6th Floor blog Plans a Trip

Welcome to the 6^th floor.

Today's contributors are: Ann, Sara, Tabitha, Frank, Billy and Scott.

Subject: 6^th Floor Blog plans a trip

Scott gets a plate and a fork out of the cabinets and walks over to the chocolate cake sitting on the counter to have a slice when Tabitha walks up behind him and snatches the fork from him.

“You can't eat Sara's cake before she gets home!”

“Did I hear cake?” Billy asks, strolling out of his room with his nose in the air. “Smells good.”

“Have you been home this entire time? We just assumed you were working when you didn't show up when the apartment started smelling like chocolate cake.”

“Nope, working tonight. I just assumed I was having a chocolate cake craving, I didn't really think you were baking on a Monday!”

“Is Monday a non-baking day?”

“Isn't that why most bakeries are closed on Mondays? It must be a bad day for baking.”

“This cake smells good at least, so maybe Tabitha's the exception to the rule.”

“Why is it Sara's cake, and why can't I have any?”

“We're celebrating that she found a new job. She's off getting her physical and drug screen right now.”

She'll be back in time for dinner though right? We were going to watch the Mets game tonight since the Yankees are off.”

“Probably, it's just a physical. She had to go to Jersey City for it though.”

Sara walks in just then.

“She's early! Surprise Sara! Cake!”

“I thought something smelled good.”

“So you got a new job? Where? Doing what? Are you going to start paying for coffee again?”

“It's in Jersey City, so I'll have to play on the Path train everyday. It's ..well I don't really know what my job would be. Sorta tech support for some of their applications. Not a perfect job, but good enough for now. Well it'll be at least three weeks before I get my first paycheck, so don't expect me to pay for coffee before that!”

“Sara's here now. Can we eat the cake?”

“Shouldn't we have dinner first?”

“You made me dinner too?”

“No..I forgot all about making dinner. Pizza delivery anyone?”

“Cake!”

Scott and Billy start chanting “Cake! Cake! Cake!” and pretty soon Frank and Sara join in too.

“I guess we're having the cake for dinner. We could order pizza for dessert?”

“Good idea. And some garlic knots. Gotta love the knots.”

“So when do you start Sara?”

“Two weeks.”

“Wanna pre-spend your first paycheck and go to Cooperstown?”

“Cooperstown huh? I've never been..sure!”

“Anyone else want to come?”

“I'll come. Can we go to Howe's Caverns too?”

“Sure, that's one of the quintessential upstate New York tourist destinations I hear...have you been?”

“Years ago with my family.”

“This sounds like fun! When do you want to go?”

“You've got the physical and everything you need for work out of the way right? How about tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow? Not like I have anything to do..Can you get off work Ann? Anyone else?”

“I can, yes.”

“Nope.”

Scott and Tabitha shake their heads.

“Just us then. Good, we can all fit in my car.”

“Shotgun!”

“Doh!”

The Thrifty Six

Welcome to the 6^th floor.

Today's contributors are: Ann, Sara, Tabitha, Frank, Billy and Scott.

Subject: The Thrifty Six

“Wow. We all spend a ton of money this week. Maybe we should take it easy for a little while.”

“Isn't that why we went to that bar with an open bar special Friday night? To save money?”

“Well yes, but if you factor in the cab ride we took home because we were too lazy to walk to the subway, and the massive amounts of food we ordered at the bar it ends up being more than we expected.”

“I also splurged a bit too, buying things I probably shouldn't have.”

“What did you buy?”

“Well there was Harry Potter, and then I realized I didn't own the first three books, I'd only borrowed them to read from my sister, so I bought those too. Then I saw the new Jeffrey Deaver book and bought that also. It was a bit more than I should've spent.”

“I wasn't great this week either. I went and bought myself some new clothes for work. I went a little overboard though.”

“I had been wanting to buy a new game for the Playstation, but I couldn't decided between Rainbow Six, the Bigs, and something else so I bought all three. I then coupled that with a really bad week of poker, I just couldn't catch any cards.”

“Should've used a bigger glove.”

Ann groans. “My schedule's thrown off still from working at Catalina's and I find myself eating out way more than I can really afford. Coupled with the bar and everything else It's putting a damper on my bank account.”

“You guys should really take some money management classes or something.”

“You didn't overspend this week?”

Scott hangs his head. “Actually..I lent Mitch some money. He was very convincing, but of course it didn't work out.”

“That Mitch. He reminds me of Edward Norton's character in Rounders. I spent too much money this week too, but I couldn't help it. My sister needed to go to the doctor, but she didn't have insurance or any money. I doubt she'll pay me back.”

“Kerri's sick? Anything serious?”

“Nothing serious. I don't remember the specifics, something about a cough and bronchitis I think.”

“Well, that was good of you to pay for her. Who knows, maybe she will pay you back.”

“Maybe. I'm not hopeful though. So we're going to be thrifty and take it easy this week then?”

“Yeah. Let's try to cut down on the expensive stuff a little.”

“10 cent wings at ..”

“No!”

“How many beers did you have last time we got cheap wings?”

“Three..or four..I don't remember. I guess you're right. So you're cooking tonight then?”

“Why don't you cook? You never cook!”

“I'll cook. I just hope you like frozen pizza.”

“How appetizing.”

“I'll cook.”

“That's alright Scott..I'll do it.”

“Don't like my cooking?”

“Do YOU like your cooking?”

“Haha! Burn!”

“Fine. I'll just lay here and nap on the couch until dinner.”

“Don't strain yourself or anything.”

“What are you going to make? I'll help.”

“I don't know. Grab that cookbook and we'll pick something.”