Sunday it wasn't rainy but it was a bit cold...but it was really pretty out.

Dealing with tax stuff (waiting for a nice refund!)

My grandpa Raul's memorial service & funeral is this weekend. He died last friday morning.

being an adult sucks

really hate being an adult right now.

Since I no longer work for the city, I got my PARS (Public Agency Retirement Services) funds distribution form in the mail today. Either I'm stupid or its too complicated to understand.

The funds won't be taxed on a Federal level (it’s under $200) but it could be taxed on a State level...as well as being subjected to an excise tax since I’m not 59.5 yrs old.

All for a measly $49.26! Plus I’ll have to deal with this mess again for 2 checks ($17.33) I got at the beginning of 2011.

I'm about to bite the bullet and ask my dad to explain this to me because I don't want to screw anything up for the taxes I'm about to file this year.

Maybe my sister is right in going to H&R Block...

it's been rainy off and on today so I had to ask my dad to take me to do my errands. what would have been 2 hrs turned into 4 hours - first because I left my bank cards at home and only realized once I got to the bank and in the line, so I had to go back home then back to the bank. The bank was taken care of, then the car died. UGH right during high school let out too! so I helped my dad push the car back to the bank parking lot and walked to city hall to do my business there. By the time I finished and walked back to the bank, the car started up. Then we went to the post office (I saw 2 cats fighting/playing/having sex?), from there to the mall so I could pay a bill.

horrible hair day and saw the guy who used to pick on me in high school. 12 yrs ago he was cute...now even cuter! and he remembered my name, before I saw him too.

I need to get to Vegas more! I'm about an hour away by plane and I've only gone once and that was as a side trip to Arizona. Random, I know. But I got a postcard from a community friend and she goes a heck of a lot and lives farther away than I do. Plus, I just booked my mom’s trip back to MI for her brother’s wedding in May. 9 days for $250! Going to Vegas for 4 days would have been something like $200 (and that includes round trip airport shuttle).

I have a pretty decent tax refund due to me and besides putting half of it in savings, that still leaves me with a nice chunk of change and I’m trying to figure out how to spend it.

I have an assignment due today and I need to get back to thinking about doing it. LOL I swear I probably won’t start on it until 7 pm, then stop from 9-11 to watch TV (Criminal Minds and the new Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior) giving me 55 minutes to scramble and finish as the assignment is due by 11:55 pm. maybe I’ll start at 6 pm...

maybe one day

Maybe one day I'll write an entry about race as thought provoking as this or this. Until then, read those.

so you want to own a house...

I go to church in Lynwood and down the street from my church there’s this fixer-upper of a house for sale. $180K for 3 bed/1.5 bath in 1,021 sq ft. and it’s a short sale.

Ever since I saw it last night, I can’t get the idea of owning it (or a house period) out of my head. It’s nothing as elaborate with the possibility of renting my own apartment (I had all my furniture picked out with that) but more along the lines of it would be mine, I could actually invite people over for dinner or having game nights with friends...stuff like that.

Then I checked my credit score. Ick. If I could raise it 6 more points (and get a better paying job) it’d be cool. But a plus - 2 items are to come off this year and another 2 or 3 are to come off at beginning of 2012. and I believe 2012 is also the start of when I pay my student loans back, so all that’s sure to work in my favor for increasing my score - at least I hope it does.

I also toyed with the idea of asking my aunt for a loan, but that was gone like 5 seconds later. I should probably concentrate on school and finding another job.

systems down

I'm currently on a 3-way call with my student counselor and the publisher ppl for a book I'm trying to download for my next class. part of me thinks I could have handled it without the student advisor, but now I'm glad she's on the phone as well. it's just taking so bloody long to figure out what's going on and how to fix the problem.

eta: 30 minutes later and the call is done. I don't have the book I need because the publisher's system is down. Luckily the class doesn't start until Thursday so someone will be in contact with me by then (I hope).

Now for probably much of the same with AT&T. Been given the okay to bitch them out for screwing up my church’s phone bill - we’re getting 2 bills but have NO SERVICE! haven’t had service since OCTOBER 2010!

days later

since I no longer work at the Library, my mom asked me if I wanted to be the weekday receptionist at the place where she works (she's the weekend receptionist). I said no right off the bat. I hear, pretty much daily, about how horrible some of the residents can be, how bad some of the other workers are, and I just don't want to deal with that (again). Plus the hours would be M-F 2-10:30 pm! yeah. PM! I'd miss out on ALL my TV shows and I'd have no social life (wait, I already don't have one of those).

No, the next job I get I'd like for it to be a regular 9-5...or I'll work for myself.

I’ve been going through my Notary things to make sure I have everything I need and of course found something else I need - as in I can’t do my job without it. I need the actual forms that would attached to the notarized documents. Monday or Tuesday I’ll be ordering them (and paying extra for 2 day delivery) so I can finally notarize things. I did an online search and apparently there’s a store by my church that sell notary supplies? I’m going to call in the morning (or hop the bus and go there) to see what exactly they have. I might buy from them if they have what I need. There’s also a place in Long Beach that’s a member of the NNA (National Notary Association) and they sell supplies as well. I’ll check them out too.

Now to finish watching Mission: Impossible

random: how good was the ending to Hawaii Five-0 tonight?! wow!