Oh, dear.

Feb. 9th, 2010 11:30 pm
tju_tju_tju_tju: by raptureicons @ lj (by polaroid_this jemaine clement close)
I took a cursory glance at my bank balance today, and whooo boy. I need to stop spending money if I'm going to go to Seattle in July. I figure I'm going to need to have a budget of around $500 for the whole trip, maybe $600, and that's just not going to happen if:

a) I'm still at the same job I'm at right now, with no second job (which is a LAST RESORT; I am trying to get a Real Job you guys, honest)
b) I keep spending money on movies, books, and music.

Of course, if I wind up getting that Real Job I may not be able to go to Seattle at all, but I'll cross that bridge when (if) it comes.

Anyway, yes. I'm gonna be going to the Paramus mall with a friend on Monday, but I'm gonna try very hard not to spend any money (except on that delicious Amanzi tea!), and after that, just... no more frivolous spending for a while. I'm not working enough hours right now to justify it. If I was still working 20, 25, 30 hours a week it wouldn't be SUCH a big deal to buy a few movies or books here and there, but now it's more like 10 or 15 hours a week. So, yeah.

Man, not only am I no longer drinking soda and cutting back on snacks, now I can't buy entertaining shit! Life Is Hard.
tju_tju_tju_tju: by raptureicons @ lj (by magicprints rachel hopeful)
So, a trip back to Bellevue in July may be in the works. I'm really excited. I hope I can work it out and my student loans don't bite me in the ass (but I am trying to not to think about that right now nveio3h4 fuck). I miss it there... I miss the friends I made, and I miss Pike Place Market and Seattle and the nice summer weather and how pretty it is there and yeah. I wanna go back, just for a couple days or so.

In other news... um... that's it.

Jesus.

Aug. 20th, 2008 06:02 pm
tju_tju_tju_tju: by raptureicons @ lj (by small_crime adam's deep pain)
So, today was my last day I'll be in Seattle. I'm sad. I'm gonna miss Seattle. :( I'm gonna miss that kick-ass comic book store and Pike Place Market and just everything else, really. I mean, I know I'm going to be living in the best city evar soon, but Seattle is still really cool and I'll be sad to leave it.

I can't believe I am leaving tomorrow. Just, holy fucking shit. This CANNOT be happening. It's not real. It isn't! It just can't be. I will be living in New York freaking City. It's all so surreal! I'm gonna be totally effing lost for like, the longest time. And... yeah. I'm freaking out. Majorly.
tju_tju_tju_tju: by raptureicons @ lj (by sakuradrops252 kristen bell)
So, I went into Seattle today with my mom, and we went into Macy's and I tried on this dress just for the hell of it... AND DUDE. IT WAS LIKE THE BEST DRESS. I looked so good in it! But it was almost $300, so I couldn't buy it. :(((((( Now I wanna go to prom for the specific purpose of wearing that dress, haha. I mean, geez, I never even wear dresses, but I am always inexplicably drawn to them. Like make-up. And high-heeled shoes. Never wear THOSE either, but I always want them.

In other news, I have about five ideas for Shawn/Lassiter fics and I can't stop thinking about them. I think this is probably my new OTP Of The Moment...
tju_tju_tju_tju: by raptureicons @ lj (by twixted emily)
...Well, I have a black tank top on under my shirt; does that count?

Yes, ladies and germs, I am back from the Emerald City, and let me tell you, I didn't really want to leave! The only things I missed were:

-my friends
-Dunkin' Donuts
-Being able to use the Internet whenever I wanted instead of going down 31 floors to the lobby

Other than that, though, Seattle kicks New Jersey's ass. I love city life. I love walking everywhere and I love being able to go right across the street to get ice cream or coffee or anything, pretty much. Our hotel was right in the heart of Seattle, which made everything so much cooler. I'm gonna miss Pike Place Market! *sniff* I love that comic book store...Oh! Speaking of the market, yesterday I got this kick-ass propoganda poster there from WWII. So cool! I'm such a history nerd, but whatever. :p

Man. I mean, what am I going to do now? Go back to wasting hours and hours on the Internet (another thing that was liberating about the trip; I didn't spend so much time on the damn computer!) and sit on my butt and not do anything? I mean, c'mon! Life's gonna be so dull now! I mean, if my closest friends had been there with me, Spring Break would've just been THE BEST THING EVER. We would've had such a kick-ass time...well, we have a kick-ass time pretty much anywhere we go, but in Seattle we would've been all, "OH MY GOD WE ARE SO KICK-ASS".

Okay. I'm clearly way too caffeinated---and I haven't even had any caffeine! Gotta go now. Bye!

(can't wait to have Dunkin' Donuts coffee tomorrow...)
tju_tju_tju_tju: by raptureicons @ lj (by __muckingfuffin emma)
I am amazed that I still have fifty-five dollars left. I have bought so much crap. I've bought presents for four of my friends, and they better like them, and they better appreciate how nice I am! I bought this Spider-Man comic from the 1970's yesterday; looking at the old ads is very, VERY amusing. ^_^ Man, I've got so much stuff. How am I going to fit it all in my suitcase? O_O

Anyways, I'm still having myself a good time here (not that any of you care). The planned trip to Canada is a no-go because we didn't book the ferry in time (WAH!). So, unless we want to take a four-hour train ride to Vancouver (which I don't), we won't be goin' to "maple syrup and gay marriage" country. Which sucks majorly.

Also, in lieu of possibly-moving-across-the-country, we wouldn't actually be moving to Seattle, we'd be moving to Bellevue or however you spell it. Which makes me upset, because if we're gonna move, I'd like to move somewhere cool instead of some town with a larger-than-necessary mall. We're going there tomorrow. I am sad. :( My mom's interview with the people here went well, so if she decides that we are moving, we are probably moving here.

Anyway! Off from that depressing topic. Downtown Seattle is le cool. We've been walking around everywhere. Good exercise, especially since I've been eating quite a lot. Well, not a LOT a lot, but still a lot. And...yeah. We had McDonald's twice, so I can't have any McD's for the res of the year, which I could care less about.

I haven't made any progress on that Nathan/OC story, except for editing it about, oh, five times. How am I supposed to think about a fic when there's so much stuff to do? I also still need to do my stupid play analysis. I haven't even FINISHED the play I picked. Whatever. I'll do it on the plane ride back. I can read a three act play and type a paper about it in five hours, can't I?
tju_tju_tju_tju: by raptureicons @ lj (by daynawashere hiro/charlie)
Yes, my subject is redundant. Whatcha gonna do about it, huh? ^_~

So, I'm here. I'm having myself a good time so far. Went to the Public Market Place; there is a totally sweet comic book store there that I got a Spider-Man comic in and the Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie script. I also got Anna a present there (not telling what it is, though :p). Surprisingly, it's not raining, although it was incredibly windy earlier. Oh, also! In addition to the comic and script, I got a Charlotte Bronte journal, and IT IS SO BOSS.

Um, what else...this place is rather quiet. There aren't too many people on the streets, unlike NYC, so that's kinda weird. Everything closes really early. Like, REALLY early. I ate at an Irish pub for lunch; had a Danny Boy Special.

The plane ride was five hours long, but it wasn't that bad. I wrote some more of that Heroes fic on the way over, but mostly I just listened to my iPod, which miraculously did not run out of batteries. But the bad part was, I was as sick as a dog the whole trip over. Not throw-up sick, mind you, but stuffy nose and foggy headache sick. Not fun. But Nyquil and Dayquil are gifts from the gods, so I'm okay now. ^_^

So many skater guys here...too bad this isn't a couple years ago, so I could drool all over them! Ha ha.

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