So. My stepsister/ex-roomate exraordinaire has left. For grad school. Has her own apartment waiting for her. Kinda...permanent and all.

It sorta just hit me. I mean, i saw the boxes and stuff disappearing. I knew she was leaving. But I don't think I totally registered how truly permanent it was going to be.

Not to mention she took the nice cat of the two. And yes, while the cat she took was hers, and the one that was left behind is mine, mine's just annoying. -_-;;;

So yeah. She's gone. And I have all this space that I will end up usurping but it's strange. Makes me want to escape even more to my own place. But I require a lot more $ squirreled away before I attempt that. I have calculations that put my total expenses for the month including the must-have internet around $800 and...it's just not time for that. That's my two paychecks plus other money presumably in the bank. The logical thing is to rent with a roomie, bring the cost down.

I just don't have any good friends like that I'd considering rooming with other than like, my brother. And he did show interest--just after college. Which will be in like...3 years from now. Ironically, I'll be off my stepdad's insurance by then. Oh, the joys of life.

So yeah. Trying to save a bit more for when I will inevitably break into saved stuff. It's just a little hard sometimes.

After much travail including lost phone number and receipt things i have managed to change my damnable mail-in paid loan to an online payment. It's automatic and this does not worry me because i know, that I will always have 40 dollars in my bank account.

But I was kind freaking out this week because I emailed them two days ago and my usual due-date is the fifteenth. (And I really didn't want to mail in another check with a note why I didn't have the stupid receipt book.) That and I've been horrible about remembering to send them so they're received on time, so automatic online payment is more insurance to it...getting received on time.

I think I'll go make some cake batter cookies now. :)

Also, I kind of really want to dye my hair fuschia. I normally loathe that color but...I just feel the need for funky brightness in my hair. Not really ready for pink and all the bleaching it requires. Kind of thinking of purple. I rocked that hard twice my senior year, it was pretty cool.

So yeah, something between bright fuschia and purple...

So I already did this on the Hollywood Bowl General Chatter forum but might as well do it here. Re-posted, word for word:


Okay, so, I'll start off with this: I'm stupid. I've managed to become some kind of crazy workaholic and when I originally booked my flight hotel (vacation package; expedia.com) I had it booked for arriving at noon on the 17th, one night at Hollywood Best Western and checking out on the 18th with my flight leaving at 6am. <_<

My coworkers pointed out how incredibly insane that was, and suggested I extend my time in LA one way or another. So, I was thinking extending it later, leaving 19th or 20th. Problem? Cost. It seems either way, adding more time at the hotel + cost of the flight would be ~$300 (not counting fees for canceling the first flight but I'm fine with that)

So, should should I leave mid-day on the 19th and pay more for the flight or should I leave on the 20th, which makes the hotel price more? Is anyone else even staying that long? (It'd be kind of nice if someone was)

Any advice is welcome. This is my first solo vacation type thing, and I want to enjoy it before going back to my normal life, you know? :)

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So yeah I broke down and got AADBSK2 and HK!T 2cd/2dvd.

And then I finally figured out my stupid SallieMae issue, stupid online payment thing got disabled. And so I paid an amount similar to the above which includes the payments for Dec, Jan and Feb.

I still have money, no worries. And...I'm depositing far more than I've paid today, too.

Now, how long will I last before grabbing the SuJu movie...that is the question.

Wow. It's been a while since I updated. So...what's been goin' on with me between the 29th and the 9th?

--Had varying amounts of fun at my mom's
--paid bills
--visited my brother, gave him the "Night Shift" collection of short stories by Steven King.
--forced mom and stepdad to watch Second City and almost got mom to watch more epi's but she was too tired. I WILL convert them!
--Enjoyed the new longer hours of Dunn Bros both coffee-wise and internet-wise
--RP'd.
--wrote fic and actually completed some
--created new OC characters
--drew said OC characters
--made Fudgy Brownies at 2 in the morning.
--scanned drawings in
--converted audio files
--burned a cd with much travail
--watched Dr. No at mom's (Quarrel! and Felix!)
--half-watched Goldeneye here. (James/Alec FTW.)
( cut for lines of Alec and slashiness )


As for today, literally starting at midnight, i suppose
I was still working on fics, and scenes, and coloring those drawings on GIMP.

Having issues with some of the fic-things. One is an alternate-scene from this alternate DF 'verse I made up and dubbed "morningway-verse" (yeah it's as confusing as it sounds). And then I started this other one where various OC's are coming together. It's craziness. I haven't even finished the fic where the one was first introduced. Which means I should finish it before I get far enough to post this other.

Also, I actually worked a little on the Games Series. I know, I'm shocked too. I feel bad about that one because the muse just like... keeled over and died. Leaving me with nothing. But I am trying to get it done. I don't like unfinished things anymore than the next person.

And then there's the Plaude fic. Which I have the next chapter on but need to read through it against just to make sure it makes sense. Because I finished it late one night and my brain gets special sometimes.

Fucking hate closing with Spaztasic Assistant Manager. HATE IT WITH UNBRIDLED LOATHING.

Also, Summer has reached a new level of suckitude. Allergies + Sinus Migraines w/Uber-Smelling = MISERY. I thought I was going to DIE earlier. Had a icepack over my eyes. Why is ALWAYS my EYES? Right under the eyebrow, the sides, underneath--WTF?? Fucking SINUS HEADACHES.

And, to add to the Specialness, Mom called about people calling. Fucking bills.

In better things, Heather's apparently around town. Which is interesting. If she meant she was leaving next Saturday I might get to see her. Or this one considering I don't work IF I get a hold of her again.

Also, my RPG char needs to make me stop empathizing with him. I may end up making a soundtrack for the thing myself, because I'm a spaz.

Should finish the LAST BATCH OMG of Icon-100. Can't believe I managed to do it. Well, I haven't' done all of it but it certainly looks bullish to me.

Should also post other things like one/two parts of the Plaude fic.

Bah.

Note: I literally wrote this in MSWord, adding the current music, mood, and tags from the best of my memory… because I was missing lj so bad...

So. After spending the day at my mom’s and venturing out to be online for a while my newfound allergies started kicking in. Or maybe that was the migraines. Or both. All I know is that I started feeling miserable at the end of my time online and know less then two blocks toward the place where I buy my bus passes things started getting weird.

Niki/Jessica had enhanced strength
Dale Smithers had enhanced hearing

I had enhanced sense of smell.

What. The fuck? Seriously. It was like I was a dog or something, cement, grass, someone’s shampoo…and then the normal stuff was way strong, there was some nail-place and whatever chemicals they had just about killed me. I started to get all nauseated and stuff to, so that sucked. Eventually I made it home and took a nap.

Later, of course, Mom told me that heightened sense of smell was common in bad migraines. I knew about the sensitivity to light and sound but smell never registered as a possibility. Still, I felt pretty special for a while. Mom told me I should beg grandpa for help with my bills and get testing done.

Don’t really wanna beg for money. If that random one for the contacts appt hadn’t showed up (months after the fact) it wouldn’t be bad. God, I really don’t want to beg for money—especially with all this Sam losing his job stuff going on. I mean, at 9pm he still wasn’t at Uncle Aaron’s so I’m hoping that he didn’t try to go up to Fargo and talk Sam into coming down or something when Sam’s being anal about it all.

Stupid family. They’re not usually all lame like this, so it’s really fucking irritating. Tomorrow’s going to be so damn long too. I’m not even going to into that other thing that’s irritating about it.

Sadly, I think I’m more pissed that Sam’s not coming down then the fact that he has no job and stuff. I mean, yeah, that bites and he’s gotta shitload of debt so he really needs a job but he’s my uncle. We’re a lot a like maybe in more ways than we should be but, you know, I’m just trying to deal with my life the best I can. Mom said that he’d said he mainly lived day-to-day. So do I, for the most part. And yeah, I can see that if I don’t get a better job or (god forbid) get fired from this one I’ll be in a debt thing too. But I haven’t made as many bad decisions as he has yet, and I’m trying to avoid them.

So I hate living with my two pairs of parents, so what? They let me hang out; use their washing machine, TV and internet respectively. They don’t charge me rent. This is a good thing I have and while irritating at times what with the maid-substitutions and last-minute babysitter events, it’s a hell of a lot better than me taking out an extra loan to live on my own.

It’s just better. I do plan on getting out, I really do, but right now I have to focus on the every-day stuff, the weekly and monthly stuff. X amount to insurance, the one medical bill that’s almost finished, those two loans from college that aren’t as much as they could have been had I stayed longer than a year… It can suck, being twenty dollars away from broke until my next paycheck but I would rather have made my payments and be nearly broke than have another loan on my hands.

I suppose I should ask Grandpa for help, just to get that one thing out of the way, but if I do, want it to be a loan I can payback and not some random obligation. I hate owing people stuff. And as soon as all that’s cleared away, I’m getting myself a track-phone... a pre-paid thing so that people can get a hold of me whenever and without trying two numbers. That’s all I really need the damn thing for anyway, contact purposes.

Summer is pretty much here, the mall will be busy and seeing as I have no other duties in life I’ll be working whenever Julie schedules me, which is all right by Sefton; because I need it, and it would be cool if I managed to save more than 50 bucks after paying off stuff.

Well, it’s midnight here, my baby brother graduates in 10 hours and I think I’m gonna make him a cake or batch of cookies. I haven’t decided which yet. No doubt I’ll tag that onto whatever post-baking before-bed thing I write.

Ta, Izzi

 

Post-Baking-Entry 1:28AM:

I made cupcakes. With chocolate chips in them. Still have to make frosting but, bah, it can wait until the morning. Late night baking roxers. I mean, Lu and I have done it for ages and it’s not so bad on my own…except that I have no one to share my insanity with but that’s okay. I know she wouldn’t have wanted to here the Dancemix Techno Version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” that played while I was mixing stuff together.

Probably shouldn’t have eaten a quarter of the mix tho… >> Oh well.