How the Days Seem to Fly!

Well dear readers, here we are: welcome July! Which, incidentally, is my birthday month, if you wanted to know.
Not much time tonight so my post will be short. I’ve been venturing out here and there, trying to start building a more professional and all-around age appropriate wardrobe, but it is a long and rather expensive undertaking. I’m open to suggestion by the way: how do you put yourself together in a way that looks professional but isn’t trying too hard?
Other than that it’s mostly run from one job to the other, and collapse in exhaustion tonight, which I’m sure you all are familiar with as a way of life. I have a family reunion coming up in a few weeks which I’m really looking forward to, and I just bought a new planner so, silly I know, but I get ridiculously excited anytime I have anything new to add to it!
Haven’t worked on my book at all since my banner day — hopefully next week will provide more opportunities for time to work on it. Tonight though it will be just me, the laundry, and possibly a few Psych episodes: incidentally, that’s a great show if you like humorous crime.
Recommendation of the day: Michael Buble!! Think jazzy, Frank Sinatra-esque.

A ‘What Do You Think?’

Last night I finished two books (hold for applause). Both of them concerned finance and economics: one was In Cheap We Trust and the other was Money Matters. Both were very interesting, but the one I enjoyed more was In Cheap We Trust. At the end of the book, which details America’s love hate relationship with thrift and savings, it detailed various people and organizations who are big on saving and living simply in the middle of hectic, possessions-driven America.
Among them were people who go dumpster-diving, digging outside of restaurants, bakeries, and grocery stores and salvage pounds and pounds of food, thereby feeding their families on the waste of others. So what do you think?
I think, off the top of my head, that I would really struggle, that I constantly struggle between two worlds. In world one I want to be simple, I want to handsew things, cook every piece of every meal from scratch, and sit as a family around a fireplace reading and playing games. In world two, I want a better iPod and a phone with texting, I want a converter so I can listen to said iPod in the car and I want a Mac instead of a PC. I want fancy high heels and cute brand name clothes, new every season. So how do you find a balance?
I haven’t yet, except that I was raised by two stubborn cheapskates, and I have a decent ethic, so if I make an error it tends to be not buying something I really liked. What Do You Think?