I've always wondered....
I know it's been a long while since I have posted anything on LJ. I've been incredibly busy with finding a job, getting myself adjusted for school while teaching my daughter at home. The month of May was hell!
I'll give a re-cap what's been going on. In January, Pete's W-2 was returned to the corporate office because the post office decided that we didn't live here anymore. We fought this battle before and it's because the postal worker thought the house was abandoned because there was no car. Duh, the running air-conditioner and the cats in the window are a dead giveaway along with the radio noise...but I just think that the carrier was being lazy. I pay all my bills online so paper bills don't come to us like normal people. I guess that's what I get for living a hermetic lifestyle.
In February, we bought a car and Pete can't drive a stick. So the taxi service falls onto me again. I'm not complaining because let's face it, being without a car sucks. Everything works in this car including the AC so for $1800 dollars on a high mileage car with a lot of life still in her it's nothing to sneeze at. And it's pretty too! It's nice and silver and clean. XD She has her little quirks and we call her Butterfly Bullet. There's a story behind the name.
March has been interesting. Not only did we get a heatwave here, we also had a pretty interesting time dealing my landlady's attitude. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that my neighbors were blaming me for a lot of things that they were doing wrong and put me in a situation since 1) I keep to myself and 2) It's easy to point fingers at someone that doesn't know what's going on to lay the blame on. What we were being blamed for...high water bills. Now Yolanda knows for a fact now that we're not the cause of it since we took care of all of our leaks but that's not the real problem. You see, in the lease it said specifically no washers. Dryers we can have since we take care of the electric bill but the water is taken care of by the landlady Yolanda.
April was fine but slow. I've been sick most of that month from my poor diet which I had changed recently.
May, Pete's pay got screwed up and we were behind on some of our bills. That was...HELL. I had my vehicle registration coming up and I didn't have the money to pay for it until the beginning of June. We got it all straightened out now. THANK GOD!
June, just before I had to get the vehicle inspected, I had a sticking throttle. Not cool. Not only was it eating a lot of gas, it was revving very high and that's dangerous on the road in a stick shift. I was astute enough to adjust my driving to keep myself out of an accident but that was interesting. We managed to get it inspected in that condition but the situation had to be corrected quickly. Once we figured out why it was sticking, it was smooth after it was corrected which cost me a whole $12. I replaced the PCV valve, added some fuel system cleaner and used WD-40 on the throttle body. Easy fix.
I also discovered that a lot of jobs don't use paper applications anymore and those that do are privately owned companies or mom and pop stores. Any big companies are using online applications. Yikes! I put in one for Aaron's, Big Lots, Family Dollar, Auto Zone, Hartford, and Best Buy. My guess that I won't be called for any of them since I'm not bilingual. Maybe Auto Zone only because of the demographic that I'm female, white and in school. Big corporations like that prefer that you know someone and I happen to know the manager and three of the sales reps there so that's going to help. Plus it's close to home and I don't have the excuse to use that my car broke down. It's walking distance. It's literally down the block from where I live. It's a five minute walk and less than a minute drive.
We're planning on getting a second car for Pete so he has something to drive to and from work but for the time being, we're getting a bus pass for him just in case my hours don't allow me to pick him up from work. If I'm lucky, I'll get the day shift which means that I won't be away from home too long.
Anyway, for something fun, I took this online IQ test and scored a 115. For a few people that know me, the last time I did this test I scored a 109 which is slightly above average. According to the scale from this test, it placed me in the Superior percentile. It's below genius and this means that I'm smarter than 1 out of 6 people I meet. Well, that's not so bad. It's interesting to say the least but it's not a completely accurate score either since there are many forms of intelligence that this quick online test didn't cover and most of these tests are supposed to be given by a psychologist that accounts for age, sex, and location. Yes, this test did ask for those but it's still not accurate anyway. So that could mean that I'm dumber than what this online thing gave me.
Anyway, that's been my year in review.
I'll give a re-cap what's been going on. In January, Pete's W-2 was returned to the corporate office because the post office decided that we didn't live here anymore. We fought this battle before and it's because the postal worker thought the house was abandoned because there was no car. Duh, the running air-conditioner and the cats in the window are a dead giveaway along with the radio noise...but I just think that the carrier was being lazy. I pay all my bills online so paper bills don't come to us like normal people. I guess that's what I get for living a hermetic lifestyle.
In February, we bought a car and Pete can't drive a stick. So the taxi service falls onto me again. I'm not complaining because let's face it, being without a car sucks. Everything works in this car including the AC so for $1800 dollars on a high mileage car with a lot of life still in her it's nothing to sneeze at. And it's pretty too! It's nice and silver and clean. XD She has her little quirks and we call her Butterfly Bullet. There's a story behind the name.
March has been interesting. Not only did we get a heatwave here, we also had a pretty interesting time dealing my landlady's attitude. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that my neighbors were blaming me for a lot of things that they were doing wrong and put me in a situation since 1) I keep to myself and 2) It's easy to point fingers at someone that doesn't know what's going on to lay the blame on. What we were being blamed for...high water bills. Now Yolanda knows for a fact now that we're not the cause of it since we took care of all of our leaks but that's not the real problem. You see, in the lease it said specifically no washers. Dryers we can have since we take care of the electric bill but the water is taken care of by the landlady Yolanda.
April was fine but slow. I've been sick most of that month from my poor diet which I had changed recently.
May, Pete's pay got screwed up and we were behind on some of our bills. That was...HELL. I had my vehicle registration coming up and I didn't have the money to pay for it until the beginning of June. We got it all straightened out now. THANK GOD!
June, just before I had to get the vehicle inspected, I had a sticking throttle. Not cool. Not only was it eating a lot of gas, it was revving very high and that's dangerous on the road in a stick shift. I was astute enough to adjust my driving to keep myself out of an accident but that was interesting. We managed to get it inspected in that condition but the situation had to be corrected quickly. Once we figured out why it was sticking, it was smooth after it was corrected which cost me a whole $12. I replaced the PCV valve, added some fuel system cleaner and used WD-40 on the throttle body. Easy fix.
I also discovered that a lot of jobs don't use paper applications anymore and those that do are privately owned companies or mom and pop stores. Any big companies are using online applications. Yikes! I put in one for Aaron's, Big Lots, Family Dollar, Auto Zone, Hartford, and Best Buy. My guess that I won't be called for any of them since I'm not bilingual. Maybe Auto Zone only because of the demographic that I'm female, white and in school. Big corporations like that prefer that you know someone and I happen to know the manager and three of the sales reps there so that's going to help. Plus it's close to home and I don't have the excuse to use that my car broke down. It's walking distance. It's literally down the block from where I live. It's a five minute walk and less than a minute drive.
We're planning on getting a second car for Pete so he has something to drive to and from work but for the time being, we're getting a bus pass for him just in case my hours don't allow me to pick him up from work. If I'm lucky, I'll get the day shift which means that I won't be away from home too long.
Anyway, for something fun, I took this online IQ test and scored a 115. For a few people that know me, the last time I did this test I scored a 109 which is slightly above average. According to the scale from this test, it placed me in the Superior percentile. It's below genius and this means that I'm smarter than 1 out of 6 people I meet. Well, that's not so bad. It's interesting to say the least but it's not a completely accurate score either since there are many forms of intelligence that this quick online test didn't cover and most of these tests are supposed to be given by a psychologist that accounts for age, sex, and location. Yes, this test did ask for those but it's still not accurate anyway. So that could mean that I'm dumber than what this online thing gave me.
Anyway, that's been my year in review.