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Friday, September 7, 2007
I’m on My Way
This has been a very productive week for me. After a trip up into the attic, I was left feeling a bit stressed because we came down with about five boxes, and I’m still missing one somewhere with my letterman’s jacket in it, so I’m a bit concerned over that. At the time, I was a bit overwhelmed, considering my room seemed to have exploded all over itself, despite my moving boxes around and getting rid of things, as well as shipping things to Ohio. I made a lot of progress on that over the course of the week, though. I managed to clear out at least five boxes and two laundry baskets full of miscellany, sorted between garbage and things that I’m keeping. (Nothing in those boxes was salvageable for Good Will, though I do plan to go there with some of the clothes that I no longer plan to wear.) It makes me feel really good to realize that I have about two more boxes to go through that are in cupboards, two in the garage and then two boxes of books to pack away, and then I’m done. All done! It’s an amazing thought that I could possibly be done that fast. I seriously thought I had more to do, and it was really stressing me out. So, now I just need to finish packing and shipping my boxes, and then clean up my room, do laundry and sort clothes between keeping, donating and tossing. It’s not much at all!
The realization has hit me that I’m leaving in just twenty-seven days. Twenty-seven! I have sixteen days of work left before my last day, and then it will be four days after that when I leave with Johnathan for Ohio. This is all becoming real. I’m very excited, but also a little scared. I haven’t got a job yet, and that’s really nerve-wracking, especially given that Comcast is screwing me over a little bit. I took my vacation in good faith that the vacation they showed was what I had earned to use right away. Well, apparently I dipped into a bank of time off that I did not actually have, so they will be docking me for the pay for the time I got vacation pay on my trip to Ohio out of my last paycheck. Well, that would have been good to know when I put in my vacation time! I wouldn’t have taken it if I had known I hadn’t earned it yet. It’s all water under the bridge now, though, because there’s nothing that I can do about it. I’ve been applying to jobs like crazy in Ohio, receptionist positions, office work… anything that will pay me enough to sustain myself in our current residence, pay my car payment and insurance, my phone, and for groceries and utilities. Any savings and things above that can be cut mostly out of the budget that Johnathan and I set up, but I need something that will cover at least those things. That requires making at least about $10 an hour. I’m doing my best to find something that will work for me, and I’m hoping someone will at least give me a phone interview before I get there; it would be very stressful to move and just have to jump into more hardcore job searching once I get there.
Everything money-wise seems to be falling at the same time right now. My first car payment is due in about a week – it’s already in the mail – as well as having had to take the cats to the vet yesterday, and then I have an appointment for an exam next week – though that should be fine as it will be the day before my paycheck posts, so I won’t have to stress quite as much over paying for that. More and more has been going on my credit card, and it’s starting to worry me. I dipped into my savings to make a sizable payment on the card – I cannot bear to see it getting up high – and to put enough into my checking account to cover the car payment when it comes out. I’ll have to use the next paycheck to chip away some more at the credit card and to replenish my savings, because as it is, I only have just enough for the first month’s rent and the cat deposit, which I’ll probably pay all at once. After that, I won’t have much left at all, and it is bothersome. So, a good chunk of this paycheck has to go toward making sure I have more than that in my savings account. I’m worried that I may need to take out a personal loan to make this move, which would increase my financial responsibilities, and then if I don’t manage to get a job that pays enough, I’ll be in over my head. I would rather not have to do that, but it may end up being my only option. My ends are starting to get tied off, though, so there’s honestly no turning back now.
It’s less than a month now until I leave Oregon. I’ll have been here exactly twenty days short of ten years when we leave, and while it’s a bit sad to be leaving a place that I love so much, all I can see is the opportunity and the possibilities that I have ahead of me. I’m moving to Ohio, and I’ll be with Johnathan, who I love very, very much, and while the lack of job is currently lamentable, I’m sure I’ll be able to find something. Things still have the possibility of going wrong, and they probably will, but I’m just going to take it in stride. Life is too short to lose my mind over something like this, big as it is.
Oh my god, I’m moving to Ohio in less than a month! Excuse me while I actually lose my mind. (In a good way, of course!)
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