| randomly |
[Feb. 16th, 2010|11:59 pm] |
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| | my bed | ] |
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| |  sore | ] |
| [ | music |
| | listening to the radio...don't know what this song is... | ] |
Diana moved into the neighborhood. She now lives about five houses down from me.
You'd think this would be unremarkable or, more likely, lots of fun!
But, I fear she's going to be a terrible influence.
I just walked home from a bar. After ingesting a rum and Coke...after having a homemade margarita at her house before we even walked to the bar...
At least it's cool that we can apparently walk to her favorite bar.
And she mentioned how she might be knocking on my door some nights to make me go have a drink with her.
Yay...sigh?
I don't think I should drink on Tuesday nights. Even if they're "Trashy Tuesdays," as she refers to them.
Don't ask.
My mouth hurts.
Going to bed now. Have to be at work at 8a tomorrow.
Sigh. Definitely sigh. |
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| boo |
[Feb. 15th, 2010|12:24 am] |
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| | my couch | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cranky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | watching The Nanny | ] |
Boo.
February 14th, Valentine's Day. A Hallmark Holiday, as I've heard it called quite frequently lately. Just another day in my world!
But it also means it's well into the new year. And, I have to say, this year has not been going as I'd planned. At alllllll.
Some things are good. I'm moved into my new place and I quite adore it. It's so...spacious! A little cold, yes, but like I've mentioned before, I've got tons of blankets that are finally be putting to use. Whoo hoo. So it's fine. And I love having a parking space for Lance, of course. I'm not big on having neighbors, though. Forgotten how nice it is to...not. And I've got neighbors upstairs and I can hear them walking around all the time, which is really annoying. But eh, what can ya do. Overall, quite splendid. And the rent is still wonderfully cheap. I got the first electric bill and I was thoroughly creeped out when it was $150 for about 10 days, but then I realized, oh yeah, the intitial deposit is on it. Relieved sigh. So, actually, I averaged it about right; around $80 a month, which still saves me $50 from my old rent. Just lovely! And I'm looking forward to the summer when I can start using the basketball goal outside, yippee.
Work is still good. Office job is still quite wonderful; still like all of my co-workers, my boss(es), my actual job. The A/P woman got her job back but I'm not sure what's going on personally between her and the boss, and I'm content not knowing, so whatever. Saves my supervisor from getting a headache doing her job AND that job, which makes me happier since she's not stressed and all that. B&N is still, yep, B&N! Working there Sunday mornings still, and am content to just leave it at that for now. Though one day a month, the manager does inventory during the morning, so I work the night shift those days. Which is good, so I get a bit of a break from the ordinary. Switches things up a big, and it's nice to have two days to sleep in, haha. Also started tutoring again at the school, and that's going fine too. Haha, I got a raise this semester! Isn't that just great? Only 25cents, but still! So the job front is...well, fine.
And school started a few weeks ago. My schedule is still quite lovely this semester; I work at the office M-Th, 8a-3p, like last semester. M/W, I then go to tutoring from 330p-530p, so I'm getting four hours there this semester. T/Th, I have class from 330p-640p. And F, I'm 8a-5p at the office. So it's really quite great, time-wise. I'm off everything at reasonable times, so I'm not having any problems with feeling tired so far. And the actual classes are...good, so far. My CH class is interesting; my entire grade comes down to two papers, due midway and at the end of the class. Which means just a lot of self-paced reading, blech (and yes, it was one of the classes that said "no books required." a lie, a great big lie; I just didn't have to buy it through the bookstore, but instead through a private publisher, and it was still $45). English class is also a lot of reading, of course, but there's weekly work in that one, and there's also a mid-term and a final, which makes my head tilt. Like, how is there gonna be TESTS in an English class? But whatever, we'll see. Spanish is...okay. Not liking it as much as last semester, but I just keep telling myself, last one! And then I'm DONE with foreign language, whoo hoo! And my CIT class kinda worries me; on the syllabus itself, the teacher says this class is VERY HARD. It has very little HTML involvement, and it basically comes down to us writing programs for Lego robots. Which sounds fun, sure, but remember: hard! I've gotten A's on all of my assignments so far, but I'm still wary. So we'll see. I'm almost kinda sorta already looking forward to the end of the semester, haha.
And now we'll start sliding into the bad stuff.
I actually had so many plans for this year. My mom didn't wind up coming out for Christmas; due to the cold and all, she was thinking spring break would be a better time. Which is fine, since I can just take a few days off from work and show her around and have fun. And then I was gonna go see Rhia for the birthday month, of course. And, since she's graduating this semester and we have to celebrate, I was hoping to entice her to a lovely little vacation in Vegas, mwaha. So I was going to be very frugal, and pay off as much debt as I can for this semester. I was going to focus on going to the gym and reading the books I ALREADY have, and school, of course.
But then, a few weeks ago, my jaw started to hurt. Not a big deal, and I figured it'd go away. But, it didn't. It got worse. So I finally did the smart thing, and set an appointment with a dentist recommended by a co-worker (because they work with payments plans, haha). Luckily, I've got pretty good dental insurance, which came in handy when I went in and he confirmed what I figured he was going to say: my wisdom teeth have to come out. Now, I was thinking I was going to be put under and have them all yanked at once, so I texted my mom to see if she'd come stay with me for a few days. She said of course and just to let her know. But it turns out it'd be cheaper if I had them removed in the dentist's office...with a local. He actually point-blank asked me, "Are you a chicken?" And I replied no, woe is me. So we decided to just do it there, though he anticipated a good 1hr30min procedure because they were going to be difficult. Suck. And just two at a time, by the way. He was going to remove the one that was hurting, then wait a few weeks and remove the other two. Sigh.
So went in this past Wednesday and did that. The procedure was easier than he anticipated, but it was...weird. He stuck a needle in the roof of my mouth, used pliers and a pick, and ripped my teeth out. It didn't exactly hurt, but, as they said, there was a lot of pressure, haha. I actually didn't feel that bad once we were done, and he gave me a prescription for Vicodin (which just makes me think of House, haha) which I took to Wal-Mart to get filled. They told me if was going to be 45min before it was ready though, and my mouth had actually really started to hurt by then. So I sat in front of the pharmacy and held my face in my hand, and every now and then some tears of pain would sting my eyes, and I think the cashier felt sorry for me 'cause it only wound up being a little over half an hour. I was happy to take her pity and my tears and run away. Which wasn't the best idea, because when I got home and took the pills as described...nothing. Did not help at all. I took one pill every four hours and it just kept right on hurting. My supervsior from the office, Alexa, texted me later in the afternoon to see how I was doing, and I asked her opinion, 'cause she's been going through a lot of teeth problems of her own. She recommended ibuprofen over the Vicodin and I said I'd have to go get some 'cause this just isn't working, but she offered to get me some instead, since I shouldn't be out. So she brought me some Advil and it worked WONDERFULLY! I was pain-free for the first time since that morning, and it was just bliss. She was officially my new best friend, haha.
And it's four days later...and my stupid mouth still hurts. I've been popping Advil and Motrin all week, and it'll work, but then it fades. Alexa said I should be taking it every 4hrs, but that's a lot of pills! I still do it though, and it works until night arrives. The past couple of nights, I've been waking up in the wee hours of the morning with an aching jaw, and I'd have to to stumble to the kitchen and take some more pills. Really sucks, I tells ya. But at least I don't have dry socket! I'll just give it a few more days...sigh... It even hurts now, but I actually took two Vicodin to see if that'll work ('cause I'm almost out of Motrin, haha).
Luckily, like I said, my dental insurance is pretty awesome so I only wound up paying $120 for the visit/procedure. I was able to pay the whole thing off this time around, but said I'd probably have to payment the next one (it should be about the same, they said). Because, somehow, someway, I am HELLA broke right now. My B&N card says I have $0 available credit right now, which creeps me the freak out 'cause I should have more than $100 on it, at least. I'm gonna give it til tomorrow to straighten out, otherwise I'm gonna call and make sure everything's okay. And I had to pay Lance's registration already, which I put on my other card, so my cards are done for at the moment. I finally got my deposit back from the old place (the whole thing, even though it took a frikkin' month and a half to get it (he said the mail lost it and he eventually had to get me a new check, but it still had a date of 1/6 on there, so I'm suspicious, but whatever)), and that whole thing is going to tuition when the last payment is due next month. I also have a whopping cable bill due in two days, but I should be able to take care of everything. I've gotten everything that needs to be paid, paid, at least, so I'm...okay. I just, really, have no money. It's kinda scary, and I really don't like it. I wish I had known the office wanted to move me to full-time before I put in the tutor schedule request, so I could've gotten the best of both worlds, but oh well. I'll do what I can. I'll just have to be careful, and might have to lay off the B&N card and just use my checking account for a while. Boo, but if it's what I've gotta do, I can deal with not earning points for the next few months.
Okay, it's past midnight, so I'm going to bed now. But I'm actually not done updating yet, so here's a list to remind myself of what I wanted to talk about (since we all know my memory sucks):
gym/weight/thyroid?
ex-boy
taxes
movies
books
letters with Anaka
brother
That's all I can think of. I'm sure more will occur tomorrow.
My nails are so long and pretty right now. My hair is getting longer too, and it's still being kept in a French braid, which I'm becoming very adept at now. Pretty too.
I think the Vicodin might be working a little now. My jaw isn't hurting quite as much. Though I really don't understand how House couldn't gotten addicted to them. Gay.
And for the record, I could be having sex right now. Yep, that's right. S-E-X. But considering my mouth hurts, probably best that I'm not. Them's the breaks.
G'night. |
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| another year past |
[Jan. 1st, 2010|10:14 am] |
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| | my couch | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  nauseated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | watching Looney Tunes | ] |
Ahhhh, it's officially 01/01/10. That looks so weird. And the year is so hard to say. It is "two thousand ten" or "twenty ten"? I'm thinking the latter is actually easier to say. That will probably be how I refer to the new decade, at least. Haha, my mind went off on a tangent just then! Was thinking how weird it's going to be to pronounce next century, but then I was like, am I even going to be alive then? Probably not, actually. Haha.
Anyway, yeah. New Year's last night, I actually went out! My parts co-worker, Nena, wound up texting me and we went to a casino. Yes, I am super broke and can't afford it, but whatever. It's New Year's, only happens once a year! And I was planning to buy a coffee and end tables for my new place, so I decided to just take that money and gamble with it. Because I really wanted a drink. Yaaaaay drink.
So get there, and we sit at the tables and I wind up winning like $55! But the cocktail waitress is taking sooooo long, so we decide to go back to Nena's has for some tequila shots. Well, I'd just ordered a drink and decided to wait until it came before leaving. And that was my mistake. We'd lost a few players at the table and my money disappeared so frikkin' fast at that point. I lost $40 and the waitress STILL hadn't come back with my drink, so booooo. Just decided to leave, so collected my chips and we left.
Get to her house, have three tequila shots. Bleeeg. Last time I shot tequila was with the ex-boy, that day oh so long ago. It was actually pretty smooth though, and my face immediately got all red, haha. We hung out at her house for about fifteen minutes, then back to the casino! Where I had a few glasses of free champagne, whoo hoo, and we proceeded to walk around for ten minutes, for some reason. I was actually rather toasty at the time, but I think we were doing it to find Nena's mom. Or something like that. I just remember that, at one point, I had one drink per hand and couldn't decide which to drink first. And that I was having to hold onto Nena's jacket. Haha.
We wound up sitting at 5cent slots at the bar, where service was much faster. Got another drink, and that's when the craving really hit. So I bummed a cigarette from the guy sitting beside me. It was so very lovely. When we were done there, Nena said it looked like I'd been enjoying that cigarette a little too much. Haha, I think I told her it WAS pretty orgasmic. But that was the only one, and I think I felt a little sick to my stomach afterwards. It was still lovely at the time though.
New Year's came and went there, with much less celebration than I was anticipating. Or maybe we were just in the wrong part of the casino, who knows. But it was over and then I somehow managed to make it back to the blackjack tables. Don't know why, and I was so, so very drunk by that time. Managed to lose like another $15, so overall, I lost $7 last night. Which was actually pretty impressive, I guess, considering I was there for about four hours. Would've rather walked away when I was ahead, but eh. What can ya do!
We finally left and, of course, I wasn't driving home, so I stayed over at Nena's. I had to leave Lance at the casino, and I was a little worried about him whenever I was coherent enough to think about it. But not a lot I could do. Got to Nena's house, and listened to them talk a bit, and all of the motion of my eyes going back and forth finally got the best of me, so I visited her toilet. It actually wasn't that bad though, and I drank a lot of water from the sink faucet, then went back to her couch and passed out.
Woke up this morning, and oh my god, I had such a pain in my leg. No idea where it came from or what happened, and I checked the mirror and didn't see a bruise. Nena didn't remember me falling down at any point last night either, so I just chalked it up to a freak feeling, and walked it off. It's actually pretty much gone now, luckily. Yaaaaay. Otherwise, I didn't feel too bad when I woke up. No headache, just a little nausea. It's actually worse right now, as opposed to when I got up. I probably need to eat something, but the thought of food is making me a little sicker. I'll just douse some water, I think.
Overall, it was a very nice evening. Nena agreed, it was fun times all around. She was surprised at how drunk I got and all that, but she said it was funny. Lots of good stuff. I'm glad I went, because when she texted me, I was actually considering going to sleep. Pathetic, I know. Haha. Much better to go out and get drunk on New Year's!
Oh yeah, Wendy texted me last night too. Told her she should come join me at the casino, and I sent her a picture of my boobs, for some reason. Hmmm. She didn't come though, of course. I also drunk called Rhia, but she didn't answer. I think I left her a message of...some coherence. Haha, ahem.
And today, going to really sign paperwork on the new place, get everything settled there. Gonna move in everything that will fit in my car, and Heather's coming over to help this afternoon. Then tomorrow, I'm borrowing the big truck to move furniture, and that will be that! I will officially be moved, whoo hoo! Got the electricity transferred over to me already, and the cable/internet set up to come out on Tuesday. It's weird; I was supposed to have my current place disconnected yesterday, but, as you can see, it's still on! Oh well. Then I just gotta change addresses for all of my bills and what-not. I did put in the post office change of address thing the other day too, which is good. Excited! I was thinking of ways I could arrange my new place last night, before the drinking started.
I'm starting to get a little dizzy now. Weird.
2009 was, as I've said before, the Death Year. Just SOME of the people who died are Patrick Swayze, Edward Kennedy, Don Hewitt, John Hughes, Frank McCourt, Walter Cronkite, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, David Carradine, Dom DeLuise, Bea Arthur, Natasha Richardson, John Updike, Pat Hingle, Claiborne Pell (the Pell Grant!), and those are just names I recognized! The list is more than twice as long as that in actuality. And not to mention just regular people who died throughout the year. Quite sad, really.
Alright, I'm actually starting to feel sicker, so I'm going to go have some water and crackers. And I actually really need to take a shower. I stink. Ew. |
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| another christmas past |
[Dec. 25th, 2009|11:39 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Heather's couch | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | watching Penelope | ] |
Ahhhh, another year, another Christmas. Another day! Haha, yeah.
Last night at Heather's. It hasn't been too bad, though the first morning really kicked my ass. Got here Wednesday night and they'd already taken care of most of the animals; just had to feed the chickens and put them in the coop for the night. I go out and they're in their coop, but their water bowl is frozen solid. Had to break it open and refill their food bowl and by the time I bring those back, they've decided to come out of the coop. And then refuse to go back inside. I spent a good 5-10mins chasing them around a tree, trying to herd them back inside. When I went to pick one up to stuff it in, they'd flap their wings and dodge. I was unimpressed and thinking this was not a good start, but they eventually went back in and I got them all locked up tight. Thursday morning, come out, and their water bowl is frozen again. And, on top of that, ALL of the horses' water bowls are frozen too. I managed to kick a good sized hole in them, as I wasn't sure how long it wasn't going to take me to break it all and I had to go to work, and I decided to take the chickens' bowl inside and run hot water over it to get it thawed. And that's when I discovered...I locked myself out of the house. With the keys inside.
At that point, the only thing in my mind was, Shit! I'm so screwed. Even my phone is inside. So very screwed. But, I prevailed; I pushed the door really hard and it popped open, haha. Turns out it doesn't close very well unless it's slammed, and I hadn't slammed it. Go me! So I got them all fed and watered and off to work! Only to slip on some ice on the way to my car, and complete ass-plant. My leg had crossed beneath me somehow, so I wound up sitting on my ankle for a second, thinking, huh. This morning has really sucked so far.
But got in my car and off to my four-hour work day, which was fine. The wife of one of the techs made all sorts of delicious goodies and I ate quite a bit of fudge, mmm-mmm. Then I went home, packed up some stuff, then back to Heather's and I've been here since! It hasn't been nearly as bad as that first morning, but oh my god, every frikkin' time I go out there, the stupid horse buckets are frozen. I found a shovel in the tack room and I spend like half an hour just breaking the stupid ice. My arms are so sore! I don't know how she does it twice a day, EVERY DAY. I'd go crazy. I cheated this morning, and didn't fill them completely so the sun would hit the ice and melt it a little so it'd be easier to break. Really. It worked wonderfully on one, not so much on the other. Boo.
And I keep injuring my fingers here. Well, actually, the same finger. It's so sad looking, and it bleeds like a mofo. Booooo.
Still, overall, it's fine. I've done laundry, I watched movies I've wanted to and haven't been able to yet (Public Enemies and Inkheart, which I'm sad to say both sucked), and I've had glorious food. And, on top of that, Heather and her sister got me a B&N gift card for $40. How amazing is that? I don't have a lot of friends, but the ones I do have are pretty awesome. And since they got me that for doing practically nothing (sore arms aside), I cleaned their house. Just the public areas, and mostly focusing on the kitchen. I always get that urge when I'm here anyway, just 'cause they ALWAYS have dishes in the sink, so I finally got to wash them all, haha! And I deep-cleaned their counters, I'm going to sweep the floor and the bathroom floor, then vacuum the living room and foyer. I think that'll be good. Gonna finish up tomorrow before I leave.
Penelope is still a shockingly cute movie, I have to admit. Such a hot kissing scene! Everytime I watch it, I have to rewind it a few times just for that scene.
Anyway. I was very bad, and spent $850 at Best Buy last week. Got a microwave, an actual TV stand, Fear, the 12th season of the Simpsons, and the 5th season of House. Then I got my mom and stepdad some TV seasons they wanted, aaaaaand, I got my brother a PS3. Yes, I did. I'm such a sucker when it comes to my brother. I wound up telling him a few days before that I fully intended to get him one, and he actually called me up and told me not to spend that much on him. We talked back and forth and he said, bottom line, he'd absolutely love one but he'll love anything I get him regardless of the price. I think it was his guilt talking, because he told me that most I could expect is a card, 'cause he's broke broke broke. But he did promise me a big blow-out birthday this year, so we'll see.
But I got him that, because I didn't know what else. I'm still a very mean person anyway. He'd mentioned that I could just get him a bag of candy and he'd be happy, and it turns out I'd actually gotten him one before the whole PS3 thing started. So I packaged that with my mom and stepdad's presents, and wrote on the card that he said he wanted a bag of candy, so that's what he got. And I mailed all of it together one day. And then I mailed the PS3 separately, the next day. According to the post office, they should arrive about a day apart, which is what I was hoping. So he'll get to squirrrrrrm, hahahahaa! If only I could be there, to see the disappointment on his face when that first package arrives. 'Cause I fully expect an all-caps text when he gets his game, haha. I'm excited for him to receive it! I like giving presents.
They called me up today too, to wish me a merry Christmas and all that. My mom asked if I've gotten an email from my dad, which I haven't. Oh well. She texted me afterwards too to ask if I'd gotten my card yet. I have not, but now I'm somewhat excited while trying not to get my hopes up. I figure she'd only ask if there's money in it, and I'm curious as to how much. I'm thinking very low, due to everything she's done for me this year and the stepdad's job situation (though I haven't heard anything about that, so who knows), but anything helps. 'Cause I'm still broke as all get out, and my check is gonna be depressingly low this time around. I'm still waiting on my last check from the school though, so that'll help too. We'll just have to see!
I've gotten quite a bit of stuff moved into my new place now. Finally took down my DVD shelves, which were making me nervous because I'm going to try to get my full deposit back and those caused a lot of holes in the wall. I got some spackling stuff from Wal-Mart though, and it wasn't too hard to fill them in. I just need to get some sandpaper and touch-up paint and I think it'll actually be good. I've gotten all of my movies moved over, and their furniture, and now I'm going to work on books probably tomorrow. It's sad, but that's most of my stuff right there, haha. And I was glancing over the electricy company's webpage, and the deposit my landlord mentioned is mentioned on there, saying that it's required when the first bill is due, which is cool. Hopefully that won't be til mid to end January. I'd feel better financially if that's the case.
The office truck has been having some serious problems lately, just starting, which makes me nervous for moving next weekend. If worse comes to worse, I'll just rent a UHaul, but I really hope it's okay for moving. Need to save money! Tra la la la.
I'm taking the Sunday after New Year's off from B&N, so I will actually have a three day weekend! Wow! I really don't know what I'm going to do with myself. I'm thinking of going out with Diana and them to party, which is in direct contrast to the last sentence of the previous paragraph, I know. But I saw her yesterday and she said they're looking at really cheap places to go to, so we'll see. Maybe, if my mom sent me a goodly amount of money, I'll be bad and go out. Otherwise, I'll just start organizing my new place. Mwaha.
Good lord, my right arm hurts. Blech.
Alright, that's it. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight! |
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| yeeeaaaah |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|10:38 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | my couch | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  geeky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | watching Food Network Challenge | ] |
Yeah baby! Got my grades back: ALL A's! Yeah! Haven't gotten that since I began at TMCC; even my first semester, I got an A- in Spanish. This semester, all pure A's. Scooooore. Guess being a teacher's pet really does pay off, haha. I'm curious about what I actually got on my final, but not enough to dig. Got an A, that's all that matters.
Yeah!
Otherwise, life's good. Job is still fine, although there was mild drama on Friday at the office job. The boss was engaged to one of his employees, the woman who does A/P and payroll, but apparently they got into a big fight and now she's no longer allowed in the building and no longer works for the company. Which means, I'm guessing, that the engagement is off. I don't know details; wasn't told, didn't ask, don't wanna know, quite frankly. Nothing to do with me, but it sucks for the woman, as she no longer has a fiancee OR a job. Haha. Main reason not to get that involved with a co-worker, ESPECIALLY the boss. I just hope it doesn't affect his attitude or anything.
Still learning the service department. Going well, I think. Won't really know until the service chick goes on vacation the week after Christmas, before New Year's. That Monday, both girls are off, so I'm going to be seriously all by myself. Kinda nervous, kinda meh. I'll do it, and the day will pass, and that will be all. Whatever happens, I'll handle it and move on. Yeeeaaah. Great attitude, yes? That's the way it is.
I'm still a bit confuzzled, as two of my classes next semester are still saying no books necessary. Mmmhmmm. We'll see.
Going tomorrow to buy Christmas presents for the fam, and some stuff for my new place. I sent them all a mass text informing them of the Best Buy presents this year, and told them if they wanted anything in particular, let me know. My brother promptly replied, "PlayStation 3! 55" LD TV!" Then when I asked him for anything more reasonable, "iPhone!" Haha, a funny guy, my brother. I asked him what he'd do if I actually got him one of those things, and he assured me he'd love me forever. When asked if his love for me depends on if I buy him shiny things, he said of course not, but it wouldn't hurt. Hahahahaa. I didn't tell him that I'm actually considering it, and I shall not. But I am. My mom and stepdad never replied, so I'm just going to have to get them random things. We'll see, I guess. I might text them again tomorrow morning, 'cause I really have no idea what to get them.
I wish Best Buy had more general "for home" stuff, 'cause, as it turns out, I am SUPER broke. Not entirely sure how it happened, but there ya go. Even with working full time this paycheck, I don't think it's going to be enough to do much. I'm not sure if I'm getting any money from my mom, and I'm not expecting anything from anyone else. Luckily, I did deferred payment for next semester, so I don't have to pay anything there until the beginning of March. And I got a coupon for a free oil change for Lance. And I'm getting to use the truck from work to move, so I don't have to worry about renting a UHaul. Just have to worry about Lance's registration, due at the beginning of February, and making sure everything goes well with the new place.
Speaking of which, got the key to it today! Whoo hoo! He was going to do a couple of things today, but I should be able to start moving in stuff tomorrow. Whoo hoo! So very excited. The only thing is that he mentioned that, to turn on my electricity, the electric company might require some sort of deposit, which makes me nervous. Due to the whole broke thing. But, we'll see. I still have a little money on my credit card, if necessary.
And, starting next year, no money shall be spent! I will focus all semester on just paying off my debt. Oh yeah.
This has all come at good times though, 'cause I actually got an email from the old boy a few days ago. He's moving, and told me I had stuff still in storage, and that he needed the building key back. Went and got my stuff today, and returned the key, which means I have no accessible laundry facilities anymore. Saaaaaad. But I did laundry at Heather's today, and next week is taken care of already, and then the next week I should be moved into my new place. So it all works out quite well! The old boy and I chatted for a few minutes, then moved on. No lingering feelings there, haha.
As for next week, settled on housesitting for Heather. Gonna be Wednesday night through Saturday, actually, 'cause her roommate is apparently coming home a day early. Which is fine. She took my grocery shopping tonight and I got lots of goodies, whoo hoo. And since we're only having a half day at the office on Christmas Eve, it's gonna be nice and relaxing. Looking forward to it. I plan to take the first season of Tru Calling, which I've yet to watch, and also my present from Rhia, the second season of Dark Angel. Whoo hoo! Those should keep me entertained for a while, at least. And I'm looking forward to the food I got, haha.
One thing that also sucks about being broke though is that I'm not sure I can take time off in January if my mom does really come visit. Which would suck for her. I'm still not sure if she will though, due to it being so cold and all. But we'll see.
Finally, as I'm sure you were wondering, my new addiction is still going strong. In the form of a new collab with Rhia. Haha. Just couldn't resist. Wonderland. I go back and forth on liking the layout, but I do quite love the collab. It has so much potential and is just so much fun!
Ahhhh, it's great being a geek.
Yeeeeeaaaaah.
Going away now. |
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[Dec. 15th, 2009|06:28 pm] |
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Doot doot.
I have to say, the commercials where there is personified food getting eaten kinda creep me out. Like the goldfish and Chips O'Hoy commercials, where the fish swim around and interact, and so do the cookies. Then they get eaten. Quite disturbing.
Anyway! I'm enjoying my break so very much already. I'm working 8a-5p at the office job, which hasn't been too bad so far. I'm learning how to do the service part of the office, which is a little blah, but needful. Though I got the first smirch on my reputation last week. When the service chick called out, everyone just frikkin' freaked out. So she wound up emailing me, and we continued to do so through the day, and we mentioned how everyone was freakin' out that she was gone and everything was kinda falling apart. Well, after I left, my supervisor apparently opened my email and found those messages, and took it to the big boss. I got called in the next day and a talking to from both of them, about how they didn't want to have this kind of goings-on in the work place and they'd been through this before and if I don't like my co-workers, I should quit. Though they firmly said they didn't want me to go, and said I should just steer clear from these kinds of situations in the future. Which, overall, seemed like an over-reaction in and of itself. We didn't say anything specifically bad, just that people seemed to be over-reacting for nothing. But whatever. It hasn't really affected anything since, so we'll just keep going.
My goal to read a book a day has not been met yet. It doesn't help that I spent $148 at B&N on Sunday, the last day of employee appreciation. Eek. But now I have so many lovely books to read, and I'm rather excited about sitting down and reading! And it's so nice to just have the one job to do every day, then I get to come home. I was right, too; due to the time I get off from the office job now, by the time I get home, the parking spaces are pretty open. Whoo hoo.
Haven't done the walk through of the new place, I think mostly because of the snow since the landlord lives up in Truckee. But he called me yesterday and we're going to try to do it sometime this week. I got some boxes from work and am going to start moving stuff over when I get the key. Whoo hoo!
Still planning to housesit for Heather next week, over Christmas. Gonna be for like four days, Wednesday night to Sunday morning. Not really looking forward to it, but I'll get to do laundry there, so that's good. And she's going to take me food shopping for what I want stocked in their kitchen while I'm there, yay. So not a big deal.
Oh my, well, probably the biggest thing going on at the moment is a new collab with my whelp. And yes, it is based on Alice. Naturally. I got her as addicted to it as I am and it just spiraled from there. So much fun! I do love my Hatter. And it's so much fun finding Wonderlanders, 'cause the picture selection is very wide, haha.
Doot doot. Love me some Simpsons. Especially with Taco Bell. Mmmhmmm.
Going to read now. |
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[Dec. 10th, 2009|07:23 pm] |
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It's over. The whole semester is over.
Happy sigh.
Well, mostly. The Spanish final toinght wasn't exactly hard, but there was a big portion of it that I totally bombed. Stupid conjugations, go away! But I've made solid A's and only a few B's on everything else in the class, and the rest of my tests averaged out to an 89.5, so I'm hoping I'll still pull off my A-. It helps that I'm a total teacher's pet in this class; she hugged me at the end tonight, haha. But if it gets me my A-, that's just fine! Won't find out until next Friday, when grades become available, but that's fine. I'm just glad it's over.
I became very, very irritated today, over a topic much-treaded on here. Came home to do some studying before school, and guess what? Yeah, no parking spaces! The stupid street that I shoveled myself had been overrun by stupid fuckers who could not respect that that's the ONLY PLACE I HAVE TO PARK! Can they not read the sign that says "reserved"!? So I wound up parking on the actual street, flipping on my emergency lights, running in to get my backpack, then headed to school a solid two hours early. Which was fine, for tonight. But what about tomorrow? It wasn't such a big huge deal before the snow, because there's an area a little ways further on the street where I can park. But now there's snow, and that area has not been plowed, and LIKE HELL I am shoveling it myself. I'm also not going to put Lance in danger of getting stuck again, so I'm screwed. S-C-R-E-W-E-D. Honestly, I've even thought of riding my bike, now that school's over, just so I don't have to move my car. But it's 5 degrees out there in the morning, and I don't want to ride my bike over snow. So, see above (the screwed part, yeah). Because when I get off work at 230 tomorrow, and come home to nowhere to park...yeah, what do I do!?
I've actually considered seeing if I can just stay the whole day tomorrow, and get off at 5p. 'Cause most of the people who park on the street are civil workers, and they get off at 5p too, so I should have free spaces by the time I get home. But I was so excited about the thought of having a short, easy, FREE day tomorrow! I don't know. I'll see. Or maybe I'll get off early and go to B&N to spend my gift card. Mmmmm, gift card.
Anyway.
Semester's over!
And I'm succumbed; I can't wait until Sunday, so I'm going to watch Alice on youtube. I'm such a dork. And why do they always make mystical, magical, foreign people sound...British? Is that the standard magical accent?
Can't wait to move!
Oh yeah, at least I now have running water! Whoo hoo! |
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[Dec. 9th, 2009|08:45 pm] |
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| | watching The Nightmare Before Christmas | ] |
It has been an interesting few days.
Got my CH final done, finally. Except when I try to access my online class to submit, it doesn't come up. Freaks me out. But it's okay, not due til midnight so I have a little while. But I'd still just like to submit it and be DONE with this class, oy. I'm done with pretty much everything else, just got the Spanish final tomorrow. Haha, psych last night was pretty cool, actually. Due the insanely cold weather, I was hope hope hoping that most of the class wouldn't show up, the teacher would give credit to those who DID show up, and we'd get to go home. And guess what? That's exactly what he did! So cool. Yeah, I'm really quite sad I didn't get to present my dream, boo hoo, haha. And I did wind up staying an hour, 'cause he did a demonstration of hypnosis that was sadly quite boring. But still got home early and all was well.
Alas, you must take the good with the bad. Lance sounds like he's made of glass and he's going to break apart sometimes. And I actually had to borrow a shovel from the office job to shovel the street, so I could park him without a problem. But that wasn't a huge deal; I got a good work out! My muscles are kinda sore. No, the biggest problem is when I woke up this morning, and had no running water. Not the sink, not the shower. So I was gross all day, but hoping that, as the day warmed up, so would my pipes. Get home and, yeah, not so much. Everything is still not working, and that includes my frikkin' toilet! Quite sucks. Called Heather to see what I could do, and talked to her sister, who soundly told me to call my landlord. Since everything's frozen and I have NO idea where the pipes actually are, I have little choice in the matter. So called him up, and he said he'd be here...approximately 1hr10mins ago. Called him again about twenty minutes ago, and he said he was running behind and should be here soon. Boo. Heather's sister said I should come stay with them, and depending when landlord gets here, I still might have to. Really need to take a shower, haha.
I'm getting tired too, and would like to go to bed sometime in the near future. Sigh.
I watched the second part of Alice again last night, and was quite excited to see the whole series comes on again on Sunday. Am I going to watch it? Yes, yes I think I will. I'm such a dork, but it's actually kinda addicting. I found myself looking for fanfic on it, and read a rather terrible one that put me off, but the fact that I did it is quite telling. I don't typically read fanfic, unless it's my own or a close friend's. But there ya go. Hatter was just adorable.
Finished tutoring today. My final session turned out to be two hours long, good grief. And she's not going to have the new schedule up til mid-January, she said, which kinda sucks. I was hoping end of December, but oh well. I'm going back to one day at B&N, and today, the office job actually asked if I'd like to go full-time in the future. I'm thinking about it. The money would be nice, and then I'd be good with one day at B&N forever, but that would cut into tutoring time. I told her, depending on the scheduling next semester, we might not be able to explore that possibility into next summer. She said that's fine, so we'll see. Possibilities, baby!
Still planning to do the walk-through and get paperwork signed for the new place this weekend. Which also makes me feel awkward about calling my landlord right now, since I'm planning to move so soon, but yeah, kinda need running water. Had to brush my teeth with my water bottle this morning. Anyway, still excited to move!
Yawn. Really quite tired. And I've noticed, I've used the word "quite" rather often lately, eh? Weird.
Also. It was -2 degrees when I went to work yesterday.
That is all. |
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[Dec. 7th, 2009|11:26 pm] |
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| | watching Alice | ] |
Whoo, got a snow day! Since it snowed approximately 12+ish hours straight over the past two days, the office job closed early and school was closed. Unfortunately, neither of those affected me today, since I leave the office job early anyway and no school on Monday, BUT! B&N also closed early! They closed at 5p this evening, and since I go in at 330, my boss called and said don't even worry about coming it. I was super excited. And it was so very pretty, watching the snow all day.
I didn't even have any trouble with it, until I was on my way home. Then I tried to pull over on the street to park, where the road had been plowed, and poor Lance got stuck over a pile of snow. I swear, I spent 45mins trying to get him free. Sucked. And cold. So very cold. Now he's kinda parked cock-eyed out on the street, but oh well. It's fine! And it's still all nice and white and pretty outside, so we're all good.
Anyhow, you'd think that with all of this free time this evening, I would've done all of my homework. Cough. Not so much. I took a nice three hour nap, and I have officially started my CH final, but that's about it. I'll do my Spanish tomorrow, and finish my CH, and that'll be fine. It's not supposed to snow again til later this week, so I should be able to get to all of my classes. Three days from now, I'll be done! Whoo hoo!
The main reason for my not doing my homework tonight is actually because I've spent four hours watching Alice, the new miniseries on SyFy. I watched the first episode last night, and wound up staying up til 1a doing so, and was so intrigued I watched it all over again tonight, plus the new episode. I quite like it, actually. The idea in general is catchy, the way they've played it out is very interesting, and the romantic subplot is actually quite cute. I do quite like Hatter, even if I think he's wearing eyeliner. Some of his remarks have just been "awwwww!" worthy, haha. And I always crack a smile when he echoes Alice's many "no"s.
I'm looking forward to it coming to DVD, and I shall likely buy it right off. One of the times I wish I had DVR. But it's actually playing again right now, and I'm ridiculously tempted to sit up and watch it again! But I should really go to bed. Unless, unless, I actually really finish my CH final. Let's see if I can strike a deal with myself... |
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[Dec. 6th, 2009|04:39 pm] |
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| | watching Spongebob Squarepants | ] |
Only one more week left of school! Whoo hoo! Though I've actually already finished my IS class, and I just have to do one more group presentation in psych on Tuesday. So, really, all I need to worry about is two essays and final quiz due in CH, and last written assignment and comprehensive final in Spanish. All in all, my only real worry is Spanish. Eek. But it's okay; I feel pretty confident about the test we had Thursday, so I'm thinking I might be able to pull off my A in that class. Very excited.
Today, I'm going to try to finish all of my CH and get the written assignment for Spanish out of the way. Considering it's just past 4p, I actually feel pretty good about it. I'm not going to allow myself to procrastinate, is all. Straight to it, yeah. Haha.
Went to the eye doctor yesterday. I love going to the eye doctor. The only doctor I actually enjoy visiting, because I love how much better I can see afterwards! Usually quite amazing. But yesterday was quite impressive too. I got insurance through the office job, so I was browsing through the doctors that accept insurance, and the one I decided to go to turns out to be where Wendy's husband works! What a coincidence. I remembered him saying how nice and awesome his employers are too, so I thought it worked out well. Turns out very well, since my vision insurance apparently only gave me a $5 discount on the eye exam. Haha. It had everyone in the office cracking up, I swear. (it's actually a discount program, instead of real insurance, but whatever.) So they wound up giving me a %25 discount off everything, which was cool. And, I haven't worn contacts in a very, very long time. They were kind of pushing that at me, for some reason, but it was okay, didn't really bother me. I finally said okay, I'd do a trial run, and the doctor wound up giving me a pair of contacts to wear until my glasses are ready! My new prescription, free of charge, which I thought was pretty amazing. And it's interesting wearing contacts again. It makes my face feel so open and bare, boo. And things can get blurry when I look sideways, but it is quite convenient and they don't fog up like my glasses, haha. But I'll be happy when my glasses are ready. Actually got tortoiseshell frames this time around, as Wendy's hubby said they looked good and they seem to go with everything. We'll see!
Also went to the new place yesterday. We didn't sign paperwork, since we'd have to do a walk-through and apparently another tenant had his stuff in the place for some reason or another, so we just went over the lease in more detail and I put down half of the deposit. Planning to get back together this weekend (once school's over, yay!!) and actually get everything signed and taken care of. Then he's gonna give me the key and I'm gonna start being able to move stuff in. I'm looking forward to it! Can't wait to have so much more space.
Except, it does kinda suck. I was tallying it up, and $14 a month for laundry turns into a solid $168 a year. Which is a lot! Dang. Thinking that kinda made me cringe, and wonder what else I could be doing with that money, but still. It's worth it to have easily accessible laundry facilities, I say. Saves me gas!
It also kinda sucks that electricity is not included, for the heater, because we got the first real snow of the year today! It was so lovely, looking out of the windows at B&N and seeing it fall. Everyone else was groaning, and Lance did do a little sliding on the way home, but it's still quite lovely. My mom texted me the other day about how it was actually snowing in Texas, so I sent her a picture of snow-covered Lance and asked, "want to talk about snow?" Haha, I amuse myself. But anyway, yes, hella cold. I have the heater going full-blast right now, mwaha. I do have many, many blankets I can use though, so it'll even out.
Also looking forward to my shopping spree at Best Buy, and at B&N! Planning to do B&N next weekend, when I don't have homework to do and can take my time on Sunday when I get off. Best Buy, I'm not so sure about; maybe next weekend, maybe the following. I did wind up spending like $365 at the doctor's yesterday, so I'm hesitant to start spending at these places for fear I'll go over limits and have to pay more money (mostly just at B&N, haha). But we'll see. I think it'll work out.
I signed up for Secret Santa at B&N, I don't think I mentioned before, and I got my first gift today. Haha, a water bottle filled with Hershey's kisses. Which is just too awesome, because I really need a reusable bottle, and I'm just too cheap to buy one for myself. So now I have one! I was honestly quite touched by it, as sad as that is. And I felt a little bad, 'cause I forgot my giftee's gift at home. Oops. But I'll take it tomorrow and it'll be fine. It's hard trying to keep this a secret, 'cause there's only like 10 people working in the cafe, so it's pretty easy to figure out, I think. Oh well, I'll still play.
Also, office job has offered me full-time hours over the holidays. I think it's only for a few weeks, which is cool. Gives me extra money, then a couple of more weeks with more free time before school starts. I told B&N today, and she's cool with me just going back to Sunday mornings for the time being. We agreed that other people could use the hours, rather than me. I also told her my tentative plans for next semester, and she seemed open to it; told me to keep her posted. So just waiting to hear back about the schedule for next semester, and I think I'll be set there. I'm also going to do the deferred payment for school next semester, so I only have to pay half of the tuition at the beginning and the other half mid-way through, and the first half will be covered by my scholarship, so I think I'll be okay money-wise there. And I was looking at the books for next semester's classes, and two said "no books required," which would be cool, but I'm thinking not so much. I'll wait a little while and check again, just to make sure.
Oh! I completely forgot about something too, about my new place, until the landlord brought up it up yesterday. The craigslist ad I saw said "$200 off already reduced apartment," which I took to mean it used to be $670 and now got knocked down to $470. But, actually, no! It means, for January and February's rents, I get $100 off! So for those two months, I'll actually only be paying $370. How completely awesome is that? I was quite excited. Especially because Lance's registration is due the beginning of February, so that'll help a lot. Oh yeah.
I was just going to say something, and totally forgot. Hmmm...
Oh yeah. I actually sent (ridiculously early) Christmas cards to my dad and grandmother. Yes, I do have that inner hope that it will elicit some Christmas money in the cards they send back, but I will always lean towards that realism. Otherwise, it was just fun. I'm also gonna try to send one to my aunts (if I can get their addresses), and possibly my uncle. We'll see. I got my brother's birthday card already done, and he was quite touched to get it (he said he shed a little tear while reading it, awwwww), and my immediate family isn't really into cards, so I'm not worrying about that. Don't even know where my other grandmother is, haha. So that about takes care of that.
I hate when my computer erases all of my been-to websites. Actually quite annoying.
LJSanta has been assigned and I'm looking forward to my project. Waiting until school's over, so I can devote some real time to it, and I will be marvelously happy.
My hair's been getting French braided every day, and I'm getting quite deft at it, like I wanted. It's still not the most beautiful job ever done, but it works! One thing I'd forgotten about my long hair though; I shed. A LOT. Hair everywhere, worse than a frikkin' cat. Even keeping it in the French braid does not help, because it stills comes out. Stupid hair. But it's fine. Whatever. Still looks nice.
Okay, I think I'm actually going to lay down for a little nap right quick. Mmmmm, nap. |
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