This past summer was horrid and I'm still trying to recover from it. Basically I ran out of money like I normally do in the Fall but this time was much earlier because of all stuff going on at work and having made the decision which I now regret to not take summer classes ( Read more... )

I've been doing okay though I haven't felt like anything was worthy of posting on here. I still check LiveJournal everyday and I've noticed that the number of friends who update it steadily declines. I chalk that up to blogging getting boring for them as they do it primarily for an audience and not for themselves. Thankfully I do it for myself ( Read more... )

Looks like Hasbro has gone out of its way to kill the internet fandom of MLP:FiM. Their strong arming over copyrights, which I take with a grain of salt as their merchandise was hard to find this Christmas, is why its happening. It seems to brewing a large amount of discontent and I think its well deserved. The fandom that sprung up almost out of ( Read more... )

So I just found my bank statement from 2004. August 2004 to be exact. I paid ABF Transportation a sum of $1,405 to pay for my ex's moving expenses. I only had $1,833.64 in the bank at the time. In one fell swoop I mortgaged my life away. Its been a long long time since I've seen that much money in my bank account. Well I should say, its been ( Read more... )

Sometimes there are surprises and then there are just big huge surprises ( Read more... )

I finally got the tires replaced on the car ( Read more... )

I got my last W-2 today and did my taxes. I'm getting a tax refund of $1,363.88 from the Federal and $237.86 from New York state.

Now to do my FAFSA and TAPS forms. I qualify for TAPS this year because I'm below the $10,000/year income limit.

-- John O.

So yeah in the last month I've been pretty busy, at first I attended a get together for the opening of Tron Legacy. I had a great time. Then I worked and didn't have much fun because work is not helping me out. Spent most of Christmas by myself and eventually went to d_bandit's for a while and celebrated Christmas ( Read more... )

So for months I'd been receiving credit card applications from Chase, often as many as 3 a week. So they finally dropped the interest rate down to a level I thought was reasonable and sent it in. That was three weeks ago. Today I received my denial letter. I'm really not surprised. My denial letter stated the reason why I was denied was ( Read more... )

All the money I got from school at the beginning of the month is all gone. :-/ I've been paying my bills with it and my bank the rest. So I'm back where I started.

-- John O.