It is hard to believe its been over a year since my previous post, things have changed so much this year... I don't even know where to start. I guess I could start by telling you I'm not longer living in Canada, or Maine for that matter. I moved to Illinois shortly after my first year of college to live with my friend, Colby, and work full time so that I could pay off my second semester and return to school... well, things happened, and I screwed up. I'm now living permanently in Illinois with Colby, and we are now together. After five months of putting out dozens and dozens of applications, I finally got a job... surprisingly enough, at the one place I did not apply to, mostly because I didn't want to. Colby and I are both working full time at McDonalds, he pulled some strings and got me the job shortly after he was promoted. The money and the hours suck, but at least I'm living again. For the longest time I felt so useless bumming money off of Colby just so I wouldn't have to starve or live on the streets. So basically I wake up, go to work, work my ass off and deal with incredibly rude people all day, come home and play the Sims 3 (the new expansion is awesome, by the way), and go to sleep... repeat.
So, that's a short summary of the last seven months. I've been working at McDonalds 5-6 days a week, trying to get full 8 hour shifts in, just to pay the bills and get caught up on rent. My landlady is nuts... she was "nice" enough to let me live here for free while I was jobless, but in November she threatened to throw me out if I didn't pay rent by the end of the month, and by that time I had a job, so it was completely possible and things were finally looking up. Then, she decided to inform us that she changed her mind, and was now going to charge me for October... which was reasonable, but annoying. So I paid. And then she decided that she wanted to charge me for September... which I was not okay with. Needless to say, I still owe her money, and I owe my roommate, Rebecca, money for utilities for November... but I get paid this Thursday, but like all the checks I've gotten so far, I won't get to spend any of it on myself.
After two years without, I finally got a phone! For those of you who are looking to buy a phone/service together, DO NOT go with Cricket. They suck. First, setting up the phone and all that was a pain in the ass, and I had to call multiple times just to get someone who spoke at least a decent amount of English. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for everyone getting jobs... but seriously? Frustrating. The phone was on "sale" for $40 down from $130... but I can't see why. The phone is a piece of shit, and it broke within 5 days. How? No idea. It was sitting in my coat pocket and I used it, 5 minutes later I go to use it again, and the screen UNDER the actual screen was completely cracked, shattered looking, no idea how that happened... it is annoying.
Hmm, what else? Oh! On the 18th a bunch of my WoW friends are coming to visit me! Tyler, Ryan, and Justin are all coming down together from Wisconsin and Minnesota to spend a few days at the apartment. Tyler is hopefully going to be moving in with Colby and I, we're going apartment hunting for a decent cheap place, away from our crazy landlady... we've had to deal with so much bullshit from her.
Well, I've got work at 10, so I'm going to get ready for bed, my head is killing me. Glad to be back.
Jan
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