Thy Other Name is Change
Hello hello hello! If this is showing up on your friends page and you're wondering why, it's because I changed my handle! I was the_kelpsinator, but I picked that in high school and it's not really a reflection of me anymore. atouchofyou is more in line with the rest of my internet presence (so if you see it anywhere else, it's probably me), and of no longer being 17.
In other news, I will soon be going on my first cruise! I'll be going from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas. I've neither cruised nor been to the Bahamas, so I'm excited! It's about a month away. When I bought tickets today, they were somehow magically $70 cheaper than they were three days ago, so I'm happy about that. It's part of my training. My job so far has been pretty good, even though it's only been three days of classroom training. I have three more days in the classroom, and then three-four months at a desk with phones making calls. It's kind of grueling, because they have us doing stuff no one else wants to do, but I don't mind that much. It's not particularly hard, it's self-paced so I can get through faster if I push myself, and I'm making a pretty decent salary until I finish. So, in four months I'll have business cards and go to 100% commission. The beginning will be hard, I know, but I really feel like thanks to this training, I will be ultimately successful at this job.
Because my income will be uneven, especially in the first couple of months, and because my boyfriend only works part-time, we're electing to stay in the basement for a few months. It sucks, but we would just be cutting it too close if we left. We could make it work, but two bad weeks in a row would mess us up big time. I'm sick of living paycheck to paycheck, and this will allow us time to not only catch up with ourselves, but get some savings going, as well. My goal is to pay off my smallest loan (~$3k) and have $800-$1K in savings by January. We found a reasonably-priced apartment complex we like literally across the street from my new office, so when we move it'll almost certainly be to there. I have a friend who lives there and the grocery store is literally down the street. When we move there, I'll sell my car (probably to a junkyard) and cancel my car insurance. I'll get a bike, but that will free up something like $100-150 a month between insurance and gas that I can put towards groceries and student loans.
Soon, soon, I'll be a real adult again! Life is looking up. :)
In other news, I will soon be going on my first cruise! I'll be going from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas. I've neither cruised nor been to the Bahamas, so I'm excited! It's about a month away. When I bought tickets today, they were somehow magically $70 cheaper than they were three days ago, so I'm happy about that. It's part of my training. My job so far has been pretty good, even though it's only been three days of classroom training. I have three more days in the classroom, and then three-four months at a desk with phones making calls. It's kind of grueling, because they have us doing stuff no one else wants to do, but I don't mind that much. It's not particularly hard, it's self-paced so I can get through faster if I push myself, and I'm making a pretty decent salary until I finish. So, in four months I'll have business cards and go to 100% commission. The beginning will be hard, I know, but I really feel like thanks to this training, I will be ultimately successful at this job.
Because my income will be uneven, especially in the first couple of months, and because my boyfriend only works part-time, we're electing to stay in the basement for a few months. It sucks, but we would just be cutting it too close if we left. We could make it work, but two bad weeks in a row would mess us up big time. I'm sick of living paycheck to paycheck, and this will allow us time to not only catch up with ourselves, but get some savings going, as well. My goal is to pay off my smallest loan (~$3k) and have $800-$1K in savings by January. We found a reasonably-priced apartment complex we like literally across the street from my new office, so when we move it'll almost certainly be to there. I have a friend who lives there and the grocery store is literally down the street. When we move there, I'll sell my car (probably to a junkyard) and cancel my car insurance. I'll get a bike, but that will free up something like $100-150 a month between insurance and gas that I can put towards groceries and student loans.
Soon, soon, I'll be a real adult again! Life is looking up. :)