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So yeah. I'm alive... and I was actually rather productive today.

I did my grocery shopping today. I had a lot of stuff on hand already so really I just had to pick up some necessities like laundry soap and minor ingredients to complete some of the meals I have planned out for the next couple weeks.

Got home, put away the groceries, and started catching up on my dishes. Didn't quite finish, but I made a huge dent and can see my stove again which is good since I plan on using it again in the very near future. I just never seem to have the motivation during the week to keep up with my dishes, so they usually end up piling up all week. :\

I also cleaned my coffee pot and got it ready to use tomorrow. Managed to also get some laundry done as well.

Thursday night when I noticed my paycheck had posted to my checking account, I scheduled the final payment on my 2nd Capital One Card. This means I now have permanently gotten rid of 3 credit cards and their balances. I've also managed to pay in full the $500 I agreed to pay for the car I had from May to November of last year. And June's budget is looking great so far. I will probably be posting more about that soon in the [TMMO] filter.

For now though, it's bedtime since the start of another long work week is about 9 hours away, and the alarm is going off at 7.

So, let's see... I'm still alive. That's always a good thing.

Found out that yes, we will be moving to different teams at work, we just don't know who our new supervisors will be or where we are moving to yet. I guess we'll find out this week. It has been extremely busy at work too. No room for time off at all the rest of the month. In fact they were asking people to work overtime Friday and Saturday. I was going to work some Friday but due to circumstances that happened Thursday night, I didn't go in. I did do 4 hours Saturday. I haven't decided how my OT will work for this week. I have to be in Salina on Saturday for my baby sister's 9th birthday party. I will probably end up pulling a 10 hour day on Friday, and then start working 5 hours Fridays and Saturdays possibly more depending on how much energy I have at the end of each week. At least 10 hours of OT each week though, that's my goal.

Got another 100% quality score last week. That's #6 so far. I also found out that every 5th 100% you get $25 added to a debit card, so four more to go before I have another $25. It also means $20 cash so far this month from my current supervisor. He set a goal for each 100%, you'd get $10 cash. This month has cost him $70 so far and it's not over yet, heh. My sales have kinda sucked the last week or so, but I am still at $450 in comission so far this month. I just hope the next week or two go much better. Would be nice to have another $600+ commission month. Especially for a month that only has 28 days in it. I need to keep up the 100% quality scores too though because for March, April and May I need to be in the top 10% for Quality scores in order to earn the Specialist position in June. Hard to believe in just 4 more months I'll have been at Alltel for a year. What a long way I've come since January of 2006.

So yeah, as to why I didn't work OT on Friday... Thursday night, I managed to hit a 2 foot tall wooden post in our driveway and cracked my front bumper. After I looked at the damage on Friday, I decided to have it looked at for estimates... the damage is cosmetic only so I am holding off on fixing it awhile longer and will be putting money back out of each paycheck til I have the cash to replace the bumper.

I figured I would at least try to do some OT in the afternoon but that quickly got nixed right after my power supply died and I tried to get out of the driveway to go get a new one and couldn't because of the ice/snow still in the driveway and I couldn't get up the incline from the parking area to the actual driveway. So I parked and came back inside and waited til later in the evening and tried again... was able to get out of the driveway and off I went to the computer shop to get a new power supply.

I did manage to put in 4 hours of OT on Saturday. I probably should have done some today, but I was lazy and slept in til 9:30 (waking up from what I think was going to end up being a nightmare). Got up and did a load of dishes, took out the trash, got yesterday's mail. The only thing I got was my little sister's letter, where she was nice enough to send me her birthday list. She had 5 things listed, but had numbered the list from 1 to 13. At the bottom she wrote "Please dont get all of these things, just one." *laughs* Funny thing is, the gift I'm getting her isn't on the list at all, but I know she will still love it.

So hmm... other than work what have I been up to? Well, I spend a lot of my free time after work listening to podcasts of the Dave Ramsey show and hanging out on the my Total Money Makeover Online forums and chat room. I have managed to get a letter written to my little brother. Still owe Mom and Grandma a letter and my other grandma an email. I should probably also email my uncle and let him know I'm still alive too.

I've got two filters started... one for walking and one for my path to become debt free. If you want to be added to them, just let me know.

So I got home tonight and started out real productive like. Came in, did up a load of dishes and then vacuumed the Kitchen, Hallway and Living Room. I think tomorrow I will be cleaning and vacuuming my bedroom. Need to still take out the trash also tonight, and cooking dinner might not be a bad idea at some point. :)

Work was ok today. I didn't have to escalate any calls, so that is always a good thing. :) We did our little new hire graduation ceremony around 4pm and then got to go out onto the floor to start setting up our cubicals. I finally saw my schedule entered into ESP, but it was not the right schedule, so my supervisor is supposed to be getting ahold of workforce management to get that fixed. I absolutely *hate* 30 minute lunches, and that is what they have me working according to the schedule. They put it in as 10am - 6:30pm and it is supposed to be 10am - 7pm. Hopefully it is fixed before I have to work on Sunday.

I also managed to call and set up an eye appointment for the 18th of this month. I have not really had an eye exam in far too long and now that I have vision insurance again, I think it is high time I get that taken care of and probably will be getting a new pair of glasses. :)

I also need to finish my little brother's letter and get it mailed so he doesn't start thinking I forgot about him.

Ok I might post a bit later with more stuff but for now, I am going to post a meme I stole from vulpine137 and then go start making dinner. :)

I just found out via 1 broken glass that my dish drainer doesn't hold glasses on the side well when placing them on the side closest to counter's edge. So instead of 8 nice glasses and 8 juice glasses, I have 7 glasses and 8 juice glasses... oh well. :) I think I shall manage and at least I know not to use that side of the drainer anymore for drying my glasses.

I've managed to get the tupperware lids, one set of dishes, the silverware and glasses washed so far. Still have one set of dishes to wash as well as the rest of my bakeware and pots and pans.

I've also managed to unpack my DVDs and get them back up on their rightful shelf. Am pondering moving the shelf closer to the entertainment center but I think I will wait until I have the living room unpacked and all the boxes out of the way first.

I'm pretty sure my digital camera is ruined. Was in the process of cleaning off my desk and packing stuff I wanted to keep that was on the desk into a small box, when I turned around and saw my water had spilled onto the desk and all over the digital camera. One more thing to add to my list of things to get when I have money again, I guess. :(

My aunt called earlier this evening. Apparantly she is having computer problems and from what I was able to gather, it's turning on, posting, and then giving her the option to either retry boot or go into setup. Joy. She's wanting me to come look at it if I do end up going to Wichita this weekend with Mom.

Well, it's bedtime for me... carrying 3 old 486s out to the car and unloading them at the DAV plus the cleaning and other stuff I did today just zapped the energy from me today.

I did crap all today... Pulled a rubbermaid bin from under the table, dumped it out and put my books in it and that's about the extent of my productiveness today. I was just so totally unmotivated today for some reason.

Tomorrow I should be getting the car I'm borrowing from a friend of Mom's. I think once I have it I'll start loading up the things I'm taking across the street to the DAV and then drive them over to unload. That way I won't have to make several trips back and forth across the street. :)

Also, if the lease hasn't shown up in tomorrow's mail, gonna call the landlord and find out why.

My best friend's sister graduated this weekend and is moving out of her apt at the end of this month. I emailed her landlord and left a couple phone messages earlier today and just got this in response:

Thanks for your phone calls. It is available and be happy to talk with you. The rent will be little more due to increase in Utilities and Propety Taxes. I'll call on Sunday.

Here's hoping rent is still reasonable. It's really a cool looking apartment, saw it on Monday last week but was undecided at the time. It is definitely bigger than the two places I looked at friday that were tiny.

Made some major cleaning progress today. got 2/3 of under my desk cleaned out and in front of the closet.

Need to call my best friend tomorrow and apologize for not being able to make it to her party this weekend and also let her know what her sister's landlord has to say.