Nov. 8th, 2002 01:05 pm
Life Update, for once
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jdotmiI wonder if anyone actually reads this randomly who doesn't know me? Could be interesting to find out. *shrugs*
On that note, I did recently add some more people to my friends page. The latest two are people I know from various Sim forums. Well, I know of them from said forums at least. *waves at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mandytilf and greenmuse*
Ah well. On to the feature.
Been very busy and very paranoid of late. Busy because I'm always busy (7 days a week of busy, yay me), paranoid because while I know I make a decent amount of money, I am also very well aware of the fact that I have huge piles of bills coming in by the truckload. I had to pay the full rent payment this month in order for it to be in on time and nearly caused my first overdraft in a very very long time. Thank god my paycheck from my weekend job made it through before my rent check made it through. By all of one day. So I'm no longer panicked about that. Next week I'll be able to pay my car payment and either pay my Visa bill or pay something on my school bill. Not sure which yet. The other will wait til the end of the month.
Work has been weird. I've been working off and on with a project that has been in development since I started with the company and still has yet to be finished. It's currently in an "off" position as some newly developed kinks get worked out and we can start testing again. So I'm back doing my help desk job, which is refreshing because I actually have work to do during the day. It has it's down time, but at least I have access to the net so I can keep up on the fun filled place that is the rest of the world. CNN is my friend. Well, almost. It works for what I use it for at least.
I really want to be able to quit my second job, but I can't afford to yet. I keep getting the feeling I will never be able to afford to, but at some point I'm sure I'll just snap and quit anyway. I like the job, don't get me wrong, I just want a life again. It'd be so nice to have an actual day off where I don't have to leave my apartment. Maybe I'd actually have reason to do some housework then. As it is, I get home in time from my full-time job in time to do one or two loads of laundry and maybe clean a room that isn't that messy if I felt the motivation to do so. Then it's pretty much bed time because I've been going to sleep so early because I have to get up so early. And on the days that I workout now I don't even make it home in time for the laundry. I suppose if I got home fast enough I could pull off one load of laundry, but since I do my laundry regularly now, I don't have that much laundry to do on a daily basis. And after a workout the last thing I want to do is try to tackle the hell hole that is my dining room right now.
I need to make an actual budget. Not just do it in my head. I need to sit down with Keith and figure out all of our joint bills and our income to take care of those and then, hopefully, I'll have enough left over to do very nicely with my car payment, credit card payment, and school bill. I need to get rid of the credit card payment badly, but it will take at least a year to do that. That will be a huge burden lifted from my shoulders.
I'm doing well with trying to lose some weight and eat healthier. I will admit to pigging out now and then, but my total calorie intake is quite a bit lower than it used to be and the workouts have been nice. I need to push myself harder during my workouts now. I don't really feel it anymore when I'm done with my current workouts. Good indication that I need to up the intensity a bit. I've been keeping track of everything I eat on a daily basis and it's helped me to keep tighter control on what I do eat, because I can see exactly what I've eaten so far. Especially useful for tracking all that fatty garbage one doesn't really need, but just tastes so damn good. I haven't weighed myself since I was shopping about a month and a half ago at Meijer with my friend Lisa. I'm going to give myself a few more weeks before I do that. Hoping to find that I've lost weight, but not that worried if I haven't. At this point, changing my food intake will be very simple.
Still without a boyfriend. Now and then I mope about it and get all bummed out about it, but mostly I'm ok with it. Of course, it would help if I weren't so utterly bad at figuring out if someone is dropping hints or not. Of course, they all send out mixed signals anyway. I tend to get my hopes up with someone only to have nothing happen, or worse. There are a couple of people who I really like and wouldn't mind going out with, but I'm too paranoid to ask them out or do anything of that sort. I suppose living with my ex doesn't help any. I'm sure guys just love it when you talk about your ex, who you happen to live with, in almost every conversation you have.
I finally changed the CDs in my car! I've been listening to the Mediaeval Baebes since I bought my car. I now have k.d. lang, Madonna, Bare Naked Ladies, Sugar Ray, and Les Miserables. Ahh. Musicy goodness.
Well, back to work for me, since I started writing this at 12:19 and am now finishing at 1:05
--edit at 1:28--
One would think that with all that typing, I could spell words correctly as well...
On that note, I did recently add some more people to my friends page. The latest two are people I know from various Sim forums. Well, I know of them from said forums at least. *waves at
mandytilf and greenmuse*Ah well. On to the feature.
Been very busy and very paranoid of late. Busy because I'm always busy (7 days a week of busy, yay me), paranoid because while I know I make a decent amount of money, I am also very well aware of the fact that I have huge piles of bills coming in by the truckload. I had to pay the full rent payment this month in order for it to be in on time and nearly caused my first overdraft in a very very long time. Thank god my paycheck from my weekend job made it through before my rent check made it through. By all of one day. So I'm no longer panicked about that. Next week I'll be able to pay my car payment and either pay my Visa bill or pay something on my school bill. Not sure which yet. The other will wait til the end of the month.
Work has been weird. I've been working off and on with a project that has been in development since I started with the company and still has yet to be finished. It's currently in an "off" position as some newly developed kinks get worked out and we can start testing again. So I'm back doing my help desk job, which is refreshing because I actually have work to do during the day. It has it's down time, but at least I have access to the net so I can keep up on the fun filled place that is the rest of the world. CNN is my friend. Well, almost. It works for what I use it for at least.
I really want to be able to quit my second job, but I can't afford to yet. I keep getting the feeling I will never be able to afford to, but at some point I'm sure I'll just snap and quit anyway. I like the job, don't get me wrong, I just want a life again. It'd be so nice to have an actual day off where I don't have to leave my apartment. Maybe I'd actually have reason to do some housework then. As it is, I get home in time from my full-time job in time to do one or two loads of laundry and maybe clean a room that isn't that messy if I felt the motivation to do so. Then it's pretty much bed time because I've been going to sleep so early because I have to get up so early. And on the days that I workout now I don't even make it home in time for the laundry. I suppose if I got home fast enough I could pull off one load of laundry, but since I do my laundry regularly now, I don't have that much laundry to do on a daily basis. And after a workout the last thing I want to do is try to tackle the hell hole that is my dining room right now.
I need to make an actual budget. Not just do it in my head. I need to sit down with Keith and figure out all of our joint bills and our income to take care of those and then, hopefully, I'll have enough left over to do very nicely with my car payment, credit card payment, and school bill. I need to get rid of the credit card payment badly, but it will take at least a year to do that. That will be a huge burden lifted from my shoulders.
I'm doing well with trying to lose some weight and eat healthier. I will admit to pigging out now and then, but my total calorie intake is quite a bit lower than it used to be and the workouts have been nice. I need to push myself harder during my workouts now. I don't really feel it anymore when I'm done with my current workouts. Good indication that I need to up the intensity a bit. I've been keeping track of everything I eat on a daily basis and it's helped me to keep tighter control on what I do eat, because I can see exactly what I've eaten so far. Especially useful for tracking all that fatty garbage one doesn't really need, but just tastes so damn good. I haven't weighed myself since I was shopping about a month and a half ago at Meijer with my friend Lisa. I'm going to give myself a few more weeks before I do that. Hoping to find that I've lost weight, but not that worried if I haven't. At this point, changing my food intake will be very simple.
Still without a boyfriend. Now and then I mope about it and get all bummed out about it, but mostly I'm ok with it. Of course, it would help if I weren't so utterly bad at figuring out if someone is dropping hints or not. Of course, they all send out mixed signals anyway. I tend to get my hopes up with someone only to have nothing happen, or worse. There are a couple of people who I really like and wouldn't mind going out with, but I'm too paranoid to ask them out or do anything of that sort. I suppose living with my ex doesn't help any. I'm sure guys just love it when you talk about your ex, who you happen to live with, in almost every conversation you have.
I finally changed the CDs in my car! I've been listening to the Mediaeval Baebes since I bought my car. I now have k.d. lang, Madonna, Bare Naked Ladies, Sugar Ray, and Les Miserables. Ahh. Musicy goodness.
Well, back to work for me, since I started writing this at 12:19 and am now finishing at 1:05
--edit at 1:28--
One would think that with all that typing, I could spell words correctly as well...
