March Payday

I get paid once a month.  It's not so bad usually, but for some reason the March payday is painful.

In December you blow all of your money on Christmas but we get paid at the end of the month, so it's almost like emergency medical care... the paycheck comes right when you need it most.  It goes fast though as you have more bills to pay in January due to Christmas-on-Credit, but when January's paycheck comes it is accompanied by my company's annual bonus, so January's paycheck takes care of pretty much all of the Christmas troubles.  Following that, February's paycheck comes seemingly immediately because February is a short month.  Granted, it's not that much shorter, but somehow it always seems like the paycheck comes fast.

Then there's March.

31 days.  It seems like the longest month of the year.  It seems like 100 years goes by between getting paid in February and getting paid in March.  It's only 2-3 days longer, but it seems like a lifetime.  It seems like the entire family economy... hell, the entire economy of the United States of America hangs in the balance, waiting for the end of March to arrive.

Perception is a bitch, you know?

Today is payday.

>insert sigh of relief here<