Weekend Update

Well, yesterday didn’t quite go as planned, but it went well.

I started out Friday night limping my truck into the parking lot. As I slid into a parking stall, it kicked and bucked letting me know that it was indeed out of gas. I totally reorganized my room. I also rearranged the stuff in the kitchen as Chris just jammed groceries where they landed. I did the dirty dishes that I had but didn’t scrub the counters and the floor. Saturday day, I knew wasn’t going to be much. : Joe came over late on Friday night and we chatted for a while but that was about it. : Mag , : Saber, and Alex (no LJ) called a few times and I finally found my phone around 1:30pm. The plan was that they’d head here and we’d all head off to St. Paul Garou . Instead Joe went home, I sent the rest off to game with good directions, and I took a nice four hour nap. I woke up, went to Acapulco here in Woodbury with Joe and had really good but cheap Mexican food. I came home and would up pounding out a full re-layout of the Garou Nation website.

I’m going to rummage through my truck today for any change then walk over to TCF to turn in my change to see if I can get a few gallons of gas into my truck so I can get to work this week. I should be more stressed out about this, but I’m not. I’m quite pleased that even though my budget is very much in the toilet, I *should* be able to get it resolved in the next few weeks. It’s just going to be an extremely tight for me in the next few weeks. I was assured by TCF that “important payments” are processed with priority and get paid. Nope, that’s a lie. I checked my account today and my balance was my better than it should be. I was expecting a ($400) but it was only ($250). Sure as shit, they’d returned my truck insurance payment unpaid. Well that’s just ducky, I paid it on the last day I could and still keep my truck insurance, but now, I don’t have truck insurance and I still have to get to and from work....though I’m scheduled to be off Wed-Fri of this coming week and as much as I need the mental health time, I can’t financially afford it. The flip side, gas costs are easier if I don’t go to work. Three days pay vs gas for three days of work... I’ll be at work all week. I will be taking off Wednesday of the following week, but that’s one days I will be taking off. My birthday is important.

Strangely, as bad as it is financially, I know I have a stable roommate moving into the apartment in about three weeks. I can’t do anything about this except to pay what I can as I can. I had my direct deposit stopped as I need my entire checks right now to pay my insurace up to current and to pay for rent. I still need to pay our water bill and our electricity bill as they are quite overdue. I am stressed out about it, but yet, I can’t fix it and I know that Chris can’t grasp my financial state. His blatent statement of “I can’t imagine how you don’t have money left over”, well yes, I should, *if* I was in his budget situation...with no insurance payment ($125), not having to put out $225/month for gas (which he doesn’t pay), or oil changes ($40) and all those fun things. All he has to pay is $425 for rent and $125 for Comcast. Well hell, I wish I had that little for set monthly expenses.

I’m going to be cleaning the kitchen and vacuuming the apartment today as well as setting up my altar. I have to figure out what to do with a couple of pieces of furniture in my room as it’s not really fitting in and I don’t need it.