New eBay Items

I put some new stuff up on eBay today! Check it out and bid if you are interested!

The first item is a copy of the movie Bedazzled starring Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser.

The second item is a copy of the CD Good Girl Gone Bad by Rihanna.

The third item is a copy of the CD Let Go by Avril Lavigne.

The fourth and final item for today is a 2 for 1 special! It is the soundtrack to the movie Chicago but it is a combination of both the movie soundtrack and the London stage production! 2 CD's for the price of 1!

Ren Faire

Today is the Ren Faire at the park near my place. This is the biggest single event held at any park in the city, apparently, and there will be upwards of 50,000 people there! It is free admission so even though it is raining I am going to walk up to the event and see what kind of things they have going on there.

Equus

Tonight I have a ticket to Equus that I purchased many, many months ago when I had a roommate and a high paying job. I am very much looking forward to going to the theater again! I haven't been in a long time and I miss it. I'm really going to enjoy the show and hopefully Daniel Radcliffe will be signing playbills after the show and I will be able to sell it online to make some extra money!

Free Sporting Events!

My boyfriend got free tickets to see the WNBA game at Madison Square Garden tonight! I've never been to an WNBA game before and I've also never been to Madison Square Garden so this will be an awesome experience to have and it will be completely free! Hurrah!

Laundry

I needed to do laundry yesterday but I didn't have the time (or the money, quite frankly) so I just washed a couple of shirts in the sink and hung them to dry. I have my tiny washer that fits in the bathtub but I also had a very sick cat for the past week or so and I want to run everything through the mega-washer-of-death-and-destruction at the laundromat to get rid of any kind of sick cat smell. The shirts I washed in the sink were dirty before I had to haul the cat all around creation though so they should smell fine. I will do laundry tomorrow night while my boyfriend goes to CT to watch his aunt's dog for the weekend.

Discover Card

Today when I went online to check my discover card balance I found out that I had earned a $20 cash back bonus award. I looked to see where it could be redeemed (they let you turn that $20 into $25 or $30 if you take it in a gift certificate) thinking that maybe I would take my boyfriend out to dinner or something but nothing jumped out at me as some place I really needed to go. I finally decided just to credit my account the $20, so today I made a $20 payment to my credit card bill and it didn't cost me one cent! Too bad my bill is about $3000 so that $20 doesn't go very far, but free money is free money and I'll take it no matter how small the amount!

The Next Round of eBay Items

I have added 3 wonderful new items to my eBay sales! The first is a playbill for the show Curtians signed by David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk. The second is the RENT soundtrack on audio cassette. The third is a copy of the book How to Survive Dating. If these items sound interesting to you please feel free to check them out and bid!

Chocolate Cake

I made a chocolate cake yesterday (since I had the cake mix and all) but now I am left with this massive amount of cake that will go bad if I don't eat it. I had cake for breakfast and I will have some cake for dessert for tonight too. I always feel bad throwing out food so I try to eat everything before it goes bad but I don't know if I will be able to eat an entire cake before it goes bad. I guess if I have too much to eat I can share it with the homeless man who lives a couple of blocks down the street from me. He would probably appreciate some cake.

The Universe Has Gotten Weird Lately

Okay, I must take a quick break from my regularly scheduled program to ponder some things with you.

I have never kept in contact with my exes because I find it very difficult to maintain a friendship with someone that I couldn't have a successful relationship with and, generally speaking, all of my exes have seemed to feel the same way. I have never heard from any of them afterwards unless we accidentally run into one another in public or something. So WHY IN THE WORLD have I been contacted by 3 of my exes in the last two weeks? And not contacted in a, "Hey, how have things been for you?" kind of way, but a, "Why did I ever let you go? I need you back!" kind of way.

Even if I didn't have a boyfriend right now I still wouldn't go back to someone I couldn't make it work with the first time. What is making people contact me out of the blue? Does being in a happy, healthy relationship send out signals into the universe telling everyone I've ever met that now is the time to try to get back together with me? Arrrgh!

Sigh. I feel better now for having vented here. Thanks for listening!

Central Park

Today the weather is gorgeous! It is kind of cool and breezy with a lot of sunshine. I love this time of year between seasons where summer is drifting away and you can almost see the fall marching into the city. It is just another reminder of why I love living in NYC. I am going to go down to Central Park later today and walk around a bit. It will be a bit of a workout as well as being a beautiful way to spend some time. I will even take my digital camera and take some pictures (even though I don't have a memory card yet and can only take 7 pictures at a time.)

I think Central Park might be one of the city's most incredible free things to do. It is such a fantastic place and I don't think I spend nearly enough time there. Since my boyfriend is in Connecticut visiting his mother I am on my own for the day and I would love to spend it out enjoying the weather. If you have a park near you I highly suggest you go wander around and enjoy this wonderful day!

New eBay Items

I put 2 new items up on eBay today! The first is a RENT playill signed by Anthony Rapp and Tamyra Gray. The second is the first volume of the series Fruits Basket on DVD. If you are interested in either item please go check it out and bid!

Cleaning

Since I have a woman coming over to look at the apartment tomorrow night I have been doing some cleaning. The bathroom is now sparkling and the spare bedroom is clean. I am currently taking a break before I tackle the dishes. The place needs to be acceptably clean before she gets here because I really need someone to move in and pay half the rent. She has a cat too so Joey and Oliver would have a new friend while she lives here, which would be good for them. I think the cat smell would then officially own the apartment and I would just be subletting though, because it is hard to keep the place from smelling like cat when you have so many of them. The litter boxes and food and stuff just leave a distinctive smell that makes it obvious I own cats no matter how much cleaning I do, but generally I am able to keep it controlled. If I had a huge house instead of an apartment in Manhattan (which is big by NYC standards but small by the standards of the rest of the country) it wouldn't be so bad but the size of my place does contain any kind of cat smell. I have the kitchen window propped open to air the place out every couple of days though so it isn't too bad. Now I must go wash dishes and get ready to start mopping. I hate cleaning but it is a necessary evil unfortunately. One day when I have lots of money I amd hiring a cleaning service, I swear.

Kitty Updates

Joey is still in the hospital but he will be coming home tomorrow morning. The total bill for his hospital stay, tests, meds, cab fare to get him from place to place, etc. is coming up to be just over $3000. Which sucks, to be sure. However, I did find a new potential roommate and she is coming to see the apartment on Friday so if she moves in my expenses will drop in half which would be really, really helpful. I'm hoping she likes the place and will move in for at least a little while until I get back to where I was financially before all of this stuff started happening.

And in other happy news my grandparents bought me a plane ticket home for Thanksgiving and my parents bought my boyfriend a plane ticket too so he can go with me and meet the family! I'm very excited that 1.)He is still planning to be around at Thanksgiving and 2.)My family will get a chance to meet him after all of the stories they have heard about him. Though now I am kind of nervous because I have never had to bring a guy across the country to meet my family so that puts a little extra pressure on the whole situation.

I Need Your Help

I had hoped that I would never have to do this but I am desperate.

It is 4 in the morning. I just returned from the emergency vet where Joey is now hooked up to an IV and is undergoing surgery. I have spent $2000 in less than 24 hours and the costs are still mounting to keep Joey healthy. With the crap going on at work and after the woman who was looking at being my roommate decided against moving in with me I am in a dangerous financial place. I have now maxed out my discover card and my visa is very, very full. I am running out of credit and I am paying rent out of savings while I try to improve my work situation. I have about 3 months before I will be staring down the barrel of eviction if I can't get things straightened out.

I am now begging you for your help. Please check out my eBay sales and bid if you are interested. If you just want to donate a dollar or two there is a paypal link on the right side of my blog where you can send me something to help me out. If you know of an open job in NYC that you think I might be qualified for please don't hesitate to email me the contact information. If you know someone who might need a place to live in NYC please have them contact me. I need any and all help people in this world can offer me right now.

If people do choose to send me donations through the button at the right I will keep track of how much is donated and then, once my financial situation gets rectified, I will turn around and donate an equal amount to Heifer International to help improve the lives of others.

The picture here is my cat Joey, the one in surgery right now. Anything you can do to help keep him healthy would be appreciated more than you can know.

I'm So Tired - Also, New eBay Items

Well, $902 worth of vet bills later hopefully Joey will be okay now and won't need to go to the vet ever again in his little cat life. The stress of all of the financial crap is exhausting me but at least the cats are okay now.

I do have new items up on eBay now. I have put both Fall Out Boy-Infinity On High and The Rules of Attraction up for sale. Please go check them out and bid!

Excessive Vet Bills

My cat Joey is sick again. I am taking him to the vet in the morning. I don't know how much more I can afford to spend on the cats and their medical care. Why won't they stay healthy?!? I buy them the highest quality food and play with them and they sleep in the bed with me. I pet their bellies and get them their shots and do all of the things a person should do to take care of their pets. I love them as though they were my children. I sat in the bathroom with Joey and sobbed for about half an hour because I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I gave him some pain medication and he should be fine for the night but he will have to go to the vet as soon as they open in the morning and I hope that they take pity on me and work to keep the costs at a minimum. If you are a person who believes in the power of prayer please keep my kitties in your thoughts. I am willing to go into debt to make sure they are properly cared for but I really would like to be able to have healthy pets and a positive bank balance at the same time.

Dinner Tonight

Tonight I am going to dinner with my boyfriend and his mother. We are going to an asian fusion place near his apartment. I think his mother is wonderful and I am really looking forward to getting together with her again. She will probably pay for dinner (she is just overly generous like that) so it will be a free meal for me, but I'd be glad to pay for it myself just to get a chance to spend time with the two of them.

The Post Office

I am on my way to the post office to send out a couple of eBay packages. I try to send them the fastest way possible but that isn't always a possibility due to cost restraints. I hope the people who are buying my eBay items get good use out of them. These are things that meant a lot to either myself or my former roommate at one time and I am glad that they are going to people who will use them instead of taking up space in a landfill somewhere.

I also want to take this time to send a big thank you to those people who are bidding on my items. This morning I cried tears of joy when I looked and saw that an item I put up yesterday already has 7 bids on it! If I can make a decent amount of money on these items it really helps make up for the hit my paycheck took while I am looking for something better. It means that the kitties get to keep eating their expensive cat food that the vet recommends so that they can stay healthy. It means that I don't have to sponge off of my boyfriend if we go out and I can buy my own movie ticket or lunch so the burden isn't all on his end. It means that I can pay my phone bill on time and pay more than the minimum on my credit card bills (which were empty until both of my cats got sick...the vet bills are all on the discover card.) I just wanted to send everyone who has bid a heartfelt THANK YOU!

Kitties

This morning my cats woke me up 40 minutes before my alarm clock was set to go off. They were running around terrorizing their invisible enemies by charging about like they were bulls with rabies or something. This was their way of telling me they wanted to eat. I wish I had an automatic feeder that I could set for in the morning so that they would stay calm but that is the kind of frivolous thing I can't afford right now. Getting proper amounts of sleep would be really helpful for destressing right about now...I wish the cats were more understanding about that kind of thing.

The Next Round of eBay

I have more items up on eBay! The first is The Simpsons Christmas DVD. It has one of my favorite episodes of all time, She of Little Faith, and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves The Simpsons!

The second item is The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book which is a book version of www.postsecret.blogspot.com. It is facinating and I have thrown in a bonus for the bidders!

My new job is not working out very well and I am searching for something better, so if you'd like to show me some support while I am transitioning employment (yet again, unfortunately) please bid on my items. It helps more than you could ever know!

Some Advice For The Ladies

Ladies, if you lose a bet with your boyfriend and have to get a brazilian wax, be sure to pay to have it professionally done. It will be worth the cost, I promise.

If you are going to do it yourself be very careful with the wax and make certian it is hypoallergenic. And for the love of all that is holy, be careful with wax and razors near your hoo-ha! Though I am now hairless and all it is itchy! Next time I will have a professional do it, or I will drink a lot and have my boyfriend do it instead. That'd teach him to be more careful what he asks for in the future.

Atlantic City, Baby!

We had a great time at Atlantic City! My boyfriend won $100 (and then paid for my trip out of his winnings...isn't he sweet?) and I won about $6. We got caught in the rainstorm walking between The Tropicana and Ceasar's Palace and spent the last 2 hours of our trip soaking wet. We got to see the movie Wanted on the bus ride back into the city too! All in all it was a wonderful trip and I look forward to going back in the future.

eBay IV

I have two new items up on eBay, and they are excellent (if I do say so myself!) The first item is the Walk the Line soundtrack. It was a great movie about a great musician and if you like country music I think you should bid on it! The second item is a copy of the movie My Own Private Idaho. It is the 2 disc collector's edition! Check them out and place a bid if you are interested in owning either item!

Payday

Well, today I am going to go pick up my pathetically small paycheck and put it in the bank. Then I have to go grocery shopping, buy cat food and litter, pay the electric bill, and set aside money for my trip tomorrow, which means that my paycheck is already spent before I get it. And my next paycheck will be pathetically small as well. I am going to come home after all my errand running and apply for more jobs and put more stuff on eBay because this job has jerked me around quite a bit since I started there and I can't keep living like this.

On another note, my last 2 eBay items still have no bids! They are excellent items and I highly recommend them! If you are at all interested please check out the links from a couple of days ago and see if there is anything there that interests you and keep an eye out for my next set of links to go up later tonight!

Atlantic City

There is a bus that runs about 6 blocks from my place to Atlantic City. It is a $27 ride and when you get there they give you $20 for gambling. Basically they are going to take me to Atlantic City and back for $7! My boyfriend and I are going to go this weekend since we have never been before. Who knows, maybe we will come back millionaires!*

*Probably not, but it is a nice dream!

My New License

Today I tested for my Accident and Health Insurance license. I passed the test and I am now a licensed agent. I'm still not earning any kind of decent money and will end up only being paid for about 60 hours this month unfortunately, but it is another tool in my belt that I can use to find better work elsewhere. I am applying for other positions every day and I consider this current job to be nothing but a stepping stone. I will have to hustle on eBay to make up for the pay difference so that I don't have to tap into my savings too much for the month of September. Things could be worse though, so I am not worried at all. I will just keep on keepin' on and get back to my old payscale, hopefully sooner rather than later.

New eBay Items, Part III

That's right, folks, I've got another set of eBay items online! This time through it is a Simpsons DVD and a recipe book for making drinks. I have the Simpsons episodes as part of my full collection so I don't need that particular DVD and I'm not a drinker (don't ask me where the book came from...I have no earthly idea, and I have another book that is very similar that will go on eBay eventually as well. Talk about weird!) so both of these items will prove more useful to me as a way to generate a little income than their actual, intended purpose. Please check the auctions out and bid if you are interested in the items!

The Beach

This weekend I was very busy! My boyfriend took me to meet his family in Connecticut. They have a house on the beach so we stayed there and they threw a big party. They paid for all the food and everything and we stayed for free, so in essence I got a vacation to a gorgeous beach front town for the $20 round trip train ticket. It was awesome! Connecticut is beautiful and I recommend you go there if you ever get a chance.