it's unday morning and i'm watching a rerun of "Road Trip" on tbs.(may i say i hate loud smacking lip sounds on movies). things on the docket today are church and christmas decorations. a few curious things have happened to me since my last post- i had a cd literally fly out the window. granted i was on the freeway with the windows down, sort of that carefree ambivilance of youth and disregard for deafness and tangled hair, and then before you know it my 'best of maria callas' (opera singer) is rolling out of its slot and out it goes- the fuck!? and then yesterday i literally moved a ton of mulch. and it didn't cover my entire yard. which means bcs of my OCD that i must again demand we go to the mulch facility so that the yard will be covered like a steamy volcanic winter. but it's so essential. and how can you beat paying $14.62 for a ton of mulch. anyway in other news is: my debt and my job... both of which you'd think are heading for disaster but are, in reality, finding themselves livable even if not remotely flourishable?.. i've been in a low-grade compartmentalized panic about my impending student loans. i've run out of the 'economic hardship' option which i strung along for 3 years, thinking surely in that span of time i'd have a job that would have me well on my way to making that $60,000 seem a small amount. but no. so after staring blankly for a while i thought if not defer, clearly i'm in the 'forbear' category. and i spent another month avoiding that reality and sort of calmly looking at that $714 a month payment as something that i just couldn't do. but not that i didn't want to. i finally read the paperwork to find that i'm now eligible for debt-burden forbearance, hoping that in the next 3 years my economic situation will improve... right. and i can afford making payments and everything will be just fine.
and as for the job the check is painful but things are going along just fine. which makes me think i've compartmentalized that too so that i can tolerate it. that or i'm on my way to becoming a happier calmer person. mweh. who knows.
things i've got to do:
mulch
paint
xmas decs
presents?
istock
etsy
exercise
read
return shoes?
go to trader joes
minutae
learn french.
4 comments:
$14.62 for a ton of mulch, like, really???
dude do you know if you don't pay your bills like nothing really happens to you? Like people call and harass you... but thats it. I should know.
you could do what i did. i did the thing where you only pay the interest at a decreased rate for a few years and then they "turn it back on." BUT, then I paid over the amount required, like $100/month instead of $40, so it would be paid down faster. By the time you get to your "real" paying, the loan amount is smaller and so the payments are more manageable.
if you lived in a decent climate read upper midwestern the flying cd problem would have been solved. either the windows would have been up or, with the windows down, the ears would have fallen off due to frostbite.
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