The Curse of Calenders and Check Books (It's a combined curse!!!!)
Well the impossible has happened, ladies and gentleman. I, Dustin Danger Northrop, bought a calender.
*waits*
Oh, maybe you guys don't get what that means. ;) I have for as long as I can remember, have fought, kicking and screaming, against calenders. I HATE THEM. I hate feeling constrained. Feeling like I don't have control over what I do, that some...piece of...paper...plots out my life. *laughs!* I know, it sounds pretty dumb...it sounds REAL dumb, but that's how I've always looked at it.
I would just shake my head and sigh watching people with 'planners' and stuff. See all their days all scribbed out.
Well things have gotten out of hands with my bills, and the easiest way for me to deal with them is well...*coughs* a calender. *Coughs*
And I'm pleasantly surprised. While buying the damned thing, I thought I wouldn't have anything to write on it. BUT...I've already put all my paydays of the week on it. I have a record of my hours for the past week. (I think I was shorted an hour!) I wrote my first bill of the month's due date. (And the AMOUNT!)
NOT ONLY THAT, true believers, but I also dusted off the old checkbook...with it's one entry. (Of five hundred dollars. I believe that was the end of a paycheck or SOMETHING. Maybe a refund check from school??) This bad boy will now always be with me. You have no idea the pure JOY I had balancing it just from the last few days!!!
OTHER NEWS: Apparantly I'm being ushered in as the new webmaster for the GameZone's Website. I had jumped at the idea of managing the website. It was interesting how when brought up in front of Steve, he had to interject, "I know more HTML than you!". It gave me pause and made me kind of angry. It's true he knows more of it, from a server side. He managed what little of his site, "surreal genius" that had taken off. But I arguably have designed and edited far, far more actual pages. My CSS is strong, grasshopper. *flexes*
ANYWAYS, I don't know if Staci and Jeff realizes it, but soon I will have an incredible amount of power. The web site is our only link to the inter-webs. And if the store ever expands into other realms...I'll be the online presence managing it. *grins* So it's all very exciting for me, and a great thing to put on a resumé. (Webpage Designer of an Offical Business)
Karleen is back, online at least, and I'm glad. She sounded super happy in her last entry, which is good and gives me pause. None of the people who were worried about her got any kind of response on her old entry. I haven't gotten a response back on my message to her. Seeing her so down, and then SO happy, kinda reminds me of my own kinda manic swings I can go through. (Which I'm sure gives everyone ELSE pause. *laughs*) Not hearing from her kinda hurts my feelings, because I am and was worried about her. I think I'll give her a call on Tuesday, my first day off this week (and first off in like, a week SOLID!!!) and see if she wants to hang out. Like I said to her at one point, "I miss your face." (Hmm...sounds like something my mom would say.)
E3 came up again, and it went somewhere. Jeff and Staci will be paying for tickets for Steve, Josh, and myself to go. Expenses include airfare (288+ taxes), room (240 for the trip, less if Josh goes), Food (I estimate a 100), and entertainment. (Hookers and Blow, who knows? j/k, j/k!!!!)
HOW...will I pay for this all, you may be asking yourselves!?!? *grins evily*
TAX RETURN. That's right, within this week, I'll have the tax information from Staci and Jeff. And Tuesday I'm going to go request my information from Howies. While I'm sure that this won't cover the whole trip, I might as well have an idea of what kinda of 'help' I'm getting! ;) THEN I ATTACK! Mwahahahahaha!
My friend who closed her journal, AIMed me again while I was away. She asked me to delete her journal as a favor to her. Well, I enjoy her and I'm kinda at an odds on what to do. Part of me thinks feels like I should open my journal up again to anonymous posting. This would allow her a forum to comment in again, anonymously, and I'd have my friend back in contact with me. (Because obviously, she's still reading me, like you, true believers.) I don't even know if she's a 'real' person, or just a persona used to get under my skin and through my protective out layer, but the idea of keeping in touch with her makes me...smile to think of it, so I'll think about this a bit. I should un-ban my brother...his stubborn-ness to not be silenced here, to not give up on me, makes me very proud. *smiles* You're a good man, Everett, and I'm sure one day you will go on to do great things, both big and small. :D
Well...this turned out to be a long read. I look forward to your comments. :)
*waits*
Oh, maybe you guys don't get what that means. ;) I have for as long as I can remember, have fought, kicking and screaming, against calenders. I HATE THEM. I hate feeling constrained. Feeling like I don't have control over what I do, that some...piece of...paper...plots out my life. *laughs!* I know, it sounds pretty dumb...it sounds REAL dumb, but that's how I've always looked at it.
I would just shake my head and sigh watching people with 'planners' and stuff. See all their days all scribbed out.
Well things have gotten out of hands with my bills, and the easiest way for me to deal with them is well...*coughs* a calender. *Coughs*
And I'm pleasantly surprised. While buying the damned thing, I thought I wouldn't have anything to write on it. BUT...I've already put all my paydays of the week on it. I have a record of my hours for the past week. (I think I was shorted an hour!) I wrote my first bill of the month's due date. (And the AMOUNT!)
NOT ONLY THAT, true believers, but I also dusted off the old checkbook...with it's one entry. (Of five hundred dollars. I believe that was the end of a paycheck or SOMETHING. Maybe a refund check from school??) This bad boy will now always be with me. You have no idea the pure JOY I had balancing it just from the last few days!!!
OTHER NEWS: Apparantly I'm being ushered in as the new webmaster for the GameZone's Website. I had jumped at the idea of managing the website. It was interesting how when brought up in front of Steve, he had to interject, "I know more HTML than you!". It gave me pause and made me kind of angry. It's true he knows more of it, from a server side. He managed what little of his site, "surreal genius" that had taken off. But I arguably have designed and edited far, far more actual pages. My CSS is strong, grasshopper. *flexes*
ANYWAYS, I don't know if Staci and Jeff realizes it, but soon I will have an incredible amount of power. The web site is our only link to the inter-webs. And if the store ever expands into other realms...I'll be the online presence managing it. *grins* So it's all very exciting for me, and a great thing to put on a resumé. (Webpage Designer of an Offical Business)
Karleen is back, online at least, and I'm glad. She sounded super happy in her last entry, which is good and gives me pause. None of the people who were worried about her got any kind of response on her old entry. I haven't gotten a response back on my message to her. Seeing her so down, and then SO happy, kinda reminds me of my own kinda manic swings I can go through. (Which I'm sure gives everyone ELSE pause. *laughs*) Not hearing from her kinda hurts my feelings, because I am and was worried about her. I think I'll give her a call on Tuesday, my first day off this week (and first off in like, a week SOLID!!!) and see if she wants to hang out. Like I said to her at one point, "I miss your face." (Hmm...sounds like something my mom would say.)
E3 came up again, and it went somewhere. Jeff and Staci will be paying for tickets for Steve, Josh, and myself to go. Expenses include airfare (288+ taxes), room (240 for the trip, less if Josh goes), Food (I estimate a 100), and entertainment. (Hookers and Blow, who knows? j/k, j/k!!!!)
HOW...will I pay for this all, you may be asking yourselves!?!? *grins evily*
TAX RETURN. That's right, within this week, I'll have the tax information from Staci and Jeff. And Tuesday I'm going to go request my information from Howies. While I'm sure that this won't cover the whole trip, I might as well have an idea of what kinda of 'help' I'm getting! ;) THEN I ATTACK! Mwahahahahaha!
My friend who closed her journal, AIMed me again while I was away. She asked me to delete her journal as a favor to her. Well, I enjoy her and I'm kinda at an odds on what to do. Part of me thinks feels like I should open my journal up again to anonymous posting. This would allow her a forum to comment in again, anonymously, and I'd have my friend back in contact with me. (Because obviously, she's still reading me, like you, true believers.) I don't even know if she's a 'real' person, or just a persona used to get under my skin and through my protective out layer, but the idea of keeping in touch with her makes me...smile to think of it, so I'll think about this a bit. I should un-ban my brother...his stubborn-ness to not be silenced here, to not give up on me, makes me very proud. *smiles* You're a good man, Everett, and I'm sure one day you will go on to do great things, both big and small. :D
Well...this turned out to be a long read. I look forward to your comments. :)