Life as I remember it in the past week

Let's see..I finally threw out three pairs of shoes. I do not like throwing out shoes because it feels like a waste even though I've had these shoes for a year or more. One pair had actually caved in on itself therefore was no longer wearable. My sandals did nothing but make my feet sweat and soak up that sweat to smell horrible. And my old Predictions tennis shoes had definitely seen better days when it had fabric on the inside.... I just spent around fifty dollars (which I still owe Andrew..) for two new pairs of shoes and one of them is already coming apart! The soles of the shoes I discovered has FELT on the bottom of them. FELT! Who puts felt on the soles of shoes? And why didn't I notice it before? The only cool part about that is now I can see where I put pressure on my foot because those parts of the shoe no longer have felt on them. But little rubber pieces are also coming off my soles. I will not be happy if these fall apart before I've had them over a month. My other pair I just started wearing this week. Another Predictions exactly like my old pair. So far, so good, but it's only been a day or so.

Yesterday was street cleaning day for one side of the streets at least. I hate street cleaning day. As much as I love my car, I won't cry seeing it go into storage. I almost wish when I go back to SD in the next 10 days I could leave it then. This parking went better than the LAST time I had to park my car, where I hit and tipped over two motorcycles. Talk about a bad day. Yesterday I drove around for a half hour or more looking for a spot. Then I paid a dollar to park it on the main street for an hour. As I was walking back to my apartment, the street cleaner was going down our street. Sucks that I just spent a dollar to park my car, BUT good news because the cop had just gotten done ticketing all the cars that hadn't moved. We aren't supposed to park on the street from 9-3, but since the street cleaner had already gone by and the cars marked, I was sneaky and got THE BEST parking spot available on my street. Now I can say hello to my lovely car and make sure no one damaged it every morning as I walk out of my apartment.

Andrew and I will be heading back into SD for Labor Day weekend for Ashley's wedding. As nice as it will be to see people and have an extra day to hang out before rushing off again, this couldn't have happened at a worse time. Well, it COULD have but really, we just got done making this trip a month ago. It sucks for me because I need to ask the time off and they don't like it when I do that. Employers, go figure. Plus, I lose $100 for not working Saturdays. That is a lot of money I am losing, not counting the money I have to spend to go out to SD. Maybe I shouldn't concentrate so much on the money I am losing, but it' s hard when you have bills and things to take care of. Not only that but I can't imagine this trip with Andrew is going to be a particularly pleasant one. He is swamped with homework (weird, since he just got done with midterms. This kid is always doing homework) and he tends to get stressed out and we get crabby at each other. Now imagine that little joy all bottled up in a car for nine + hours. Especially if he ends up having to drag his computer along to do homework at home. Not that it's his fault in any way, it just sucks. I'm hoping he can manage to tackle a bunch of it before we even go so he can at least enjoy himself a bit.

It's been icky crappy and rainy for the last three days or more this week. In fact, I don't remember ever seeing the sun since Sunday. No pun intended. I don't mind rain but the grey ickyness is starting to bring me down, I think. Not to mention the weather is having an effect on my sinuses. Poo. This is why I dislike cold weather and winter. I NEVER get sick in the summer. And if I do, it's because I ate something that was off.

On the upside, I've found a few places that I could do some work-at-home assembly jobs. I'm still debating on doing them. From all the research I did on them, you have to pay for the kit which you may be reimbursed for having completing so many kits, but it may also take you a LONG time to get anything approved. This sucks. They advertise "Hey! Make $350 a week!" but the reality from people who have done it is, they are lucky to get $150 a month because the products take that long to get approved. This may be ok, though, if I decide to do it. It'll give me something extra to do instead of burning my eyes out reading, and I can use that extra money to join a gym I really want to get into. I would love to work out (plus this gym is AMAZING. It's called LVAC) there since they have a rock wall, volleyball, tennis, a pool, a hot tub, a sauna, work out machines, etc etc. Problem? It would cost me $150 start up fee, plus $110 a month. Yikes, I know. If I could only convince Andrew to join, he could get us both in there for $120 a month, but it's too expensive for his taste. For me, the appeal is working out and making some friends. I'm going a little nuts not having anyone ever to talk to. I'm alone by myself all day long with only the owners of the store to talk to occasionally. I'm enough of a hermit already, I need to find SOME way to get out and make some new friends. Maybe I'll take out an ad in the paper. Just kidding.

Btw, you supposed friends of mine out there, someone had better damn well come see ME next summer! Andrew gets visitors, but all my friends were too broke or busy to come out. And since we may or may not be here in Chicago another year after next summer, you should save your vacation time and spend it with me! You know who you are!