update
In less than two weeks time I will receive a pay raise from 11.50 to 14.10 an hour. Four months ago I was making just 10 even an hour so that is a nice change. Thankfully grocery stores will be the last thing ever affected by the economy because everyone has to eat, and I'm union. Horrah! An upside to the boring job.
I bought a car a week ago. 1974 vw beetle. Standard, not super like my last one, but rad just the same. Amusingly it has the same problem as my last one, a broken speedometer, which I before had not realized was a simple an easy fix. Tomorrow I will go to the VW automotive store and purchase a speedometer cable. If all goes well tomorrow I will have changed it with some help from Jens for 22.50. Screw paying a mechanic crazy amounts of money for that. It putts along. I drove her home from Capitol Hill (probably 170 blocks or so?) home without killing it, which is a good sign. Stick with the ol' four speed. I will have to either avoid or learn how to get going on a hill after stopping at a light but thats what I get for having to have a 35 year old stick in such a hilly city. I will just have to try to avoid downtown, not like I head down there much anyways.
Look at me paying for my own shit. Car insurance, rent, phone bill. Twenty years old looks a lot different than when I just turned nineteen. I didn't pay for anything back then. If that was only so easy now. Ah well, so far so good. No back payments owed and still no credit card.
100 or so days until I turn 21! Hell yeah! I finally won't feel as though I am missing out on so many places to go! Greenwood is opening a pillagers pub soon, and recently Greenwood got a city brewery, who knew that small neighborhood that I originally moved to would turn out to be decently hip. I give it ten more years till it turns into yuppie scum hangout like Ballard. Don't get me wrong, I love Ballard, but I would love to have seen it a few years back before the condos and townhouses tore down the Ol' Scandanavian Ballard that people speak of. Greenwood also has a great selection of Mediterianian food, which other than my hatred of olives still happens to be one of my favorite foods. I wouldn't mind moving back to Greenwood (just not along Aurora!) because the very southern part of Shoreline has only a Central Market and a ice rink going for it.
Jens is a rad roommate. It is great to finally have someone aweseome to live with instead of the crazies since I moved to Seattle. He is super chill and doesn't bitch about cleaning, and is just old person-esque as I am with digging Scrabble, Rummy, and Jeopardy. He even puts up with me pestering him. Our apartment is huge, almost 1000 square feet. The living room is so large that we just recently got a foose ball table (free). Our whole apartment is full of free items from people we know, the only real piece of furniture that is paid for was the papasan I got off craigslist for 50 bucks when we first moved here. Even my "new" bed came free via a neighbors porch (Sealy Plush Posturepedic!) No one would want to rob us. Do you want an ugly slip covered couch? What about a 15 year old tv? If only we had a porch and a dishwasher, then this place would be where it is at! We have crazy neighbors. We are located next to a large church which allows for us to never have to worry about parking whenever anyone comes to visit us.
I cannot wait for summertime. People keep complaining about this winter being the worst in forever but last years seems worse to me, perhaps because I was walking a mile and a half back and forth to work and this year I was taking the bus. However there was the time before Christmas that I had to walk 50 blocks home in eight inches of snow in Vans, because all public transportation can't seem to run properly in a bit of snow here. Summertime offers our favorite farmers market in Wallingford, with our little milk supplier, Golden Glens.Also more frequent trips to Molly Moons.
How is everyone else doing lately?
I bought a car a week ago. 1974 vw beetle. Standard, not super like my last one, but rad just the same. Amusingly it has the same problem as my last one, a broken speedometer, which I before had not realized was a simple an easy fix. Tomorrow I will go to the VW automotive store and purchase a speedometer cable. If all goes well tomorrow I will have changed it with some help from Jens for 22.50. Screw paying a mechanic crazy amounts of money for that. It putts along. I drove her home from Capitol Hill (probably 170 blocks or so?) home without killing it, which is a good sign. Stick with the ol' four speed. I will have to either avoid or learn how to get going on a hill after stopping at a light but thats what I get for having to have a 35 year old stick in such a hilly city. I will just have to try to avoid downtown, not like I head down there much anyways.
Look at me paying for my own shit. Car insurance, rent, phone bill. Twenty years old looks a lot different than when I just turned nineteen. I didn't pay for anything back then. If that was only so easy now. Ah well, so far so good. No back payments owed and still no credit card.
100 or so days until I turn 21! Hell yeah! I finally won't feel as though I am missing out on so many places to go! Greenwood is opening a pillagers pub soon, and recently Greenwood got a city brewery, who knew that small neighborhood that I originally moved to would turn out to be decently hip. I give it ten more years till it turns into yuppie scum hangout like Ballard. Don't get me wrong, I love Ballard, but I would love to have seen it a few years back before the condos and townhouses tore down the Ol' Scandanavian Ballard that people speak of. Greenwood also has a great selection of Mediterianian food, which other than my hatred of olives still happens to be one of my favorite foods. I wouldn't mind moving back to Greenwood (just not along Aurora!) because the very southern part of Shoreline has only a Central Market and a ice rink going for it.
Jens is a rad roommate. It is great to finally have someone aweseome to live with instead of the crazies since I moved to Seattle. He is super chill and doesn't bitch about cleaning, and is just old person-esque as I am with digging Scrabble, Rummy, and Jeopardy. He even puts up with me pestering him. Our apartment is huge, almost 1000 square feet. The living room is so large that we just recently got a foose ball table (free). Our whole apartment is full of free items from people we know, the only real piece of furniture that is paid for was the papasan I got off craigslist for 50 bucks when we first moved here. Even my "new" bed came free via a neighbors porch (Sealy Plush Posturepedic!) No one would want to rob us. Do you want an ugly slip covered couch? What about a 15 year old tv? If only we had a porch and a dishwasher, then this place would be where it is at! We have crazy neighbors. We are located next to a large church which allows for us to never have to worry about parking whenever anyone comes to visit us.
I cannot wait for summertime. People keep complaining about this winter being the worst in forever but last years seems worse to me, perhaps because I was walking a mile and a half back and forth to work and this year I was taking the bus. However there was the time before Christmas that I had to walk 50 blocks home in eight inches of snow in Vans, because all public transportation can't seem to run properly in a bit of snow here. Summertime offers our favorite farmers market in Wallingford, with our little milk supplier, Golden Glens.Also more frequent trips to Molly Moons.
How is everyone else doing lately?