Baby Finances

I'm a master, a goddess, a princess of procrastination. It's amazing the things that you will find for yourself to do when you are avoiding something else. I've been trying to keep myself distracted this weekend over the whole getting ready to negotiate my salary thing/moving/apartment/job freakout. If you don't know me in real life I like to obsess about stuff. It's not really worrying exactly - but it's more on the order of just thinking of a million different senarios and trying to figure out if I've seen the problem from every camera angle possible. It's like those movie directors who have to get every shot of every camera angle and it takes them forever. Then in the editing room they have a hard time deciding which angle is best. They are usually okay with scrapping a couple of the angles right off the bat. Then they tend to debate between two similar angles - that ultimately aren't that different and don't really matter in the grand ...

Is delicious! It's relatively low in fat b/c of the turkey instead of beef - it's full of veggies and make a huge pot so you can eat it over and over again. All you do is start with a package of ground turkey -- and cook it in a pot - preferably with a little bit of olive oil b/c the turkey is really low in fat it has a tendency to burn easily. Once that is cooked add in some corsely chopped veggies - I like onions and red peppers myself. Let that cook a little while - and season the mean and veggie combination with some salt, pepper, cumin, and maybe a little coriander. Once the veggies have loosened up a bit - add in two cans of chunked tomatoes, one can of corn (i like the canned corn over the frozen - though you could use any kind that you have on hand), one or two cans of chicken or turkey broth depending on how thick you like your chili, a can of chickpeas (garbonzo beans), and maybe a small can of tomato sauce. Then just let it cook until bubbly. When it starts to b...

So finally!!!! AZ has gotten back to me. It looks like a fun week of salary negotiations is about to start... It's only been like a month since I interviewed and like 5 months since I first started talking to them. Whatevers. We'll see how it all works out. Hopefully we can work something out and hopefully I'll be moving to Tucson - during the middle of the summer... joy. But then the summer will be over and it will be nice. Everyone is allowed to visit me! (Unless this whole thing doesn't work out.) In other news my company blows and decided yet again to make decisions about its employees without actually asking any of us. Then the few choices we do have must be completed in a ridiculously short period of time because the people making the decisions are lazy. My second job kind of blows. At first I was working a ton - with no shifts being really great for tips. Then things started to pick up - and even though I've been there long that other people I end up ...

There are a few really good feelings in life... completing something really cool that will have a major effect on other people, having a really good night out, and telling someone what you really think about them. The last can sometimes be a guilt inducing, semi-embarrasing effort. Other times it can be completely exhilerating and eye opening. Eye opening in the sense that you really do have the balls to do something that you've always wanted to, that you can do it and not suffer un-due consequences, and that sometimes there are some really really good reasons out there. The disappointment of my day has come with making some creme brulee. I totally dropped one on the floor. If you know anything about creme brulee -- it's that it's a custard - which means that I basically dumped one of the very tasty custards on the floor so that I can't eat it any longer. I'm so sad. I like the creme brulee, it's so easy to make. Poor me and my poor creme brulee :-(

I have a feeling this is going to be a very interesting summer. The new job has mostly been extremely boring. The owners of the place seem to really like me. The fact that I "get" how to make food and then hand it to someone, and that I am able to make reasonable decisions.... they seem to like that for some reason. I have a feeling that the money is going to be pretty good. it Assuming that I'll make more money as it's busier from tips... this could be a rather profitable venture. All under the table of course, which just makes it better. I'm supposed to work basically all day tomorrow, so hopefully it will be a good day. Overall, it's not a lot of money, but it's nice to be able to supplement my income a bit. I want to open an investment account with the extra money, add it to the savings that I already have. We'll see how it all stacks up at the end of the summer though. The people are pretty cool so far, but they're having problems fi...

Work was boring today -- both of them. The second job seems to be going okay. It's a little boring - but filled with free beer and not much to do so far. The season doesn't even start until this weekend -- so the only people at the park are those looking to do some practice. So it's a little slow. It's pretty amusing, and not at all stressful. I think the guy that I work for really likes me. He definitely was trying to test me today. He put an extra 1.75 in the cash box before I opened the register. Then made sure that everything cashed out right. He keeps asking me to work -- even tomorrow which I guess a lot of new people are starting tomorrow (not like I'm not new or anything....) I'm not turning down the extra cash for like zero work.... My real job is pretty boring too. All I really want is to go eat some dinner. Specifically Evil Jungle Prince Chicken from the Thai place in Henrietta -- which is AMAZINGLY tasty. It's a little late and I t...

There are a few things that really get under my skin. One of those is people making a decision for me and not seemly have any choices about what to do. This of course never works for me. As soon as someone says "you can't" or "we're doing this" without even having the opportunity to have input I will ineveitably fight back. Right or wrong. If its good for me or not -- I will fight back. It's not because I don't like change, but rather abhere having my input into my life being ignored. It's my life, I will do what I want. If I ever stop fighting against this kind of thing -- slap some sense back into me or check my pulse - I might be dead.

I’m not really sure if I can say everything that went on. I think that the interview went well… I’m sure that I will find out within a couple of days or so. It was a rather strange thing all together. The casual environment was a little unexpected. Everyone I talked to was wearing jeans. The manager for this position was wearing loafers and white socks. . . and he took me out to lunch, which was very nice. However, I had to drive b/c he had taken his motorcycle, and I had to pay b/c he forgot his wallet at the office. Overall, it was pretty amusing. Tucson was pretty much amazing. I’ve posted the picture I took at the desert museum on my picasa now. Take a look if you’ve got a chance. The weather was basically amazing. Warm – 85to90 sunny – dry. I don’t think you can get much better in April. The only bad part about the airport is that they don’t have free wifi. I was surprised by the number of places that didn’t have free wifi. It’s relativel...