2 months of suck, but could things be going upward financially? Finally?
Amidst all the bad luck I've been having, I'd have to say the last few days have been good to me...
(Aside from spending 3 hours on the phone w/ Time Warner Cable & Apple today, that is... but hey! My internet's back!)
I made a decent amount of (much needed) money this weekend. Yay!
My dad sent me a monetary x-mas present. Yay $400!!!! Woo!!!! He felt bad for my car getting broke into.
I was able to buy a new pair of shoes that I badly needed - they were $30 cheaper than I thought!
Since I saved money on the shoes, I bought some new earrings - my old ones needed to be replaced, I couldn't get them back into my ears anyways. I bought some fun spirally ones for my other holes. Lindsay put em in - the earlobes are tender now, it's been awhile since I had my ears stretched... think I'm gonna go back to that. I missed fun jewelry.
I hired a housekeeper - for anyone who knows me, I fuckin HATE to clean, so this was soooooo worth the money to me. She did an awesome job - even did my dishes! Wow! She's way cheap too. Seriously coming home to a clean house that I didn't have to fuck with = love.
I was productive and finally got around to building the other drawer to my bookcase and put together some file boxes for it as well; and I (somewhat) organized all my desk/office supply stuff.... I did all of this while watching The Godfather. Young Al Pacino is all sorts of awesome. *swoons*
Today I got my SG check in the mail - win! ...even though the money's pretty much going straight to the attorney. :-/
Washed all the nasty salt grossness from my car, cleaned the inside out, got the rest of the glass vaccuumed out as well. Go productivity!
Went to Rich's house to pick up some mail... I got a x-mas card from Brooklyn, an iTunes gift card, and someone bought me a "Fear & Loathing in America" by Hunter S. Thompson. I scored in the mail department!
And to cap it all off, Rich got my astronomical cell phone bill dropped down to $66 - thank goodness! It was $189!!! All because my internet plan didn't carry over when I got a new phone. *sighs of relief* So yes, finding out I don't have to spend an extra $123 is very awesome.
I know most of this is pertaining to money; but lately it's been the biggest stress for me. With my lawyer expenses and who knows how much I'm gonna have in court costs, and having to save up for Vegas I need to save all of the money I can.
Life's just been throwing me the craziest curve balls lately and I've about met my breaking point; so it's nice to have things lookin on the up n up.
But let's review the bullshit....
Rolled my ankle moving - it was 2 months ago and it's still killing me.
Paint spill in my car - $4,000 worth of damage, hours & days spent driving to Sherwin Williams, the Dodge dealership, etc; (so all the time I had off to paint/fix up my new place was lost dealing with this bullshit) finally a month later I get a check to cover the costs and end up walking away with $1,300 in my pocket....
...but only to have that money stripped away because of the bullshit arrest. Seriously fuck you highway patrol. There goes $500 for bail, a hotel, and getting my car out of impound; and then another $750 on a lawyer. This is the most fucked situation of them all because it's retarded. Everyone's pretty certain all the charges will be dropped, but that's only after I get to spend an assload of money, I'm sure. I love our legal system.
My cell phone breaks, I lose all my numbers; had to buy a new phone unexpectedly - $214
...Then received the new cell phone bill and it was $150 more than it should have been. (at least that got fixed)
Weather was so shitty I didn't get to see The Faint - goodbye ticket money spent on nothing.
Get great news that I get to go to Las Vegas for an awesome project...
...wake up the very next morning, leaving for work, come to find my car window smashed. Glass everywhere, nothing taken (cuz I don't leave shit in my car), but I got to spend $230 on a new window and I still have to take it to get tinted again.... and I had to miss work. So long expected income.
Chelsae said if she had had everything that's happened to me lately happen to her she would have cracked. Apparently I'm lil miss positive thinking... or perhaps I'm lil miss I don't even wanna think about all this bullshit so I'll eat junk food, then live at the gym and the bar instead. Yup. That's been my life - work, gym, eat, sleep (or try to - I haven't been sleeping well because I'm so stressed), and an occasional night of nonsense.
So seriously. I think with all that madness going on in the past 2 months, it's about damn time my luck turns the fuck around. Don't you think?
2009 please get here now. Plzkthxbye.
(Aside from spending 3 hours on the phone w/ Time Warner Cable & Apple today, that is... but hey! My internet's back!)
I made a decent amount of (much needed) money this weekend. Yay!
My dad sent me a monetary x-mas present. Yay $400!!!! Woo!!!! He felt bad for my car getting broke into.
I was able to buy a new pair of shoes that I badly needed - they were $30 cheaper than I thought!
Since I saved money on the shoes, I bought some new earrings - my old ones needed to be replaced, I couldn't get them back into my ears anyways. I bought some fun spirally ones for my other holes. Lindsay put em in - the earlobes are tender now, it's been awhile since I had my ears stretched... think I'm gonna go back to that. I missed fun jewelry.
I hired a housekeeper - for anyone who knows me, I fuckin HATE to clean, so this was soooooo worth the money to me. She did an awesome job - even did my dishes! Wow! She's way cheap too. Seriously coming home to a clean house that I didn't have to fuck with = love.
I was productive and finally got around to building the other drawer to my bookcase and put together some file boxes for it as well; and I (somewhat) organized all my desk/office supply stuff.... I did all of this while watching The Godfather. Young Al Pacino is all sorts of awesome. *swoons*
Today I got my SG check in the mail - win! ...even though the money's pretty much going straight to the attorney. :-/
Washed all the nasty salt grossness from my car, cleaned the inside out, got the rest of the glass vaccuumed out as well. Go productivity!
Went to Rich's house to pick up some mail... I got a x-mas card from Brooklyn, an iTunes gift card, and someone bought me a "Fear & Loathing in America" by Hunter S. Thompson. I scored in the mail department!
And to cap it all off, Rich got my astronomical cell phone bill dropped down to $66 - thank goodness! It was $189!!! All because my internet plan didn't carry over when I got a new phone. *sighs of relief* So yes, finding out I don't have to spend an extra $123 is very awesome.
I know most of this is pertaining to money; but lately it's been the biggest stress for me. With my lawyer expenses and who knows how much I'm gonna have in court costs, and having to save up for Vegas I need to save all of the money I can.
Life's just been throwing me the craziest curve balls lately and I've about met my breaking point; so it's nice to have things lookin on the up n up.
But let's review the bullshit....
Rolled my ankle moving - it was 2 months ago and it's still killing me.
Paint spill in my car - $4,000 worth of damage, hours & days spent driving to Sherwin Williams, the Dodge dealership, etc; (so all the time I had off to paint/fix up my new place was lost dealing with this bullshit) finally a month later I get a check to cover the costs and end up walking away with $1,300 in my pocket....
...but only to have that money stripped away because of the bullshit arrest. Seriously fuck you highway patrol. There goes $500 for bail, a hotel, and getting my car out of impound; and then another $750 on a lawyer. This is the most fucked situation of them all because it's retarded. Everyone's pretty certain all the charges will be dropped, but that's only after I get to spend an assload of money, I'm sure. I love our legal system.
My cell phone breaks, I lose all my numbers; had to buy a new phone unexpectedly - $214
...Then received the new cell phone bill and it was $150 more than it should have been. (at least that got fixed)
Weather was so shitty I didn't get to see The Faint - goodbye ticket money spent on nothing.
Get great news that I get to go to Las Vegas for an awesome project...
...wake up the very next morning, leaving for work, come to find my car window smashed. Glass everywhere, nothing taken (cuz I don't leave shit in my car), but I got to spend $230 on a new window and I still have to take it to get tinted again.... and I had to miss work. So long expected income.
Chelsae said if she had had everything that's happened to me lately happen to her she would have cracked. Apparently I'm lil miss positive thinking... or perhaps I'm lil miss I don't even wanna think about all this bullshit so I'll eat junk food, then live at the gym and the bar instead. Yup. That's been my life - work, gym, eat, sleep (or try to - I haven't been sleeping well because I'm so stressed), and an occasional night of nonsense.
So seriously. I think with all that madness going on in the past 2 months, it's about damn time my luck turns the fuck around. Don't you think?
2009 please get here now. Plzkthxbye.