Now I finally get the chance to blog.
Now that Thanksgiving is over and my mom has gone back to South Carolina, I can sit down and blog. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving; mine could have been better but I won’t spend a lot of time complaining about it. The main issue was stress over the financial situation and having run out of money that I had saved up to pay the rent for December. See, I get financial aid from school and what was left over after paying my tuition and books was to go towards housing – that’s what financial aid is used for, tuition/books and housing and anything else school related.
I had put aside the money I needed from my return into my savings account and that total covered August – December rent at $560/month. I had it all saved and then come November, I still had the rent money but I didn’t have any extra to pay my car my payment. My mom told me to go ahead and pay November rent and use the extra money I had (money which was to be used for December rent) to pay my car payment well that ended up screwing me up in the end because it left me with no December rent OR December car payment…
Luckily, my grand parents were nice enough to lend me the money to pay my car payment for December which is something I hate because I NEVER, and I emphasize that to the max, ask for help or money of any sorts from anyone…not even my mom. It stresses me out when I feel like I have to resort to asking for help because so many times people have made me feel like I shouldn’t but it’s okay for everyone else to do so. I take pride in being able to pay things on my own without asking for help from anyone but this time around, I needed it and they agreed to do that for me. So with the car payment out of the way, that still left the December rent which I had no idea how I was going to pay. Luckily, my mom talked to the property manager and with her being a property manager herself and him being really nice they worked out a deal – I could pay half now and the rest by the end of the money. Not only that but I can wait until January 12th to pay my January months rent because I won’t get my return from school for the spring semester until then.
Sure, it’ll all work out in the end but I was so stressed out about it because 1) I don’t have the money or the job to get the money and 2) neither does anyone else! My mom and I argued a few days while she was here which didn’t make things any better but in the end, I did enjoy her visiting and wish she could have stayed longer. Hopefully, she’ll move back out here come next year. Aside from Thanksgiving, I haven’t been up to much. I’m in the last two weeks of classes with finals being the week before Christmas – technically, I have 3 weeks left but only two of those weeks are actual class meetings with the 3rd week being all exams.
I called Old Navy today and set up an appointment to speak with the manager tomorrow evening about possibly working at the store here; the reason I didn’t transfer at the beginning of the semester was because she told my manager in SC that she wouldn’t take me unless I was staying through the holidays and at that point, I had planned on going home for Christmas. With finances being really tight, I decided to give it a shot and if she’d take me, I’d stay here for Christmas and work during the holiday season and hopefully, be set after the holidays since I’d have a job. Of course, if she only plans to hire me at her store as seasonal help then I don’t know if I’ll take it because I’m not a seasonal employee, I’m a regular part time employee who is still on payroll at my old store. But with Alan coming down over Christmas break, it may be smart to work there even if she’s only willing to take me for the Christmas season just to have the extra money. We’ll see how it goes. If it doesn’t work out, I’ll just keep applying to every place in town…
Tags: Family, Holidays, Job, Money, Thanksgiving
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Money is incredibly frustrating I definitely agree. I’m glad that the situation was able to be worked out though and I hope you can get a job now.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I hate stressing out about money, because it feels like 99% of the time there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. I’m glad everything seems to be working out okay though!
Stupid question: do you ever feel bad about using your financial aid money to pay for living? I don’t get much money from the government, but I do have private student loans (to pay for books, tuition, gas money, etcetera), and I feel so bad sometimes about using that money for things other than my tuition.