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Excellent news, my food stamp benefits were approved. Not only that, they loaded the benefits onto my old card, so that I could access them immediately---"immediately" being "I just got back from Aldis, and it sure felt good not to agonize about what else I should be spending it on". My biggest splurge was a box of PopTarts. (I talked myself out of baklava and chocolate eclairs and chocolate-dipped wafer cookies.) Got rice cakes as munchies. Bliss! I have missed snacky things.

A timely birthday gift is going to assuage my concerns about renewing my driver's license. I feel like I'm channeling Nic Cage in National Treasure: "I'd really love not to go to prison."... I still have to renew my tag, but that's marginally less urgent. Driving with an expired tag isn't nearly as serious as getting caught driving with an expired license.

An email this morning from Big Red informs me that she has to be out of town this weekend, but where would I like her to lunch me next weekend? Oooh, the possibilities! I've told her I'll get back to her with an answer next week, so I can see what all transpires this weekend---I know Mb has promised me lunch at a place I used to go to with Kat, but on the off-chance that J hauls me kicking and screaming to Olive Garden*, I want to keep my options open.

A box from GK is enroute via Priority mail...it might even make it by the weekend, which would be lovely.

Had an odd dream last night. I was going to marry I guy I didn't care about in the least, but I was incredably excited about the wedding and the ring, which had three emerald-cut diamonds on the band. Part of the time, my maid-of-honor was some girl I don't know IRL, in other scenes it was Mb, which is who I would choose IRL. And there was something about putting ice cubes in a big plastic bag so they wouldn't dilute the punch. Wtf? IDEK.

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* That was me being facetious, because I can happily eat myself stupid at OG. If I haven't had breakfast especially, I can slurp down three bowls of soup, NO problem.

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Date: 2012-09-06 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sienamystic.livejournal.com
Excellent! What a relief that must be.

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Date: 2012-09-06 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
It sure is. It'll be awesome not to live on cheap crap, which is what I've been doing for the last few months.

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Date: 2012-09-06 05:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] digitalwave
That's fantastic news about your food stamps, sweetie! That has to be such a huge load off your shoulders. :)

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Date: 2012-09-06 06:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Tremendous. I've been spending my own money on food since May and feeling guilty every time I bought a few cans of soup instead of saving it for the light bill, or whatever.

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Date: 2012-09-06 06:41 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] digitalwave
Boy, do I understnd, sweetie. I'm just so glad for you. Anything that helps take some of the pressure off is always a very good thing indeed. :)

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Date: 2012-09-06 07:06 am (UTC)

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Date: 2012-09-07 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ang5fam.livejournal.com
Is the food pantry still in operation?

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Date: 2012-09-10 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com
Good news! I'm glad that technology means that "food stamps" no longer means actual pieces of paper that had to arrive in the mail. Although it's hard for me to divorce the phrase from the image. Of course I still say "albums" to mean recorded music, so my grumpy old woman persona just gets worse by the day.

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Date: 2012-09-10 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
I remember back in the day when food stamps were actually booklets of paper and you had to go to an actual office and stand in line once a month to get them. I heart progress (in this, at least!).

Ditto albums. And my brain still short-circuits sometimes when I'm trying to differentiate the rest of the techno-alphabet soup: VHS, DVD, DVR, MP3, MPREG....

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Date: 2012-09-10 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com
VHS, DVD, DVR, MP3, MPREG....

SNORFLE!

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Date: 2012-09-10 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Heh heh heh.

Just got through trying to post to the brainstorming post over at Yuletide. LJ ate it, and it was HUGE. I'm so pissed!

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Date: 2012-09-10 11:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com
And I'm doing my [livejournal.com profile] yuletide pimping post.

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Date: 2012-09-10 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Great minds!


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Date: 2012-09-10 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Ha! Got it the second time around. With a lot less verbage...


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