7 posts tagged “work”

Oy. I just realized that I've spent $250 in the past 3 months on a gym membership I don't ever use.  So, Monday I'm going to get off the bus at the gym and actually go in and get a tour and then on Tuesday, I shall start working out. Because for god's sake, I'm wasting so much money on this stupid ass membership that I don't use.  If I don't go this week, then I'll be cancelling the membership post haste. Genug already with this shit.  Plus, if I workout more, I'll probably quit smoking faster because really.  Although it's taken me 3 days to smoke this current pack.

That's all.  I just wanted to put this down somewhere so that somehow I can remind myself of the deal I just made with my self.

So, work has been stressful, mostly because they dumped the entire Accounts Receivable Reconciliation stuff on me and gave me a mess of shit with that.  Like the fact that the lady who did it before me never researched anything and just wrote it off after it aged long enough.  She can be such a b.

In other news, I'm really pretty tired lately and I think it's because I can't sleep at night.  I don't know why.  It's not to do with smoking (pretty much quit that) and it's not because of caffeine because I only drink that until 7pm and then stop.  I don't know why but I can't sleep.  I think it must be financial stress.  I make more than enough money, but I just spend so much.  I really need to cut back on the spending.  Or make use of what I have.  I mean, I pay for a gym membership that I don't use.  OMG...Idea.  Maybe if I work out every night, then I'll eventually wear myself out enough to fall asleep at night and not on the bus in the afternoon.

Haven't been up to much lately.  Last week, went with Jessie to Dallas Pride. It was hot outside, I got a lot of beads and way drunk.  Tons of fun!  And this weekend, I have no plans.  Being a grownup sucks.  That is all.

Oh, wait, it's not.  I'm ready for November to be here because then $187 of my monthly debt goes bye-bye.  And I need to call all my credit cards and inform them that I need payment plans because I just don't have the money.  Also, my electric bill is way too high for my taste, so I've been keeping the air close to 80 and the lights off most of the time.  Sadly, this means that until I can get stable financially, I have to wait to get a pet.

Ok, so I just fell in love with The Hills on MTV.  I really only watched the first season of Laguna Beach and never looked back, but I think this show is pretty damn awesome.  I love Lauren and Lo.  And now that I know what happened between Heidi and Lauren, I'm so into this show.  Mainly because I can relate just a little bit.  Mostly to Heidi.  Which is weird and not good, but it's true.

Also, did my budget and it's not looking good for me to afford much the next oh, 2 weeks.  But on the other hand, payday is next week and my first raise for the 2Q already went through and I'm due another that hopefully comes in on this one this pay period.  I love getting more money.  Also, it means that I can pay off some of my debt.  And my other bills, the ones that have popped up.

My stalker, who is not so much stalking me as just really annoying has backed off after I told him that I'd rather be friends with him than anything else.  So, I think I'll just be friends with him.  Plus, it doesn't hurt that he has a lot of other friends.  Also, reconnected with Mark over the weekend, though I really don't know what I ever saw in him.  Besides the fact that he has a HUGE house.  And a cushy job.

1. I usually stick with Riesling when it comes to wines.  It's sweet, light and best of all, it's white.  I don't like red wines if I can help it.  But, the other day, Wal-Mart upped the price of the Riesling I normally buy, so on a whim I bought a Pinot Grigio instead. It's a bit more acid-y and also a bit more like juice.  It's good, but it's not great.

2. This weekend was dull dull dull.  Went to the eye-doctor and got new frames/lenses.  Mine are by Kenneth Cole Reaction, a line I used to hate.  See, if I want Kenneth Cole, I want Kenneth Cole, not Kenneth Cole's sad little Reaction line.  Unfortunately, while I happen to like Kenneth Cole, my wallet prefers Reaction.  Just like my wallet prefers DKNY to Donna Karan and A/X to Armani (I will NEVER purchase Emporio Armani.  That's just tacky).

3. I got not one, but two raises at work this week, so yay!  One was my usual quarterly raise and the other was for top performer of the quarter.  It's great news, because I be broke here.  New apartment and all.  I still have bills to pay and shit.  Which reminds me that I need to cancel my Netflix subscription before they charge me for another month.

That's all for this update, as my hands hurt from typing at work all week.  I'm ready for a vacation.  Maybe to Montserrat!

Actually, surprisingly, they are.  Not that their new song sounds anything like anything on the radio now, instead sounding like everything that ever hit the radio between 1997 and six weeks later in 1997. It's bad.  Not a fan...

Anyway, the point is that I'm moved into my new apartment and things have so far been going swimmingly.  Well, except for the drama with the whole getting the internet/phone service up and running.  I now have more bills than I used to.  And I don't really like that.  I'm thinking of shutting down my Netflix account and switching to another TiVo account.  Because you see, my current Tivo is fine, but it's like Vintage TiVo, so it's got the lifetime subscription, which isn't sold anymore. So, I'm keeping that one for sure.  Then, Lee gave me his Series 2 TiVo (seriously, the thing was untouched, the manuals were still in the shrink wrap). I'm going to be using that one.  I just can't decide whether to put it in the bedroom or attach it to the main TV and just use the other one for something else.  Either way.  I just don't know.

Also, I now have a kind of stalker.  It's weird.  He and I have this weird sparky thing between us.  But we've never actually done anything together.  Anyway, he showed up on the bus on Tuesday and wanted to hang out today.  Got out of it because of work obligations, but it was close. It's not that I don't like him, it's just that he comes on SO strong.  On the plus side, he's sort of well off and he's pretty decent some of the time.  Plus, he has a lot of friends, which could become my friends if I play my cards right.  The only problem is that I have to be friends with him and not anything more, which I believe he wants.  Something more than friends, I mean.  I guess.  I don't know.  All I do know is that he really kind of bugs me, but I like that he does or something.  It's kind of complicated.  And he's not even that cute (not that that's ever stopped me from anything before, haha).

So there's my abysmal little update.  I was going to cook myself some dinner, but I think I might just order a pizza or something.  Who can say?

First, Capital One totally sucks.  I lost my card about 2 weeks ago, just got the new one in the mail and the damn thing is already activated.  What if I weren't the first one to get to it in the mail, Capital One?  Huh?  Then,  they won't let me register online, so I'm gonna have to pay the bill with an actual check.  And lastly, I'm over the limit and I really worked hard to not have that happen again.  This is why drunken spending is bad.

Second, managed to get Marisela from the old job an interview at my new job (which, I've been there almost a year and it still feels like a new job). 

And lastly, Harry Potter book comes out tonight and I most definitely will be reading it.  Even though I probably can't afford to buy it.  Still. I'll be fine, since I get paid next week, though that's rent, Cap One and Chevron all in one go.  Sucks, but that's the way it has to be until my fucking raise/promotion goes through.

I think I'm going to go as Fergie (the singer, not the Duchess) for Halloween.

So, I love Paris Hilton and here's why:

1. The girl is absolutely famous for being named Paris Hilton.  How awesome can that be.  She just sort of became famous as a sort of new kind of celeb, the so-called celebutante, a word that I don't agree with, but it does seem to suit Ms. Hilton perfectly.

2. She's proved she's human.  Sure, she got in trouble with the law, and her family tried to keep her from owning up to her crimes, but hey, she stayed in jail, hopefully learned her lesson (even though she's still hard partying), and those pictures of her crying were priceless (not just because of the intense amount of schadenfreude).

3. And lastly, and also possibly, most controversially, I think she's actually really smart.  I'm not saying that I think she's smart enough to be faking the whole stupid act that she does.  But as far as business is concerned, she makes a lot of good moves.  I mean, first there's her books, all of which make money (especially Tinkerbell's book).  Then, there's the proceeds from her album, her "acting" endeavors and The Simple Life stuff.  She's got a lot going on and I'm pretty sure that she knows what she's doing. Ooh, don't forget, she also gets paid to show up at clubs (a gig I'm super-jealous of).

What brought that on was that I was reading some other blog or something outlining that Paris is everything wrong with America.  Really?  Because I thought what America represented was the pursuit of fame, consumerism and stupidity, feigned or not.  So, while I agree that she represents America, I'm not sure it's everything wrong with it.

In other news, work was long and boring today.  Match.com says that my most compatible match is a guy with whom I have zero in common (we went to high school together).  Oh, and it rained all the way home.  And now, it's off to bed, because I am exhausted and can barely keep my eyes open.