Worth Your Time @ MindSay 
I had been looking for a two-drawer metal filing cabinet, but all ones I saw were $50 to $70 - too much for a piece of crappy office furniture. I'd do better getting a used one at a thrift store.
Then I saw Office Depot was advertising a two-drawer Office Depot Value™ Brand 2-Drawer File With Caster Kit available in silver, putty, charcoal and stone for $29.99.
I was willing to pay $30, but didn't want to drive all the way into town and back - an hour's trip including shopping time. Since Office Depot offers free shipping on purchases over $50, I went online. Odd thing was that while I could find the product, it wasn't listed for the price on the flier. I wondered if it was an in-store special.
Off to Office Depot I Go
Even though I suspected the sale flier had a misprint, wasn't it within my rights to ask for the advertised price? Since I already had to drive part way to the store to drop the kids off at karate, I thought it was worth my time to go by and check it out.
When I got there, the young man in the furniture section couldn't find the file cabinet on the floor. When he looked it up in the computer, he didn't see it listed at the sale price. (I had brought the flier with me.) He got his manager who told me there was only one left in the back. He reluctantly gave it to me for the price on the flier even though he pointed out that the flier was incorrect.
Not the Bargain I Hoped for
I added a few other things to my cart, and checked out using a $10 off coupon I had as an Office Depot rewards member. I drove home thrilled to get a file cabinet for $20 that would normally go for $70 full price.
A couple of days later I unpacked the file. It was damaged! Not only was I ticked off, but I had a dilemma to deal with. Should I be happy with a banged up bargain? Or should I take more time out of my busy schedule to return it? CRAP!
Putting a Price Tag On My Time
A friend of mine, Millionaire Mommy Next Door, tells you to put a price tag on your time.
So far I had expended an hour's worth of time to save $50. In my freelance writing business, I aim for a $20 per hour minimum net. So I did pretty well there. But if I returned it, I would lose money:
- 1 hour to get the original file - $20
- 1 hour to return it - $20
- 1 hour to get a new one from a rain check (there were no more in the store) - $20
TOTAL = $60 worth of writing time to save $50 - NOT WORTH IT!
I ended up keeping the cabinet. It was functional, and the damage wasn't noticeable since it's in the closet. I'm still pissed about it though.
What would you have done, kept it figuring you took advantage of a mistake and got a pretty good deal? Or would you have returned it, insisting on a perfect cabinet at the flier's price?
Okay one of the perks of my job is that I get tons and I do mean tons of music Promos! I mean I have the best time going through the gang of cds and books and grabbing anything that my taste might claim for the perfect price of free!
My new favorite right now is Zap Mama's newest release called Supermoon and the title track is just gorgeous. It is so affirming that you cant help but get up and feel good about being you!
here is a short youtube medley of her newest joint. It is gorgeous!
I'm here to build a bridge to the universe as designed by the great Deity. Lets embrace art and love and life and above all else---truth. The arts are where we intersect friends. One of the best ways to connect is through creativity. Our old ways are not the way and it is time for some new understandings. There is an artist that is being featured at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts whose work is so stellar and striking that you have to experience it to believe it. Her name is Kara Walker and she is a fierce sister/artist. She superimposes images of black silhouettes and caricatures onto sketch and painted works (of her own rendering) or sometimes presents them alone. Her exhibit is on display until March I believe and I am going back this Friday to experience it again. I bought one of her books for a friend's birthday titled "After the Deluge" which has to do with the post apocalyptic nature of great floods. The biblical flood and more pointedly Hurricane Katrina are both depicted and explicated. I am going to buy "Narratives of a Negress" for myself on Friday and I can hardly wait to get back to that exhibit. My favorite piece of her work is called "Burn" and oh my Goddess! It is just striking....to me at least.
they suck you dry
they kill your soul
they exclude the ones that matter
and yet they make you feel better?
when you are alone, thats all you'll desire
someone to be there
to care
to listen
but is it worth hte pain in the end?
for some it is,
at times it will be worth every tear
every heartache
every misunderstanding
i've never been there yet
but i'm content
to be free
to be alone
to be myself
why make myself desireable to someone?
if you cant like this
me for what i am
my thoughts
my body,
my jokes,
my eyes,
my moods,
my meaning
fuck you.
i live for me and me alone.
what makes me happy is what i strive for.
watching out for my friends, is what i need to do
i know too much to try myself.
i know how much work it takes,
but a relationship never works, for me
and thats fine.
love is chemical
love is mostly lust
love is dilusionment
and i have countered its effects in my system.
i create my own imbalances, and
correct them again.
having control of myself
what i feel
and what i desire
is worth more than the lies you hear
the passage of time,
i wish would erase its portraits of my life.
they all remind me of things best left unkknown,
even by the keeper themself.
the faces just remind
of the once believed love it had
yet i'm over htose beliefs, that someone was there
when they left for someone else, i cried
and ended the feeling that was there
i am bitter
it hurts to think that i wasnt good enough
but i know i'm better off
without the headache it created
love is pain,
pain IS the only way to gain
if you are strong enough to deal with the pain,
i envy you,
and wish to be as deluted as you.
just came spurting out.... it kinda sucks, i think.... but at hte same time, it feels goo dto get out of hte system.
Usually a stage production, but available on video:
“The Meeting.” is based on a fictionalized meeting between Malcolm and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In reality, the two only met once, fleetingly, on March 26, 1964, in the nation’s capital.
While that exchange was brief, author Jeff Stetson has stitched together a highly imagined encounter that captured their evolving political maturity and their enduring integrity and is a credible dramatization of the relative merits of competing civil rights strategies in the 1960's,