Baby Finances

So I packed my lunch today -- and promtly when I got to work I started feeling nauseous due to the excess of caffeine and lack of sleep. Clearly spicey food is probably not a good idea for stomach right now. I decide -- well mild chinese food would serve me well. Go to generic chinese restaurant -- really generic asian restaurant that everyone at work seems to think is good (it's not). Lalala I eat my generic asian food mmm of course with an egg roll the size of kansas. Get to my dessert! Yeah for fortune cookies. Break it apart slowly in avid anticipation of my pending doom or pending enourmouse success in life as says my soon to be fortune. But alas! Dissapointment reeks! "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams." What the hell kind of fortune is that. Giving me a command is in no way a fortune. I want to know of my supposive success or failure in life. Or that "difficult trials lie ahead" some crap like that. But no, instead I get the non-fo...

So, I called my landlord today to see what paperwork etc I need to sign/have him agree to before I got a doggy. He's not in, so he calls me back and tells me "there will be no dog there." Okay I get the message -- you don't have to be so mean about it. So I call him back, very confused b/c Mr. Realtor Man told me that "pets are negotiable" and me and my typically inquiring mind was like "well what does that mean". Mr. Realtor Man says - "it means some breeds are not allowed - but you could have a dog." So I'm mad confused. I moved in thinking I could get a dog, and the landlord now says no. Clearly there was some miscommunication -- and Mr. Landlord says - "I can't imagine Dave Walsh would tell you that." Um-- excuse me -- he did. I even questioned it. I clearly told Dave Walsh that I wanted a place that allowed dogs. So I don't know what's really going on. If my landlord doesn't call me on Monday ...

Today is a day for celebration and rejoicing. I won a mini-battle against BOA. Of course it was when I actually went to the bank to close my account. Before that I just get the Capital One Commercial. But Chase did give me $50 for opening my account -- which means I'm still profiting $38 -- but it still sucks. That's okay -- I'll live, and hopefully everything will work out okay now. I'll have to stop by Chase on the way home to deposit my Fleet money and my PAYCHECK! -- Now I just have to pay rent... sigh. I have to pay off my credit card bill too. I like getting paid, I just wish I got paid more. I still need to talk to my landlord about getting a dog. I think I'm going to wait until my next paycheck to do that. I wish I had enough money to open a savings account without getting charged. then it would be easier to save up for my house.

I've never felt dumber and more frusterated than I do today. I feel as if I'm screwing everything up and I'm the one lighting the fire that needs to be put out. I don't feel like I know what I should be doing it, much less how I should go about doing it. Life is very frusterating. On a happier note, I'm making a Christmas Stocking for my new appartment. I'm excited about it. Granted it's not even September yet and I'm making a Christmas stocking -- but I need something to do -- and I have a feeling it's goign to take me a while to make it. I could really use a gym membership right now. Then I could work off all my frusterating. Poor me. Litterally.

Dear boys next door, I know you're excited that you're back in "good ol' Rochester" for school at whatever school you go to. I know you're excited about your friends. I know you like drinking with your friends. I know that you like you're loud music -- and I have no problem with this. What I do take issue with is, you, turning your music up (crappy music I might add) to the point where when I have the windows shut I can still clearly hear the music in my room - lyrics and everything, even though I only have 70% of the hearing of a normal person. That's right -- the hearing imparied can clearly hear you. If this was a friday night - or saturday night I wouldn't mind -- I'd probably ask if I can join you. However, when you do this on a MONDAY night at 1:30am I do have a problem with it. Espeically since I have to work at 8am -- yes this means I have to get up at 6:30am. So -- next time you start drinking with your buddies on a Monday nig...

I got a microwave this week. It's the most amazing invention on the face of the planet. Going without one for 2 months was aweful. Viva la microwave!

Last night was such a trail. Got home from an exhausting day at work -- every day I come out of work with a lot of physical energy - but not much mental energy. That's a good thing in some sense, but bad in the I need an outlet for all that physical energy at the end of the day. So I get home thinking mmmm hungry. Clearly all I had left was some frozen bacon, cherrios (no milk), and asparagus. Definately not the breakfast of champions. Instead of going directly to the store I try to avoid the hunger problem by playing on the computer and looking at the pages of dogs that I've already seen ten times. Finally the hunger comes to the nines and it's close to 7pm. Okay, fine, I'll go to the grocery store. This was obviously not the best choice -- but as I noted earlier -- brain dead after work -- too much physical energy - not enough brain power left. Instead of going to the closest grocery store I drove 15 minutes to get to a really nice one. Which was a great cho...

Litterally all of my free time has been spent on looking for a puppy lately; and I mean all of my free time. Two minutes at work waiting for my boss -- log on to petfinder. 10 minutes of my lunch hour -- searching local shelter webpages. 20 minutes while I'm supposed to be doing something else - searching for breeders. I just want a cute little puppy. I keep going back and forth about what breed, or to get a mutt, to go through a breeder, or a shelter, or humane society, maybe even a rescue. Even writing about it makes me take out two minutes and start looking again. Sigh -- what a time waster. If anyone has a cute little puppy let me know -- I could use a furry friend.

I won a battle with Frontier last night -- but actually getting internet service. But it's at only 5M instead of 6M -- clearly lost the war on that one. I also argued with Fleet/Bank of America for like half an hour b/c when they switched my accounts over during the merger they switched them incorrectly and I got charged a $12 monthly maintance fee -- umm no. After getting no help what so ever -- everything I was suggested was turned down -- like switch my account now and give me back the money for the fee you charged me incorrectly -- I was then basically told I was lying, that I was ruining a great 4 year relationship (great for whom exactly?!?!?) and that they would do nothing. Cliff Malloy was an ass. Thus in my self-rightousness I did get an address -- though not his directly -- and I found the anual report along with the President's name and a statement talking about how great their customer service should be.... clearly changing banks this week. The whole experien...

I've been fighting with Frontier of Rochester for over 4 weeks so far in attempts to get DSL service. Yesterday it was supposed to finally be installed, and it still wasn't. So after talking to tech support and initially was told "you'll just have to be patient" -- clearly if I was calling tech support I was not going to be patient after 4 weeks of waiting. So I pulled out my patented "that's not acceptable" line -- which worked as always. I talked to his boss, who tried to remotely access my modem - which didn't work. Then after a few phone calls back and fourth I'm told they'll send a tech out on Thursday -- ummm HELLS NO. So after again telling them that that was unacceptable they decided that they could work around my schedule and send a tech out tonight... In this whole process I learned that the job order to set up my internet was scheduled for TODAY -- not YESTERDAY like I was told. WTF? Frontier is aweful. In the whole proc...

Sadly, I'm drawn to reality TV like a moth to flames. It looks all bright and pretty -- but really it's a firely death sprial to hell. Keeping track of these peoples lives and daily nuances has become an obsession. Currently my reality TV show of the week is Big Brother. It's suck a predictable show. Everyone in the house thinks they are stirring up more trouble -- but in all reality it's easy to predict what is going to happen next. And the people always think they are such good players out smarting the other people -- but if they stepped back for two seconds they would realize that they are ususally not that great of a player. The people that have some sort of following are going to be the first ones to go. If they would just lay low and let everyone else pick each other off, and fly under the radar they would go a lot further in the game. Rather than rallying for support of other players they should be the ones supporting -- staying out of harms way until the...

Clearly b/c everyone else has a blog I must have one too. Lately I've been a lot of a conformist, not only in my bloggality but also in dress - I look like every other yuppie from Boston. Rochester has been pretty boring so far. And the only furniture that I own/ stole from my parents includes a couch and a twin bed. I've gotten used to the sparse living/minimalistic style. It's grown on me. Probably just as much as not having cable. You really get used to living with nothing pretty fast. I've come to realize that I could save that $40 a month towards my house. That's close to an extra $500 a year towards a down payment -- which could mean a 0.5% reduction in my rate -- meaning major savings in the long run. My one goal is to buy a really comfy chair for my apartment. *Sigh* poor me. It's like micromanaging SimCity over here. I realize that I should have brought the Nintendo (the original Nintendo - you remember 8-bit right?) from home to play. I re...