Super Stressed

So I do believe this week is the most stressed out I have been since I’ve started graduate school.  To make matters worse it is suppose to storm every day for the next 10 days.  Which means my mystery illness is rearing it’s ugly head and I feel like crap. I hate this. I am not a happy camper.

Frugality Makes Cents

Okay so for the month of March I met my budget goal.  Yay big whoop.

But for this month I already know I’m not going to meet my budgeting goals. I am in the process of pimping out my apartment.  I am moving my computer out of my bedroom and hooking it up to my TV to free up room on my desk that I do not use.  So, I had to buy all the supplies that goes along with that including but not limited to a PC to TV connector, a wireless keyboard and mouse and a USB internet adapter for my computer.

Additionally I need to buy a new TV…I’ll probably get that next month. It will be a 32 inch -something or other and I’m giving myself a budget of $350 for it.

Also this month I bought a phone. A nice phone.  I’ve been in the US for 4 years and have been living with crappy phones for the longest.  I can’t stand it. My last phone’s alarm went off whenever it pleased. It would never truly go on “silent” and it was an embarrassing pain in the rear during classes.  So I spent $200 on a phone.  And another $100 on accessories.  But I love it so.

And as I said in my last post, I just got back from a conference which cost a little bit of $$ for food and such. I did win $150 for the research I presented so I am recouping the costs…in the expense of an IPod Touch It’s lost. i only paid $100 for it but still…oh well my new phone can serve as an MP3 thankfully.

Yeah…so I’m too lazy to check this post for grammar/spelling errors so forgive me because I know they do exist. I typed this up in about 5 minutes and it’s time for bed. Peace!

I’m Alive

Spring Break, a conference and catching up on a weeks worth of missed grad school is occupying my time right now.  I’m hoping to be all caught up by this weekend.  After that I will be back to my regularly scheduled program.

This is going to be a long weekend folks.

Playing With Fire

For some reason my life seems to involve playing with fire.  But fortunately I have yet to be burned (yes, I am being metaphorical here).

We (my family and I) moved from Washington DC two weeks before September 11th.  We canceled our vacation to Thailand right before the tsunami. I wasn’t on the metro the day it crashed in DC. No one in my family was (seriously) hurt in Katrina. And more recently…

My dad

just

got back from Japan.

It makes me sick just thinking where he was and just how close he was to…

*sigh*

…and stuff like this has me up at 4:46am unable to sleep.

The images on the television are horrible, and every earthquake I have experienced while living in Japan pales exponentially to the devastation that is going on right now.

Please pray for everyone in Japan/Okinawa/Hawaii/Guam/Philippines/Indonesia/Taiwan and anywhere else that may be affected.  I am still waiting to hear from some friends in Japan but so far it seems that everyone I know is okay.  Apparently playing with fire is something I’m good at.