w/ $ like this, who needs a job?

the cash flow is getting low (ok, negative) and we're starting to get creative with dinner ideas and penny pinching. it reminds me of a more adventurous time when we both brought home a "paycheck" and somehow, we were always broke. sometimes, so much so that my food budget for the family was $10 at Big Lots. $15 if i was in a charitable mood.
but i tell ya, i'll let the hub put me on the stroll (the chubby chaser stroll, anyway) to come up with the money to send our daughter to DeCATS.
What's DeCATS you say?
I'm glad you asked.

*begin gushing with pride and unbearable bragging about daughter....now*
our 11-year old has been accepted to a summer program for gifted and talented students from Dallas Catholic schools. the 3-week "summer school" is structured like college. the students choose 4 classes from an array of really cool-sounding and some totally useless courses, like basket weaving (i'm not joking) and Japanese.
she's chosen Musical Theater, Super Sleuth, Freeze Frame and the required Perspectives. TRANSLATION: Broadway, Forensics, Film Studies and Editing, Philosophy/Sociology/Psychology, respectively.

we've paid the $100 deposit and now have to come up with $300. the program actually cost more than $800, but is subsidized by the endowment for its namesake--Debusk.

i'm so proud.
i should write a book about how a misguided, gang-banging, drug-using juvenile delinquent becomes a pregnant teenager on welfare living in a shelter for unwed mothers earns a college degree, becomes a working journalist and ultimately makes good on a promise to her newborn to give her educational opportunities via a parochial education; raising her to be a mature, responsible, honest, "gifted and talented" thinker who is highly advanced for her age and grade level.
oh wait, i am.