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Surviving Midterms Week (With My Sanity Intact), Winter Cleaning, and Mazda CX-5s

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Honestly, I worrying my ass off when it comes to school. Not sure if I should be worrying at all but that’s just me. If I’m over and done worrying about one thing, another dilemma seems to rears its ugly head. It’s late and I’m calling it a night, especially on reading “The General Prologue” of the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Enough with the “eeks” and “greye as glas” speak. I’m ready to see the insides of my eyelids. But, before I do that, I thought I’d update on how life has been.

When it comes to school, it seems that my financial aid has come through and I’m just going to keep going to keep it. I’m still taking five classes so far and I’m pretty much swamped. I don’t know how people work full-time and go to school full-time. I don’t think you’re any better but whatever it is that you’re doing, good for you. :P I have a midterm paper for an English class on Medieval period literature, a midterm exam on US history, and a final on World History. I have to read about ten ancient English stories by next week and I feel like I am going to die … a very horrible death. I’m ahead in my classes but I feel so behind. When is enough ever enough?

Financial stresses are virtually non-existent but I think I may acquire some new debt because I think I’ve waited long enough to change my apartment. It looks okay now but I really want to paint and throw out sofas, armchairs, Christmas crap, etc. There’s a lot of stuff (I feel like) and I’d like to get all this stuff out by the end of the year. I’m going to U-haul all this crap down the street to Goodwill and call it a day!

I’m still sure that we’ll be getting a car in the first to second quarter of next year and that’s about it for that. I can say I’m a decent driver but my self-doubt is seriously killing me. I just don’t feel confident enough and it’s understandable. So instead of complaining about it, I’m going to make an appointment to start taking driving lessons tomorrow with Lem’s Driving School. I don’t care about the money because I just need a few hours to get my shit straight. Can’t deny me if I’ve got the money, right? I can finally get rid of my permit. The only reason why I wasn’t able to get my license when I was 17 was because after my dad passed away that year, a series of events lead to me not keeping the car that was left to me by my dad. So from then on, I didn’t have a car to practice or use for my test.

When it comes to the car, I’ve considered many models and when me and Pete narrow down to one that could be “the one,” engineering or performance issues surface and we have no choice but to consider other choices out there. I’m comfortable and knowledgeable of the car dealing process so I’m looking forward to doing most if not all of the work. We have the Mazda CX-5 in mind and if I get anything, it’s going to be the high-end model because we love technological packages and because leather is always going to be the best option when it comes to kids. That burns a $30K hole in the wallet but it’s fine because I’m sure we’ll drive it until the wheels fall off. Before then, we’re probably going to add another car to our little family.

I’m going to head to IKEA and Lowe’s either today (Monday) or tomorrow and let’s see what happens. Renovating the office is going to be about $1K-ish. I prefer to paint first before getting the new furniture but Pete has a different opinion on that issue.

I think socially, everyone has been getting along and it’s good that I don’t let my social life interfere with my general psyche these days. I think socializing is more of a recreation for me these days. It’s fun when it happens but I don’t need it to survive. I honestly don’t have any time these days. I even have to make appointments to play video games, which I usually do around this hour because I feel guilty doing it during the daytime when I could be studying. Since I’ll be taking harder classes by each semester after this one, I’m considering toning down on the classes to maybe four a semester and taking one or two classes in the summer to make up for it without the additional mental stress and wear and tear.

I’m probably going to blog later tonight because I need to get into my shopping escapades and how I finally found the right shade of foundation after being incorrectly matched THREE times from a Sephora associate. I’ve been doing a lot of hauls lately but once again, I just don’t have the time for it. I’ll get into my recent weight loss, Alexander McQueen handbags, and whether I should go blonde again or not in subsequent posts. Night and it’s going to be a busy day for me later. One final and a home improvement trip awaits! :)

A Wake Up Call

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I pretty much sleep in all the time. It all started a few years ago when I had to go to school and work almost full time. I became a night owl and that’s how it’s been ever since. I also stay up a little longer now because I feel like it’s the only time during the day that I have time to myself. During the day, it’s all about Jackson until Peter comes home to take care of him. When they’re both asleep, I stay up to do homework and watch a few episodes of my currently following TV show, Pretty Little Liars. Everyone has been telling me to try and sleep earlier but it’s been hard trying to sleep. I drink a glass of icy cold milk at night before bed and read a few chapters before nodding off. By the way, I can’t stand warmed milk. I just hate the way it makes your breath smell but for some reason, cold milk does not.

I woke up around eight today and quietly rolled out of bed to warm up a bottle of milk for Jackson. When he wakes up, he gets pretty fussy after having slept for seven to eight hours straight. Returning to bed with the bottle, I leave it on the nightstand and fall back asleep. About thirty minutes later, Jackson whines and I hand him a bottle and once again, fall back asleep. I know when he finishes it, he does too since it’s still so early. We nap for a few more hours until I wake up at 11 AM and I fetch another bottle for him when he wakes up after twelve. Usually, this is the time I wake up and check my emails, Facebook, Twitter, etc. for the first time of the day.

But, this is the day I get a call from the district manager of Yogli Mogli.

I can’t say I was expecting this at all, but maybe my take no shit, give no shit attitude paid off. Usually people really don’t call back and I just wander around waiting like an idiot. She offered me to start off part-time there and see how I did in the next two weeks. I had applied for shift leader and she was worried about giving me the position and having to take it away if things didn’t work out so therefore, we decided on the trial first. Other than VOX, I haven’t had much of managerial experience but like I told her yesterday during my interview, that if there is room for growth then I don’t mind working my way up. I’ve never been handed a free lunch in my life and I don’t expect to get one anytime soon. I’ll mostly be closing if I take the job, but that’s alright. I’m far superior at opening though but I have more experience with closing.

I think commute is longer than I’d like it to be but I’ve seen other people do worse so who am I to complain? It would be minimum wage but it isn’t exactly retail either. If I do go back into retail, at least I know I’ll start where I left off which is a pretty nice chunk of change.

I haven’t really accepted yet, but she’s going to give me a call either later tonight or tomorrow to figure everything out, training schedules and whatnot.

There is no problem trying it out. The pay is standard and our finances seem in good health, but hey, I don’t mind pocket change for me and my family. Whatever I can do to make my family happy is fine with me.