One Year Anniversary
Kept meaning to write about this, but I keep forgetting… anyway, this month (about the middle, not sure off-hand about the exact date), marks my ONE YEAR anniversary of being out on my own and in this apartment complex. It’s hard to believe a whole year has gone by. Time to take stock and reflect. For one thing, the apartment still kind of sparsely decorated… most of the wall space is pretty bare, mainly cause I haven’t had too much extra for decorations. Oh, I’ve hung up a few new picture frames here and there (had one fall off, and I realized why it was so cheap--mainly cause it broke on impact and was useless), but that’s about. And when I did have extra for possible decorating supplies, I couldn’t find anything that interested me (I’m not about to hang up paintings of flowers, or pictures of dramatic looking teddy bears.)
Ahh, but that’s just all silly rambling… time to talk about the real issues. All in all, I’m VERY glad to be out on my own. I think my self-esteem has gone up a bit from being out under my parents house. Don’t have to deal with the issues around their “parties” or “company”. I don’t have to deal with feeling like I’m dead weight because I haven’t helped out with the rent (course, I still owe them money for various car repairs, but that’s beside the point.) Yeah, it’s lonely here by myself, but hell, it was lonely there as well. I can go where I want and not have to worry about answering silly questions, I can sleep in on my days off and not feel I have to get up “just because”.
Now, if I only I could take advantage of the whole “inviting whoever I want over” thing (that or had extra dough to hire some strippers.)
Shoot, speaking of money, I just realized there’s some bills I kind of need to make payments on, in addition to all the other stuff, I need/want. Dang, dang, dang… never seems to end with all these “things I owe money for”, not to mention there’s still that college loan I barely started making payments on. Yeah, it’s in deferment, but that’s only for a year (think that’s up this summer.)
Okay, back to the moving out thing… is there anything I miss? This is gonna sound really self-centered and horrible, but I miss the washer and dryer at the house. The dryer’s here really suck, and rarely seem to get my clothes dry in one go. Sometimes I stop by mom and Jim places and do my laundry there, but I try not make a habit of it, unless I’m going to be there for another reason, like we’re going to have dinner together or watch a film. I miss the home cooked meals. Mom could fix some great things that I haven’t been able to quite master yet. Plus they buy things that are slightly out of my budget (nothing exotic mind you, just certain meats and stuff I don’t get cause they cost a bit and I know I’d eat all or most of it in setting.)
I miss having satellite… most of the time I’m fine without it, but there’s a few shoes I kind miss keeping up with.
Gosh, talking about moving out and I say I miss food, laundry and satellite TV… that sounds really bad, doesn’t it?
Okay, on the apartment… good and bad… good having my own place, and there’s a decent amount of space here, my ceiling is taller than my old room, so that’s good. Couple downsides… I know a lot of the people here, and most of them are friendly, but I wouldn’t say I’m particularly close to any of them. Lots of them I try to talk a bit and they just don’t seem interested in casual conversation. The noise bugs me on occasion… you hear conversations in the hallway, occasional stuff from my neighbors, (our rooms are connected by a vent in the bathroom, sometimes it sounds like they’re right next to me, even thought they’re down hall), construction, barking dogs, visiting children playing loudly and other things going on outside.
All in all though, I think it’s an improvement. I just wish I could get more going on the job situation, get a better one with more hours and a larger paycheck. That way I could start paying off bills and saving to move out (or even moving somewhere else.) Right now I’m much living paycheck to paycheck…
Which brings me back to money… Okay, let me think, things I could use, things I need to pay off… Still gotta pay the phone/internet bill, need to pay my insurance bill, got the car registration, but I think I’ll wait on that, it’s not due till the end of February, I think I can scrap that together in January. Maybe I should try and set aside $20 or so this month. Okay, gonna pay $20 to the medical supply group, as I haven’t paid them anything in several months and want to make sure they don’t call a creditor on me or some shit. Gonna ten for the eye doctor bill… and I guess that does it for the bills.
I was really hope to get something for myself this month, got a couple items on my list I could use.. List a CD-ROM drive (mine broke on me), some new shirts, maybe a flash drive (I guess wait on that one though for sure.) Shoot, just remembered, also need to get some more trash bags, razor blades, dishwashing soap, and eventually, some more toilet paper.
It’s funny, back during the summer, I saw an IGA ad for a special they had going, a pack of 24 rolls of toilet paper for like $4.99. Since there wasn’t an IGA nearby, I took that ad to a Wal-Mart and I bought TWO packages. Now, here it is December and I’m just NOW starting to run low on TP. Hehe!
Ahh, but that’s just all silly rambling… time to talk about the real issues. All in all, I’m VERY glad to be out on my own. I think my self-esteem has gone up a bit from being out under my parents house. Don’t have to deal with the issues around their “parties” or “company”. I don’t have to deal with feeling like I’m dead weight because I haven’t helped out with the rent (course, I still owe them money for various car repairs, but that’s beside the point.) Yeah, it’s lonely here by myself, but hell, it was lonely there as well. I can go where I want and not have to worry about answering silly questions, I can sleep in on my days off and not feel I have to get up “just because”.
Now, if I only I could take advantage of the whole “inviting whoever I want over” thing (that or had extra dough to hire some strippers.)
Shoot, speaking of money, I just realized there’s some bills I kind of need to make payments on, in addition to all the other stuff, I need/want. Dang, dang, dang… never seems to end with all these “things I owe money for”, not to mention there’s still that college loan I barely started making payments on. Yeah, it’s in deferment, but that’s only for a year (think that’s up this summer.)
Okay, back to the moving out thing… is there anything I miss? This is gonna sound really self-centered and horrible, but I miss the washer and dryer at the house. The dryer’s here really suck, and rarely seem to get my clothes dry in one go. Sometimes I stop by mom and Jim places and do my laundry there, but I try not make a habit of it, unless I’m going to be there for another reason, like we’re going to have dinner together or watch a film. I miss the home cooked meals. Mom could fix some great things that I haven’t been able to quite master yet. Plus they buy things that are slightly out of my budget (nothing exotic mind you, just certain meats and stuff I don’t get cause they cost a bit and I know I’d eat all or most of it in setting.)
I miss having satellite… most of the time I’m fine without it, but there’s a few shoes I kind miss keeping up with.
Gosh, talking about moving out and I say I miss food, laundry and satellite TV… that sounds really bad, doesn’t it?
Okay, on the apartment… good and bad… good having my own place, and there’s a decent amount of space here, my ceiling is taller than my old room, so that’s good. Couple downsides… I know a lot of the people here, and most of them are friendly, but I wouldn’t say I’m particularly close to any of them. Lots of them I try to talk a bit and they just don’t seem interested in casual conversation. The noise bugs me on occasion… you hear conversations in the hallway, occasional stuff from my neighbors, (our rooms are connected by a vent in the bathroom, sometimes it sounds like they’re right next to me, even thought they’re down hall), construction, barking dogs, visiting children playing loudly and other things going on outside.
All in all though, I think it’s an improvement. I just wish I could get more going on the job situation, get a better one with more hours and a larger paycheck. That way I could start paying off bills and saving to move out (or even moving somewhere else.) Right now I’m much living paycheck to paycheck…
Which brings me back to money… Okay, let me think, things I could use, things I need to pay off… Still gotta pay the phone/internet bill, need to pay my insurance bill, got the car registration, but I think I’ll wait on that, it’s not due till the end of February, I think I can scrap that together in January. Maybe I should try and set aside $20 or so this month. Okay, gonna pay $20 to the medical supply group, as I haven’t paid them anything in several months and want to make sure they don’t call a creditor on me or some shit. Gonna ten for the eye doctor bill… and I guess that does it for the bills.
I was really hope to get something for myself this month, got a couple items on my list I could use.. List a CD-ROM drive (mine broke on me), some new shirts, maybe a flash drive (I guess wait on that one though for sure.) Shoot, just remembered, also need to get some more trash bags, razor blades, dishwashing soap, and eventually, some more toilet paper.
It’s funny, back during the summer, I saw an IGA ad for a special they had going, a pack of 24 rolls of toilet paper for like $4.99. Since there wasn’t an IGA nearby, I took that ad to a Wal-Mart and I bought TWO packages. Now, here it is December and I’m just NOW starting to run low on TP. Hehe!