Well, I would like to thank Shaun and Anonymous for their wonderful ideas. I've basically come to the conclusion that if he doesn't start paying by Nov. 1st, he will have to move out. Supposedly, he got a call from McDonald, but I don't know what's going on with that exactly. I must be a horrible person because a part of me wants him to screw up and to keep on not paying, but that's probably because he's already pissed me off more than enough.
Right now, I should be in class, but my mind and body have been working so hard lately that I've caught a slight cold, both of my knees hurt, my right ankle hurts, my left wrist hurts, my head hurts, and so on. There is some good news though, due to all of the stressful events that have or had been going on for the last month or two, I didn't have my period last month and with the way things were going this month, I was afraid that the same thing was going to happen. Fortunately, my period started up again yesterday, which, despite all the additional pain and fatigue that it is giving me, I am very happy about.
Other good news: My boyfriend is now employed and I have a job I am happy with. Bad news: My boyfriend is going to put himself further into debt to help pay the rent and other bills, I'm going to use up all of the money in my account to do the same, and I am going to have to ask one of my roommates (the one with a job and money) to pay more than his share for now.
Anyway, I should be ending this post now because there are bills to be paid, mail to be sent out, people to be called, kids to be watched, books to be read, homework to be done, exams to be studied for, people to be pissed off at, so...yeah.
Have a nice day everyone. *wave, wave, wave, wave*
2 comments:
well bettina i personally would kill the room mate in question but then you wouldnt get your money , there a bloke at work who owes me 200 bucks so i pester him every chance i get .. i still havent done the planed talking with fist number one and fist number 2 as i have intended . any way i need tosleep and recover from my 12 hour shift
oh wow, Bettina. i hadn't checked your blog in a while, so i didn't know about the struggles you are having with moochers. it's hard to say no to a friend. i've definitely had problems after taking in friends (some with kids), but the desire to want to help folks out is good and probably not something we should criticize ourselves for having. that said, it's not good for us to extend ourselves when we don't have much ourselves. and when someone comes in and is disrespectful on top of not contributing, it's okay to tell them to take a hike. in fact, not only are you hurting yourself, you're kind of hurting that jerk in a way, because he's going to have to learn to be autonomous to make it through life. i'd move Nov. 1st up to Oct. 1st. he's a grown up. you can be helpful and caring, but you aren't responsible for him.
i'm sorry to hear you are still having knee pain and the other pains. i hope you are taking very good care of yourself, especially since it's getting colder.
the financial stress is so hard too. i don't know if this will make you feel worse, but by the time i finished grad school i had nearly 100,000 in debt. in retrospect, i wish i'd found some ways to do it all without the loans, even if it took longer. if you and your bf can think of any way around more debt, i hope you can do that. i know it's impossible for most of us not to rely on loans. i just sometimes wonder if it's all really worth it...
and that's coming from someone with a ph.d. who will be in debt for most of the rest of her life...
i guess i do always try to remind myself, though, that it's not so bad. i make enough money to make all my bills, and even though i'm still in debt, i do eat, make rent, and live a very lucky life. we all have it pretty good compared to folks who suffer from depleted uranium, bombings, etc.
i hope you have a good week!
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