It's Sunday and you have to say goodbye to the kids.

I had a really great time with my kids this weekend. Watched Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief with Benji Saturday afternoon while Hayley hung around with her friends at the mall. Then dinner at the food court. About the best money can buy is the Chicken Teriyaki you can buy from Sakkio. It's a lot of food for about $7 with a drink. After that, just hang out at Borders for their free internet. When you're paying child support and there's not enough money left to do with the kids, hanging out at the bookstore is probably the least expensive form of entertainment with your kids. If you have little ones, you can go to the kids section and read them books all day long and it's a good time spent with the kids. For teenagers and pre-teen like mine, you pretty much just let them roam around and allow them to find something they can buy with whatever allowance money they have, while I sit in a corner with my laptop and use their free Wi-Fi. This time, instead of getting online, I actually handed the laptop to my daughter so she can catch up with her facebook friends, while I read a book I found very interesting. The name of the book was Rich Dad, Poor Dad. It gave me a lot of insights about finance and the main difference between assets and liabilities. I just finished Chapter 5, the History of Taxes and the Power of Corporations. It really explains how the poor and the middle class stay the way they are and the rich become richer and richer. I'm rethinking more about my financial situation and not worry about making more money, but how to make my money work for me and to get out of this "Rat Race". I've been doing it all wrong, but I'm also on my way to being on track. I've been doing it the way every middle class has been doing and it's the wrong way. I'm looking at my life now, and being married is what got me into this "Rat Race". Now that I'm single, I have a new perspective in life. Not only on how I need to live it, but how my divorce, is my way out of this "Rat Race".

Well, I've got to finish up writing my report for my day job, and think of other ways to make money. After that would be laundry and then it's time to vegged out.

Anyway, I'll finish up the book later on. I had to work at the Expo Center today for Brides Day. Lots of brides, some with kids already; babies. Took the kids with me to that and they seem to have enjoyed themselves trying out the free foods from the caterers. My daughter got a lot of candies stashed and she got a free garment bag from Rarity Bay. She's very resourceful. I actually called my ex to see if she and her husband she married back in August in a simple ceremony, would like to go in and look at bride ideas. She said, her husband is sick, but she'll be picking up the kids there at the show.

I had to say good bye to my kids and I didn't feel as lonely as I have felt in the past. I was ok with it today. I suppose I was just anxious to get back to Borders to read my book, but I can't do that today, since I have a report due and I have laundry to do.

That's all my blog for today. Tomorrow I go back to the "Rat Race".

Friday, Feb 26, 2010

Life is grand. Weekend with the kids and Hayley has been entertaining while writing tonight's blog, to a point of annoying.

Work was a drag today. Client cancellation always brings the day down. Not only do you have to cancel the schedule, then you have to explain the boss, why pacing went down. It's all good. Getting a new contract from a client makes the day better. Hayley decided we should go to Barnes & Noble. I decided not to cook, since cooking usually makes me stink and if we had to go out, I have to get cleaned up afterwards, so tonight, dinner was Bojangles. $10 paid for the dinner.

Anyway, I just had to revise a client's website and we're done here. We need to go to Wal-Mart to get a few things. Time to get home and play some Animal Crossing.

Thursday evening

Busy day at work. It snowed this morning, but sunny the rest of the afternoon. Drove to Harriman, TN today, just for me to find out that the client decided to cancel the rest of his ad campaign. I'm ok with that. It was good to see and be able to talk to the client. He's a good man. Visited with another client to approve his TV spot and he seem unsure. Sometimes I just have to reassure clients and let them that their ad is good. Honestly, whether it's a good ad or a bad ad, you'll never know how it's gonna work until it airs and the public sees it. I'm not much of a talker, just a thinker and daydreamer, but I just don't understand people who has to be with someone to feel good about themselves. People don't understand how I could be content just being by myself and not having someone there to talk to. Well, I can call up any friends and talk for a few minutes and I'm done talking and I'm ready to just vegged out. I explain to people that I was married for 13 years and I'm just happy to have my freedom. Freedom from having to explain why I'm home late, freedom from having to tell someone that I have to go somewhere and can't be there for that person and freedom just to be left alone and not have to be told what needs to be done.

I actually enjoy this life, yes sometimes it sucks that there's no woman there beside you to cuddle up with and to fondle, but the drawback is having to listen to problems. I hear that everyday from clients. I don't want to have to listen to it at home. I tell people, that will come when my son turns 18 (my youngest). Until then, they are my responsibility and my focus in life. I just want to make my self available whenever they need me.

Besides, money is tight. Can't really impress a woman when you're broke. So I live a simple life and do the best I can with it. Life is tough, but someone has to live it.

Anyway, tomorrow will be a better day, I've got the kids for the weekend and I'm looking forward to spending time with my son while my daughter hangs out with her friends at the mall.

I called in sick yesterday and didn't feel like doing anything. Sleep was the only thing I could do yesterday. Ok, so I might have watch a couple of movies; Law Abiding Citizens and I can't remember what the other movie was. I'll be picking up the kids in a couple of hours and will be fixing spaghetti for dinner.

I don't have anything planned for the kids, other than dinner and watch TV. I just want to vegged out for tonight.

Sunday afternoon, Feb 21, 2010

Ok, so I've been meaning to keep a journal. I don't like my handwriting, but I actually enjoy typing. So today, I'm starting my blogs.

It's Sunday afternoon and I'm sitting in Barnes & Noble. It's a typical Sunday afternoon and I don't have my kids with me.

This morning, I really didn't feel like going to church. After using the bathroom, I laid down in bed again, but started to cough. So, I finally got up, I was thinking to myself; Okay Lord, I'm going to church this morning, but I'm not going to be in choir, since I've had a cold since Friday. I got ready, left the apartment and got to church at 9:58AM. It was a pretty good service, Pastor Herschel preached about Zacchaeus. A short man, who had to climbed a sycamore tree just so he can see Jesus. By the time Jesus got to Zacchaeus' sycamore tree, He tells him to hurry up and come down from the tree and tells him that He's staying at his house. Anyway, Pastor Herschel preached about, how 25% of the population is suffering from loneliness. Zacchaeus, must have been a lonely man. He was the chief tax-collector and he was wealthy and he was short. Evidently no one liked him that much. Anyway, I ended up going to choir anyway even though I wasn't feeling good. I ended up staying for the second service, too. Then I went home. I warmed up a couple of slices of pizza, watched Julie & Julia. I thought this movie was going to put me to sleep but instead, I watched the entire movie and inspired me even more to start this blog.

Blogs are meant to be short, but since I have so much on my mind, I'm getting way ahead of myself. I miss my kids and I've got a cold. I needed to get out of the apartment and just be around people. I don't like to talk, just like to be around crowd.

Anyway, now that I'm having a mental block, I think I'll stop here do something else.