Closet Cramped

Today I went and looked at a few more apartments. Found one decent one in a good area for $400 and it includes utilities.



I got my hair cut today. I like it. I still miss Lori cutting my hair, she does a better job.

Then there was apartment hunting.



Such a tiny little place :( I see potential though.

For dinner I had an Amy's Enchiladas. I added cheese on top of 'em.

Need a good cry

I had so much I needed to get accomplished today. I got about half of it done. I finally got my way with the furniture company. Getting my stuff picked up and getting my money back for the dinette and living room tables. I made some calls to some apartment places. Finally was able to hit the gym, watched my nephew, went to Whole Foods. I also got some stuff printed out for UofL. I still would of liked to do more, but I can't do everything. I also hate how I can't commit to a place until my brother puts in a 30 day notice with my current complex. He keeps putting it off, which is really bugging me. We had a huge fight earlier today. Its just gotten to the point where everything he does annoys me, and we almost always bicker.

Today's eats were a Nutri-Grain bar for b-fast. Lunch involved tuna, veganaise, with relish. It was awesome.


Dinner was this A-Freaking-Mazing. Yummy spinach, endive, arugala, with sprouts, lentils, feta, garbanzo beans. I got this awesome herbs de provonce dressing. Topped with vegan general tau's "chicken".

Now I'm just relaxing, and doing a bit of research on the apartments. I really want to watch Steel Magnolias, for obvious reasons.

Too Tired for Title

I hope your Sunday is going spectacular. Mine was decent, a bit better than Saturdays. Sorry for the lack of blogging. Every single apartment I looked at yesterday was crap, ghetto, and/or smelled like cat piss. Sounds like a blasty, haha!! Today I went to one at 12:30. Its older, but its not crappy, ghetto, and does not smell like cat piss. Its a bit small, but I do like it. Tomorrow I'm going to stroll 2 nice streets that we drove though today. They had a ton of for rent signs. So maybe I'll find something even better.

Later; Paul, Trendon and I had dinner at Dennys. T was asleep from the time we got him out of the car till we put him back in. I had some yummy shrimp, rice, and veggies. I ate a few bites of the potatoes, and toast too:



Now I just want to spend a bit of time relaxing finally.

Alcoholic

Work was a bore, but I got some much needed hours. Tomorrow is the fun and exciting day of apartment hunting. I'm genuinely excited. I can't wait to get move. Larissa called me, and asked "where are you moving?". On my status update on myspace it said that I got boxes so I can start packing. Sorry Larissa I'm not moving back to Fayetteville, you can expect a visit in June.


I got all my boxes from work so I'm going to look like an alcoholic when I do move. I'm obviously going to have to get more when the truck comes back next week. I refuse to BUY BOXES. I can't people actually make a living off that. I've got some plastic tubs I'll be able to use as well. So I'm pretty set. I'm hoping that next week Paul will be able to clean out his room, and other stuff he has here. The only thing I'm really going to miss about this place is having an in unit washer and dryer. That's pretty darn nice. I've gotta do some more apartment looking up online before I hit the hay. Goodnight all. I hope your Fridays' were more exciting than mine.

cutting my losses????? or not

Started my day off with this yummy treat:


Went to work, nothing exciting. All other food was a bore.

I've already committed myself to selling my couches. Craigslist baby. I bought them for a total of $569, and selling for $500. I literally posted the ad 2 hours ago, and have already gotten about 10 inquiries and offers. one person offered fully price and is going to have a look at them on Monday, and will be able to take them whenever. Another person wants the rug I just bought. I like the rug, but the look I have in this living room is not what I want for my next one. Another awesome reason to sell. I bought it for $40, and they are offering $75. Haha, I love profit.

Speaking of money. I went shopping today. I didn't spend a lot of money. I went to Sephora, and got an Urban Decay pencil concealer. Its so creamy, and provides great coverage that doesn't look overdone. Then I got a Smashbox tinted moisturizer. It is great and provides that awesome dewy look. I'm pretty much over regular foundation. I think it makes me look haggard.

I hit up Old Navy, next to Sephora. I had a $10 off coupon. I bought a really cute sundress, an awesome gathered top, and a St. Pattys Day shirt that I get to wear at work on said day.

I don't know why but I've been obsessed with creating a very strict budget. I just keep thinking that the economy is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. So I want to be financially stable. I'm pretty tired, and have to at work early. I hope to get up around 8-9. So I can go the gym before work. That means its bed time now.

holy effin' hell

work was decent. Got my Ikea catalog in the mail today, so that kept me occupied for my very slow day at work. I get off work, decide to go ahead and pay my Geico bill. I take the chance, and head over to progressive. I customized my progressive with collision, comprehensive, roadside assistance, rental, and upped the coverage of my liability, and with the minimal deductibles. It came out to $175. I thought what the hell that's $20 better than what I pay now ($240 a year). So after I get my progressive all set up. I go to Geico website, and this is when I found out that I only had state minimum coverage liability. So I changed all the settings for the exact same as progressive for a quote, and it ended up being over $500 a month.

That just makes me so mad. I honestly cant believe that. What a freaking rip off. I hate that I'm not even tired. I have to be at work at 11:30 a.m. I'm happy to finally be getting a day shift. I just wish that my sleep pattern hadn't gotten all screwed up again. I also worked out a budget for what my expenses will be like once I start my new job, and move into a smaller place. I will have a lot more money on hand. Yahooo!!!!!

Pick a side

Why can't people just choose a side and stay there. It seems that as soon as they make up their mind, they want the exact opposite. Well, my friend, it doesn't work like that.

Sorry for the lack of picture posts. Nothing I've made recently looks appetizing. I got my doc appt in a little bit. I had them reschedule from the 9:30 to a 2 o'clock. There was no way I could be up that early. It was another sleepless night. I'm just so tired, and work was a complete bore last night. I know tonight will be as well. At least tomorrow and Friday I get to work during the day. Then I get the weekend off. I requested it, so I can go look at apartments. Then to Ikea on Sunday. That is a maybe though. I gotta leave to go to the doc now.

Hissy Fit

Tuesday, not a day worth repeating. I could not sleep last night, I finally fell asleep around 5!!!! Woke up at 11, way too late. I managed to get about another 50 calls this morning too, arghh.

I've spent majority of my day dealing with my retarded furniture company. They call me and tell me that I can go pick out a new dinette set, because I'm not happy with my old one. Later, on a separate issue they arrive late to exchange my coffee and end tables. Only they don't bring me my new ones. I call up there and they forgot to put in an order form and the earliest they told me they can get them to me is Friday. So my living room looked very bare. This is when I got pretty mad, and started to throw what I like to call a dignified hissy-fit. After that they managed to bring out my new tables. I don't like them. So I went up there, and I'm just sick of dealing with them in general so I told them I don't want to exchange them I just want my money back for both the dining set, and living room tables. For the pure purpose of doing it, I want them to take back all the furniture I've bought from them. I am just so fed up with this company.

I've already decided that I'm going to get my new stuff from Ikea, but I'm going to wait until I move. I expect my new place will be a lot smaller than what I have now. I'm completely okay with that, it will give me the chance to be more creative with my design concepts.

I didn't go to lunch with Paul, I woke up too late. I also haven't been very hungry today. We discussed the apartment situation, and at first he failed to see how me moving into a smaller place would be beneficial until I broke it down for him, and just over the course of him going away for 4 months, he would be saving $2,500. Now he is all on board.

The only thing I ate today was an Amy's roasted veggie lasagna. It was decent. I've also started taking my vitamins again regularly. I take those GNC vita-packs which have 7 pills in them. Then I take this other stuff from GNC, called Calcimate Complete. Its supposed to help bone density, which I have to take 4 of. The only kind of vitamin I don't mind taking is my Emergen-C, which is basically vitamin C, and it tastes like Sunkist.

I wished that all that drama hadn't happened because instead of going to the gym like I wanted, I had to spend majority of my day dealing with that, and now I have to go to work in about an hour. All in all, I hope tomorrow is a lot better.

Friendships....

I wish there was some type of proper guidelines on friendships. I seem to lose them all the time, as if we were walking down the street together and they fell down a man hole or something. Then others, seem to pop up out of nowhere.

So the guy and me are going to try to be friends. Seems to be working so far. He called me tonight and we talked. I was telling him about my living situation with my bro and how he is leaving to go to Ft. Stewart for a few months, and I'd have to come up with a LOT more rent money. Also, how I was looking for a roommate and posted an ad on craigslist. I really don't want a roommate, anybody who knows me, knows how well I do with them. So he recommended just looking for a much cheaper place. Which I did once I got home, and I talked to my bro about all this, and found out that he has official orders that send him down to GA. Therefore he can get out of this lease.

The whole lease thing was the main reason for my apprehension. I didn't want to leave and screw my brother with dealing foot the bill for that extra money. He is the only one on the lease, not me. So this way we can both safely get out. I already found a lot of great places that I put into a lovely spreadsheet by price, location, description, deposit fees, and whether they allow pets. Tomorrow me and Paul are going to talk about the apartment situation over lunch.

The guy is looking for a new apt as well. Its going to be pretty odd with both of us looking for separate apartments together. This is my first time trying to be friends with somebody I've been with, so I'm not quite sure on all the rules yet.

ANYWAYS

Yesterday I started my day off kind of late. Hit up the gym around 2, got in some cardio and then a pilates class. May I add that the pilates at my gym is much better than the yoga. I went to Kashmir and got the Malai Kofta, and a tandoori roti. It was delicious. I took a pic, but it is too blurry to even recognize.

Later I went to see Watchmen in IMAX. It rocked. After that is when all the bs from my last post happened.

Nothing exciting happened today. Got to see my little man T for a while. So that was nice, I got way too many phone calls this morning before I was ready to be awake. Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day. I have a doc appt., getting the new tables delivered, gym, and work.

When it rains, it pours

What about me just screams "UNDATEABLE" So me and the guy aren't talking anymore. I knew the chemistry wasn't there so I had to buck up and have the uncomfortable conversation. It happened over the phone, so I'm still kind of a wimp. We went to see Watchmen, and the entire time I kept thinking of ways to bring it up on the ride home. I made sure to drive back to my apartment. He didn't come back up to my apt, I just let him out at his car. Then when he didn't even kiss me when leaving the car, I just drove off. A few minutes later I called, and everything I planned on saying got thrown out the window, and his answering the phone with, "hey". Was met by me saying, "Do you even want to be with me?" in a very pissed off voice.

So, all that jazz happened. Not going to go into specifics, but both of us still want to be friends. We'll see if that actually happens. I honestly wouldn't mind being just friends because he is still awesome to hang out with, and since the chemistry was never there in the first place it should be easy. It'll basically be the same thing we have now, except for that un-talked about pressure. Which we both agreed that it was there. We're driving to Ikea next weekend.

The only parts of the conversation that I found to a little weary. At one point he said something about still seeing me because I don't know anybody here. If you take away that lovely sugar coating, he was saying that I was a "pity-friend/romance/fuck". This brings me to another lovely point, why do people always want to be just friends with me. I get it, you don't find me attractive. If that's the case, in which it generally is, just say, "hey, this isn't really working for me, and I just don't want to see you anymore". Or even better yet, don't start seeing me in the first place.

I'm not sad about him, mostly because I'm the one who initiated it. I'm just upset that this situation in general always happens to me.