I’ve had a lot of questions/frustrations lately that I’ve posted on this here blog. I’m glad to say that some of those questions are finally being answered, albeit slowly.

I’m working with an apartment locator – he’s rather hyper on the phone. We’re going to look at places on Friday, so it’ll be interesting to match a face to his voice. He says things like “what’s up”, “check it out”, “I can find you a slammin’ apartment”…should be interesting. In addition to looking at apartments, I’ll always be testing the drive from work to the general location that I’m looking at. There’s a high chance that I’ll move out to the 620 area. But if the drive seems too far on Friday, then I’ll have to refocus and maybe start looking down south. I’m not familiar with South Austin at all, so I’m hesitant to look at apartments in that area. But I don’t want to spend over an hour driving to work every morning. We shall see what happens.

Wedding questions are still unanswered, but there’s a bit of progress. Staci has a $75 gift certificate to Salon 505 that she’s not going to use (she already used one to get her hair cut) so she said she would let me have it so that they can do my hair for the wedding. Hopefully she pulls through with that, as it will help me out tons. They also do makeup, which could be useful to get it done there at the same time. This Sunday my mom is coming up and we are meeting up with Paige, her mom, and her matron of honor to go to lunch, take her bridals, and help assemble/stuff the invitations. I guess I’ll get more answers then. I really want to know when the dress is coming in so that I can try it on and then go buy some Spanx!! Seriously, who gets excited over Spanx??

My eyes are driving me nuts. I can’t take this. I’m finding it hard to believe that there is nothing I can do other than let my body fight the virus. It feels like a knife is in my eye…I’m not even kidding you. It’s the worst feeling ever, and every night for the past couple of weeks it hits me hard. I can’t even keep my eyes open, so I just end up going to sleep at like 8 or 9 since I can’t bear to keep them open. And I can’t afford another $75 bottle of eye drops – though they are of no help b/c they just burn my eyes even more. My HSA card is pretty much zeroed out right now, and work doesn’t put in more money until April. Blah.

Random change of subject – I was invited to go sky diving next month. I really want to go, but I can’t get over the fear that something awful will happen. I know that if I were to go through it, I would be terrified the whole time, but once on the ground that I would feel exhilarated and glad I did it. But I still don’t think I can bring myself to do it. I’m such a weanie.

I’m rambling…you’re bored.

Toodles!

so that I can move into a house.

I want a yard so that Gigi can run around and play instead of being cooped up all the time. I want to have a BBQ pit in the backyard and invite people over. I want hardwood floors. I want to plant pretty flowers and watch them die since I will most likely not water them. I want to have a porch, thus a reason for having a porch swing. I want to take part in the conversations at work in which people complain about their homeowners association…I feel left out during lunch conversations.

I’m so sick of looking for apartments. Every place that I found online that looks good has been shot down by apartmentratings.com. I know that most people who post on there are disgruntled residents, but they are clearly disgruntled for a reason. Most of them complain about bugs, parking, noise, management staff.

I hate living in an apartment. I hate that I can hear the water running upstairs. I hate that my apartment is not very well lit and I tripped down the stairs the other night.

I’m a complainer. I need to stop…or at least lessen the amount of complaining.

Ugh…I hate apartment searching almost as much as job searching.

to use an apartment locating service? I see that they are free, but I’ve never used one before so I’m not sure how they exactly work. I’m assuming they get a cut from the apartment complex if you sign a lease, but what happens if you don’t sign at all?

My lease is up May 26th, but I have to give notice 60 days in advance if I plan on moving out. I would really like to stay in my complex since I like the area, but my apartment is just giving me too much trouble. I guess I’ll have to see how much they plan on increasing my rent before I decide what to do.

I hate moving with a passion. It would be so much better just to stay. But if I do end up moving, I may go somewhere along 620. New apartments are popping up all over the place…I bet they have hot water that lasts longer than 5 minutes.

I need to figure it out. I’m trying to buy a new bed and dresser, but I don’t want to get one now if I’m gonna pack up and move out in a couple of months.

Blah.

Woke up this morning at 5 a.m. with a sharp pain in my eye. The usual symptoms followed…burning, redness, tears pouring down my face. I somehow managed to drive to work, and then went to the eye doctor at 10 a.m. Apparently I now have a “cold” in my eye, in which I got another bottle of prescription drops. Once I told him that these symptoms come back every two weeks, he then decided he didn’t know what was wrong with my eye.

So back to work I went, looked up another eye doctor that a coworker recommended, and then jumped back in my car and went to a new doctor. It now appears that I have a virus in my eye, which I’ve had for a few months now. Medication will not help…it has to go away on its own. The doctor said it could be as long as this summer before it goes away. In the meantime, I’m to use the drops to ease the pain, but also stock up on some Vitamin C and some vitamins for eyes. Oh, and I can’t wear my contacts anymore…apparently that just worsens my eye. I finally just came home since I couldn’t even keep my eye open long enough to pull out of the parking lot. Driving home was fun…

I figured that if I have to wear glasses for awhile, then I need to buy a new pair that I actually like. Knowing that they take awhile to come in, I wanted to go this afternoon. I find it interesting that I have driven a certain friend around numerous times before, chauffeuring him wherever. I have been calling for the past 2 and a half hours to get him to drive me down the street, and I keep getting put off b/c he’s watching t.v. In about 30 minutes I’m just going to give up and attempt to drive myself.

In other randomness, I know how I want to wear my hair for the wedding. I wanted to try one of those low side ponytails with curls, and I finally found a picture that I like. It’s a bit too much curl (and I won’t have the flower), so it will be toned down, but what do you think of this:

Now I just have to figure out where to get it done.

Okay, I take back what I said earlier. My friend finally showed up. He even drove me to the cake store so that I could buy some supplies. Eye Masters had 50% off frames and 50% off lenses, so I only had to pay $187 and my lenses were in stock so I can pick the glasses up tomorrow. Whoo hoo!! I’ll have to post a pic so y’all can tell me how they look. I never know how to pick glasses.

And then we went to Spec’s and I got myself a cute little bottle of wine. I can’t wait until it’s chilled so I can have a glass.

Dinner and t.v. time.

Toodles!