My First Craigslist Experience

In less than a month I will be moving into my first apartment.  Naturally, this means that I’ve been doing a lot of furniture shopping.  Ideally I’d be able to afford new furniture, but in reality I am a poor college student who has had to resort to craigslist.

Craigslist is…well…interesting. People post ads to sell anything from sex to cars to furniture.   I’ve been contacting sellers all week and for some reason everything just wasn’t working out.  Either the price was being jacked up, or something just seemed “shady”, or someone else had just bought it, etc.  But eventually I came across a very good ad for an extremely gently used IKEA bed set.  Brand new this set would have cost me $500, but this was listed as only $100.  Honestly this sounded too good to be true.

So I contacted the seller, and after a little back and forth, I realized I was under a time constraint.  Whoever got to the place first, and with cash would be the recipient of the set since there were about 3-4 people wanting to view it at the same time.Mind you this was at too-early-in-the-morning-o’clock.

So I got dressed as quickly as I could,  I didn’t brush my hair, or my teeth, or anything and raced off for this persons house. I arrived about 30 seconds before this other girl who decided it was okay to push pass me towards the front door of the house.  She even tried to trip me! Needless to say I wasn’t to happy about that, but I don’t go around acting childish over silly things.  The owner of the set realized we both came at the same time so we’d have to compromise.  Of course the girl wasn’t having none of that, so we ended up flipping a coin.  And guess who won? Me!!

The girl was beyond mad, she stomped her feet like a 2 year old and ran out of the house.  She was probably equally as mad to see a parking ticket on her illegaly parked vehicle as well.  Ahh, I love karma.

It’s Been a While

I am in a better mood than when I wrote my last few posts. I don’t know if I mentioned already but my friend’s son passed away. I am glad he’s pain free. The situation has me thinking… As much as I complain about my pain, it doesn’t even compare to the pain he felt. It doesn’t compare to the pain his mom and dad must feel.

I will be back to updating the blog more. Not because I’m doing better but because I’m paying for a domain name and the ability to self host. So let me catch you up on my whereabouts.

I’ve been doing an internship all summer doing nothing, prepAring for grad school, and that’s about it. Oh. And my computer died which is why you may see a lot of spelling errors. I’m currently writing from my mp3 and don’t feel like double checking… I’ll go into more details tomorrow

Update On Baby J

He is not doing well. But he does have a fan page on facebook if you want to become a part of his support team.

Please pray for peace for his family, and a painless passage for J.

Pray for Baby “J”

I know I said I wasn’t going to post for a while but I am interrupting my indefinite break to ask for urgent prayers from any readers I may still have to pray for Baby “J”.  Every time I think about the bad days I have, I think about Baby “J” and it just seems so petty.  

Baby “J” is the son of a friend and he is only a year old.  Baby J has been fighting cancer for over half his life. His cancer has spread and it does not look good.  Whatever path his life may take, please pray for Baby J. Please pray for his family.