May the 4th be with you!

Oh, hahaha! I love being a geek! The twitter community got me started on this!  I'm going to celebrate it every year.  So witty!  Better than that 'other' May holiday where the main American tradition is to, what, drink? I've got better things to do.  I'd much prefer to celebrate Star Wars Day.  Maybe next year I'll put my hair in Princess Lea buns, LOL.

Homeschool today was just math. Diana needed to catch up a little, and it was a good review and step forward in those dreaded timestables.

She's doing laundry now! She offered, I taught her, and now she does her own laundry.  I can't believe how responsible she's getting to be.  Today, we were at a 'Superclub' store and she needed to use the bathroom suddenly.  We were at the opposite end of the store, and I urged her to run ahead (as I'd rather her run than have a public accident, you know?) and not only did she know exactly where to go, but she made it!  I was impressed.  When I was a kid, I barely paid attention to where anything was, except the exit. (I wasn't an avid shopper until I earned my own money!)  I wouldn't have been able to find the bathroom in a "Superclub" on my own until much later in life.  Maybe I was just a stupid child, LOL, but I am impressed that she could find it from our location.

We also hit the library, only to find out it didn't open until after NOON today.  Grr. At least we returned all 37 books on time this time ;)

I got my first paycheck after working nearly all month.  I went to open a bank account today, which was an adventure.  My kids had the suckers from the lobby, and my son was all sticky and drooley from teething still, and when the banker went to get an extra chair for us, that baby climbed on the banker's chair and drooled a huge, quarter sized puddle on his seat!  I apologized for that, and pleaded for a tissue to mop it up.  For some reason, this bank was against tissues!

I'm trying to corral the toddler, keep him quiet (it was before his nap, so he was a little tired!) and listen to the banker guy. A few moments after he has my ID and everything, he found I couldn't open an account because of our old joint bank account that was overdrawn.  Well, he COULD open an account for us, but it was such a scam!

I don't doubt Voldemort would've overdrawn and run, but it was embarassing that the only bank to offer me any account of any sort was some ghetto bank with a ghetto plan where I would be charged 10 dollars a month and need to keep 100 in there at all times.  I told them to stuff it.

Actually, I said nothing of the sort, but after hearing this information, my baby boy turned off the banker's computer.  For this, I did NOT apologize.  I recognize that might have been considered evil, but I didn't care.  I still don't.  I hope his system crashed.  He'd have gotten a half day off.

I paid $3 at a party store to cash the check.  I figure $6 to the local party store owner is better than a national conglomerate bank that extends credit lines to illegals, right?  Plus, not to sound all Great Grandmother on everyone, but my money from my part time job is probably safer in the matress (so to speak) than at the banks given the current economy.  I work hard for my measly $30/day take home pay.  I'm not giving a third of that hard day's work for the "honor" of keeping my money in their bank.

I took the cash to the 'superclub' store and bought groceries.  I have to get to the local stores to finish off our grocery list for now, but I didn't do awful at the big store.  I only spent $87 there! And I won't need ketchup for a year, LOL!

I have to go, I fear I've been on too long and it's no longer Star Wars day :(