no rent = happy savings account!

can i just say that not having to pay $600 in rent this month has been awesome? especially for my savings account. i hope the rest of summer is awesome like this, with very little expenses. my boss gave me a $500 bonus on my last check. i put ALL of the bonus into savings. the paycheck before that, i could spare $200 to go into savings. it's just SO NICE to not have to give one entire paycheck away. fingers crossed that i'll find a new job in late july/august so i can continue to make my savings account happy.

the last few moments in my studio.

i did ride into a bike store today, though... and fell in love with a little red bike for $150. i might just buy it.

306: last night.

tonight is my last night in my studio apartment. movers are coming between 130 and 230 in the afternoon. i've spent my night packing and cleaning up some things. i still have a lot more stuff to clean and pack, but the movers are only moving the large and heavy pieces and putting into my storage unit. everything else i will be moving myself. 

i moved into this studio in april 2012. before i lived here, i shared an apartment with my exboyfriend mark and his friend blake. our lease was up at the end of march. that january mark had started to talk about living with his friend amanda. he said i could live with them too, but that he was going to move in with her. from there, it was downhill. i refused to live with her so i started looking for a place to live. i looked at an apartment that was supposed to be a studio, but the manager showed me a two bedroom instead and then made me feel awful that i couldn't afford it. i arranged a meeting with another apartment only to show up and have the guy say that he already rented the place. i looked at a studio down the block from my current studio and it was TINY. i found this studio on craigslist; someone was trying to sublease it. it ended up being pretty much perfect. all the utilities were included, it allowed cats, it was in a decent neighborhood (brady street), and the price was good enough ($525).

my boss patti, her husband and son, and my coworker katie moved me out of my old apartment and into this fourth floor walk-up studio. i didn't stay here for the first week. the very first night i slept in my apartment i had meghan stay over with me. after that, i ended up sleeping on my futon for a while. i bought a couch and a chair. i bought shelving units. i filled up my place with comfortable pieces. i made it a home.

i've had only a few issues living here. i have a drafty window. none of the windows stay open by themselves. i had a spurt of awful electricity. my kitchen sink is still broken. they raised rent to $599. i heard their raising it again once i move out. 

well. things are packed or in the process of being packed. my bed is ready to be taken apart and the mattress are ready to be sealed in plastic. i wrapped my chair and ottoman myself. i'm spending the night sleeping on my couch... basically just how i started my little life in this studio apartment. 

i'll spend the reset of the week moving things out and taking them to my mom's and cleaning the shit out of this place. i did the best i could with sweeping tonight, but i really want to vacuum my hardwood floors and mop them. and then i'll do my final walk-through and peace out.

it's been real, 306.

sociology games.

i've procrastinated myself into a tizzy. my sociology class was a u-paced class, meaning i can go at my own pace as long as i complete the assignments by the end of the semester. i started the class, what, last week? and i've been awful at doing one quiz a day.

and do you know why? because i bought the stupid hunger games trilogy books and i can't put them down. i powered through the first book last week. i started the second one monday night and i'm almost done with it. i read a chapter or two when i wake up in the morning (i willingly get up earlier for this!), i read a few when i come home from work, one or two throughout the night between sociology and dicking around on the internet, and then one chapter before i go to bed. good grief.

what am i going to do when i finish the series? i'll be so lost. i've never had a weird YA lit addiction/obsession like this. this is strange and i'm not sure i like it very much.

but i do need to get my ass in gear with this sociology stuff. there's a little more than two weeks left to power through. two quizzes a day, basically. ughhh.