Pretty flowers for prom date: $10.00
Rental fee for totally bitchin’ black and white tuxedo: $25.00
Rad new Mullet haircut that shows your wild side: $15.00
Thinking you’re the shit:
Priceless!
Pretty flowers for prom date: $10.00
Rental fee for totally bitchin’ black and white tuxedo: $25.00
Rad new Mullet haircut that shows your wild side: $15.00
Thinking you’re the shit:
Priceless!
New bottles of coconut shampoo and tea-tree conditioner: $15.00
Squeezing the shampoo into my palm and discovering that I can act out that scene from There’s Something About Mary every day in the shower:
I just wish it could make me look like Cameron Diaz…sigh
New plastic doo-dad designed to make my life faster and easier in the morning by poaching eggs in the microwave: $2.99
Opening it after cooking the eggs and having the yolk explode in my face, my hair, on my new cashmere sweater, the kitchen cabinets, and the floor: Priceless
My husband calling my daughter over to him, angling his butt toward her, and farting in her general direction only for her to throw her hands in the air and shout “Yea! You did it! Good job Daddy! You made a big, big, poop noise!”
Priceless
Monthly mortgage payment: $2,000
Bank account balance after mortgage payment to last until pay day on Friday: $50
Logging in to check on bank account balance only to discover that some jobless douche has stolen your identity and bank account information, opened a new PayPal account in your name, and purchased $750 worth of video games thereby leaving your account overdrawn and bouncing your mortgage check: Fucking Priceless.
Dog Costume for daughter bought after Christmas on clearance at Target: $11.99
Swiffer Duster handle and extra swiffer pads: $5.99
Nearly causing an auto accident outside my house when a passing driver caught a glimpse of a lunatic in a dog costume dusting windowsills and nearly steered into an oncoming car: Priceless!
You should have seen her face!
Online shopping trip to Old Navy to buy two pairs of new ”flirt cut” pants: $35.50
Discovering I lost no weight during the great Olestra incident of 2008: disappointing
Yummy Girl Scout Cookies on break room table at work: FREE!!!
Trying on new pants to discover they call attention to my second ass and squeeze the fat around my middle thereby creating the dreaded “muffin top”: Priceless
Lost pay from taking sick day out of work: $104.00
Cold medicine and pack of purse sized tissues: $11.34
Driving to work and sneezing entire contents of congested sinuses onto sleeve of my black wool coat: Priceless
Taking daughter shopping for Clearance aisle kitty and doggie costumes at Target on my “day off”: $20.00
Taking daughter to the park only for her to poop on the slide and call me stupid: 1 hour of precious “day off” time wasted on ungrateful devil baby.
Working a full day yesterday and letting grandparents deal with her instead: Priceless
I’m starting a weekly ritual: Priceless Thursdays
Time will tell if I can actually pull it off, but here’s the first one.
New tires for car: $500
New rear windshield wiper: $10
Not smashing car through neighbor’s bushes when car careens backward out of snowbank: Priceless.