So Andrew will be moving out in early May. Originally, his younger brother was planning to come to VSU and move in with us, but that’s not happening now.
Right now we don’t have any prospects so it’s looking like it’ll just be the two of us. In general, I’m okay with that idea. It’ll be easier to really get stuff organized once we have that extra room open and I’ll pretty much have final say over ‘junk’.
The thing is, that’ll add $150 for each of us on bills every month and that’s a lot on part-time income. Also, that means when we move out we won’t just be passing on the apartment to someone else as has been in the past, so we’ll be responsible for all the cleaning and final walk-through type stuff. I don’t think there are enough disposable gloves in Valdosta for all the scrubbing we’ll be doing.
I’m really up and down about it. I’ve got a couch in Keri’s apartment that will have to be over here when she moves out and if we have a third roommate, I don’t know how we’ll fit it in here. Things are pretty tight, but definitely livable and it’s so much easier to split everything three ways.
And it’s nice to have someone else here when Ryan isn’t. And yeah…I dunno, it’s just easier to have a roommate right now.
This is Catie. She’s pretty damn awesome. She’s been that way all her life though, see?
But this post isn’t about how awesome Catie is. It’s about how amazing she is. In June of 2007, Catie joined Weight Watchers. With an overall goal of 100 pounds, on February 26 Catie found that she had surpassed her halfway mark–reaching 50.8 pounds lost.
I’ve watched Catie count her points and turn down the best junk food–I’ve seen her exhibit self-control I could only dream of. I’m so proud of what she’s accomplished thus far and I look up to her for what she’s doing. I mean, just look how far she’s come!
I’ve been so amazed at how she’s even been able to soldier on through times when what she’s eating should be the last thing on her mind. She’s stuck through it in times anyone else would just want to drown themselves in ice cream. Right on!
It’s so inspiring to watch her as the pounds fall off and her clothes get baggy….I so don’t know how to say that without it sounding weird! lol
So sometime last week I ate a hot dog that I later realized had not been sealed properly in its package. I got pretty sickly that night and ever since then, when I eat, my stomach gets upset shortly after. It pretty much doesn’t end since by the time it starts settling, it’s time to eat again, so basically, once I eat once, I feel ill all day.
It’s not really severe, but it’s definitely uncomfortable. I’ve tried Pepto, Pepto tablets and Imodium and those didn’t work. Any suggestions?
Symptoms are behind the cut for those who don’t care to read that
No couple is perfect. There are always ups and downs. I’d say about 90% (if not more) of the time something is up between me and Ryan, it stems from his one-track mind. He gets so absolutely focused on whatever he’s doing at the time and nothing else exists. I’m sure you can see where that can cause some issues.
Ryan works with his best friend right now. They day-trade and so far, they’re making a good go of it. His best friend also just bought a house, so they’re working on that as well. Between their ‘job,’ helping with the house, and obligations to his friend (both spoken and internal…too much to explain) Ryan is spending a lot of time there. I’m talking, it’s pretty much the norm for him to be there from 9am till 2am. That doesn’t work for me. Even though I understand it, I have a hard time keeping my mind from looking at it in a more negative light, when it really and truly isn’t true. I’m a female though, and not the most secure person in the world, so yeah.
The situation tonight was this: Last night his car wouldn’t start. He’s absolutely, 100% out of gas and his last paycheck hasn’t appeared, and they haven’t been day-trading long enough to be able to actually write a check (3 more days though!!) so he’s in the hole right now. So Joolie and Brandel drove him back over on the idea that he’d ask me if he could just grab some clothes and just spend the night there. I didn’t like that. I don’t want to be the girlfriend that makes his decisions for him, so instead I just let him know where I stood–honestly, it would hurt my feelings. There are too many other options for getting him over there in the morning rather than him spending more time away from me.
That was all well and fine and we actually had a great night–talking till 3. Then tonight he sent me a message telling me he was staying there tonight. Well duh, I got upset. He was doing something he knew would hurt my feelings and that didn’t seem to matter. After about an hour of being upset over it, I finally got to the point where I understood why he felt the need to stay, but I was still mad that while knowing it was going to hurt my feelings, he didn’t feel the need to call and explain it all to me instead of letting me try to figure it out on my own.
So there was a very quick, mad conversation and we got off the phone. I can’t leave things unresolved, so I called back and called bullshit, and after that, it was the calmest ‘argument’ I’ve ever had in my life. We talked for a while and I think after all this time that this has been a problem, we finally came up with what could truly be the solution. We’re gonna talk tomorrow night and decide on a set time frame that he’ll call me every day. We’ll set it so that it’s a time at which point he should have an idea of when he’ll be home so we can stop arguing over that, and also if there’s anything I need to know, or want to question then we can cover that as well. We’re both hoping that will help him get into the habit of communicating with me when there’s something to be told, rather than waiting until after the fact, when I’m already upset about it.
I think it’s gonna help a lot. I know he always has good intentions, and honestly, he’s been doing better, but it just hasn’t gotten to a point where it’s fully adequate yet, so I think this will help. I know how he is, and I know you could set him on a project and tell him that in one hour, he needs to just go press a button and he’ll instantly have a million dollars and 3 hours later he’d remember it. He just gets that focused.
I’m really proud of us though. This has been a big problem and I feel like we’ve conquered it as a couple and that just makes me really happy.
What’s the best kind of cleaner for cleaning out a microwave?
It needs a good cleaning, but honestly, I’ve never cleaned a microwave (aside from a good wipe down with soap and water) and I don’t want to use something unsafe…ya know?
It’s gotta be cleaned though. My nose is way oversensitive and I’ve come to learn that the smell of popcorn butter after it’s been sitting out for a bit kills me. Every time I open the microwave, I’m hit with that overwhelming smell. It’s killing my appetite!
So yeah, what can I use that’ll get the job done without infecting my food with deadly toxins?
Last night Ryan came by for some clothes and to tell me he was staying at Brandel’s so they could get up first thing in the morning and be in Jacksonville by 7am to pick up some couches and old friend was giving them.
So I went to bed alone, which I don’t really like in the first place.
At almost 4am on the dot, a loud *bang* and angry grunt completely wakes me up. I’m talking wide awake and terrified as hell, shaking–it sounds like someone has just attempted to bust down our front door.
Not wanting to walk out of my room, I grabbed my phone and called Andrew. He finally answered and I asked him to come downstairs with me, so he did. We looked all around, didn’t see anyone outside. We even shoved a chair up against the door and just went back to bed.
Excuse me, I did not go back to sleep. There was no sign of anything happening, but I knew I hadn’t dreamed it all. I remembered what I was dreaming. I was dreaming about One Tree Hill since I had just finished watching that before bed. No scary dramatic stuff there, and besides a dream wouldn’t have woken me up quite like that.
So I’m up all night freaking out. I’m alternating between trying to think of what else it could’ve been, and wondering if they’ll come back if it was indeed someone trying to break in. I’m even thinking of setting up some fiber cable for security cameras or an alarm system or something ’cause holy crap, all my good stuff is downstairs right when you open the door!
So I didn’t go back to sleep until right before I was supposed to get up. So no class for me this morning.
About 20 minutes ago, Andrew walked in and told me he’d figured it out. It was him.
Say what? You were in bed, how’d you manage that?
Andrew was fighting the good fight in his sleep and slammed his elbow through the wall. Through it. He didn’t notice last night after I woke him up, but he saw it this morning and realized it was elbow-sized.
So we’re all just glad that
There were no robbers
I’m not nuts
Keri wasn’t in bed with Andrew or she’d be concussed…
Craziness!!
Kristi, you probably never would’ve slept again, eh?
Remember back before December when I spent so much time searching for Christmas presents? I was SO excited to finally find Ryan’s Zune. I bought it Thanksgiving night after coming home. I’d heard about a deal one of the local stores was having and I was seriously considering getting up at 4am to take a shot at it. Instead, I really got down to it and did my online homework and found a fantastic deal. I found the Zune for only a pittance more than the local deal plus free shipping. I snagged it up immediately and headed through their Google Checkout, only to find new customers qualify for $10 off! After all this, I ended up only paying $12 more for the Zune than I would have if I had gotten up at 4am to fight the crowds! Sleeping in while everyone else fought over everything on Black Friday was more than worth $12 and that’s just one reason why Buy.com rocks!
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There are so many other reasons why Buy.com rocks–I love that they offer both professional, and customer video reviews of products, and even a price comparison engine–that’s just not something every e-tailer is willing to do.
Check out what my friend, Marv, has to say.
I’m hoping to stop being broke soon so we can get some new games in this apartment! A lot of my pals around here are graduating this year and I want to get in as much game-time as possible! Buy.com will definitely come in handy in that arena.
So Keri and I both got fliers in the mail for Baytree Automall here in Valdosta. They’re having a big promotion where you can win an iPod Shuffle, a $25 gift card to Wal-Mart, Target, or Best Buy, or a new Truck. As far as the odds listed, you were pretty much guaranteed at least a gift card, which is all I wanted!
So we go up there and wait around only to find out we have to have the envelope that the flier came in to qualify. Excuse me? The flier itself only says to bring ‘this flier and key’ with you [there was a little generic key attached]. Why would anyone bother bringing the envelope? The girl there said it was required to match the address on the envelope with the address on your license (or something else to verify.) It was funny because there were a ton of other people waiting around when we asked aloud to verify that we needed the envelope and everyone got up and walked out. As we were walking out I told one of the guys right outside about it and said they might want to add that to their flier next time since the flier just said to bring the flier itself and the girl just told us we had to have the envelope as well. I heard him say to one of the other guys, “I don’t know who the hell told her that…” referring to the employee there and then he sort of stormed back inside. Wonder what lovely things he had to say…
Talk about stupid. Let’s have a promotion to bring people in and not tell them everything they need to bring with them. Let’s make it necessary that they bring the envelope that our announcement came in, when most people immediately discard envelopes….Worse than some of the discount furniture sales here in town where they literally have 3 pieces of furniture that are on clearance and the rest of their stock is full price. *blank stare*
So then we went to Wal-Mart, our original destination, to see about Keri’s tires. Her dad got a letter in the mail about a recall on her tires, so she was looking to get that taken care of. There we’re told by an idiotic employee, and verified by her idiotic manager that they need the paper that came in the mail before they can do anything….*blank stare* Do you not carry a list of recalled tires? Can you not just match up the tires on her car with the tires on that list and take care of this? Seriously. How can you even consciously let someone drive away in a vehicle with recalled tires?
So that’s twice in one day that we’ve dealt with some overly stupid technicality. I hate when companies set something up to be against logic.
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