Joe and Jamie's Blog

I apologize in advance but this really bugged me today…

Received my vehicle registration in the mail today, not really too excited over it. I have a very small two door car that weighs 3000lbs. Two years ago it cost me $40 to renew its registration. Guess how much it costs this year? $110!

You have to be kidding me, almost triples in two years?!?!?!?!? I guess we can all thank Gov. Paterson for this bullcrap. I love the $10 Use Tax on it. WTF is use tax? I can’t wait until Jamie’s car has to be renewed in a few months and that special new plate fee crap will be added on to it, freekin’ ridiculous.

So bottom line is that New York State and all its mighty loves to suck the crap out of us little people so idiots in government can get a bonus at the end of the year, one that they get to give themselves…isn’t that great…

Oh yeah and I know he can’t read this small of print but I’m going to type it anyway, F@%K Paterson. Can’t wait to see how much he loses by at the end of this year, idiot actually thinks he’s going to get re-elected! HAHAHA

[UPDATE] So a few days after posting this I see that Paterson officially said he’s dropping out of the race for the end of this year…was it something I said? LOL.

Jamie and I quit as of today.
[claps, applause, cheering, other supportive noise]

Sunday night was our last one, sometime around 6:00 pm or so. No this wasn’t a mother’s day gift, we decided awhile ago that the weekend that school ended we would stop. I am stopping mostly for the wrong reason, but hey the important thing is that I am stopping. I basically can’t afford the $150 a month per person. Yup that’s right $300+ a month down the drain, well more like down my lungs. With the recent gas prices it’s just stupid to continue on such an expensive habit. Also come June 3rd, New York State is increasing the cigarette tax $1.25, bringing it to $2.75 of tax per pack. Right now I pay on average $5 a pack depending on where I get them. That extra $1.25 (if it isn’t more at the store level) is an extra $75 I would have to shell out each month for the both of us. Let’s put this in perspective again. $375….that’s my car payment!! I could pay it off twice as fast when I quit if I wanted. See more here on the cigarette tax increase for New York State.

I’ve quit before cold-turkey so it won’t be an issue for me, but Jamie may need some assistance breaking the urges. I won’t ever pick it back up as long as Jamie doesn’t go back to smoking like last time we attempted to quit. She kept sneaking them in there claiming she had to cut down first (which I will admit she did, but still).