• 24Jun 09

  Slowly Inching Forward

  Went to family gathering last week for Father's Day and my niece's birthday. She is so cute!!!! The rest of the weekend was kind of blah. I spent the last couple hours before leaving doing a 16x16 sudoku. I have yet to finish one completely but am still trying.

  Bills continue to increase as money continues to dwindle. I got my phone bill from my trip. I knew it would be higher than normal but didn't think anything of it. Luckily, all my calls were covered since I called my area. All the calls my friend made all across the country aren't. It is over $300, about 5 times the normal. Which brings the money she owes me to a total of about $600.

  I have to pay rent, the phone bill and now my state taxes with my next check which they will barely cover. My student loan sharks finally tracked me down and called me at work no less. If I don't send a payment of $25 a month within the next 20 days they will start garnishing my wages. If I could afford to just throw away $300 a year I would have started paying ages ago. I still haven't payed any of my other bills in the last month and a half and now I have to pay an out of state tax since I don't work where I live.

  But yay! I will be getting a $125 company bonus next month. It will help a little but I doubt after I get those big 3 paid I will have nothing left over for 4th of July. And my siblings want to throw a suprise party for mother's birthday (July 14th). My car brakes still haven't been fixed and they have needed it for over a month and have noticeably started to sound worse. I'm broke as he77, I can't afford to do any of that. And as an even bigger tease, TVDVD are on sale every where!

  • Posted Jun 24, 2009 4:06 pm PT
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• 28May 09

  Real Life Surrealism

  My vacation could have gone better. I spent five days in Florida. Most people in their lives can't say that and this was my second trip there. But anyway, those five days were dominated by this girl (and I say that because at 27 she was most definately NOT mature) who thought everything was about her. No job, money or prospects. Slept with guys to pay her phone that she was NEVER off. Had to go to the bar every night. Bummed cigarettes from the world at large. Our mutual friend (who was moving and needed to pack) had to spend every free second worried about what ms. thang wanted. Over five days I saw a movie (can do that at home), swam in a pool (ditto), saw the LOST finale (tritto), and swam in the ocean (YAY! that was my big thing I had to do). Everything else was focused on packing and getting ms. thang gone because she was not going cross country with me. But I made some new friends in Travis and Caleb and was reintroduced to someone I had briefly met before in Lulu.

  New Orleans is AWESOME. I went to Bourbon st. on a Thursday and it was nuts. My friend and I met this guy named MJ. His first day he got mugged and then, the 2nd was his birthday. We adopted him fot the rest of the night. And the hotel bed's were so COMFORTABLE. It is just off Charles St. and I HIGHLY recomend it.

  In Texas we started to get a little cabin fever. The money she was supposed to have for the trip ran out and I had to pay for her moving (why not, I already had to put the truck in my name. Don't ask.) The second hotel was disgusting. My only joy was the pit stop in Odessa. I had 'Heroes' running all through my head for ... disappointment. No offense to any natives but from what little I saw there wasn't much going on.

  Not until San Diego was I beginning to feel like I was on vacation. But my friend never mentioned that they (or more specifically, her husband) was paying for my ticket home. I had to tell him about the rest of the finances. Still no word on wether they're gonna pay me the $400 I spent trafficing their belongings cross country. But in the end, I did end up getting a Blue Lantern shirt and got a total of 5 of the DC figures I wanted.

  It has been over a week and it still feels weird being home. It feels just wrong, especially in little things like wearing long pants instead of shorts. But my dvd collection continues to bulge. I am currently watching Wonder Woman Season 3, Star Trek the animated Series, Law & Order SVU season 5, My Name is Earl season 3 and Thundercats Season 1 Volume 1. I am waiting to rewatch Mile High Season 1 again because when I start it I become obsessed and cannot be disturbed for anything else. I also have Big Love Season 1 and That 70's Show Season 4 ready for whenever. And I picked up the special edition of Galaxy Quest. For bluray I upgraded Justice League Season 1, got the remastered Star Trek Season 1, and Quantum of Solace (got for $20, the double disc dvd with the exact same special features was 25. which would you have chosen?)

  • Posted May 28, 2009 4:43 pm PT
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• 22Apr 09

  Upcoming Plans

  Things have been moving along pretty well for the most part. Finances are getting more under control due to lack of spending. But I'll be honest it is due to less products out on the market I want to get (SOMEBODY GET IT IN THERE HEAD PEOPLE WANT THE NEW DC SUPERHEROES FIGURES! 8, COUNT THEM 8, TOY WAVES HAVE COME OUT AND NOBODY HAS THEM!!!!!!!!)

  Anyway, I am going on vacation. I haven't had one in five years. Ten whole days (with pay for the work days) off of peace. I'm going to Florida in a couple weeks, which is where I took my last vacation to see my high school best friend. But unlike last time (where hurricanes kept me trapped for months and then I had to take a bus home), things are looking up. She is moving to the west coast where her husband's family lives and he has already gone on. I'll get to spend a few days enjoying the sun and fun and then ... ROAD TRIP! We are loading up a small uhaul and heading to San Diego. Originally she was going to come home to Illinois with me for a few days before going on solo, but since it is going to be part of my vacation her father-in-law is paying for my flight back home.

  We already plan on spending a few hours in both New Orleans and Las Vegas, not to mention a pit stop at the Grand Canyon. Other than that the open road beckons. I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE driving in big cities. And she wants to tow her car cross country. So I most definately know that there are going to be complications (not once has she mentioned how sleeping arrangements are going to happen either). Luckily my boss is cool about it and desperately wants me to take the time I haven't used in 2 years of working for him. And if things do go wrong, I technically have 3 weeks of leave saved. I might be discovered when I hit Califiornia. You never know.

  • Posted Apr 22, 2009 2:53 pm PT
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