"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition,
which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Well, duh. I know I'm a selfish evil bitch. The best I can do is to make sure someone else benefits from it at the same time.
Welcome to the Good News from This World List for Today:
- I had to call the bank today about an error they made, and while it won't be resolved for another twenty-four hours and I'll have to make yet another call after they take care of that, they had Gershwin for their hold music and I'll never get tired of Gershwin.
- And they ARE resolving it. I cannot tell you how relieved I am.
- My husband had $5 in his pocket yesterday. He gave $1 to the ubiquitous firemen collecting for the town's fireworks display and $1 to the MDA, then he took the rest into the convenience store and bought a diet Coke and a scratch-off ticket. The diet Coke quenched his thirst. The scratch-off won him $50.
- We filled up the gas tank, gave another $5 to MDA, and had enough left to buy a couple of barbecue sandwiches at the Cookhouse, which is about the best place to get barbecue in our area, even if they did stop making the deep fried ribs.
- When I got home, I checked my email and another site has offered me some paying blog article assignments, which I will accept most gladly.
- I am making Jamaican beef tonight, which is one of my most delicious concoctions and you should be very jealous of my mad cooking skills. Ask your mom if you can come over for supper.
- I saw Mike Rowe hosting a show on the History Channel whilst wearing a suit and tie. Furthermore, his face and hands were clean. I have never seen him looking so fine. Mrwowr.
- I went to the Amazon website and found a used copy of Carl Sagan's Billions and Billions:: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium for $4 including shipping. I had a gift certificate for $5 from Blingo. Cost: FREE. Value: PRICELESS.
- My friend's daughter graduated from high school yesterday. She'll be going to Southern to get her degree in history: she wants to teach. She's also a great writer.
- Furthermore, my friend's sister had a baby on Tuesday. He's an uncle for the first time.
- I had had no idea she was pregnant, and I said, "Why didn't you tell me? I could be the father and not even know it." Then I congratulated myself inwardly on being so bloody clever.