I woke up at 9 this morning. Last night was pretty alright. It wasn’t a constant stream of questions, so I was able to get through everything that I wanted to. Since David’s wife had the baby I was alone in lab and worried that with how many questions had been asked in the previous labs, that I would get overwhelmed. But I didn’t.

I played music through the speakers so I didn’t have to keep taking my headphones out and interrupting the flow. I think that helped.

When I came home I had dinner and started watching Pyscho-Pass with Zane. We got through a couple of episodes. It’s interesting, but the main story arch hasn’t picked up yet, so I’m not invested in it at the moment.

The storage unit sucked yesterday. They double billed me. I think I mentioned that. I was told last week that a partial refund couldn’t be made, so they would refund the whole payment and I could go back later and make a regular payment. No muss, no fuss.

I didn’t get my refund until Wednesday of this week. Wednesday morning I also had an email saying my payment was late and that they would be charging my account $15, and that my minimum payment was $270…

Me: Um… No.

So Wednesday I called after work. But the manager was on vacation, and the stand in manager had already left for the day, and they were the only ones who could remove the charge.

Ok. That’s fine. I’ll call back tomorrow.

That was after I had tried calling earlier in the day, and was placed on hold for 10 minutes. I had tried calling before work, thinking it would be an easy fix. If I had stayed on the phone any longer I would have been late for work. So I hung up, and tried again after, which is why the manager wasn’t there.

I accepted that as mostly my fault, though the hold thing was a little aggravating.

I tried calling again yesterday. The gentlemen I spoke to wasn’t able to help me, but said he would speak with the woman in charge of storage, and call me back.

I never got a phone call. So that is still on my to do list to figure out. I’m thinking if the main manager is on vacation that I”ll just wait until Monday to worry about this. My day is full enough as it is without adding an unknown variable to it.

As far as today goes. Frank is celebrating is 10^th year anniversary with his wife, so I am taking the late Shading and Lighting lab for him. I will be at work from 1pm to 9pm, which is a normal shift. I shouldn’t have an issue with it. And I honestly don’t think I do.

When I woke up this morning Zane was awake as well. I told him today is bill day.

Me: Hooray! I’m paid!
five minutes later
Me: Hooray! I’m broke! : D

At least the broke part is for a good cause. Car insurance, and car payments are a pretty alright evil in my book. It keeps my butt off the asphalt. That being said, I wouldn’t mind keeping that roughly $400 for something else.

I suppose I should mention that one of my art books sold, so there’s that going for today. $50 less that I have to give Trevor for the electric.

Oh. I also signed an NDA for the mod position. I’m hoping to hear back about it today, but actual conversation about pay and such most likely won’t happen until next week. I’m curious about what the project is. It was mentioned that I would be doing out bound calls and managing email accounts. That actually is very similar to what I did when I worked for The Citadel.

I created all of the student email account, managed the Microsoft Exchange accounts, and handled Help Desk calls.

Person: Hey, so Excel is doing something weird…
Me: Have you tried learning how to use the program?

Anywho, I have to go to the bank. I need to make all of my 15th payments. Yeah… I divide stuff up like the military. Stuff gets paid on the 1st and 15th, regardless of when I get paid.

I really aught to do laundry so I can do kickboxing tomorrow morning. I love Jackie’s class, and I’m sort of bummed that I can’t go to the one she’s running tonight.

I also want to do lunch at my sports bar because it’s Friday. It’s my tradition, my treat that I set aside money for. Instead of getting my nails done, I get hot wings, because I’m classy like that. : D

So I really want to do that. Which means in the next 30 minutes I’m going to leave, which means Zane and I won’t be able to spend any real amount of time together. I guess I’ve been spoiled lately. Today feels like an alright day, though. I think I’ll be ok. I feel like a toddler trying to walk by themselves.

Me: I think I can. I think I can. I think I… / falls on ass.

The upside is that the last lab is super small, and the first lab Frank normally controls. I’ll basically have 8 hours worth of work time. Oh man, and I already have plans for it.

I recorded my responses to the discussion topic last night before leaving work. Go me! So first off I will edit the video and post that online. I will finish off my work book so I can look into taking my certification test next weekend. I am going to look into switching to a purely online degree since I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to on-campus classes next month. I will begin, possibly finish, another digital painting. I also have a new audio book that I want to begin, most likely while I’m painting.

I’m sure I’ll find other things I want to do. I’m a week behind on my challenge. At this point I’m thinking about starting it over. This time with Zane. He had wanted to do it with me, but with both of us fighting depression it was one of the things he opted to forgo.

He’s mentioned on several occasions that he’s sorry about that, and that we’ll do it over again together. Maybe that can be Monday. Maybe a fresh start, a fresh week is what we both need.

Monday we should know if he has the job. I’m most likely going to leave my phone with him that day so he can answer it. I’m keeping those thoughts at arms length. I’m not letting myself envision what it would be like if he got the job. I’m focusing on the here and now.

One day at a time. I can do that.

I’ve gotten caught up on the blogs I follow. My inbox is back down to a manageable number of emails. I work with a zero inbox setup, so anything over 7 seems like a metric crap ton to me. This week it got up into the 20s. x.x

My mom called yesterday. She works over the weekends, though. I’ll be getting off work about the time she will be getting home. Maybe I’ll try calling her.

I also called it quits on the dragon painting I was doing. I never got around to finishing the mouth, or shading some of the other areas. I feel like he could have used more highlights, too. Maybe more definition in his horns, but after two weeks of not being able to really work all that much on him, I don’t have much motivation to continue with it.

I like where I was able to get. I would like to move on to something different so I can keep moving forward and trying new things. I have found the first line art painting I ever did, back when I was a student in 2009. It’s actually not as bad as I thought.

I’m going to redo it. I want to see what the difference would be. I haven’t been painting for four years, but I have been using Photoshop and working with color for a while now. I think it would be interesting to see what improvement, if any, I make. So I’m going to do it.

And that’s about it so far. I need to shower so I can get my day started.

Shower, bank, laundry, food, work.

I feel like I can do that.