I need stronger Cabbage!!!!!

There is a tradition in Hades, where you hang a piece of fresh cabbage over each interior entrance of your home on New Year's Day, and leave it up for the entire year. This is supposed to bring you a year of financial prosperity! Awesome! I love financial prosperity! My cabbage has been hanging (and wilting) since 1/1/10.

As part of my employment compensation, I am eligible for an annual bonus of 10% of my salary.  "Eligible" does not equal "entitled to".  I know this; however, for the first half of the year we hit over 100% of our bonus requirements (wahoo!) so when the company waited and waited and waited to tell us what our second year payout contribution would be.. and I mean waited until 5 days before the payout... .I became concerned.  Unfortunately, for good reason.  23% of bonus for 2H.  23% Dont you think that it's possible that the Board over estimated our goals in order for us to fail so miserably?  So, my plans of buying a new PC, paying off a credit card and funding my super fun trip with the boy bestie, Hermes, later this month are pretty much smashed.I went to Sam's Club tonight to spend some bonus cash.


Here's what I was GOING TO buy with my bonus.                         

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..and what I could actually afford.....

Credit cards may not be paid off, I'll suffer through another 6 months without a decent PC... but the trip to Phoenix is still ON... and I'm drinking the wine which dulls my disappointment!