May 18th ~ Thursday
I'm moving this Saturday morning. I'm not looking forward to it, I don't want to do it, but it seems I really don't have a choice at this point.
That's not completely true. I could call up my landlady (remember, this is my boyfriend's mother who hates me with a passion that rivals the Hatfield & McCoy battle...she's southern, the analogy works) and say "please, please let me stay" and if I grovelled, she would let me stay. So really I guess it's my pride that is not letting me stay....well...that and the fact that rent is 73% LESS than I'm paying now. Talk about saving money!! I can chuck even more money into my 401(k) plan while putting some in my savings account while not worrying about money anymore.
Debt? What debt? I should be debt free by New Years!
New Years may seem like a long way away to you, but I've been in debt since I was 16, and I'm 24 now, so when you've been in debt a third of your life it becomes something you just get used to and you don't really question it. But the prospect of NOT being in debt, while so alien to me, is such a wonderful prospect that I feel my heart jump a little at the prospect of it.
I mean, can you imagine, holding a dollar in your hand...and it's YOURS! It's not a dollar that you should be spending on this or that or sending to this company or that company. Just yours. I am sooo looking forward to it. This has been my goal for so long!
In other news. Joseph is in the middle of a huge chess tournament so I don't get to see him all day Wednesday and all day Thursday. He's afraid I'll be too stressful. Which is fine, because *bum bum BUM* I gave my first successful BJ to him Tuesday ~ We have been together 1 year and 9 months. I was afraid it was never going to happen. It's been a huge problem for me ever since I got my wisdom teeth pulled. I think they stitched the skin back up too tight. The dentist was a freak anyway. He gave me a 2 for 1 wisdom tooth deal cause I would flash him cleavage when he came in way back when I worked for Munster Marathon. The first time that flashing anything got me something of monitary value. I felt gross, but it saved my gramma money, so I guess that's all that counts.
Speaking of gramma!! She was really angry with me on Mother's Day. I wanted to go over there and talk to her, but Kathy whined about missing her mommy, and Joe said he never gets to see her anymore, so when I asked gramma if they could come with she said for me to stay home until I got everything 'in order' (she really doesn't like Kathy) I just don't know why Kathy asked to come. I mean, I would have invited her if I thought she was welcome. She knows I can't say no to her unless it's a really "out there" request. Oh well, I just didn't know what the best thing to do was. So I tried to pick something, and it turned out to be the wrong thing. It happens.
Gramma is also loaning me 300$ to move this Saturday, as I am having professional movers move my stuff. I'm not breaking my back ever again on a move. Joseph is loaning me 300$ as well. So I should have a bunch of money to spare. I'm going to try and not spend Gramma's money, that way I can pay it right back and she will be really really happy with me. I mean, she's proud of me and all, but I like to show her I'm responsible every chance I get. I just don't like knowing how much she worries about me.
Kathy is on Standby today at the Excell Temp Agency, which means she gets paid to sit in the Excell offices from 8am to noon. Not a full day of work, but not a full day of unemployment either! She has temped at two companies so far and has had one job interview for a permanant position. She finds out this morning sometime if she got the permanant position. It's at a real estate place and a total of 10 people are in the whole company. Pretty nifty stuff. She would have to get her realtors license which costs money, but if she gets the certification they will reimburse her the money she put into it. Talk about incentive to succeed! If you pass, you get money, if you fail, you just lost like four hundred dollars!!!
Amanda has done better. I'm really worried about her. She hates being at the apartment in the Heights anymore. Dennis is back, and Shelly n him are together again. Which is horrible, because he just got out of jail last Monday (for beating Shelly up) and sweet talked Shelly to be with him again by Tuesday. Then last thursday he took the car they bought about two weeks ago and dissapeared until Wednesday. He showed up last night at like 7pm and told Shelly that he was sooo sorry, and he has a problem, and blah blah blah. What happened? He went on a crack binge, got the car impounded, and barely kept his butt out of jail again. The car is still impounded because Dennis is now unemployed and Shelly has little Justin to take care of so she can't work. She would have to have a babysitter to get a job, but she has to have a job to make money to hire a babysitter. Catch~22. It's so sad. But she can't better herself until she gets rid of Dennis, and she isn't going to do that anytime soon. Amanda thinks she is going to get all of her moving done by the end of this weekend. The rest of us feel the same way.
I'm moving this Saturday, so I can have 10 days to make sure that apartment is spotless. I would really like my security deposit back from Joseph's mother. it's only 300$ But that would mean I could afford to pay Joseph back right away for giving me money, and I didn't want to spend my gramma's money in the first place, so basically my security deposit would pay for my move to a new apartment. That would work out really well. I have all the utilities set to be turned on in Palmer by the 24th (phone) and the 1st (Nipsco) The apartment isn't cable accessable, so we are going to get DirectTv so we can have television. This isn't a big deal for me, but between Kathy and Amanda we are going to have a 31"tv a 21"tv and a 19"tv. Sad, I think, but I seem to be the only person who doesn't think this is "awesome"
Kathy needs to get a bed. She thinks that when we move into Palmer she is going to be sleeping on the couch in the living room until she gets one. I basically told her there was no way she was going to do that. I want a living room back. She is driving me nuts living in my apartment. I mean, it's a one bedroom for goodness sake. I'm sick of it. She's paying rent on a huge three bedrooom which even though she hasn't spent one night there has to be cleaned before Mandy and I move in. She unpacked her stuff in every room, just bam, on the floor. No thought to organization or anything and hasn't thought about it since. Scary, if you ask me.
Hopefully things will calm down when we all move. I'm going to tell Kathy her number one priority is getting herself a bed. I cringe every time she is unbathed and sleeps on my Great Grandmother's antique couch. I cringe when I spend the night with Joseph and know she's sleeping in my bed. Things have gotten marginally better now that she's trying to get a job. She has to look good on job interviews, and she knows it!
Kathy, Mandy, and I are throwing a Memorial Day Barbecue on the Sunday before Memorial Day. I'm really looking forward to it. There probably won't be too many people there, but that's okay too. I'm even inviting a few people that I met on the internet, but seem okay as people. Besides, I tell them I'm taken but have a cute friend. Let Kathy beat them off with a stick. I'm not interested right now. I have a life to get in order, I don't have time for drama.
I hope I'm not forgetting anything. I haven't written in so long and I know that important stuff has happened, and I don't want to forget any of it. This record is the only thing I'll have in ten years to know that I did anything and I so want it to be accurate.
~Jennifer
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