's all I'm writing. I hope you all are having a great Sunday!