Does good etiquette apply anymore?
I wonder, if I'm really sick of work or maybe I just need some time out. I went to work last night and right before my exit, I decided to just pass it and went for a drive around Burlingame. When I got to work, I was almost an hour late, instead of being a few minute early-but I didn’t care.. it was worth being late. My co-worker called but as always I don’t have my phone around or didn’t turn it on until I get to work-so they know that my phone is off the whole weekend. For some odd reason, I think cell phones are so annoying that I don’t feel like bothering w/ them at times. What irrigates me the most is when people pick up their celly at a theater or when they pick up their celly while dinner or lunch, don’t they know it’s rude, especially when they talk so loud that the whole restaurant would hear you. (Maybe good etiquette doesn’t matter anymore.)Work was not bad at all, it was actually a quick night-consider I didn’t even work my full 8 hour or 7 for this matter, which is always good, that means I will get more rest. Honestly, I think I really need some sort of vacation away from work! I know I have less than three months to Europe, just seem like forever! Especially when I waited almost a year.. The funny thing about Europe is that I will be going back there in another 2-3 years, it just not enough time to visit everything I wanted to see too. So I’m probably going back to Amsterdam, try Spain and Greece. Luckily, Travel plan for next year is a week in Hong Kong around Spring and then New York around Fall or Autumn-whichever you call it. Where else do I wanna travel? Let’ see Hawaii (again), Japan, Cairo, Sydney, Korean (Definitely not North Korea!), Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan , Greece, Brazil, Dubai etc.. etc.. so many places so little time and money!
Since we are on the subject of Money. I decided to take Oprah’s advice and go on a debt diet. I’m so sick and tired of owing so much money. I wonder how some people don’t worry too much about, to the point where they don’t even look or pay their bills. First step to the debt diet is to admit to your family and friends-how much you owe. So here it goes, I owe a little over 32k last April 05, now I still owe a little over 16k, after Europe probably 18k. Actually not bad for a year of progress- but lately I’m not making much on my payments, because of unexpected expenses- which included shopping. If I were to buy a new car, nothing fancy just a commuting car for work. I need to figure what to do w/ my finances, so I spent some time at work last night, going through the debt diet steps and trying to figure how I should go about to paying it off. Darn it, in order to pay off all my debt before buying a car- I need to pay at least almost 1500-1700 monthly in order to pay everything back by July 07. =( that means I must look for a part time job after Europe to pay my trips. According to the debt diet, I gotta stop using my credit cards and pay cash for everything in cash and we are allow to go to the ATM machines once and week. Using debit cards are allow, but I think I’ll try to use that for gas only and probably give myself an allowance of $100.00 per week (not including gas and toll of course, or else I would have only $10 bucks left.) Hope it works, that mean I have to cut down on ebay or even stop buying junks on it. Sometimes I wonder how I got myself in this mess? Oh well, like they say SHIT HAPPENS!
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