smooth feet

I am trying desperately hard not to spend money, so I rarely go out randomly. 

By staying home today, I save about $35 on my cable bill.  This month’s bill is $30 more than last month’s bill, and I’ve changed nothing.  So I call Time Warner Cable and learn that some promotions I had just expired.  I threaten to leave and end up with some new promotions totaling about $35.  And, I drop Showtime, at least until Homeland returns this fall. 

Also by staying home, I am here when the phone rings and it is the Census Bureau asking if I am interested in a part-time/temporary/low-paying position beginning in April.  I enthusiastically answer yes.  I give them four references, per their request.  I gave fewer references when I applied for (and got) a Senior VP position at a major media company a few years ago. 

I go out only to buy some groceries, and then come home and notice how dry the bottoms of my feet are. I find two items I bought a few years ago:

Denco’s Professional Foot Smoother and something strangely called, Zim’s Crack Crème (really, who is the marketing guru who named a product crack creme?).

So while I am watching Brian Williams talk about President Obama’s state of the union address last night, I smooth the bottom of my feet. They now look soft and beautiful.

So in case you are wondering, this is why I haven’t been writing as much.  Not much going on.