busy pt 2 ****again

So I ended up going for a run. I’m sore as heck today. Yeah, I’m out of shape again. Womp. Running also had thrown off my metabolism apparently because I was starving all day yesterday and I’m hungry again already and it’s not even noon (no, I don’t know this breakfast nonsense you speak of, what’s that?) I ate a whole meal from McDonalds for lunch which usually will fill me up for the day with a bit of a snack later. But then after I got off last night I ate an entire half of a pizza by myself! Ugh!!! I was that hungry!! (Isaac ate the other half.)

Today I’m working on finishing up my cleaning. It’s mostly just finding places to put stuff. I need to go through and get rid of stuff but I need a day off to myself for that and I haven’t really had one of those. All my days off are usually gobbled up by other people. But I have this coming Wednesday off so maybe I’ll do the in-depth cleaning then.

I also am going to try and work on a budget. Not because I need one. But mostly because my paychecks are going to start fluctuating a bit now that my benefits are being taken out. For instance: I work 32.8 hours last week. At $9/hr that was $290 ish (I’m doing this off the top of my head as an example, don’t critique). $30-something was taken out for taxes. Another $40-ish was taken out for my benefits. So in reality I only got a $220 paycheck. This is a lot less than I was getting ($250 on average, usually a little more). So this means that on those weeks where I’m only getting my low 30 required hours (which is next week for sure and more than likely the 2 weeks I took a day off for doctors appointments at the end of January and mid-February) my paycheck will pretty much suck at life. 30×9=270, minus taxes=240, minus benefits=200. Ugh. Thus the reason I need to sit down and sketch out a budget for when to pay my bills. I doubt my store paycheck (yes I still get one every 2 weeks) will be much help since I only work weekends it usually is only $100-150 every 2 weeks. *sigh*

I don’t know how much I will end up getting accomplished today and I hate that. *grumps*

Isaac spent the night. Having him over is the closest I get to being a morning person. I’m not sure I like it. What with the whole Realization and all it’s really very…overwhelming. No, I haven’t told him. I have no intention of telling him. We’ve been together less than 4 months. Besides, he has enough on his plate to deal with without me being like "Oh, btw, I think I’ve kinda fallen for you". I also don’t want to deal with the repercussions of dropping that on him. I know he likes me. I know he enjoys being with me. But I definitely feel that he is not one of those guys who will fall easily. Maybe once upon a time he might have. But after dealing with the Succubi I’m pretty sure he is beyond the ‘love at first sight’ mentality. The last thing I need is having him have The Talk with me. Ugh, no thanks.

Ok, well off to maybe be a little productive.

So I went and managed to be annoyed to within an inch of my life by my family. My mom asked me to run an errand with my brother, as we are turning onto the street before the store he says we are going to the wrong place…ensue: drama. Ugh.

I also did some cleaning though not as much as I would have liked. I made the calls to get my paperwork faxed over from my old optometrist to my new one for my appointment on the 31st. So that’s something off of my to-do list. I tried to work on an excel calendar to print for my ‘budget’ attempt. Disaster. I think I’ll have to buy a real calendar for 2011 to write/highlight in for that kind of stuff. *sigh* Such a pain in the butt. I’ll be so glad when Wednesday comes around. I have to get up early tomorrow to work at the store (opening shift, 9:45am not super early but still earlier than I’d like). Get off at 4 so maybe I can accomplish something afterwards since Isaac is closing and he’ll be working until about 9:30-10pm. I also need to get my schedule for the next couple of weekends.

I mentioned to Isaac today about how waking up with him is the closest I get to being a morning person. He asked how that was a bad thing so I said "What will I do when you aren’t around in the morning?" He seemed rather dumbfounded by that. lol

Ok, time to get ready for work. Joy oh joy.

Second update:

I bought a 2-year planner, just the monthly kind, sat down and for the next 6 months I have written in all my bills and paydays. Then I highlighted them, green for paydays and blue for bill days. I then wrote in ‘pay bill A’ or ‘pay bill C’ on each payday so that they will all get paid and in a timely manner so I won’t have to stress about it. I might have to adjust for holiday paydays which come early but I don’t think there will be many of those and even so that payday I will still pay that indicated bill.

I also have paid my credit card bill for this month. I’m waiting to get my statement on my other credit card to see how much that payment is. It’s less than $200 and I have to have it paid off in 6 months but I’m not super worried about it; 4 payments of $50 and it’s done so no big deal. I can work that in probably on the same payday that I pay my other credit card bill. We’ll see. I have to see what the actual date each month that my bill is due to determine exactly when it would be best to schedule payment.

That whole storage unit idea is looking even further off. I have yet to get a real idea as to how much it will cost a month and with the insurance being taken out now…it’s just seeming to be more impossible every day. *sigh* I’m looking for the silver lining. I know it’s staring me in the face because I have insurance. I will be going to the doctors soon. I will have updated contacts. I will go back on birth control. When I get sick in the spring as I inevitably do I can get antibiotic and steroids. I can get back on my allergy nasal spray. *headdesk* I haven’t even attempted to find a chiropractor only because most likely even if it’s my old doc he’ll want me to get updated MRI and x-ray. More time off requests.

I need to also request a weekend off in May to go to the faire. Hopefully it will be before Isaac leaves for training/deployment because he and Dos both want to go. So I figure if we figure it out soon enough Kay can get her boyfriend to come with us too! It’ll be so much fun.

Then there will be vacation time I want to use during July when my family comes up to visit. I don’t know how much I’ll have by then but it’s something I have to keep in mind while scheduling my bill payments.

Being a grown up sucks.