Life Update
Home: Bought a snow thrower for the house, but haven't put it together yet... or filled it up with gas. Even though it's been snowing pretty regularly over the past couple of weeks, there has been freezing rain that falls on top of everything making it just a solid piece of snow.
I guess tonight, I can give it a try and see what happens.
I still have loads of laundry to finish, I just haven't been motivated to do any of it (like running out of clean clothes) but I have a feeling that I may just rent a bunch of movies tonight and stay up as long as it takes to get it done. It's not the laundry part I hate, it's the folding.
I migrated all of my re-occuring bills so that they pay out of my new Amazon.com visa card. This way I get points towards free gift certificates everytime I hit 2,500 points. I think the program is a slight jip because you get 1 point for every dollar spent on the card and 3 points for every dollar spent on Amazon.com's website. Spending $2,500 dollars on the credit card just so that I can get $25 gift certificate seems kind of retarded... but it's better than spending $2,500 and not getting anything.
School: It's week 4 of my classes and I don't think that I have done much of anything. It's time that I got started on completing my homework for my 3 classes. It's not that big of a deal, but it is something that I have been procrastinating and need to complete. For example I am taking 3 classes. Statistics just requires me complete 10 quizzes and a take home final. Global Business has 1 major project and a final, Accounting has a bunch of homework that doesnt count for a significant amount, 2 tests (1 which is a take hoome) and 1 final which isn't cummalitve.
I received my student loan to pay off the remainder of this semster's bill and my summer classes.
Work: Meh, I think that I am off of the most favored list. I am not getting large, high profile projects. Granted there aren't any large, high profile projects being generated by our group because our manager is a schmuck and doesn't know how to sell our services to other business lines with in the bank. So in the meanwhile I am taking care of a lot of personal things while at work (such as shopping around for a better interest rate on my car loan and managing my personal finances) so that I look like I am working and people don't think that I am expendable.
I have lost confidence in my management team and the things that they are saying, so I might be looking for a new job. I am not sure that I understand the direction in which our company wants to take the Chicago office or how our specific group fits into the overall future vision (nice words and it sounds very corporate-speaky, but is it actually accruately expresses my concerns with out sounding too negative) and because of this lack of understanding, the feeling that the company doesn't have my best interests at heart... I think it's time for a change.
I don't want to leave Chicago for at least another two years, because I don't want to start college over again and by that time I will have made some home improvements that should make the house worth a whole lot more than what it is currently worth.
Personal: Still single... and extremely happy about the whole situation. This particular section can take up an entire entry so I that's what I am going to do. Later this afternoon I will go into detail just so that I can keep a record of this for posterity.
I guess tonight, I can give it a try and see what happens.
I still have loads of laundry to finish, I just haven't been motivated to do any of it (like running out of clean clothes) but I have a feeling that I may just rent a bunch of movies tonight and stay up as long as it takes to get it done. It's not the laundry part I hate, it's the folding.
I migrated all of my re-occuring bills so that they pay out of my new Amazon.com visa card. This way I get points towards free gift certificates everytime I hit 2,500 points. I think the program is a slight jip because you get 1 point for every dollar spent on the card and 3 points for every dollar spent on Amazon.com's website. Spending $2,500 dollars on the credit card just so that I can get $25 gift certificate seems kind of retarded... but it's better than spending $2,500 and not getting anything.
School: It's week 4 of my classes and I don't think that I have done much of anything. It's time that I got started on completing my homework for my 3 classes. It's not that big of a deal, but it is something that I have been procrastinating and need to complete. For example I am taking 3 classes. Statistics just requires me complete 10 quizzes and a take home final. Global Business has 1 major project and a final, Accounting has a bunch of homework that doesnt count for a significant amount, 2 tests (1 which is a take hoome) and 1 final which isn't cummalitve.
I received my student loan to pay off the remainder of this semster's bill and my summer classes.
Work: Meh, I think that I am off of the most favored list. I am not getting large, high profile projects. Granted there aren't any large, high profile projects being generated by our group because our manager is a schmuck and doesn't know how to sell our services to other business lines with in the bank. So in the meanwhile I am taking care of a lot of personal things while at work (such as shopping around for a better interest rate on my car loan and managing my personal finances) so that I look like I am working and people don't think that I am expendable.
I have lost confidence in my management team and the things that they are saying, so I might be looking for a new job. I am not sure that I understand the direction in which our company wants to take the Chicago office or how our specific group fits into the overall future vision (nice words and it sounds very corporate-speaky, but is it actually accruately expresses my concerns with out sounding too negative) and because of this lack of understanding, the feeling that the company doesn't have my best interests at heart... I think it's time for a change.
I don't want to leave Chicago for at least another two years, because I don't want to start college over again and by that time I will have made some home improvements that should make the house worth a whole lot more than what it is currently worth.
Personal: Still single... and extremely happy about the whole situation. This particular section can take up an entire entry so I that's what I am going to do. Later this afternoon I will go into detail just so that I can keep a record of this for posterity.