July Goals

• Finish presentation (due 7/13)
• Finish paper (due 7/23)
  
• Schedule appointment w/gyno
• Buy plane tickets to NY/book hotel
  
• Put purses/clothes up for sale on ebay
• Gym 2x/week (maybe swim & elliptical)
  
• Swimming 2x/week (at an outdoor pool - I'm tired of being so pale!)
• Yoga 2x/week

I'm postponing more personal training sessions at least until I start working a decent number of hours next month... I might be postponing them indefinitely. I'm going to try exercising on my own for awhile. I had a lot of fun with her, but I really can't be spending $120/mo right now. :(

The NY trip is up in the air... it depends on whether M will be done with his project before I start fall semester classes and whether I can earn enough money from my ebay sales. We'll see!!

My primary goals this month are to finish up my summer class and then really focus on exercising, reading fun books, and decorating the new apartment. :)

One Year

I missed my one year blogoversary by a day! Oh well. Better late than never. ;)

I've had a bit of a rough week and a half, what with losing my job and moving, and some credit card debt has begun to creep up on me again (I have to update my sidebars). But I feel very confident that I can tackle that on my own in the coming months (without large bailout loans from my bf!).

Overall, I think I'm in a better place than I was a year ago... I still love to shop, and I lust after expensive and shiny things, but I'm more aware of my limits. This blog has helped tremendously, and it's been fun to write! I hope it's been fun to read too. :) Thanks everyone, for coming along on my journey! Here's to another year of reformation... ;)

Internet has returned!

Whew. It's a good thing I was so busy with the move, otherwise I would've been writhing on the floor. :p Sure, I had my iphone, but it's not an entirely adequate substitute.

Anyway! The past week I've been up to one thing and one thing only - moving. We had movers last Saturday, but it's taking up until today to prepare the old apartment for the walkthrough and make the new apartment livable. Over the past two years, we've collected tons and tons of stuff!

The walkthrough was as infuriating as I thought it would be - the landlord wants to charge us for repainting (per an entirely illegal mandatory painting provision in the lease), and for "getting the apartment ready for the new tenants" (which, I might add, he hasn't found yet, and I hope he never finds because no one deserves to have that man as a landlord). Our money is supposed to be used for damage we caused, not to cover the expenses that he as a landlord is supposed to incur. I'm looking forward to battling it out with him. Since I have more time now, I better put it to good use!

Why do I have more time? I was FIRED from my job one week ago. Why was I fired? For taking a day off to move! That and apparently my boss was upset that, earlier in the week, after coming in on my day off as a favor to him, I left without asking his permission. I had been there 4 hours, we never agreed how long I would stay, and I had to leave. And no I wasn't going to waltz into a deposition and tell him I had to go! He fired his assistant a week earlier... after she thought she was having a stroke and had to leave early. It's pretty clear he doesn't care about the people who work for him... he just cares that they're in the office, to do his shit for him when he snaps his fingers. Definitely not a place I'd like to continue working after graduation! I'm glad I found out now...

A few more paychecks would have been nice though. :p I have my "back-up job" starting next month (the same job I worked all last year), so I'm not panicking.

I think the apartment (and my life) will be completely back in order a week from now. I can't wait to get back to a regular exercise routine, start cooking again (we've been eating out every day), and refocus on my goals.

Withdrawal & Depression

We won't have internet in the new place until NEXT friday!! I'm already going into withdrawal! And this is all because M waited until 2 days before we moved to call our internet provider! Ugh. At least I have the iphone... but it won't do me any good when I'm trying to research for my paper. :\ Guess I'll have to just spend some nights at school...

In other (depressing) news, the Jimmy Choos I said I was returning? Disappeared. Apparently, my mom thinks she put them in the back of her car and then accidentally gave them to Goodwill along with a bunch of other stuff.
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wtf. I love my mom, but... WTF!

I guess this is my punishment for buying such expensive shoes?! :(

Moving Update

I apologize for my silence recently... between the impending move and packing and ebay/craig's list selling (and buying) plus the long hours I've been putting in at work, I haven't been in a mood to write (mainly have been in the mood to vegetate!). Hopefully by Monday we'll be settled, have internet, and I'll be back to regular postings. :)

So far, it's looking like the movers will cost approx. $300, the fridge will be $220 (bought off Craig's List and supposedly less than a year old), the June prorated rent will be $163... am I forgetting anything? It's not looking terribly expensive (at least, so far).

I was going to have the movers pick up the fridge and bring it back to the new apt (once everything is moved from the old apt to the new - I figure I'll still have them for another hour, since it's a 3 hour minimum, and a 1 mile move!). Anyone ever done this before? Will it be a problem? I e-mailed them about it, but got no response.

In other news, like Little Miss Moneybags, I have my new iphone, and I LOVE it. It's significantly faster than my old one, it has little useful, time saving features (I can finally do an inbox search!), I love the voice control... anyway, I'm very happy I bought it. :) But it will probably be the last purchase in a loong while... I have to update my budget next week and tighten the control over my spending. Have been a bit crazy lately!

Spending

I've been very spendy the past few days... I bought the Iphone 3G S to replace my original Iphone (I was sold by the voice control - now I can just hit my bluetooth headset, say a name and voila, dialing), and yesterday I went shopping with my mom and bought a dress and jacket. (And shoes... but I won't talk about them because I'm taking them back in 5 minutes. They're gorgeous gorgeous... and they're also Jimmy Choos. Yeah. They need to go back)

I've also been bringing in a lot of money from Craig's List sales. M said he wants no part in selling things, and has also said if I sell, I can keep all the money. I suppose that's fair... but when I'm selling his separate property (i.e. presents from his dad - with M's ok, of course!), I feel like he should get at least half. I tried to give him some money the other day and he said he didn't want it, so I won't press the issue. I might slip something into his wallet though. ;)

We have two weeks left until our move, and the stress is starting to get to me. Probably one of the reasons for the spending. I'm looking forward to getting away from the high rent, but especially the landlord (those of you on twitter know what happened over the weekend - prospective tenant was let into the apartment without knocking and proceeded to walk in on me in the bathroom. ARGH)... At the same time I hate moving, and I hate the chaos that ensues. (Maybe 'chaos' is too extreme, but I definitely feel off-kilter) Ah well... it'll be over soon enough. :)

Tag, you're it!

I was tagged by Undercover Vixen at Debt and the City... and since I'm currently in procrastination mode, I was delighted to respond. ;)

The Rules:

1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they've been tagged.

Seven Facts

1. I'd like to be a lawyer only long enough to pay back my loans and build a little savings. Then I'd like to maybe get a Master's in Linguistics or Creative Writing.
   
2. My morning internet routine consists of e-mail, PF blogs, CNN... and Perez Hilton. The blog isn't all about celebrity trashiness - I've found a lot of great music through him! (i.e. Jem, Olivia Broadfield, etc)
   
3. My eyes are different colors. I get weird looks when people notice.
   
4. I love love LOVE food. I also love trying new kinds of food - just had Indonesian a couple weekends ago, hoping to try Ethiopian soon. :)
   
5. Pixar movies make me cry! Moreso than really sad live-action movies. I think the cute characters are partially to blame, because...
   
6. Extreme cuteness makes me tear up!
   
7. My favorite color is blue. (I couldn't think of an interesting number 7, so I opted to be lame ;))
   

My Tags!

• Money Maus
  
• Saving4Later
  
• Living Simple
  
• Broke and Not So Fabulous
  
• Saving to Pay Down My Home
  
• QuarterLife Finances
  
• Little Miss Moneybags