Handling the elephants
My 12 year old made this collage. It is captioned thus: “If we cut down the forests, where will we put the elephants?”
Today I’m trying to organize a lot of elephants myself. After a weekend with gas hitting $5 a gallon, followed by yesterday’s stock market crash, it occurs to me that I need to do a better job at saving money *and* retaining the few clients I currently have. Nor is feeling like a limp noodle for a week or so any excuse (though yes, thank you, I’m feeling much better.)
So: I started off the morning with several car-less errands to save gas*and* get my sloggy old elephant blood going. Trotted to the vet for some flea meds, then to the drug store, then to the housewares outlet store, and finally to the market for dinner makings. The chicken from the market went into the crockpot when I got home, and that’s to save some money.
Cutting up and pulling the skin off a dead chicken — eww. I’d forgotten about that part of cooking. Usually I just buy skinless chicken breasts, and *that’s* when I actually cook anymore. Why aren’t we all vegetarians, again?
And for this afternoon: phone calls, emails, and hunkering down with my word processor.
How about you? How are you responding to the economic news of late?
