Friday, December 24, 2010

I find my last post to be rather ironic. The day after I wrote that, one of my co-workers announced that she'll be leaving at the end of July.... I'm pretty set on applying for the job. Everyone is trying to convince me to move back but I'm not ready. There's still so much I want to accomplish on my own (far, far away) before I head back here.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

home soon :)

I finally found my credit cards today...and my room is pretty stinkin' clean too.

I'm getting on a plane in 6 days to head home for Christmas. Soooo excited to be back for the first time since August. I have a feeling that after Christmas, I'll be pretty set on moving back in East in August. Three years has been a good chunk of time to spend in Utah. I'm excited to see where God is taking me (and who he will bring to me). Part of me wants to stay another year though. I looooove my job. Words can't begin to explain how much these kids make my day.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

if you hid....

If you were to hide your credit cards from yourself (in order to help resist making a tempting purchase) where would you hide them? I hid them from myself a few weeks ago (when I was tempted to fly home for my birthday) and apparently hid them a little too well. I can't find them ANYWHERE!

In other news, my friend and I nearly died on the way back to Provo after our Thanksgiving weekend in Nevada. My car decided to go for a nice spin on the freeway (just missing the car beside me by inches). We ended facing south in the northbound lane. I kinda panicked (and swore) when I saw the headlights coming. It was a scary moment. When I tried to get my car turned around, it just slid off the right shoulder into the ditch like terrain. We were stuck there for about an hour until AAA was able to get a tow truck out there to tow us out. After we got out of harm's way, it was rather amusing. Especially when the car slid into the ditch and the GPS went "recalculating."

In other news, I think I just figured out how I'm going to just barely make all of my bill payments this month. As long as Sallie Mae really does have a grace period of 15 days, I'm going to be all right. I'll pay my rent and one loan payment tomorrow (for a total of $485) leaving me with $200. And then when I get paid again on the 15th, I'll fork over $500 to Sallie Mae, make my credit card payment, my other private student loan payment....leaving me with a whopping $30. It's scary, but it's getting done. :) Then my paycheck on the 30th will take care of rent and leave me with $59 to either "replenish" my savings or to put towards another bill. Oh geez, I didn't know what I was getting into when I signed up to be an AmeriCorps VISTA. Ooooh, and I just realized that none of this math includes tithing dangnabit.