Reader Overload

So I posted a huge rant the other day about how much my life sucks right now and quite a few people read it. I didn’t expect many to read it, much less comment on it. Some of the feedback was very helpful, a lot was just words of commiseration, some of it was so off-the-wall fucking stupid, I have to share. So I have my little counter at the bottom that I got from some website where they make counters. I am not HTML literate, I am a copy-and-paste gal all the way. However, and I didn’t notice this before, but my counter has the abbreviation ‘pds’ for pounds as opposed to the normal and accepted and grammatically correct ‘lbs’ abbreviation. I had several noters pointing this out and trying to call me an idiot because I misspelled the abbreviation ‘oh how did you get an education if you can’t spell lbs?’. Um, I didn’t misspell jack shit so fuck off. It’s some pre-generated crap, but now that it has been pointed out, I will probably go and get a new one. The truth is that I didn’t pay much attention to it, it was doing what I wanted it to do, why would I?

On other notes I got a lot of people bitching about how I need to grow up and etc. Yeah, right, ok. I’ll grow up when you do. I mean seriously! Who is so dumb that they leave negative notes on someone’s entry? If you didn’t like what I had to say, then why did you read it? Much less waste your time commenting on something that was obviously so distasteful to you? And I read all my notes because, as previously stated, some held really good words of advice and I didn’t want to possibly miss an important one.

Other than that! Things are progressing slowly. I finally shared with the Momster what has been going on. Up until now I have been trying to handle the loans thing on my own. They are all in my name, no co-signer or anything, and my family sure doesn’t have the money to pay for it. Plus I knew her reaction and it was exactly what I got. She went into overbearing know-it-all mode. Don’t get me wrong, my mom has lots of real world experience and I trust it to a point. But she also is prone to giving me advice like I’m an idiot, including pointing out all of the simplest things that I could (and usually do) come up with on my own. I also didn’t want my family worrying that I was in a financial hole, which, yeah I guess I am but it’s not that bad and I know I can get out of it, it will just take a lot of freaking time and hard work. And a lot of freaking luck too. Luck in keeping my job at Best Buy beyond the season (did I mention in that rant that I was seasonal? I don’t remember if I did or not, so yeah, having 2 jobs is temporary for right now and may not last and I don’t get shite for hours at CVS, max of 20/week); luck in maybe consolidating and/or deferring; luck in being able to fix my freaking car (still in the shop about the coolant system, waiting to hear back about it, hopefully will today) and not have it cost a small fortune that I don’t have.

On the upside, after telling Momster about the loans she is willing to pay for the gifts I was supposed to give people for Christmas. So the only ones I will have to buy myself are the one I’m getting her (still don’t know what I’m getting her and she doesn’t know what she wants) and the ones I’m getting for Quinn, Georgie, and Irish although I’ve already told Quinn he’s probably not getting his until January after I have caught up on all of the payments again. Hopefully in January I will also be consolidated at least so I’ll only be paying one bill instead of three. The other two are gift cards that I’m mailing. They aren’t big things and one of them can wait until at least this coming Friday when I get my CVS paycheck.

Ok well Quinn is here visiting and I’m getting kind of hungry. I have to work at 5 and have to go in a little early to get some more gifts. So don’t know how much more time I will get to spend with him. He’s supposed to be working over break too so I really don’t know how much time I will get to spend with him in the next couple of weeks thanks to Best Buy and the crazy people who insist on shopping over the weekend in massive droves. Hopefully that dies down after Christmas although I will likely still be scheduled all weekend. It’s ok, don’t borrow trouble or worries. My health can’t afford it right now.