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There were several charges for AP9*Shoppingessential and AP9*Passporttofun+ ...and I had no idea what this was, much less why there were charging me multiple times for $1.00, $8.95, $9.95 and $5.95. So I call up my bank and ask very politely “What the hell?” and they direct me to a claims handler that I need to speak to who can see the entire name of the company and their phone number and all. So I call him up and he gives me the Shopping Essential number. So I call up and speak to Mona (employee number 26371) and ask here very politely “What the hell?” and she says that Pyramid Collection signed me up to Shopping Essentials and I have been billed monthly by them since January...right about now, I was ready to drop the politeness and just throw in some expletives. But I didn’t. She then tells me that Passport to Fun+ has been charged since June...So, I then tell Mona to cancel my account on both of them, to which she does, though it takes her a while since it’s two services. She and I chat about the weather, and I bear with it just because it isn’t her fault her company’s scamming me. Then she tells me to have a nice day...

/sighs. Well at least now I know that I have to watch Pyramid Collection and my bank statement after I’ve made purchases because evidently they do that often by tricking you into clicking on “rebates”. These two things are evidently memberships that allow you to save money on certain things you buy. Thing is, they never sent me an e-mail about my membership or how to use it. Not to mention somehow hiding the charges, since I check my bank account religiously. It just ticks me off that people do that.../sighs.

In other news, my Mom informed me yesterday that my Dad called my Uncle Steve and told him never mind about painting the house. I’m a little bummed about that…but at this point, as long as it gets done, I really don’t care who does it. Dad argued that he’s puttying holes, sanding the walls, cleaning the walls, and priming the walls and if he’s going to go through that much trouble he doesn’t see why he should pay someone else to roll paint on the wall. He can do it himself. Which...is fine with me as long as he does it right. The $200 that I had set aside to help them with the charge has now gone into the order I placed on Amazon…mentioned above.

This afternoon we’re going to get paint and maybe some crown molding to separate the kitchen and living room a bit. He said that he’d be priming today...I doubt he’d be able to get it all done, though it might just be that I’m underestimating him. I think he can if he sets his mind to it...but Dad not only has ADD he’s a procrastinator so...yeah. Sometimes I’m not as confident in his focus. He did seem very sure that he’d be able to do it all though...and that’s good. 

We’re also going to look at laminate / rug floors that look like hard wood floors. I really would rather the rug since it’s cheaper and lower maintenance. It’s just as pretty too, if it’s installed correctly. He has all this week so I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to knock this out. The only issue is the money issue =..= Meh, I get paid next Friday.

All I have to do is survive till 5 o’clock (as is always the case). /looks at clock. Dangit, why can’t you move faster? Ah well. I’ll write later, Sunshines.

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This morning hasn’t been much better. I still have a headache clinging to me and I feel all disoriented, but my stomach seems to be better…or maybe ‘not as bad’ is a better description. I did turn down a piece of cookie cake (one of my favorites) because I just can’t see eating it with my stomach being all…weird. I’ve noticed that my right eye is starting to jump as well =..= It does that from time to time, but it’s done it more in the past three days than it has in a whole year. It’s just odd.

Now, switching gears entirely...I’ve decided to throw a birthday/house warming party on my birthday. So on October 6 I will open up my house to my friends and family. Gifts are not required, of course, it’s much more fun to just have a visit and show everyone my new house. Oh, and if you’re reading this, then you’re invited ^..^ Just please RSVP by commenting or something. I know most of you can’t make it, and that’s fine. I’ll post pictures as soon as I can. But, by that time, everything essential should be done...I doubt that my dad’ll be able to work on the house much the first weekend he’s in, but the second weekend will probably be a great time to get the painting done. If what Mom said about him wanting to get the flooring done is true, then I’ll be in by early to mid September. That gives me enough time to make sure everything’s moderately decorated. I’m not expecting gifts because...well, the only people that absolutely buy gifts for me are my parents and Scamp…and my parents have fixed up a house for me. So yeah, not expecting anything. If I do have money left over, I’m gonna buy at least one of the BookWyrms I posted about a while ago.

OMG! I almost forgot! Amazon.com contacted me to tell me that my TV stand order was canceled. Evidently the place that I tried to buy it from couldn’t find one, even though they had it on Amazon that they did have one. So I had to scramble over and see if I had enough money to get it from another vendor. Talk about upsetting. Although, Pyramid did contact me to tell me that my calendar was also shipped. That’s good. Now the only other things I have coming in that I haven’t been notified about are the napkin holder, incense burner box, futon and chairs.

I’m still feeling bad...My boss seems to suspect that I have some sort of flue =..= Whatever. I’m too tired to argue. And my head is really starting to hurt again, so I’ll go ahead and close this out. I’ll talk later, Sunshines.

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Oh, and you know...for someone who’s saving money, I sure am buying a lot of stuff. Or planning to buy a lot of stuff. I was gonna not spend a lot of money and start saving up for my MacBook, but I did a little bit of number crunching the other day. I went through Amazon and Pyramid Collection to see what items I wanted for my house (in blocks of which room they’d be going in), the prices of those items and then set up excel to add all that up. I’m gonna end up spending over $1,000. So, as much as I’d like to save up right now for that mac (which I’ll need a bare minimum of $3,000) I really would like to focus on my house. Apple will always have their computers for sale, but I need to get my house done now, and I’m not sure how long the things I want for my house will be available. So yeah. I make purchases each check (except the first check of the month for car insurance).

I’ve also realized that it will take me about 15 months to save up $3,000, and I’m not buying it till I have at least $500 extra in there…so I will be canceling my Warcraft when I move into the Nexus. I can’t expect my parents to keep the high speed internet that they hardly ever use when I’m out...so..work will be my only access to the internet. But considering that I’m not really an addict, it’ll be ok. Oh, O..o I need to get more PS2 games... that’ll be my only access to any type of gaming...Must get more PS2 games at some point. I should definitely take my wish list off of Amazon and start looking around or something.

Oh! I bought this air mattress thing, it’s called the Coleman 4-in-1 quickbed. That way if I have any guests over that are over late and they don’t want to go all the way home, they can bunk overnight at my place ^..^ It seems all of my friends live fairly far away...Reiko, Chibi and Scamp are all in different parishes (and that’s my friends in this state -..-)...And we tend to rant and rave into the night, so it’d make sense to just get sheets out and inflate the bed and have them stay over. My backroom will provide plenty of privacy for it. And with the 4-in-1 I can have 2 twins or a doubled up twin bed or a king. So, if both Chibi and Reiko want to stay over, they can. Now, if it’s Chibi, Reiko and Scamp…well, I’m considering getting a futon, so someone will end up sleeping on that =..= All this planning...it makes me realize just how poor I am.

I’m going to go ahead and start packing up things I don’t absolutely need (movies mostly). Of course, that means I’ll be making a catalog/list of all the movies I have and then labeling the boxes and recording which boxes they go in. It’s times like this when I bless my OCD.

In “trying to sound positive” news, I get paid in a week!...and I have most of that spent (in my head) already...which means, I’ll be getting more packages ^..^ That’s good. Speaking of money, I should probably be getting back to work. I’ll write later, Sunshines.

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I’ve already paid all my bills, so I’m hoping to have a bit of spending money for movies and such.... I’m not sure. If I make the usual $300+ then $100 will automatically go into Savings, leaving me $200+. You know me with my money plans; if I don’t have a plan for my money, I’ll end up spending it all. I definitely want to get V for Vendetta, the four disc box set of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Lady and the Tramp because Disney has made it clear they’re pulling the last two back into the vault at the end of the month (and I’m buying V ‘cause it rocks my soxs). I already bought the special edition of Bambi the other day at Sam’s. I checked there for the other movies while I was there, but it’s cheaper at Amazon.com if you can believe that. So, as soon as payday rolls around I’ll make another Amazon purchase. But I was thinking of buying other things...maybe something other than movies >.>... Because we all known I need to increase my DVD collection...<.< Not sure. We shall see (I’m open for suggestions ^_^).

I finally got the chance to talk to Scamp Saturday. We musta been on the phone for about two and a half hours. It was fun just to talk and catch up. Without the computer and being able to post and send e-mails at any time, it feels like we haven’t been communicating properly. She said she would be writing me back soon and enclosing Lacey and Jade’s portraits to add to my Scamp Art© binder ^.^ That’s always really cool to hear.

I said earlier that there were some things I’d been stewing about lately. Well, after getting along so great with me and my parents, Dad and Mom brought up the option of Scamp moving in over here. Then they said it might be better for us to move into the A-frame house and live there. The rent would be reduced to $100 a month instead of the usual $400, but it still wouldn’t be a free ride. Of course, if we could both have jobs and such at the time, it’d be a very nice living. When I called, I talked about the A-frame with her, and she said even if it would be small, it’d still be nice. We already talked about how we want to decorate it. The bathroom/washroom would have the mermaid paintings and such from Pyramid Collection. The kitchen would have a dragon décor, beings as the kitchen represents fire and all. The living room would have the lotus decorations, because lotus is more soothing and peaceful and we see the living room as a room where you go for conversation or TV watching and such and you want that to be peaceful. My room, I want the fairies from Pyramid, just because Pyramid’s fairies look better than most. Scamp said she might save big time and decorate her room with swords and such from the Lord of the Rings section on the Nobles Collection. The only thing I’m not sure about is all the eastern art and décor I have in my room right now. I kinda don’t want to get rid of that, but I’m not sure if it’ll go anywhere in the house...we’ll see. It might-could fit in the lotus living room. The next thing I worried about was furniture. I can keep my bed of course. But chairs and such for the living room might be a problem. But I told Mom that, and she assured me that between garage sales and local thrift stores it shouldn’t be too hard to find some cheap furniture. All I really want for the living room is a few chairs and end tables next to those chairs. No coffee table...we’re both a bit klutzy and there’s very little room, so I can’t see having a coffee table. The only other issue would be the computer issue. I mean, we might-could fit a little computer desk in the nook behind the stairs where my closet would be...but after thinking about it, I thought it might be easier if we got Scamp a laptop (at some point), and then put my computer upstairs with me in my room, and got a wireless router that would transmit internet wirelessly to her lap top and she could use that anytime in her room and not be limited and have to either come up to my room (which would kill her, because those stairs are very verry steep), or go to the living room. Ideally...it might just be better if we both had laptops, if only because it’d save a whole lotta space =____=’ Chibi had a very nice Mac LapTop...I might-could start looking at prices now...But now I’m just over thinking everything. But, hell! It’ll be my first time living on my own...I think I’m entitled to over-react if I wanna.

Oh! I almost forgot! Scamp told me that Sev had wanted her to dress up as a peep for Halloween. And I was like “Oh! That’d be so cool if you modernized it! Like, get a sequin, sparkly, slinky dress in purple, and have a peep-chick head as a hat! Oh!! And then I could get a blue sequin, sparkly, slinky dress, and have a peep-bunny head on top!! And we’d be themed!!! That’d be so cute!” and she’s like, “Stop taking his side! You traitor!” I still think it’d be very cute...I can’t help it. I love peeps -.-

I suppose that’ll be all for now...the weather’s making it really hard to stay awake, much less concentrate on typing. I might try to write a bit again later if I can. Ja.

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