Monthly Archives: May 2002

Oh the other thing….
I guess Suzanne’s cat, Nacho, ran out of the house and somehow got stuck in the walls of the house. So in addition to the fight that was going on, there was the pitiful wailing of a cat in the background.
Well, I went to use the bathroom and all of a sudden I her this really loud, pitiful meow from the walls and this scratching noise. I also peed into my pants instead of the toilet.
What else? One month to Dave Chapelle, Three Weeks until Giants game with Suzanne’s family and with the bookstore, two weeks until graduation, one week until Dave Matthews on Sat., three days to Episode 2, and one day until DSL is reactivated.
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Why does it seem that the more money you make, the less you have? I think that Suzanne’s mom said that, but it seems that it’s true. Went online to get some quotes for my new car. Was thinking that it would be between $100-150, but from the two sites that I went to so far, it’s looking more like $200. yuck!
If I can’t get a lower insurance rate, then that is really going to put me into financial trouble. **sigh** slight vision of me eating Macaroni and Cheese with ketchup every day forever. I think the Kids In The Hall did a skit about that. (They are in town this week, I think. )
Also the thought of a second job has floated into my head. Was talking to Brent and he was telling me of someone who was a tile layer or pipe fitter or something; construction work. They are making good money, but they are working a second job @ an ice cream shop. Gawd, if I have to go back to Baskin Robbins; oy vey! Make Mark and Peter could hook me up at Polly Esters. Blah, like I want to spent my weekends lugging beer up two floors on weekends. Well, I’m not going to worry about it until I get the official bills from everyone and I am officially starving cause I can’t buy food.
Also had a vision of joining the electrician program, like Suzanne and her family. I already know that I would pass the test, and I know how much money they can make. But I’m not sure if I would be happy or not.
Anyway, I am going to go home in my new car and forget about all of this and just breathe in the new car smell.
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need to stop by school this week and get proof that I am graduating. Went to the web site and it just says that I have applied, not accepted. And my transcript says that I am still a student. Trying to get rid of premenition that I didn’t do something and that I will not graduate. ***sigh** I am getting sick just thinking about it…
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I am such an internet addict that I drove all the way to the top of the hill to the resident center to use the DSL in the office center. **sigh** can’t wait until next week when my DSL gets set up.
Anyway, the rest of today went really well. My parents have changed their mind yet again and are now flying down to Sac for my graduation. I didn’t tell them about the car yet; thought that I would surprise them. I did tell Eric though. They are def. giving my money for a graduation present, but I kinda want to know how much. $2000 would be really nice, cause it would cover the down payment for the car. Expecting $1000 which would be good too; I could pay off the bed and put the rest into my savings account. $500 would suck big time. I am such a greedy ashole. I really don’t care if I do or don’t get a present from my parents. But then again, I guess I do care. Does that make me a bad son? Also found out that Dad is going back to Virginia for a reunion at the end of July. I wish that I could go with him, but with all of my new bills that I’ll have starting next month, not sure if I can.
Well, Suzanne and I took her mom to the Taco Bell on the beach in Pacifica for a mother’s day lunch. Traffic was bad at the bay bridge, so we stopped @ Ikea for an hour or so. Got some prices on furniture for our new place. Need to go with mike so we can decide on stuff and pick it out. Mike is busy until after finals though. And not really too sure how much he wants to spend on stuff. I’m hoping that we can go 1/2 on things, but with the car payment on the way, looking for free stuff on craigslist is looking better and better.
Anyway, so we had lunch and walk on the beach for an hour. It was a really good time and I’m glad that Suzanne and her mom let me spend the day with them. The next time I go, I have to remember to bring my camera and take pictures.
Well, has soon as I get online again, I will have pictures of the new place, the new car, maybe pictures of the Dave Matthews concert and pictures of graduation.
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So the big event this weekend is the new car that I got. 2002 Ford Focus ZX3. I didn’t plan on getting a car when I went car shopping, I just wanted to get prices. But they offered me a deal that I couldn’t refuse. **sigh** I am still in shock that I am driving a new car and not the Metro anymore. I had the Metro for 10 years, so it was hard to give up. But I love my new car. Will talk more about the car and pictures later.
Was suppose to goto Twin Peaks to see KFOG’s Kaboom! fireworks with Tim, Renee and some other people. But decided instead to drive up to Antioch to show off my car to Suzanne’s family. Besides flaking on Tim again (I have to go see Dave Chapelle now or he will never forgive me), I got the extreme pleasure of seeing Suzanne and her sister get into a major fight. Her sister, Kimberlee, had a really good point, in that Suzanne doesn’t do any of the house work and is basicly mooching off of her mom. But the way that Kimberlee tried to get Suzanne to clean was wrong (This included threathing to beat Suzanne up). Suzanne didn’t help with the one-liners that she was throwing at her sister.
So it isn’t my family or anything, but when I still lived at home after high school, I paid my parents rent whenever I could. But mostly I did the cleaning in our house and stuff around the house. Suzanne seems to think that Kimberlee should do the cleaning since she has a less demanding job (she is working at JoAnn fabrics). My question is once Kimberlee starts the electriction program, then Suzanne can’t use that excuse, since Kimberlee will be working two jobs. I really do think that Suzanne should do more around her house, regardless if she doesn’t like to clean or hates it. But that’s my opinion.
Anyway, I have more stuff to worry about, like paying all of my bills. I will still have money left over, but not much. Once I get the bed paid off in 3 months, then I will have extra money comming in. Hopefully, my insurance won’t be too much. **blah**
My room in the new place is comming along nicely. Everything is put away, but there are things that I still need to buy. **sigh** The DSL is turned on on the 14th. I’ve ordered the wireless dsl gateway/router/hub whatever it’s call. Thinkning that I should just get a regular wired one and force Suzanne to connect in my room. But I’ve already ordered the thing, so I guess I will keep it when it gets here.
What else? Dave Matthews is a week away; Star Wars is a couple of days away, and graduation is two weeks away. It seems that everything is happening at once; I’m not sure if I can handle it all. I am very worried that I am going to trip up somehow. I guess I should just take one day at a time.
Suzanne suttlely (talking pregnant bull moose suttle) pressuring me into the military. **sigh** Usually, it bothers me, but I’m letting it slide. I know that she means well and all.
Right now her and her mom are playing Diablo together. It’s very cute. Speaking of, I need to go and to call my mom.
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Work is trotting along nicely. Only 3hrs. left and then I get to go test drive some cars. Planning on going to the Daewoo and Honda dealers today to test drive a Civic and a Daewoo Nubria. Am most likely going with a Civic, but I think that Mew has a Nubria and she loves it. Also thinks that Amanda’s Dad works for a Daewoo dealership, so if the test drive goes really well, maybe I can get a hook-up on it. Also want to test drive a Ford Focus and a Pontiac Vibe/Toyota Matrix (it’s the same car). There was a Martix outside my house the other night and it looks interesting. Not sure if I can afford it, but I plugged in the number into a calculator and it was in my price range.
This is so different from the first time I went looking for a car. Back then, I knew that I wanted to get a Metro. I knew that I didn’t have that muc money, and I wanted something that got good gas mileage. The only thing is that I wanted a convertible Metro, but settled for the little teal wonder that has lasted me for 10 years now.
Now, I really have no idea of what I want. I guess basicly, I want the same thing has before, a decent car that’s not too much with good gas mileage. I also want a little more power than the metro and it’s 3 hamsters provided. What else? Air conditionig is a def. req. A spoiler and a moonroof would be nice also.
Just replied to an ad on Craigslist for a kitchen table and chairs. Really don’t want to buy used stuff, but I have no money and Mike is trying to cut corners too, I think. Which leads me to believe that we will never have TV service. Not that big of a deal to me, since I have the internet and books to read. If I really need to watch T.V., I guess I could goto the rental office and watch T.V. in their rec room. Also got access to the gym so I can watch Buffy while walking the treadmill or something.
O.K. need to finish up work stuff here so I can get out of here
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Not having fun with this merchandise bag stuff. I should have ordered the bags earlier than wait until now. Now I am totally confused on what to do and I am just depressing the hell out of myself. Wondering if I should quit or not.
My room is still a hurricane of messiness. I am just moving stuff from one part of the room to another. With every passing, stuff gets put away and organized, but there is still so much stuff. Prt of the reason is that I need to buy a bookcase or some kind of shelving unit.
Installed the extra network card in Mike computer. Lesson learned last night is that one should never go looking for porn on roommates computer that roommate got from dad, cause you will never know what you will find.
Anyway, Mike is running Windows 95 on a Pentium II with a 2GB hard drive. Will have to look around to see if I can dig up a windows 98 cd somewhere so that he can use the DSL
Had a wierd dream last night. Remember that April was in it with some guy who I think was gay, but had really nice hair. I remember them covering me with shaving cream and that I was naked, but underneah my mink blanket. There was a really deep conversation, but I can’t remember any of it. I think that I have been having wierd dreams for awhile now. Probably cause my box spring is still downstairs.
Anyway, this isn’t really helping me out like I thought it would. Back to work.
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Starting to get a little worried about work. Have a sneaking suspision that I might have waited too long to place merch. bag order. Also have a week to find and purchase counters for buyback. Did I mention that I have no idea of what I am doing.
Decided to scrap the wireless network idea and just use phone wire and ethernet cable. Too much money to do wireless. DSL activated on the 14th; should be ready by then.
Room is still in state of confusion. Problem is lack of storage space. Need to work on that, along with the neverending saga over grad. announements.
Saw Vampire Hunter D – Bloodlust anime movie last night. Talk about kicking ass; a really good anime. I might have to buy a copy myself. Also have a free pass somewhere for the new Hugh Grant movie. That’s what I’ll probably do tomorrow.
**sigh** So much to do, so little time and inspiration to do it with
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So much to update. Well, the rice cooker has officially been moved from 152 Onondaga to Font Blvd, so that means that I have finished moving. I typed out a couple of entries on my computer that talks about the move, so I will just wait until I get DSL working to back date those post.
Grad. Announcements are comming along. Should be done and sent out if I continue with the pace that I’m working at. There is just so much to say to people, that it is taking me forever to write the personal notes. That and the fact that I am still organizing stuff in my new place.
Computer at home is up sans internet access. Was going to do a total wireless network, but it’s going to be too much for me, so need to start measuring walls to figure out how much cable I will need.
Still no T.V., which is good and bad. Mike will have to get the T.V. Want him to get a dish, but not sure how much he has to spend. Might have to settle for basic cable 😛
Work is starting to pick up a bit.
Was planning on writing more, but I think the caffenie high that I was on is going down.
Hmmm. Well, this weekend I will be alone since the girlfriend is going to Michael W. Smith concert. Hopefully, I will use the time wisely by unpacking everything and geting misc. stuff done. Will also goto KFOG Kaboom! thing on Sat. Night. with Tim and Renee. Should be good times.
**sigh** really need to get stuff done here.
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Had an bright idea to go back through my old LJ accts to see what I wrote about Mike. Only things were somewhat messy and Dave Matthews. I kinda remember that he could be messy with plates and stuff, but if you just told him about it, he would clean up. And the Dave Matthews will be just like being with Suzanne.
Wish that there was a way to combine two journals together so that I could have all of the entries under one username. I think I asked a long time ago and they said that there was no way. I think I tried to copy/paste all of the entries from one to another but gave up on it.
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