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i just filed my taxes! that was relatively painless and i'm getting $1000 back, so we're calling it a win. now i just need to decide what to do with the money. do i throw it into my savings account for a couple of months and then use it to pay off one of my student loans (which it would cover exactly) when it comes due in may? should i split the money between paying off my parents and my credit card? should i throw it in savings and use it for the car and/or move this summer? i could actually pay off my credit card with it, and then put all the money i've been putting toward my credit card into savings and pay off the loan with that come may. i think this may be the best plan of action.
(the $32 i made in interest on my savings account last year pushed me into a higher tax bracket, which i found kind of amusing.)
and can i just say, after feeling absolutely overwhelmed, depressed, and anxious about the debt i have, it feels so much better to have a budget and a plan and to see my debt going down. i used to check my credit card balance every week to see if i could afford to put $10 worth of gas in my car (and most of the time, i couldn't) and now i have actual credit and it makes things so much better.
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i got offered a promotion at the office today, which i did not take because i am moving to orlando this summer, whether or not my boss believes me. if i chose not to move though, i would have a promotion waiting for me at both jobs, which is nice to know i guess. (g has definitely confirmed that i would be a supervisor at her store, and today they said i could begin training to design playgrounds and become a project manager at the office.)
and, hee! k came into my office yesterday and asked if there was an official move date yet. there's not- i'm shooting for the first week of july though. he told me that i can't move in july because it's our busiest month and asked why i switched from august. "oh. well, i wanted to be there for the harry potter release, actually." i explained to him about the release parties and the costumes and how it can be a pretty big deal, if you don't live in central jersey and actually have friends who will go all out for it. he was pretty amazed that people actually make costumes, and asked what you could dress as. "anything! you can be a specific character, or just a student or a death eater or really anything you want, even if it's pretty obscure, cos *someone* will get it and laugh." so he asked what i'm going to dress as, but since i have no clue, he told me to let him know when i decide.
so i was telling my mom about this on the drive home, and she said "i bet you he's telling his wife what a weirdo you are right now!" but he seemed pretty into it and he got a kick out of my quidditch shirt, so whatever.
well, he came in this morning and told me i should go as "one of those invisible horses" (he seemed really intrigued by the idea of going as an animal) because it would be awesome, even if it's kind of a hard costume. heeee. i love that he went home and actually thought about this for me. i am going to miss the office boys so so much, sigh.
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i had some more lane bryant coupons, so i went over there yesterday to see if they had the awesome green polka dot shirt i got in other colors. they didn't, but i found some other stuff. i got a rusty-orange zip-up hoodie with this gorgeous flower/vine print on the front, a goldish-brown zip-up hoodie with a gold print on the front and back that i cannot describe, a kelly green deep v-neck pullover hoodie, a black track jacket with silver accents, a sweet denim jacket that i actually almost bought last fall, and a bunch of underwear. according to my receipt, this would have normally cost me $160. i paid? $30. who is the best? i am! ::dances::
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i finished the shaktra by christopher pike the other night and it was soooo good. way better than alosha (which, don't get me wrong, was good)- the writing and the pacing and the PLOT (oh god the plot) and the characters are all pike at his best and oh oh oh, i missed this all so much. i hadn't even realized how much i missed his books til i read this because it's such classic pike- there is so much about death and rebirth and evolving and i am just waiting on the story within a story now- and it made me remember so many of my favorite characters and scenes and so i spent all day at work today just remembering my favorites.
like the moment when peter (in lenny's body) remembers shari (in jean's body) right before he kills her (but then he doesn't) and it is MAGICAL. or, possibly even better, when his love for her heals him and he kills that fucking bastard roger who has just smashed her in the head with a fucking shovel while making her dig up her own dead body from her past life which was just last year- now THERE is a fucking scary bad guy, let me tell you. and just. god, these books feel like the conclusion to all of his other books, like it was all a logical series and this is where it leads.
and now i'm just waiting for the shaktra to be about to kill ali (or possibly geea- i haven't figured out yet which would be worse) but then ra remembers who he is (because in my world, ra is jira, aka geea's lover and best friend, who was killed by the shaktra) and regains his powers and saves her. there hasn't even been confirmation yet that ra is jira, but i already know exactly how the scene will happen. (also, FOR THE RECORD, the male lover/best friend guy in my book? was named shira. PIKE IS TOTALLY MY PSYCHIC BF.)
and i'm almost through how i live now which is still pretty fantastic, even if i'm not 100% sold on the writing style and i don't understand why there are psychics in what is otherwise a regular fiction book.
also, i do not understand the obsession with 13 year olds. is it a marketing thing? am i just old and out of touch? both of these books are about 13 year olds but in my head, they are more like 16 because 13 just feels way too young for these stories. it's throwing me off.
ALSO, my local b&n did not get pike's new book in on tuesday, and i don't live in orlando so i couldn't drive to 14 other bookstore to look for it. WOE.
(the $32 i made in interest on my savings account last year pushed me into a higher tax bracket, which i found kind of amusing.)
and can i just say, after feeling absolutely overwhelmed, depressed, and anxious about the debt i have, it feels so much better to have a budget and a plan and to see my debt going down. i used to check my credit card balance every week to see if i could afford to put $10 worth of gas in my car (and most of the time, i couldn't) and now i have actual credit and it makes things so much better.
...
i got offered a promotion at the office today, which i did not take because i am moving to orlando this summer, whether or not my boss believes me. if i chose not to move though, i would have a promotion waiting for me at both jobs, which is nice to know i guess. (g has definitely confirmed that i would be a supervisor at her store, and today they said i could begin training to design playgrounds and become a project manager at the office.)
and, hee! k came into my office yesterday and asked if there was an official move date yet. there's not- i'm shooting for the first week of july though. he told me that i can't move in july because it's our busiest month and asked why i switched from august. "oh. well, i wanted to be there for the harry potter release, actually." i explained to him about the release parties and the costumes and how it can be a pretty big deal, if you don't live in central jersey and actually have friends who will go all out for it. he was pretty amazed that people actually make costumes, and asked what you could dress as. "anything! you can be a specific character, or just a student or a death eater or really anything you want, even if it's pretty obscure, cos *someone* will get it and laugh." so he asked what i'm going to dress as, but since i have no clue, he told me to let him know when i decide.
so i was telling my mom about this on the drive home, and she said "i bet you he's telling his wife what a weirdo you are right now!" but he seemed pretty into it and he got a kick out of my quidditch shirt, so whatever.
well, he came in this morning and told me i should go as "one of those invisible horses" (he seemed really intrigued by the idea of going as an animal) because it would be awesome, even if it's kind of a hard costume. heeee. i love that he went home and actually thought about this for me. i am going to miss the office boys so so much, sigh.
...
i had some more lane bryant coupons, so i went over there yesterday to see if they had the awesome green polka dot shirt i got in other colors. they didn't, but i found some other stuff. i got a rusty-orange zip-up hoodie with this gorgeous flower/vine print on the front, a goldish-brown zip-up hoodie with a gold print on the front and back that i cannot describe, a kelly green deep v-neck pullover hoodie, a black track jacket with silver accents, a sweet denim jacket that i actually almost bought last fall, and a bunch of underwear. according to my receipt, this would have normally cost me $160. i paid? $30. who is the best? i am! ::dances::
...
i finished the shaktra by christopher pike the other night and it was soooo good. way better than alosha (which, don't get me wrong, was good)- the writing and the pacing and the PLOT (oh god the plot) and the characters are all pike at his best and oh oh oh, i missed this all so much. i hadn't even realized how much i missed his books til i read this because it's such classic pike- there is so much about death and rebirth and evolving and i am just waiting on the story within a story now- and it made me remember so many of my favorite characters and scenes and so i spent all day at work today just remembering my favorites.
like the moment when peter (in lenny's body) remembers shari (in jean's body) right before he kills her (but then he doesn't) and it is MAGICAL. or, possibly even better, when his love for her heals him and he kills that fucking bastard roger who has just smashed her in the head with a fucking shovel while making her dig up her own dead body from her past life which was just last year- now THERE is a fucking scary bad guy, let me tell you. and just. god, these books feel like the conclusion to all of his other books, like it was all a logical series and this is where it leads.
and now i'm just waiting for the shaktra to be about to kill ali (or possibly geea- i haven't figured out yet which would be worse) but then ra remembers who he is (because in my world, ra is jira, aka geea's lover and best friend, who was killed by the shaktra) and regains his powers and saves her. there hasn't even been confirmation yet that ra is jira, but i already know exactly how the scene will happen. (also, FOR THE RECORD, the male lover/best friend guy in my book? was named shira. PIKE IS TOTALLY MY PSYCHIC BF.)
and i'm almost through how i live now which is still pretty fantastic, even if i'm not 100% sold on the writing style and i don't understand why there are psychics in what is otherwise a regular fiction book.
also, i do not understand the obsession with 13 year olds. is it a marketing thing? am i just old and out of touch? both of these books are about 13 year olds but in my head, they are more like 16 because 13 just feels way too young for these stories. it's throwing me off.
ALSO, my local b&n did not get pike's new book in on tuesday, and i don't live in orlando so i couldn't drive to 14 other bookstore to look for it. WOE.