K is Home!

Yay! I got to see her again for the first time in months! She’s still such a cutie! For some reason the school system didn’t get their supply lists up on their web site this year, so I had to call to get her list. I told them I was calling to get the supply list for the most adorable first-grader in the county, and they laughed and asked which most adorable first grader she was so they could give me the right list, lol.

So I got her all set up with supplies, her father sent her home from his place with a pencil box and a box of crayons. While only being two of the twenty or so items she needed it is two more than he contributed last year, so I guess it’s an improvement. She’s keeping the same backpack from last year, which is good. I had one picked out for her (it’s a RealTree camouflaged day pack with pink trim) but I was running out of money since I will need to eat before I get paid again in two weeks and I like to have a little left over as I coast into payday. Granted, I could stand to miss a meal here and there, and I likely will, but I can’t skip forty-two of ’em in a row. O.o

I went to B’s open house with her and Critter. K came with us, D stayed home. I like B’s school. It’s an older building (Critter attended middle school there too) but it’s been well cared for. The air from the vents didn’t smell stale or musty and all the paint was fairly fresh, so I was pleased. The county’s been having a bit of a budget issue that past two years due to a drop in collected sales taxes, but we’re recovering. K’s school is barely older than she is, so it’s in great shape.

My store did a Hunger Games release event, but it pretty well bombed. We had about fifteen people show up. Apparently everyone went to Walmart instead. I’ve got a lot of unsold movies to deal with right now, my only hope is as other stores run out we’ll be able to puck up the slack. Or, if it comes to it, the other stores can come buy mine at full retail and then go sell them at a loss for all I care. We had one guy show up insisting that Battleship was supposed to be coming out at midnight too, and when we showed him it didn’t release until the twenty-eighth, he declared that not only were we wrong, but Amazon.com and Google were both wrong too because he knows a guy. Dip-wad. I’m hoping he was just mildly intoxicated and not actually that amazingly stupid. Of course it didn’t help that one of my guys told him we wouldn’t do an event for a movie like Battleship because "only good movies get release events, we don’t waste our time on crappy ones." Oy.

I will have the last of my student loans paid off right around Thanksgiving (in the US) so with the exception of my car I’ll be debt free! Woohoo! Starting in January or February I’ll be taking most of the money I was putting towards student loans in savings, but there are some necessary purchases I’ve been putting off, plus Christmas to consider, so I’ll be glad to have the extra money the last six or so weeks of the year.