10-21-07

One of the neighbors woke me up around Midnight and I haven't been to sleep since. Worse, I am out of smokes! I truly hate that and, not having my car running, there is literally nothing I can do about that for several more hours. Not to mention that I somehow lost track of how much money I had in my account and can't tell if the purchases I made have already been accounted for or have yet to go through. If it's the latter, then I am not going to have the money to cover them and it doesn't make any sense because I had like $30.00 in there yesterday and have only spent like $20.00. Right now, it says I have a little over $3.00 but the $20 I spent is still "pending," which is what has me confused (I have to assume they've already been subtracted, since there's only $3.00 in there, but if I'm wrong, I don't want to spend anymore money until I know, but I have to have cigarettes).

Anyway, I got my copy of Disco Bloodbath today and already read the entire thing and reviewed it over to Weird Ink. It's a really short read because there are so many breaks -- too much whitespace, really. Still, a good read.

It's like 50° here now and it's supposed to get up to 84° today, but then the temperature is going to drop dramatically for the rest of the week. That's a great thing because my heat is included in my rent (up to a certain amount, anyway) and I have got to get rid of some of my expenses. I hardly ever go in the bedroom since the futon broke and I can't sleep on it, so I may take that cable box back. It's only like $10 more a month, but that's a solid $10 I can use for something. I know I'm going to have to cut back on my comics and that sucks, but if this car can't get fixed, I'll definitely be saving some cash on gas and insurance. Still, I live too far out not to have a car, so that's really not a viable option. Of course, I did make it for a year without one, so I know it can be done.

They told me the DA was remanding my case, which means they may drop the charges. Still, nothing has been said yet, so I am still under the assumption that i need to come up with $500 by January. I really do not know how I am going to do that - I have no idea if I can do that or how. I'm working as much as I can, but damn if these sponsors aren't taking their sweet time in paying! And this is usually the busy season and I honestly haven't seen a pick-up in opportunities yet. I'm holding out hope, but the days to Christmas are quickly dwindling!