October 1st, 2014 in The Wanderer

Yay! My favorite month! Only I get to spend it in So Cal this year, which just means this month looks like every other month…but luckily, slightly cooler! Things have been going good except for the fact that I woke up sick today. I have been working a ton of hours and not keeping up on staying hydrated, plus apparently a ton of people are getting sick because I keep having to pick up their slack at both jobs. Luckily, it is my day off and although I had a ton of stuff I wanted to get done, I’d rather stay in bed when I feel like this instead of trying to get through a shift. Derek is on his way over to make me feel much better <3 We both got the weekend off and we are going to Mission Inn for his cousin’s wedding. I am so excited because his dad got us a room there so we are going to party our butts off! Plus, a WHOLE WEEKEND OFF OF WORK! So stoked. We always joke around about what it would be like to be “normal” and work during the week and have everything weekend off. The things we could do! Sigh.....

Anyway, I have been doing really good with my finances. I paid off my second credit card, meaning I only have one more! Plus, I was accepted for student loan forbearance! So I don’t have to start paying those back until September of next year, whew! Hopefully by then I will be back in school and can defer them until graduated. I am going to the bank sometime soon to get my first credit card in 5 years, and this time I am doing it right. Using it for food/gas and paying it off every month so I can finally get my credit score back up! I am really excited to finally get my finances in order. It has been a huge burden for me for the past five years. Once this is out of the way I can focus on my dental stuff! One thing at a time…

Work hasn’t been too bad lately. I did get stuck with a party of 30 of the most ghetto people I have ever seen a couple days ago, but luckily I was about to hit 6 hours so I had to get off the clock so another co-worker had to finish them up. They racked up a bill of 400 by the time I left, and I doubt they left us one penny. This whole -no more added gratuity- for big parties is really ruining all of us since ghetto people around here DO NOT TIP and have us running around like crazy people, ruining our entire night, and having to ignore other, potentially good tipping, tables.

This week I worked only two serving shifts and made 350. Payday for both jobs is on Friday, and I get my monthly tips from the deli! So I am doing good with my -save a thousand a month- goal. Derek and I will be looking good come next year when it is time to find a place to live. Hopefully he finally finishes his resume and starts really looking for jobs. It is something we keep arguing about and I can’t wait for him to just do it! It would take a lot of stress off when we finally move in together.

My coworkers at the deli want me to go to universal for the fright fest thing on Sunday, but I really don’t want to spend 100+ at a place like that. I went once to the Knotts one years ago, and it wasn’t enjoyable. I feel bad because it would be the first time I hung out with my coworkers there, and I don’t want them to feel like I don’t want to hang out with them, but it just doesn’t seem like something I would want to do. Maybe we can all go out to dinner or something next time. The funny thing is, some of them aren’t even 21 yet so I can’t even be like, hey lets go to a bar! Haha....

Derek’s birthday is October 22nd and I got us a couples massage. We both have been needing to loosen these knots in our back so it will be nice to finally relax and hopefully it lessens the pain we have both been in. Then I’m hoping to go out to the beach or the mountains or somewhere away from the valley for some drinks! Wish his birthday didn’t fall on a Wednesday because I wanted to actually get a group of people out, but oh well. We will probably do something like Murder Mystery dinner in November with Paul and Shannon!