the sound of your voice

[threeplusfire]

This day was better than yesterday. So it's okay. I'm thinking about dying my hair black again. It sounds like a good idea. I'm tired of the brown. I look much more like the real me inside my head that way. I need a hair cut something awful but I still haven't made up my mind what to do.

All day long I find myself matching the cadence of my speech to my callers. I hear an accent I never knew I had when talking to angry grandmothers. I laugh with my policemen friends all over, and we joke about the stupidity of these criminal jerks. I try to sound soothing with the crazy people. It's weird. I think it is starting to affect my speech outside of work, but maybe I'm just imagining things.

I want to be swimming. I want a cold beverage. I want a cigarette. I want to be away from the desk, away from the computer, just away.

Here's a poll, just for the sake of frivolity: Say through some magical crazy act of the universe you ended up with $32,000. A little frog gives it to you, or a nice man in a business suit rewards you for uttering some random bit of wisdom on a sidewalk. Somehow, somewhere, you end up with all this money. What do you do? Are you the type of person to pay your bills? Are you going to take a fabulous trip? Do you invest it in a bank, in a house, in that sexy vintage motorbike of your dreams? I'm just curious. This poll brought to you by me and my lottery ticket.

Comments

[frostwalrus.livejournal.com]

Bills, Emergency Savings Reserve, Down Payment on a house.

In that order.

[rawumber.livejournal.com]

Bills.

Fix up the house--get rid of the damn carpet, make all the bathrooms work.

Give Dave and I a night somewhere down in La Jolla with a dinner at that fancy Italian place we love so much and nothing but a huge bed and the sound of the sea. Or maybe up in Monterrey Bay, feather bed, turn down service and the my friend the gull as I look out on the water crashing just below my window.

God, I love both those places.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Zero out debt. Car repairs. Invest in vicefund.com. Roadtrip to NYC.

[onyxlynxx.livejournal.com]

I would pay off my ever increasing credit card bills and make a serious down payment on a different car. No very exciting to some people I guess but it would make me really happy.

[geoectomy.livejournal.com]

Any windfall, big or small... given that I carry no debt... 15% to blow on myself and whatever strikes my fancy. 15% to charity--likely canadian diabetes association or a local literacy foundation. The rest to RRSPs or investments. I'd have to invest in insurance companies. It's not like they ever really *lose* value if publicly traded.

[rm.livejournal.com]

IRS debt and future tax on that amount swallows 10K.
I but my regency coat, the regency tail coat i can't afford at this point and the Snape jacket.
Then i take Kali to Australia.
Then I get new color headshots.
Then I dump the rest (10K) into savings.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

I don't have any debt and I'm still living with my parents, so I'd put most of it in the bank, and maybe leave out a little to buy myself something nice. Maybe a new cell phone.

[locknestra.livejournal.com]

Right now? I could use that for a small home in the Osgood development in West Fargo, and still have enough to furnish it properly.

soooo... please?

[puella.livejournal.com]

I'd put it all as the down payment for a lot I want to buy

[antebellumcafe.livejournal.com]

I would invest two-thirds of it and pretend I had only $10,000 with which to answer your poll.

Then I would pay bills, fix the scratch on my car, buy some new rims (heheheheh), give some to feminist and queer charities, give money to my student and artist friends, and go on a fabulous trip - all in that order.

[eclipsedeyes.livejournal.com]

your work seems a lot similar to mine except i don;t talk back. my voice changes outside work, though. I def. swear a lot more nowadays

[eclipsedeyes.livejournal.com]

to answer your question, invest half, take a fabulous trip with the rest and buy some beautiful clothes with any leftovers.

[trueliminality.livejournal.com]

Invest some… pay off some of my medical debt… and take a week in Mexico.

[seitvonzu.livejournal.com]

i vote house. especially if i lived in austin, and wanted to stay there. HOUSE, HOUSE, HOUSE :)(which *i* so would!)

that would put me in the same city at brother's little baby too :) golly i love that baby!

but if this was actually me (the me that is NOT living or moving to austin, and the me that already has a little townhouse) it would buy a used car, fund a couple (one for each) roth retirement accounts for this year, fantasy babymaking tour of italy.

[abbismom.livejournal.com]

Pay off debts. Sigh. There'd be nothing left after that. At least that would take care of the debts. But, with my monthly income freed up, I would go part-time at our lovely place of employment and rent a Bastrop office to start up my counseling practice. Home and Lawn improvements: deck on the back, new carpeting, fence, level back yard, new grass, benches, gazebo at the end of our little pond path, bunches and bunches of plants, a pier, a paddle boat...oh and lots of Kythryne blings for my friends, family, and me! Go to one of her NYC workshops so I can learn her craft and transform it into my own. Save for money for a trip to Hawaii. Have time to work on my book of poetry and another book of a serial killer. ahhh...the dreams go on and on! what a great question.