My dog now looks at me sadly and with bad intent all in one....
Hi er'body!
Well, it has been a busy couple weeks weeks here I will say that. I was all excited about Halloween and trick or treaters, every place I have lived (not including my parent's house) there were no kiddies to wander around and harass people for candy so I thought I might get a chance this year what with living in a house in a neighborhood and such. So, I went out and bought a fair amount of candy, dressed up in my fakey Renaissance outfit and waited with the door pen so light could shine out as we have no outside porch light here. Well, I at least got 10 people! So, a slow start, but it made me happy to pass out candy.
I have had papers and projects coming up fast and furious the last few weeks also with midterms and everything else too. I just turned in a paper yesterday for my preservation class and the week before it was a paper for my intro to archives class. Whew! Next up are more papers for the class I hate (intro to information, designing a webpage as a project for the tech class, a final paper that should end up being around 20 pages for preservation and a lit review for archives as well as finals for some of these classes. I just need to schedule our time to remember to work on these more long term thingies so I don't lose sight of them and then freak out cuz they are due tomorrow or something.
We are really low on money this month already and we are only 3 days into it. That is because my car insurance decided to go up for no apparent reason and then go up even more because I didn't fill out some crap paper work special to Pennsylvania and so the bumped me up to having to pay maximum everything, which I called and bitched about and got those finally taken down (it was like 350 minimum payment this month or something) to the 75 a month minimum i have to ay now, which is silly to me as i was only paying 0 a month in Virginia and I haven't had any accidents or anything to raise my coverage...just moved to a crappy state for car insurance I guess.
Also, our landlord finally sent us a water bill. We were actually receiving them here but they were addressed to him and so we had to hand them off to him...and he just puts a photo copy in our mailbox and expects us to send the money to him instead of the water company...again some weird crap with Pennsylvania laws or whatever. So, we have our first one after being in this house since the end of July. yah.
Also, Daisy has an ear infection that has gotten really bad. We were trying to clean it out every day in hopes that it might just kinda go away (it has in the past) but no go. It is the worst one she has had so we took her to the vet yesterday to have it checked out. They refused to prescribe her meds until they saw her in a visit (35 bucks) and then they insisted on running a test on the junk that is built up in there to make sure it was the same kind of infection she has always gotten (another 35 bucks) and finally prescribed her some ear meds (another 35 bucks) so we can get her all happy and pink eared again. All in all, it was 110 dollars that we prolly needed for gas money, food, and bills that we had to give up yesterday for the dog. I just wish we were able to get the meds without the entire ordeal of everything else and them squeezing us for more money. they want to see her next week, which will not happen as I am not going to pay another 35 bucks for them to say whether her ear infection is still here or not, I can make that observation on my own for free, thanks.
So we have come to the conclusion that I need to fit in some part time work somewhere probably on Tuesdays and Sundays to help bring in a little more cash to pay for things. Every other day of the week I either have class or am volunteering down at the Heinz History Center Archives which I need to do because I wasn't able to get an internship through Pitt anywhere because I signed up too late for the program. I need to have experience so I can get a job down the line, you know?
So yah. I do like all the walking and stuff I have been doing though. I have been trying to take the stairs in my school building and parking farther away and walking to where ever. I also have been trying to bring back my little dance parties I used to have in High School where I would turn on the radio when I got home and dance around the living for an hour or so... it is good fun, cheap, exorcise...
Anyway, I have blah blahed for too long and now much venture over to look at lolcats and go "aaawwww"
Well, it has been a busy couple weeks weeks here I will say that. I was all excited about Halloween and trick or treaters, every place I have lived (not including my parent's house) there were no kiddies to wander around and harass people for candy so I thought I might get a chance this year what with living in a house in a neighborhood and such. So, I went out and bought a fair amount of candy, dressed up in my fakey Renaissance outfit and waited with the door pen so light could shine out as we have no outside porch light here. Well, I at least got 10 people! So, a slow start, but it made me happy to pass out candy.
I have had papers and projects coming up fast and furious the last few weeks also with midterms and everything else too. I just turned in a paper yesterday for my preservation class and the week before it was a paper for my intro to archives class. Whew! Next up are more papers for the class I hate (intro to information, designing a webpage as a project for the tech class, a final paper that should end up being around 20 pages for preservation and a lit review for archives as well as finals for some of these classes. I just need to schedule our time to remember to work on these more long term thingies so I don't lose sight of them and then freak out cuz they are due tomorrow or something.
We are really low on money this month already and we are only 3 days into it. That is because my car insurance decided to go up for no apparent reason and then go up even more because I didn't fill out some crap paper work special to Pennsylvania and so the bumped me up to having to pay maximum everything, which I called and bitched about and got those finally taken down (it was like 350 minimum payment this month or something) to the 75 a month minimum i have to ay now, which is silly to me as i was only paying 0 a month in Virginia and I haven't had any accidents or anything to raise my coverage...just moved to a crappy state for car insurance I guess.
Also, our landlord finally sent us a water bill. We were actually receiving them here but they were addressed to him and so we had to hand them off to him...and he just puts a photo copy in our mailbox and expects us to send the money to him instead of the water company...again some weird crap with Pennsylvania laws or whatever. So, we have our first one after being in this house since the end of July. yah.
Also, Daisy has an ear infection that has gotten really bad. We were trying to clean it out every day in hopes that it might just kinda go away (it has in the past) but no go. It is the worst one she has had so we took her to the vet yesterday to have it checked out. They refused to prescribe her meds until they saw her in a visit (35 bucks) and then they insisted on running a test on the junk that is built up in there to make sure it was the same kind of infection she has always gotten (another 35 bucks) and finally prescribed her some ear meds (another 35 bucks) so we can get her all happy and pink eared again. All in all, it was 110 dollars that we prolly needed for gas money, food, and bills that we had to give up yesterday for the dog. I just wish we were able to get the meds without the entire ordeal of everything else and them squeezing us for more money. they want to see her next week, which will not happen as I am not going to pay another 35 bucks for them to say whether her ear infection is still here or not, I can make that observation on my own for free, thanks.
So we have come to the conclusion that I need to fit in some part time work somewhere probably on Tuesdays and Sundays to help bring in a little more cash to pay for things. Every other day of the week I either have class or am volunteering down at the Heinz History Center Archives which I need to do because I wasn't able to get an internship through Pitt anywhere because I signed up too late for the program. I need to have experience so I can get a job down the line, you know?
So yah. I do like all the walking and stuff I have been doing though. I have been trying to take the stairs in my school building and parking farther away and walking to where ever. I also have been trying to bring back my little dance parties I used to have in High School where I would turn on the radio when I got home and dance around the living for an hour or so... it is good fun, cheap, exorcise...
Anyway, I have blah blahed for too long and now much venture over to look at lolcats and go "aaawwww"