List of things to Accomplish (in no particular order):
- Rhadamanth’s application started
- Finish organizing TWD’s pages
- New content for TWD
- Set up Black Cat Friday
- Get content on Black Cat Friday
- Do Dusty’s layout started
- Get a job
- Get license

My to-do list from the other blog.

As you can see, two more things are checked off. Those being ‘get license’ and ‘get job’. I took my road test for the second time on Monday (the 29th) and I passed. The last guy I had just kind of sat there, taking notes, not saying anything, which really had me freaked out. This person talked to me and stuff, asked me about school, life and all that. So I was much more relaxed. I got docked points for not looking right when I turned right (when I turn my head, I do it thinking about cars, not people so much, so when you turn right around a corner, there obviously won’t be any cars there unless they’re on the sidewalk… gotta watch out for those kids though -grimace-) and, accelerating in residential areas. She said I was going a bit fast, but I accelerated in order to get to the speed limit, not to go past the speed limit. Oh and I got docked for not leaving enough wiggle room when I parked. I’ll admit it. I am TERRIBLE at parking in a straight stall. I usually end up crooked or too far to one side. I haven’t ended up outside the lines though since my first attempt, so at least I have that going for me. But, she had told me I passed before she told me what I got docked points for, so all I could do was stand there grinning, trying to fight it off to be serious and at least acknowledge what I’d done and can thus improve on.

I didn’t actually get my license until yesterday though. From like, Thursday to Monday, we were living on only ten dollars. I have been eating off-brand mac-and-cheese almost every day these past few days, made with water. Not milk and butter like you’re suppose to, but water. And that’s usually my only meal. So, as you can imagine, we couldn’t manage to cough up $43 for license if we used the last $10 on gas so I could at least take the test. Yesterday, my dad got paid from the restaurant (the one that I did the website for). Right, he hasn’t been getting hours there. At least, not many. He works twice, maybe three times a week, but the check is usually at least $100… nope. Because his boss is a moron and doesn’t come with the checks in the morning like most places, and my dad wanted to do stuff yesterday, we drove like a half an hour to his boss’ house to get the check. They put it in the door, they didn’t even answer the door and talk to him. His check was only $85. Eight-five fricken’ dollars. My gas gage is off a little in my car, and it was at like, the point where it usually starts kicking out, so we had to cash the check at the bank it was written from, else we wouldn’t have made it. Six dollar fee for doing that, so we were left with $79. My license cost $43. Which left just over thirty dollars. We had to get cat food, and we got food for ourselves because mac-and-cheese, especially when not made right, tastes nasty. The rest was used to do laundry because we don’t have a dryer that works. So, all the money was gone in like, a little over 24 hours. I guess you can’t expect more from $85.. but still.

Wanna know something funny? My dad “makes too much” to get any help. Can’t go anywhere, not even the food pantry.

You’re probably sitting there going “you’re on a computer right now, it can’t be that bad” … I have WiFi. It’s the only reason I have the internet. I don’t have cable and when people ask me to watch a tv show and I say that, they look at me like I’m completely and totally insane. I mean, we have money, but… not a lot. We (I try to keep up-to-date as I can with our financial status. It bothers me not knowing, and yet at the same time, it stresses me out knowing. Can’t win, can I?) were talking about how the checks were all going to pan out the rest of the summer… I dunno how it’s going to work. We’re going to North Carolina in August, but it’s not for vacation. It’s for a meeting my dad has to go to. We’re driving though (renting a car is cheaper than plane tickets) so it’s not like me being there is going to cost extra money. But with all the owed stuff, I don’t know how it’s going to work. I just, remember being little. We were never in the middle class, especially being a single income home. But things were so much easier when you were oblivious, and when I was little, at least the economy wasn’t like this.

Pah…

Anyway, I did get a job as well. Sort of. Today was my first day as a stocker at the gas station my mom works at. I did the hours of the guy, David, who is currently in the hospital for having a seizure (no one knows what caused it). So I’m taking his hours, and after he comes back, I don’t know what I’m going to do. The other guy, my mom said is almost eighteen which means he’ll be doing the cash register then, so if the boss likes me and I do a good job, I might get his place. But it’s not for sure. So I’m just… kind of hanging out doing what I can for now, and waiting until I know what’s going on. If it doesn’t look like I’m going to get part-time, I’ll have to find another job. I’ll keep this one, and just fill in when the other stockers need off, but I won’t get enough gas money from that for anything. I’d rather not have two jobs, but… /: There’s not much I can do about it.

I have to look at car insurance as well.

I haven’t even been paid yet, and I feel like all the money’s going away. ;~;

As for site things, I’ll get more for here as soon as I can. I want to give Black Cat Friday a new, more simplistic layout. It is a portfolio after all, and how it is set up now, it feels like too much work to update. I feel like I’m juggling two sites like this, when it should just be a simple portfolio on BCF. So I want to try and do a horizontal layout. I did one for my characters here and I want to do something similar for BCF. With a better layout though, and stuff, but yeah. I like that style, and it would probably work for a portfolio. We’ll see how it all works out…

For now, I want to look at car insurance and possibly go lay down. I’m beat.