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editor's note: this journal's date was messed up because my computer is stupid. I therefore am having to make one up. I don't know what day or time I actually write this entry, only that it was some day prior to this edit. sorry.
it has been called to my attention (by the most unlikely of readers, might I add) that it's time for me to update. so, here it is. for those of you who haven't looked over my virtual shoulder in a while, I'm still living in indy with josh, still working at the daycare (but with a plan for leaving there that will be explained in greater detail momentarily), still attempting to be damage-control for my parent's divorce from 4 states away, and still not having a damn clue what I want to do with myself. now that you're caught up, you may go, or continue reading if you feel like it.
let's see, to leave the daycare. well, I figured it all up, and leaving the ass-end of june will give me both the opportunity to take a week to go down for marc's wedding (even though I put in for the vacay months ago just in case I was still working there) and then to take another week-ish off for myself before starting a new job. with my 2 year anniversary in late april, I'll be entitled to 2 weeks' paid vacation, so there's a chunk of money, and I recently received a statement saying that I have roughly 800 in 401k, which will also be returned to me should I leave lpa. that alone will cover a month off of work, without figuring in the last paycheck I'll receive like 3 weeks after my last day. it was going to be an even greater sum than that, but I got sick, so my third march check will be minimal and spent on lab test bills, and then we found out i owe taxes instead of getting any back. SO it'll just be the 800 and 500, but that's fair enough. funny how I don't have access to that money till I actually quit :-P
don't know where I'll be getting a new job, but I gotta start looking in may. it'll be a money move, so I'm looking at maybe insurance or something similar, just to line the bank account a bit. and it'll have to be the end of june that's my last day, because any sooner than that and I'm afraid that they'll try to con me out of my vacation pay, and any later and I'll have to take a week of it for going to marc's wedding instead, which I don't want to do. so.
I'm getting sort of annoyed that everyone I know is single and wanting to party, married and pregnant, or trying to plan a wedding. where are all the living-together-but-not-getting-married-just-yet couples that I could be friends with? it's just hard to be friends with people who are at a different stage in life than yourself, you know? *sighs*
and that game. don't even get me started. I feel like I'm in guild wars instead of wow, whatwith the guild nonsense that's been going on lately. I'm thinking of levelling an alt on another server, because damn, I don't even like logging in anymore. it's stupid. I wanna make a lock named lewstherin and start a guild called the hundred companions. :-D
anything else going on right now? hrm... dad and curtis are scheduled to move to probably the fishers area the end of the month, so I'll have my baby brother back. that'll be nice. but it would be nice if mom would bring the little boys back, too. damnitall, but I keep thinking i should try to get custody. I know their lives are hell right now, and she goes and leaves them frequently, to go watch a movie at lee's house. so they're home alone, to do homework and make dinner and put themselves to bed. and their grades are falling, brent's in junior high and has no friends, and I just want to wrap him up and tuck him away in my guest room and help him through all of it. parker, he'll be fine, I think. he's a tough cookie, and he's never been the geek in the family. but brent, man, he's fragile, and... I just wish I could do something for him. alas and alack.
let me tell you a story about laundry. they've been redoing all the laundry rooms at the complex, so it's nicer now than it was, which is cool, because the laundromat we like to go to is all the way on west tenth street, and it's sort of a pain in the ass to go all the way over there. one of the complications with being able to go around the corner of the building to do laundry, however, is that it IS a work in progress. so even though it appears done, sometimes we don't have hot water in our building, or water at all, or the washer will run hot when you tell it cold and viceversa. for example, the other night, we did a load here at the apartment, in the community laundry room, you know, and when we went to put it in the dryer, it wasn't rinsing, it appeared to be stuck on the rinse cycyle. well, there wasn't any soap left on the laundry, like maybe it got stuck at the end of rinse. so we were able to dry it, anyway, while the washer stayed stuck on "rinse". the next day, when paying the rent, josh told them about it at the office, and they said they'd look at it. so I tried to put a load of laundry in just now. I thought I'd surprise josh and have it done so we don't have to worry about it tonight. so I put the laundry in, put the soap in, filled the downy ball, left the top up (so I could check on the water temp) and tried to put the quarters in. machine wouldn't take them. I thought, well, it's because I still have the lid open. closed the lid, and tell me, WHY did the machine STILL say it was stuck on rinse? so now, I have a load of soapy laundry in the washer. I tried going to the office, but apparently they don't open until 1 on sundays. so. I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. there. now I've bitched to someone about it.
mom just called. curt mentioned to her that he might need to stay with us for a little while. we'll see how that goes. I love my brother, but I'm telling you, when he decides to be a jerk, he can make me more upset than anyone I know. maybe if he wants to help with the rent, though... we could use the extra money... hrm... oh well, we'll see.
RGH! why isn't it one o'clock yet? I think I'll go read until the office opens up. don't forget to spay and neuter your pets, and be good to each other, and remember kids, I love you.
it has been called to my attention (by the most unlikely of readers, might I add) that it's time for me to update. so, here it is. for those of you who haven't looked over my virtual shoulder in a while, I'm still living in indy with josh, still working at the daycare (but with a plan for leaving there that will be explained in greater detail momentarily), still attempting to be damage-control for my parent's divorce from 4 states away, and still not having a damn clue what I want to do with myself. now that you're caught up, you may go, or continue reading if you feel like it.
let's see, to leave the daycare. well, I figured it all up, and leaving the ass-end of june will give me both the opportunity to take a week to go down for marc's wedding (even though I put in for the vacay months ago just in case I was still working there) and then to take another week-ish off for myself before starting a new job. with my 2 year anniversary in late april, I'll be entitled to 2 weeks' paid vacation, so there's a chunk of money, and I recently received a statement saying that I have roughly 800 in 401k, which will also be returned to me should I leave lpa. that alone will cover a month off of work, without figuring in the last paycheck I'll receive like 3 weeks after my last day. it was going to be an even greater sum than that, but I got sick, so my third march check will be minimal and spent on lab test bills, and then we found out i owe taxes instead of getting any back. SO it'll just be the 800 and 500, but that's fair enough. funny how I don't have access to that money till I actually quit :-P
don't know where I'll be getting a new job, but I gotta start looking in may. it'll be a money move, so I'm looking at maybe insurance or something similar, just to line the bank account a bit. and it'll have to be the end of june that's my last day, because any sooner than that and I'm afraid that they'll try to con me out of my vacation pay, and any later and I'll have to take a week of it for going to marc's wedding instead, which I don't want to do. so.
I'm getting sort of annoyed that everyone I know is single and wanting to party, married and pregnant, or trying to plan a wedding. where are all the living-together-but-not-getting-married-just-yet couples that I could be friends with? it's just hard to be friends with people who are at a different stage in life than yourself, you know? *sighs*
and that game. don't even get me started. I feel like I'm in guild wars instead of wow, whatwith the guild nonsense that's been going on lately. I'm thinking of levelling an alt on another server, because damn, I don't even like logging in anymore. it's stupid. I wanna make a lock named lewstherin and start a guild called the hundred companions. :-D
anything else going on right now? hrm... dad and curtis are scheduled to move to probably the fishers area the end of the month, so I'll have my baby brother back. that'll be nice. but it would be nice if mom would bring the little boys back, too. damnitall, but I keep thinking i should try to get custody. I know their lives are hell right now, and she goes and leaves them frequently, to go watch a movie at lee's house. so they're home alone, to do homework and make dinner and put themselves to bed. and their grades are falling, brent's in junior high and has no friends, and I just want to wrap him up and tuck him away in my guest room and help him through all of it. parker, he'll be fine, I think. he's a tough cookie, and he's never been the geek in the family. but brent, man, he's fragile, and... I just wish I could do something for him. alas and alack.
let me tell you a story about laundry. they've been redoing all the laundry rooms at the complex, so it's nicer now than it was, which is cool, because the laundromat we like to go to is all the way on west tenth street, and it's sort of a pain in the ass to go all the way over there. one of the complications with being able to go around the corner of the building to do laundry, however, is that it IS a work in progress. so even though it appears done, sometimes we don't have hot water in our building, or water at all, or the washer will run hot when you tell it cold and viceversa. for example, the other night, we did a load here at the apartment, in the community laundry room, you know, and when we went to put it in the dryer, it wasn't rinsing, it appeared to be stuck on the rinse cycyle. well, there wasn't any soap left on the laundry, like maybe it got stuck at the end of rinse. so we were able to dry it, anyway, while the washer stayed stuck on "rinse". the next day, when paying the rent, josh told them about it at the office, and they said they'd look at it. so I tried to put a load of laundry in just now. I thought I'd surprise josh and have it done so we don't have to worry about it tonight. so I put the laundry in, put the soap in, filled the downy ball, left the top up (so I could check on the water temp) and tried to put the quarters in. machine wouldn't take them. I thought, well, it's because I still have the lid open. closed the lid, and tell me, WHY did the machine STILL say it was stuck on rinse? so now, I have a load of soapy laundry in the washer. I tried going to the office, but apparently they don't open until 1 on sundays. so. I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. there. now I've bitched to someone about it.
mom just called. curt mentioned to her that he might need to stay with us for a little while. we'll see how that goes. I love my brother, but I'm telling you, when he decides to be a jerk, he can make me more upset than anyone I know. maybe if he wants to help with the rent, though... we could use the extra money... hrm... oh well, we'll see.
RGH! why isn't it one o'clock yet? I think I'll go read until the office opens up. don't forget to spay and neuter your pets, and be good to each other, and remember kids, I love you.