Cruisin’

Traveled to lovely Horn Lake, Miss., to get the car back today. The bastard started the first time I tried, and hasn’t not started since. And my new brakes are deliciously tight and cushy, much like _________’s mom (reader’s choice).

So, victory. Whee!

Phil was hopped up on endorphins all day today. He won a beautiful, extremely expensive guitar from work for his outstanding employee performance. And when I say extremely expensive, I’m talking more valuable than my student loans. Yeah, it’s nice. His company also hooked its employees up with a nice little cash bonus and some freebies, like embossed duffel bags and blankets and shirts. And a steak lunch!

Meanwhile, some companies that own local newspapers posted multi-billion dollar profits this year, yet they refuse to give their employees a cost of living raise (in fact, employees at this particular news outlet have not seen a COL raise in several years) or Christmas bonuses or Kroger gift cards or anything. They’re not even going to supply a meat and cheese platter for the poor schleps having to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The poor schleps, I might add, who will not be getting paid overtime to work on the holidays.

Hmmm.

But I guess I can’t complain. I got some sweet Christmas swag today from Ashley (a set of ENORMOUS wine glasses, Monster House on DVD, a bottle of lotion that I’ve been lusting after since I smelled it at her house, and a bottle of Millington’s finest wine). I felt sheepish because I gave her a book yesterday. A book! In my defense, I’ve not been able to finish my shopping, so hopefully tomorrow I can pick up the rest of my stuff for her. And for everyone else still left on my list.

Looks like I’ll be getting up at the ass crack of dawn and taking care of that.

Yeah, me and every other slack-ass in the city.