Jul 10, 2003 13:19
so much shit has happened in the past few days that i haven't written about.
so a few days ago i was woken up by lauren's answering machine. it was my father saying something about my dogs, so naturally i woke up. i called him back. he tells me that when he and erin go to work at night (they work 7p-7a) the dogs bark all through the night.. bark and howl.. and their neighbors, who are snobs and have sticks shoved up their asses, apparently called animal control. now... he says that you're not allowed to have more than 2 dogs, and if you do, you have to get permission from your neighbors. never heard of this before, but ok. he tells me that i have to find a home for my dogs. naturally i'm freaking out considering all i can think of is that i can't have the dogs, they are going to be too damn loud for me in an apartment, i'll get kicked out. my mom can't take them because her neighbors complain about cosmo barking while she's at work during the day. and i certainly don't know anyone else who would want 2 dogs who no one else could love but me, my mom, and my dad (and our significant others). then i hear him talking to erin, saying "no.. i can't tell her that, you tell her that" ..uh oh.. then erin gets on the phone.. and says.. "if you don't get these dogs in a week i'm going to give them to someone in missoula." oh isn't that nice. now after speaking with my dad about this.. he tells me that this was supposed to keep me from "sitting on my thumbs" and not doing anything... well i don't know i think he could have done it in a way that didn't reallllly piss me off and make me cry so hard i couldn't fucking breathe! why would he let erin say that to me considering I CANNOT PHYSICALLY buy a plane ticket for 1 week, I CANNOT get off work in one week, and i CANNOT find a place for them to go in one week!! yikes! so i was pissed off. i called my mom crying so hard, because all i could think was oh my god. im never gonna see my dogs again. so i talked to her and she calmed me down a bit and gave me some ideas of where they could go. she was actually being really awesome. it turned out i decided i would just move out sooner than i expected and i would go get the dogs. so i called my dad and left this message that was considered rude... but i was just upset, and i guess he didn't understand that for some reason. so he called me the next morning and screamed at me. i mean, the crazy scream where he doesn't let me get more than 2 words in, he laughs at me when i cry... and i was crying so hard. i haven't cried that hard in a while. i couldnt even breathe. he even had the nerve to tell me i act like my mother. wow that's getting a little played out... but anyway, we made up and yadda yadda.. he's going to ship them to me on august 1st hopefully.
so this kicked my ass in gear to find a place that will accept 2 small dogs and will let me move in almost immediately. i found this place in lindenwold called the pines. it looked pretty sweet in the magazine, the prices were kick ass.. yeah. so lauren and i went yesterday. not only did it take us fucking 8 years to get there... but a LOT of the people were african-american and hispanic. i'm sorry.. i am not a prejudiced person in any way.. i just don't feel comfortable in a community where i am the minority and where it looks like i'm going to get mugged. it's supposed to be my home, you know? well.. it was scurrrry. but we looked inside the sample home and it was AWESOME. but we decided it would be dumb to live there considering we wouldnt feel comfortable, especially at night when we had to walk the dogs or something and there's a drug deal happening two feet away.. nooo. and we'd have to drive really far to work. it seriously took us about an hour and a half to get there in the traffic. it was awful. so anyway, we filled out applications and she said she'd call us tomorrow (today)..and she did. she was like "congratulations! you both have been approved for an apartment. now all you have to do is bring in the $250 and you can pick out an apartment today!" oh my god. if that didnt tempt me. i even called lauren at work to make her talk me out of it again, because i want to move out sooo bad to my own place. and plus, my dawggies are comin soon (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!) and i want them to have a home with me right away. because if not, they're gonna either have to stay with my mom or with mrs. bender trapped in a bedroom with her and a bunch of fucking cats. do you KNOW how bad foxy and nina will be around their billions of cats? they are sooo annoying around cats. all they do is sniff them and freak out! but oh well, whatever.
so when lauren gets home we're going right to fox meadow to put in our application and application fee. i called and they said the earliest we could move in would be august 8th. not too bad.
ok enough about my problems, listen to what we did last night.
so we finally got to chill with jenn and steve again!!! it was awesome. steve was driving and he took us to some park in haddonfield at like 9. we chilled there for like, half hour..we nayha'd.. and talked.. roach blunt actually.. there were some scary ass bullfrogs making some weird noises... it was chill as hell though. then we went to scary road 2. we drove through it and nayha'd.. then we went through a second time and stopped and got out of the car. we walked down this sandy road.. it was kinda quick sandish.. and then we walked into the middle of an open field. it was sooo scary!! you can barely see what's in front of you. then we went to wendy's and scarfed. then steve took jenn home.. shannon was supposedly having a party for laura, according to allan..so around 12:30ish we stopped over shannon's but no one was there! so then we went with steve to brian and allan's and nayha'd some more.. it was lots and lots of fun.
but anyway, i'm happy. i'm a little stressed out, but i'm really happy. this coming tuesday my mom is coming to hang out with me and lauren and we're gonna get stuff for the apartment and maybe look for a couch or something.. yeehawww! i'm so excited to get my own place. my mom's also giving us a lot of furniture from our old house.. <3 i loved that house. she's giving us 2 glass end tables, a coffee table, a bunch of lamps, blankets, and towels.. woohoooo. my mom has been awesome. i think she's off da pillz.
i have work in 2 hours. i am so fucking impressed with myself. i have actually been banking my tips!! every day i work, before i go home i take whatever i don't NEED for gas or cigs or anything and i put it in the bank. yesterday i put in $53.00! i'm so proud! im actually saving money. and i get a paycheck tomorrrrowwwww wooohoooooooo!