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Random rants about random things.

Jan 11

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It’s been a couple of days since Alan left to go home and I’ve been doing better than expected. I figured I’d feel sad all day and want to cry the majority of the time, but I’ve had none of that. I am sure that sleeping all day because my sleep schedule is so screwed up has taken my mind off those things, though. I’m almost positive that in time things will get to the point where I’ll want to cry but right now, I’m fine being by myself; I went from finishing finals on the 18th of Dec. to flying to SC for Christmas on the 19th, was around my family for a week and a half with no personal time to myself, flew back to KS on the 29th and was picking Alan up that same evening – I was ready to be by myself for awhile even though I hate being alone.

My first day of work is tomorrow and I’m looking forward to it. I’m curious as to exactly what I’ll be doing since my boss didn’t really tell me; I know I have a lot of paper work to fill out so I suspect that the majority of the day will be spent doing that. My financial aid is also suppose to be deposited into my bank account tomorrow as well – this I’m really looking forward too. As of right now, I have about $1200 in bills that need to be paid which only one of those is late (my car payment)…I’m ready to get caught up on things, I hate being behind. I’m also ready to start saving money up again for the things that I want and need and to be able to do things without having to worry about not having money for food and gas.

Did I mention that Alan and I started playing WoW again? Yeah, no thanks to a cousin of his buying him WotLK for his birthday without knowing that he didn’t play anymore. I upgraded my account to the 10 day free trial of WotLK last night because I don’t have the money at the moment to get the full version but wanted to try it out and level a bit before I purchased it. I am okay with playing again only because I know we won’t ever be hardcore like before. I’ve played the game since it came out in 2004 and have been there done that in regards to hardcore raiding and being so addicted that the game schedule rules your life schedule. We’ve both sold accounts and bought new games to make new accounts because of boredom and quit several times, but we both wanted to try the expansion. It’s nice to play again and have something to do when I have nothing to do at home.

I’ve also been working on a computer list for the new computer I plan to build. It’s been giving me a headache the last few days because I couldn’t figure out if I wanted a dual core CPU or spend a bit more and get a quad core CPU, but I’ve decided to go with the dual core because I won’t be playing any other games or running applications that would benefit from the quad core. I’ll use the money that I saved from getting the quad on the other parts. The new PC is definitely something I can’t wait to get and put together because my current PC is getting worse by the day with constant lock ups and blue screens because of the RAM going bad; it’s too old to upgrade it so I’m going to replace everything. I told my brother I’d give him this PC all he had to do was get new RAM which will be about $30.

Anyways, I didn’t have the chance to work on a new theme like I wanted too. I have some ideas in mind if I can find a premade theme that goes along with those ideas to tweak a bit. Hopefully, I’ll get the time soon or at least the energy to do it. Tomorrow, I’m going to see Barry in the morning since I haven’t seen him in about a month (13th of Dec. I think) because of vacation and stuff and there’s somethings that need to be explained. I also need to call the landlord about the water heater and see if something is wrong with it; the week when Alan was here it started to act funny. I haven’t used the damn thing all day and I turned the water on to take a bath and there was NO hot water, so I waited. An hour or so later, the water is hot as can be; if it keeps up I’ll tell him to invest in a tankless water heater because I can’t not have hot water.

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Second Interview on Monday.

Dec 12

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I have a second interview on Monday for the child care position I applied for. I’ll be meeting with the lady who will be my boss but also with the director who is her boss. Basically, it’s just a meeting to fill out the stack of paper work she has and take a drug test. I know things will go well, so I’m not worried about it at all. She also said that while I’m there I’ll get to see some of the children since they’ll be in the day care at that time; I’m excited and looking forward to working again.

Now I’m off to study…

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Exams week and vacation.

Dec 11

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Tomorrow is stop day which means the end of classes which means that Monday is the start of exam week. I have four exams next week but luckily all of mine are scheduled at one per day so I can study and concern on one thing at a time. My math final is on Monday, Western Civilization on Tuesday, Research Methods on Wednesday and Child Psychology on Thursday. After that, I’m off to South Carolina on Friday until the 29th and picking up Alan at 10:30pm on the 29th when he arrives in Kansas City; he’ll be here until January 8th, so I have a pretty busy schedule until then.

Not only that but I am 98% sure that I got the job I interviewed for on Tuesday. I’ll be working as a child care attendant taking care of children while their mothers undergo treatment for drug and alcohol abuse and/or work in the community. I’m working in a day care setting but it’s not an actual day care but rather a place where these mothers live while receiving treatment for their problems and they get to keep their children with them. I’m really excited about it because it goes along with my psychology/sociology work from school and it’s about time that I find something that will give me good work experience in the field I study. I should start the job around the 12th of January; it really depends on how quick all the background check and paper work gets done.

I’m hoping that after I start working it won’t take me long to save up some money so that I can get regular Internet through my cable company so I don’t have to deal with this crappy wireless anymore. I also want to save up so I can build a new PC that doesn’t have problems and wants to crash all the time and also save for a laptop. Good thing I don’t have a home theater system, otherwise I’d have to save up for home theater seating as well…but mainly my money will be going into savings for awhile so I can rebuild my funds since I’m completely broke.

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Now I finally get the chance to blog.

Dec 1

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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…

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Screw new neighbors!

Nov 18

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Not even a week after they move in are they playing loud music with tons of bass at 12:30am when I’m trying to sleep. I had a long day yesterday after only getting about 2 hours of sleep max, waking up to take my Corrections exam, coming home and trying to figure out my math homework, turning around and going back to campus for math class, and then coming home for the rest of the day to work on my psychology assignment, fix dinner and try to relax all the while feeling sick as hell.

ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS SLEEP WHEN 11PM ROLLED AROUND. After getting off the phone with Alan at that point, I lied there and hoped they’d realize what time it was and turn the music off…but that didn’t happen, so I got up and turned the computer on to shoot an email over to the property manager about the issue – he’ll take care of it even if it means kicking them out; he doesn’t tolerate that crap either. Aside from that it’s been nice and peaceful around here since getting rid of all the trashy, loud people and I’d like it to stay that way.

On a side note, I sent an email inquiring about a job position on campus for next semester as a student assistant in the sociology department. I think I qualify for the position but the only thing holding me back from applying at this moment are the hours they have listed – 12p-5p M-F. Next semester I have class until 12:50 om MWF and 3:45 on TTH, so if they aren’t flexible then I’ll have to pass but I’m hoping they’d be able to work something out because after all, I am a student…and I sure would love a regular job so I didn’t have to figure out how to write about things like english saddles anymore!

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Fall break.

Oct 15

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This time last year, I was on a plane to Michigan to meet Alan for the first time; it was my fall break and it’s that time of year again and I wish I had the finances to do the same thing but I don’t. Instead I’m stuck here in Lawrence doing absolutely nothing. If anything, I’ll go to my dad’s house Friday or Saturday and stay the night so that I can do laundry at their house but they never go out and do anything either so I’d be sitting around just as much if I just stayed home.

Over the break, which really is just two days we don’t have classes, I need to figure out my job situation. I had been waiting to hear back about a job I applied to at the end of September and had received a letter about my application and resume being forwarded to the team leader for review – well I haven’t heard a damn thing since. I called yesterday to check on the status and left a message for the human resource lady and she left me a message today saying they are still looking for someone for the second position and that once it’s filled everyone who applied would receive letters in the mail; basically, I take that as I’m not going to get the job let alone get an interview.

I don’t really want to go back to Old Navy for the simple fact that I’m TIRED of retail and I want something different, I want something that’s more along the lines of what I’m going to school for but…I will most likely have to go back to Old Navy because I have no money and I’m tired of asking my mom to transfer money into my account so I can pay what little bills I have. I can’t do a damn thing – I can’t go out, I can’t buy anything…ugh it sucks. I really hope something comes up soon so I don’t have to go back there.

Anyways, I’m thinking about sitting down over my break and working on a new theme, a Christmas theme so that it’s ready come December. I’ve been trying to think of new ways to add content to the site and change it up a bit but haven’t had any luck. I’ll keep thinking though!

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Back to work.

Mar 6

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Tonight is my first night back at work since I left almost two weeks ago. My visit to Kansas ended up being extended three more days, well…not really but I called last Thursday and told them I wouldn’t be back into work until Wednesday because at that point no one even knew when we were leaving Kansas to head home. I’m glad I called in the end though, since I was sick the entire way home on Friday which left me feeling crappy through out the weekend – I would have not made it to work on Sunday had they scheduled me which is when I was originally suppose to be back. I only work from 5:15p-10p tonight which isn’t bad, and then the same on Friday and from 2p-6:45p on Saturday. I’ll complain when I get home because my feet will hurt and my back aches and yadda yadda, but whatever, lol.

A more detailed post will hopefully go up tonight if not sometime this weekend, I have a few things going over in my head that I’ve wanted to write about, just want to make sure I sort out my thoughts/feelings first.

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