A coworker of mine convinced me to drive with her up to West Virginia to check out this cheap grocery store that her cable guy referred her to. First of all, its her CABLE guy. Its like taking culinary advice from your plumber and his ass crack! Ive learned to be wary of cheap stores such as Bottom Dollar, Dollar General, and KMart because we ( Read more... )

Is to pay off my car loan! I just keep thinking to myself of all the monetary restrictions I would be able to lift if I could juuuust pay it off. Oh, and get a huge fat raise ( Read more... )

Just a few good bits of news first ( Read more... )

It comes to mind that I have failed to update my journal.. for a while. So, heres the update: I have a new job as an assistant for a veterinary neurologist. This essentially means that I do all the bitch work - what no one else feels like doing, generally. I clean the surgical instruments, the OR, poopy dog butts (if I’m lucky) and other ( Read more... )

After two and a half years of working for Petsmart, though a change of departments where I do approximately an eighth of the work I did in aquatics, getting twice the praise for doing it, I find myself with the job title and pay I’ve wanted all along. This naturally means that I finally got the promotion that I was promised back in December and got ( Read more... )

Most of the time we all float through life barely noticing the changes that occur. Not necessarily because we chose not to notice, but because things change so gradually that it simply doesn’t occur to you until some random autumn day. Today is that day ( Read more... )

(  Because surveys are fun even though the numbers are messed up! )

Life has become a frenzy of work, money, trying to find my own place and those trifling wee troublesome things like sleeping and eating. While I thoroughly miss the enjoyment of consuming delicious food and properly appreciating it, I find myself shoveling half a jar of olives and frozen/dried fruit into my mouth while topping it off with a hardy ( Read more... )

As official as official can be, I am now the proud owner of a degree. That is to mean, they sent me the actual piece of paper, complete with Shepherd coloured ribbon. ..wonder how long it’ll take them to realize I still owe them money ( Read more... )

Shortly after Lonan went off Baytril for his ear infection, his health was clearly declining rapidly. So much that I was extremely concerned for his comfort at least. One night, I concluded to give him a dose of Meloxicam which is a painkiller that he’d been off of for a week or so. That night he died and it ripped my heart out ( Read more... )