Bad luck backfired in my favor!

[vulgarweed]

I figured out how I managed to have enough leftover cash to snap up that computer deal.

Being SKANK-ASS SICK meant that I didn't go out (not even the CTA got my money), had no social life, smoked 1/4 as much as normal, and didn't eat solid food at all.

Therefore I saved a lot of money. Yet I suspect that if I post this as a helpful hint at one of those thrifty-living sites, it wouldn't go over well.

But now I know what to do when I need to save up for something else. Forget to wash my hands and pay someone a couple bucks to cough on me.

Comments

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

Heh, blessing in disguise, eh? Aziraphale is smiling beatifically upon you while Crowley sulks in the corner. XD

Having my hubby gone to Chicago for weeks on end is also helpful in a perverse way--we use much less energy and have lower bills (and a cleaner house) when he's not here. :p

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Ha, wait til they both see what I'm going to use that computer for.

You can flush a lot of money in Chicago, though. *nodsnods* Hope he gets home before the CTA rate hike.

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

*Giggles* CTA? (All he's doing there is pretty much working and sleeping, and he drives home on the weekends.)

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think they can't help but suspect, just a bit. The scorch marks on your own keyboard gives you away.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

"I don't suppose she'll be turning over a new leaf with the new addition to her life?"

"Don't worry - it'll be the same thing, only faster."

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

Hee! Not what I would have suggested to save money, but I'm glad you have it and so will be able to buy the computer.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

By Any Means Necessary. :)

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

Forget to wash my hands and pay someone a couple bucks to cough on me.

this made me laugh and laugh and laugh. i'm really tired.

you wanna know what? i have actually been afraid that i gave you the strep. i seem to be highly resistant to it, we were...proximal...shortly before, and it's possible i was an unknowing carrier b/c of my recent high-volume encounters with great numbers of people.

er...that came out all wrong. i meant by virtue of the academic advising gig!!!

even if i did play your Typhoid Mary/Marty, it does sound like a blessing in disguise. maybe i should put that on my new business cards.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

At least you also brought healing thoughts and soup and aspirin. (Typhoid Mary kept denying she was hurting anyone, even after repeated tests proved she'd done it.)

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

i'm not even sure it was me...but, as i can't be sure it wasn't, i claim responsibility for the possibility.

*bows*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

You? YOU?!

Could be, I suppose.

my recent high-volume encounters with great numbers of people.


HEH!!!

[modillian.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned how I love that icon? I love your icon. :D Where's the quote from?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks. It's from Good Omens, my primary fandom these days. (So's this one.)

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

(((hug)))

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I've had that happen to me. I lost weight, too. Everyone was all, "wow, you look good," and I was all, "um, because I couldn't get out of bed or eat for three weeks." "... Oh."

It's sort of wrong that this society's standards of attractiveness rate me higher when I'm nearly dead, but then, think of all those consumptive beauties with their pale burning skin. So, yeah.

Anyway. Now it's all better and you have a new computer! This is good!

[Looks downthread: CTA rate hike? Man I should probably give my broke-ass baby sister living in Chicago that money I owe her. I keep forgetting, but she is, after all, my broke-ass baby sister. *guilt*]

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

CTA rate hike coming in a week or so, supposedly. Underfunding, as per usual. *grr*

Uggghh, I hate that too. I lost weight as well, but I don't get complimented on it much...I can ill afford to lose weight, and the effect when I do isn't all that attractive.

all those consumptive beauties with their pale burning skin. I get "get a tan!" yelled at me from time to time. NEver mind that I'm physically incapable of doing so.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

OK, OK, I'll send poor Ann a check. *is even guiltier* Poor thing. Letting men named "Snake" buy her dinner. What sad times are these, etc., etc. (Her blog is actually pretty funny, as she saves all the whining about money for gmail-chats to me.)

>ill afford to lose weight
Oh yes, I know it is a pain to be skinny too-- my poor boyfriend rants a bit about how people always assume you're lucky to be skinny, but it's not like it's a choice. (He's 6'3"/135 lb., and once when he went to a gastroenterologist for a consultation about acid reflux, the doctor gasped as he walked through the door and said, "You shouldn't have waited so long!" assuming he was malnourished.)
But for those of us who tend towards the fleshy side, it is very depressing to realize we look our best after horrible illnesses.

> "get a tan!"
LOL.
Funny how standards change.

[dreya-uberwald.livejournal.com]

You could possibly bill it as an 'extreem' money saving tip, for those for who just can't do things by halves. Of course, Pestilence would doubtless now be using this ancedote in his spiel on why he's not such a bad chap after all.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Not having much of a life does help with the finances. It's one of life's crueler ironies.