Current mood:

calm

catch-up post
Well, it's been a hell of a month with lots of things to mention though I probably will miss a bunch of them. My finicial status is still quite shaky but I'm still holding on, everything else is great. A couple of weekends ago, me and Kait went up to her parents' new lake house not too far from Cooperstown. It was the first time that I met any of her family and I was a bit nervous, but we all got along pretty well. She later told me that they liked me which made me happy. It was a fun weekend and really made me feel more comfortable in the relationship and everything in various ways. I don't remember if I mentioned this before, but I brought her to my brother's graduation party about a month ago where she met my family, and they liked her. So it's really good that both families like the other in the relationship and I'm really happy for that.

Moving on to other things, I sold a chunck of my DVDs this past weekend to EB Games since I needed money to make a car insurance payment before my next paycheck. I have said this many times, and now that I've done it myself and have experienced it, I will say it again. Never sell your used stuff to stores like that. You will get raped up the ass with what they give you, and they will likely more than double the price they bought it for when they put it on the shelf. I went in hoping that it wouldn't be so bad in that I would get the difference of the money I didn't have for the payment plus enough store credit to leave with In the Groove, which roughly would be ~$100, and there's no reason to get less for as many DVDs as I brought in. I got $63 and some change and was pissed. I was going to take that recepit and laminate it (my mom actually has a machine that does that) or something to show excatly why no one should deal with those places when selling stuff, but I guess I left it on the counter so I can't do that. However, I'll bet that if I go to that store any day now and could randomly find less than 1/3 of those DVDs and the total will probably be double what I got for all that I brought in. Fucking ridiclous.

This past weekend was Harborfest. For those of you not familiar with it, the weekend is basically a town-wide party. There's events and concerts going on everywhere, and tons of drinking. You could roam the streets and just play beer pong with random people, some may just offer you a drink, and there's even places you can actually just walk into and actually party with people you don't even know. I usually take this weekend off from work, and this year was no exception. My main reason for taking it off is that traffic is horrific all weekend long, and the effort to get to and from work just isn't worth it. I spent a good majority of the weekend with Kait, who was feeling pretty uncomfortable with the whole event, and the people out on her porch (her apartment is split into 3 parts) partying really didn't help. I wasn't much in the party-mode either, so it was good casually drinking with her and Paul, and eventually being joined by her step-sister and her boyfriend to play drinking games. It was a fun weekend, and relaxing to have a few days off in a row for once.

Now the big thing for me to look forward to is Otakon. I know I probably shouldn't go since my finicial status isn't excatly the best, but I have two big reasons that are having me still go. First off is that I really need a vacation to keep me sane, I need a good break from the bell and everything else. What's awesome is that it's going to be a longer break than I thought. I took off Thursday - Monday for the trip, the Monday and Tuesday prior to the trip I have off (my normal two days off for the work just happened to fall on those two), and it look like I may have Wednesday off too, which would just kickass since that would be a whole week of no bell. I am really looking forward to that. Reason two for still going is the people going with me, and I'm not gonna cancel the thing just because of me. I would never bring myself to do that to anyone and I refuse to start now. Granted, a lot of people bailed on me, including my brother, which is annoying, but the people who are coming have been dedicated. Kait and Paul haven't backed down since they heard of the trip, Matt (hometown buddy) has been working on his costume for months, and Katy, an online friend of mine for years who lives in PA, has been interested about it since I told her and will be joinging us as well. It's going to be a great weekend, the con itself will already be amazing, and I know we'll all have lots of fun, and I'm looking forward to finally meeting Katy after all this time.

Today (as in Friday, since I haven't gone to bed yet), I finally cleaned this shithole I call a room. Yep, for the first time in this house, there is not stuff just lying around in random places or on the floor. It finally looks presentable in here, as well as in my "office," the little block of space that leads my room and rally has no other purpose. I call it my "office" since it has my old desk as part of it and cleared off with a desk lamp so I can do my reading and other work on it.

So things have been going well lately, and hopefully they'll stay as good as they are, and that my checkbook will get better along the way too. ^^;;; (and I have been a good boy, haven't bought anything for myself non-necessity-wise for three months now minus Warriors of Legend, a great book I highly recommend. ^_^)