This last weeks been pretty shitty (hence my absence) and I just need to rant...
Last weekend, I received a letter in the mail (well, mom recieved it at home since I'm living out of town this summer). Apparently the first payment of tuition for this past semester never went through and the school is asking for roughly $4k in a little under 2 weeks time. Who has 4 thousand bucks laying around at such short notice!?!? (I sure as hell don't). Then last Wednesday, I went through orientation for my new job at HMNS (google it, it's a fun place). Of course, for me that was kind of pointless since I've been volunteering there almost every day since school let out. Needless to say, boring day with boring paper work. About halfway home, my phone finally catches up to the now available signal and tells me I have a missed call, voicemail, and a text message. Needless to say the text message of "don't listen to your voicemail until you get home, please" told me everything.
Now, the entire family knew my grandmother's health was failing the past couple of weeks, so it wasn't too much of a shock that she finally passed last Wednesday. (also hence the change to a black dress on my avi) So, I spent 2 days driving up to the middle-of-nowhere Kansas, gather with the family Saturday, have the viewing Sunday, service on Monday (and don't get me started on that drama fest... and people wonder why I hate church...) And the bf and I just got back into Houston earlier today.
So, on the drive up, I get pelted with nagging about the tuition thing, along with the fact that, even through multiple calls and inquiring, I still can't ******** get into my online banking account. Dad still nags, says we're cutting family time to rush back home so I can deal with the idiots at the bank, and my bf tells me to "just relax" and not to listen to music because we're discussing possible ways of dealing with said tuition. YOU PREVENT ME FROM DOING THE ONE THING THAT CAN RELAX ME ON A ******** CAR RIDE AND YOUR TELLING ME TO RELAX!?!?!
Well, back home, the idiots at the bank finally get my online account working (after about 5 times), and after even more nagging and bitching from my dad, we get the cashier's check to run down to the school bright and early tomorrow. We get back to Houston, and apparently the bf has some issues with money totals in the bank as well. We're both exhausted from this past weekend, stressed out, and that just seems to make us both pissy. It doesn't help that he spotted the one time this year I decide to buy about 3 Gaia MCs straight from the site (gotta love the Gaia Online transactions on old bank statements....) He then decides to pester me about why and what I got. I'm sorry I don't want to share my Gaia life with everyone (especially when said person always teases and rolls his eyes when he sees any trace of it on my computer) So that seems to have put him in a more pissy mood. So he's closed up in his room right now, either really pissed, or asleep... I can see either one happening.
So, I'm left feeling worn out, pissy, stressed, and unable to write (which I've been dying to do all day but couldn't since I was the one driving from Dallas today). And through all of this, it's hard to remember (and realize) that I turned 21 Friday... except for the fact I ordered a drink at Block 32 Saturday (the most modern place in middle-of-nowhere Kansas, pretty nice but only 1 location that I know of though) and the massive amount of e-mail alerts from facebook about comments on my wall.
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