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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Money Makes the World Go Around
A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound
a buck or a pound
a buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around,
that clinking, clanking sound
can make the world go ’round
Ah, yes. Money. I love money. Well, no, that’s a lie. I like that I can make money, which is something that I need, in order to get on with my life. Well, it was nice to get a large paycheck on Friday, and be able to toss over $500 into my savings account, replenishing what I had to remove from it to make sure that I incurred no overdrafts and then bringing the balance up to a whopping $700. It isn’t much, but it is a start. That is probably what it will cost for me to move. Well, maybe a bit short. I am estimating a cost between $800 and $1,000 for my move, to be on the safe side. If I keep up what I’m doing with my overtime, I can save plenty enough to get myself settled into an apartment, get some inexpensive furniture, and if I’m lucky, find myself a reasonable car to start paying off. I know I keep posting with very little to report, but I’m becoming very hopeful about all of this.
I have scheduled myself for ten hour days, basically, for the next week, which isn’t so bad, all things considered. I’m working a normal eight hour shift on Tuesday, but I am picking up an extra four hours on Thursday, and working an additional hour and a half on Friday rather than just the ten that day. It’s going to be a bit of a bitch, but it will be worth it, I think, for what I’m going to manage to save because of all the extra time that I’m working. It sucks not having much free time, if any at all, but it’s one or the other, and I would rather be more than adequately prepared for my move in October than be struggling to get myself ready for it only weeks beforehand.
I have not packed or repacked as much as I should have already done. I haven’t gotten anything down from above my closet or from the attic, and I just know that I’m going to put it off until September when I’m not possibly going to have any time to get it done because I’m sure there will be other things to stress about. I need to just buckle down and spend one of my days off doing it. I plan to do laundry this Wednesday, and then hopefully start throwing at least some of my things into boxes, because I’ve got to do something about it. I can’t just let it languish indefinitely. Besides, I need to get a vacuum in there, and I certainly can’t take care of that until everything is cleared away and put where it ought to be.
Ah, I’m going to stress myself out again. I think I ought to stop while I’m ahead. Things will be okay; I’ll get everything done, get a job that will pay relatively well, get a car that won’t break my budget too badly, and things will be fine.
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