As I've observed on numerous occasions before, renting sucks. It's a miserable experience in myriad ways ( Read more... )

A detailed review of the financial assessment from my loan officer revealed to me tonight that realistically speaking, I'm not going to be able to buy a house ( Read more... )

Well, my birthday plans were a bust, as they always manage to be somehow every year ( Read more... )

My incense came. I ordered a hundred sticks each (ten packs of ten) of Clove and Cinnamon. I'm very pleased with the scent and the quality. I'm enjoying being able to burn incense again. As it always has been, I've found it helps to cleanse undesirable smells from the air as well, though I'm still not sure why that works as well as it does.

Came home tonight to the delightful sound of dead silence. Apparently, the power flaked during the day.

However, it doesn't end there.

I went to restart the computers and other things that needed restarting, and I found that I couldn't the UPSes to go back on. The I noticed that the alarm clock in my bedroom was a third as bright as it's supposed to ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about buying a house, lately. Between the ads on the radio pimping foreclosed homes, and a bit of financial number-crunching, it looks that I could actually afford to buy a house up to about $80,000 with a 30-year mortgage ( Read more... )

Well, I was going to write a catch-up post for the last week and change after I posted the pics of the new place, so, here it is ( Read more... )

Here's some halfway decent-sized ones... I have larger, but I didn't want to go crazy:

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I got the apartment I was after in the previous post... now comes the fun part. I sign the lease on the 29th, and I need to be out of here before the 1st of the month so that I can get my rent for next month back from my current landlord. Packing sucks, as I'm sure all of you who have moved before are aware. Moving in general totally sucks ass, but ( Read more... )

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