A vow and financial status
I made a vow Friday night/saturday morning that I will never drive sleepy again. I have not driven drunk but I assume this has got to be worse. I was so out of it I didn't see a cop and I got a ticket. Hopefully I can take care of it quietly without my parents finding out. Whenever I go out and feel like falling asleep I will eaither let someone else drive, crash at someones house or pull over and sleep on the side of the road or the nearest parking lot. My life flashed before my eyes, or maybe I was dreaming, twice on the way back home. I told my parents that from now on I will be crasing at other people's places if it gets really late and I am no where near home so i don't fall asleep on the road. They won't like it when I come home at 10 in the morning but its better than not coming back at all. I need a place of my own. I don't want to be the stereotypical mexican that lives at home until he marries and even then might not move out. And I don't plan on marrying for a good long while. Oh yeah, I also vow never to speed at night when there is no traffic so the cop that I don't see can easily pick me out. I can spot them during the day and of course other people will be speeding. I will just be going with the flow of traffic.
That transfer/promotion at Sears might go through in two weeks. The manager told me that he is interviewing two people this week for my replacement. Might take one or two interviews and then about a week for the drug test (scandia took like two days for the drug tests) and then I train the poor bastards that are replacing me. Hell, since the holiday season is coming up they might hire both. I will be doing sales and actually be able to ring up and get credit for the sales I make to people that can't speak english. All the extra money I will make from sales will come in handy. I am running tight on money and I will have to use my credit card to stop the bleeding for a while until I catch up. I don't want to though knowing how evil credit cards can be. At least I am building my credit. No late payments and have paid off my entire balance once already... then came the $800 bill the next month which I have down to 200 now thanks to some money borrowed from my parents. The credit card charges interest, my parents don't. Spending so much on gas is hurting. I need a hybrid silverado so that way I can still drive comfortably and double my gas mileage. They actually make those.
Borrowing the car whenever I go long distances will be harder because my sister now has a license and goes to college and needs to commute much more. Not to mention she has priority to the car if she and I go out on the same night since she is not comfortable driving my truck or the explorer we bought recently and might be getting rid of soon. My dads truck is manual transmission and even I can't drive that without peeling out or stalling. I got plans wednesday and thursday night. Thursday being the Sage Francis show at the Glass House. He plays the next day at the Key Club I think but Pomona is much closer than LA and costs $12 less to drive there. Then there is Damian Marley in November as well as Gwar. Might skip Gwar since I have seen them before if I get really tight on cash.
That transfer/promotion at Sears might go through in two weeks. The manager told me that he is interviewing two people this week for my replacement. Might take one or two interviews and then about a week for the drug test (scandia took like two days for the drug tests) and then I train the poor bastards that are replacing me. Hell, since the holiday season is coming up they might hire both. I will be doing sales and actually be able to ring up and get credit for the sales I make to people that can't speak english. All the extra money I will make from sales will come in handy. I am running tight on money and I will have to use my credit card to stop the bleeding for a while until I catch up. I don't want to though knowing how evil credit cards can be. At least I am building my credit. No late payments and have paid off my entire balance once already... then came the $800 bill the next month which I have down to 200 now thanks to some money borrowed from my parents. The credit card charges interest, my parents don't. Spending so much on gas is hurting. I need a hybrid silverado so that way I can still drive comfortably and double my gas mileage. They actually make those.
Borrowing the car whenever I go long distances will be harder because my sister now has a license and goes to college and needs to commute much more. Not to mention she has priority to the car if she and I go out on the same night since she is not comfortable driving my truck or the explorer we bought recently and might be getting rid of soon. My dads truck is manual transmission and even I can't drive that without peeling out or stalling. I got plans wednesday and thursday night. Thursday being the Sage Francis show at the Glass House. He plays the next day at the Key Club I think but Pomona is much closer than LA and costs $12 less to drive there. Then there is Damian Marley in November as well as Gwar. Might skip Gwar since I have seen them before if I get really tight on cash.