New Apartment

I haven't been on in a week. So much has been going on.

I move into my apartment today. I got my keys about two weeks ago, but my lease doesn't start until tomorrow. I told my boss that I want to replace the carpet. It's horrible. I cringe every time I walk on it. So, I filed my taxes and I will be getting a refund. That money is going to replace the carpet. I went to one of the carpet stores in town that was going out of business. I didn't know it cost so much to replace a carpet. I guess it makes sense. Carpet should last a long time, but the cheapest they had was $1.19 a sq foot. I believe I would be carpeting about 600 sq feet. Then the pad cost .50 a sq foot and to install it is .55 a sq foot. That's about $1200. So, I decided that I don't need to replace the carpet and I'm gonna try to ask a guy at my church who does that type of work it he could install it for me for about $200. My goal is to not pay more than $700 (including tax) for the carpet.

My car was broken and because the job that I volunteer with gave me $1000, I used some of that money to pay for it. It cost about $200 to replace the ignition module and get an oil change. When I got the bill it said that the part cost $165, so I looked it up online. I didn't find one that cost $165, but I did find one that cost $70. Hmmmm. He only charged me $24 for labor. Hmmmm.

But, it's fixed. The engine light did come on again this morning, and I'm hoping it's nothing.

I moved all my stuff out of Jenny's house. It took me about 20 minutes to load my car up. I do have some things that are hanging in the closet, but the rest of my stuff is crammed in my car. I'm gonna unload it today.

I'm applying for my Ph.d program. The deadline is March 15. I'm also applying for a fellowship, graduate assistantship and an internship. I hope between the three, something comes in.

I'm not working and still having issues with my unemployment, but I'm not gonna worry. It's unnecessary.

What To Do, What To Do?!

When I started my job at W#4%Q#$ F$%#$%$ Bank, I followed the instructions to call my case manager at to tell him I got a new job and that my unemployment benefits had come in. I never received a call back, so I called and left him two other messages. He NEVER called me back. I came to the conclusion that he didn't need to call me back and that he would take care of my Link card. Basically, since I was working and getting unemployment, I would not be eligible for food stamps. However, I looked up my card information today and noticed that I have my full benefits--$200. Aaaaggggghhhhhhhh!!!!

What to do, what to do?!! Lord, knows I could use the money to buy some groceries, especially since I'm not working now, but I was told that if my finances changed, I wouldn't be eligible. So I shouldn't be eligible, right? So why are they tempting me????? If I spend this money and they find out that I've gotten unemployment, the government could have me pay that money back. I don't want to have to go through that. Lord, Jesus Help Me, Please!!!!! I could really use this money, so I have to not touch it and let them take it back. Dag. That's like telling a child don't touch nothing in a toy store. This is torture. Father, help me!!!

My Hope List

1. Fix my car for under $200
2. Semi-new tires
3. New carpet for my apartment
4. Living Room Sofa and Accent Chair
5. Full-size bed and Accent Chair for bedroom
6. New desk and sofa bed for guest room


1. New job paying at least $1600 per month until school starts in August
2. Acceptance into Public Administration Ph.d program
3. Acceptance into the fellowship program that takes care of my tuition and pays a monthly stipend

Blowing My Mind

I got to work today and there was a check. Not my regular pay check, but a bonus check. Almost $1000. WOW!!!

God keeps blowing my mind. There is so much I need to do with this money, but first I'd like to pick up my Frye boots.

Okay, that's a lie. The last thing I would do right now is spend a couple hundred dollars on boots.

I am gonna get a tune up for my car and new tires. I'm also gonna see if I can get the new carpet I've been trying to get. Maybe I'll have enough left over to pick up this dress I saw at TJ Maxx. It was the cutest dress and it was only $12. I'm sure it's not there anymore because it was so adorable, but if not, maybe I can substitute it with something of equal or lesser value :)

The Moment of Truth

I'm getting ready to check my online balance to see if I received and unemployment check. I feel like I need some dramatic theme music.

*Taking a deep breath*

*Sigh of relief*

Thank you, Jesus! I got paid for one week of unemployment and for my week of work. I think I can get my car fixed. Thank God!!!!

Job Searching

I was up and at 'em this morning. I got on the bus @ 5:50am to make it to the Comfort Inn and the Hilton to apply for housekeeping positions. On the way there, I stopped @ Walmart to pick up an extra office key for Jenny and get some fruit for breakfast. I've been eating too much meat. So, today will be a meatless day. I hopped back on the bus @ 7:37am and headed north. I complete both applications and when I got to the mall to get back on the bus, I saw all these people going in, so I decided to check it out. They were walking! I forgot about the mall walkers program. Our mall is really small, so it takes 2 trips around to make 1.32 miles. I decided to do 2 miles. It took me about an hour. I don't know why, but it did. Then I hopped back on the bus @ 9:15 to head to the university which is where I am now.

I rented Waiting on Superman and Takers from Redbox, so I'm gonna spend a couple of hours watching movies. I wish I had some popcorn and a snuggie. :)

Rebuilding and Repairing

Now that I've got a place to stay, I need to get a stable job. I've been searching and searching and I've applied for a job at Rent-a-Center, Growing Strong and even Habitat for Humanity. I'm about to go to Walmart to apply to work. There is a KFC right around the corner from my apartment. I want to apply to work there on the weekends. I NEED A JOB!!!

My old job, the temp agency, (the one that I'm drawing unemployment from) called me to tell me that they have two office positions open. One is with Barbeck and the other is with a psychiatrist office. I'll take either one. I'm sure they want to get me into a job because they are paying for my unemployment insurance. So, their goal is to get me into a job, ASAP. My goal is to get a job ASAP. Once I get a stable job, I can start to pay my bills, get my car fixed, etc. I know I want to get new furniture, but all of that can wait until I can get myself employed.

God, I'm gonna need a hand with this.

Btw, I think I'm coming down with a cold. I woke up and my through was severely scratchy. Oh, No!!!

New Car Experience Part 2

So she came to pick me up in a white Chevy Cobalt. It had about 30,000 miles and it was $12,000. It was okay, but 30,000 miles in a 2010 car was a bit much. So I saw a black Elantra. I bought a silver Elantra when I graduated from college 10 years ago. My grandmother gave me the down payment. I like that little car and then my brother totaled it. It was nice. There were about 11,000 miles on it and they were asking $13,000. Since Steph was new to the car selling game, she had them walk her through the process--we did a blind trade value on my car and they wanted to give me $3000. I still owe $5000 on it. That would lower the cost to about $11,000 for the car, tax, title and everything else. As she was talking to her manager, her trainer was coming back and forth to ask me questions. I told them that my bank would finance me because that's who finances me now. So, they asked if they could get me a lower interest rate would I go with their financing. I asked the guy if he could get me below 3%. He said went to his boss and came back. When he came back he wanted to know if he could run my credit. I told him that I didn't want him to run my credit until I could talk to my bank. He tried to push and when he found out that I wouldn't budge, he went back to his office. Because my car is broken, there was nothing we could do. So we left.

When we got into the car, Steph told me that they were so excited when I said 3% interest rate. The guy thought I had a credit score over 800. I told Steph that Ididn't tell him that my car is financed at 5%. I know for sure my credit score is no where near 800. It's probably well under 600 now since I've paid late for 3 months and I owe my previous landlord. I used to work hard to get my credit good and at one point my score was about 650 and my bank pre-approved me for a home loan--this was in 2004. But since then I'm sure it has plummeted. Steph said she was glad that I took them through that experience because they don't teach them anything in the training.

When I got home, I was a little sad. I was just looking back at how much I've screwed myself up. Had I not been in this situation, I could have probably easily walked off that lot with a car. Oh, well. There is nothing I can do about it now. I just have to rebuild and repair my life.

Signed Contract Part 2

So, after seeing the apartment, I headed home. When I got there, I told Jenny and she as overjoyed. I took her to see the apartment. She was so happy for me. I know that I will need furniture, so I went online to Overstock, Ikea and Weekends Only. Weekends Only had simulator where you could design each room in your house. I put in the measurements of the living room/dining room and the bedrooms and designed this:

To get this room, I need to buy a sofa, plasma tv, and an accent chair. I already have a bucket chair, floor lamp, ottomans, magazine rack, and dining room furniture. I think I can spend about $1000 for the TV, sofa and chair. There is a 37 inch for under $400 on sellout woot. I can get a new sofa at Weekends Only for and an accent chair for about $700. My brother is a manager there, so I want to see if he can get me a discount so that I don't have to pay over $1000. Another option is that I want to buy a LCD projector instead of a plasma tv. I can get one for about $200. The sofa and accent chair that I want is here:

I'm gonna focus on the living room first.

New Car Experience

My car is broken. The engine light has come on and when I start it up, it shakes. It even stopped on me when I was at the light. So, for the last two weeks, it's been buried in snow. I even had to quit my job because I can't get there. (That's another blog topic). So, I've been taking the bus and Jenny has been driving me to church and back home.

My friend Steph got a job at a Car dealership. She's been talking to me about getting a new car, so I decided to test drive a few. It was a funny ordeal.

I'll finish it later, I've got to go catch a bus.


To be continued....

Signed Contract

I got a call on Wednesday asking if I could come in to fill out paperwork for my job as the Residential Manager. At first I didn't think I was gonna be able to go because I didn't have a ride to work, but when I got up this morning, I remembered that I could rent a car for about $20. I got up early, took the bus to the bank, rode out to Walmart to load money onto my prepaid Visa debit car and took the bus back to the rental car company. It was 9:10am when I got there. Plenty of time to rent my car and make it to the Homeward Bound program to complete my paperwork. I got to the counter, gave the woman my ID and debit card and she told me she couldn't take it. WHAT?? She said that the prepaid card won't allow her to "hold" a security deposit. Uh, WHAT? When I looked at their website it specifically said that rental car companies will hold the money on the card. I thank her and before I left she told me that the other rental car place would be able to help me. I went down the street and sure enough, they would take the card, but they didn't have any available cars. Grrrrrr. What to do, what to do?

In wondered around the street until I realized that I had enough time to hop back on the bus to make it to my 10am appointment. I got on the bus and asked the driver which bus to take to get me to my destination. He told me to take bus #22. A passenger on the bus was telling me to take bus #18. I decided to follow the instructions of the driver. He should know the bus routes, right? I made it to the bus terminal and bus #22 was late--10 minutes late. So I waited and when I got on, I told the driver where I needed to go. He said I needed bus #18, but it had already left and then he said ok he would get me close. I thought everything was good. But, we started going the opposite direction. Hmmm. I just waiting and then as we were getting closer to the end of the route, I asked again and he said that I actually need to take bus #11 and it would get me a block away from where I need to be. He said that if he dropped me off, I'd have to walk a long way. I said ok and when we got back to the bus terminal I hopped onto bus #11. It took me all around the city before I got to where I was supposed to be--an hour late. As I was getting closer to my stop, one of the lunch ladies from the school I worked at got on. She said that she was headed to the school taking bus #18. I asked her if it goes by where I needed to go and she said yes, it goes straight from the bus terminal to where I need to go. AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! I should have listened to the passenger who was going in the same direction that I was going, but I figured that the drivers should know.

By the time I got to Homeward Bound it was an hour later. I filled out my paperwork and picked up my keys to my apartment. I was excited, but I didn't know where the apartments were, but since I wasn't going to be able to make it to work, I needed to tell the temp agency, so I walked to the office which was not far from downtown (where the bus terminal is). When I got there I told her that I wasn't going to be able to make it. I explained to her about the car rental place and then I explained to her that I needed to take this job because I NEED a place to live. I didn't tell her that I was homeless, but I told her about my unemployment issues and not being able to pay my bills and how with this position I will be able to live rent free and not have to worry about being evicted. She said she understood and was happy that I told her and that she would call the bank to let them know. That was a relief. I didn't want to have to convey this message to them too. I"m sure I will have to talk to them on Monday, but I was glad that she could initially talk to them. I told her the address of the apartments for the job and she told me that it was right behind her office. Sure enough when I left her office I walked across the street and there were the two apartment buildings.

I was pleased with the apartments when I first arrived. These apartments are nicely maintained on the outside. Not like my old apartments. When I walked in, I went to apt 2 and thought I heard somebody in there, so I walked out and looked at the paperwork. Yeah, it said apt 2. I went back inside and put my key in the door and someone yelled, "what do you want?" Oops!! I told them I was sorry, I had the wrong apartment. I went back out and looked at the paper again. "Hmmm. Maybe I was in the wrong building." There are two buildings. So I went to the other building and looked at my paper again, this time I pulled out the lease and sure enough, the lease said apartment 12. LOL. So I went back to the other building and went to apt 12.

I was happy that I was forewarned about the carpet. The Director told me it was filthy and that it needed to be replaced. She said they didn't have any money in the budget to replace it right now, but they were going to get it cleaned as best they could. She said that it was stained. When I walked in, I understood. It was NASTY, FILTHY, GROSS. I was trying to figure out what type of stains it was because it was EVERYWHERE. I didn't understand how it could get that NASTY. And it wasn't just in the living room, it was in the bedroom also, just plain NASTY!!!! When I'm at home, I don't like to walk around in my shoes. As a matter of fact, I take my shoes off at the door because when you walk outside and come back in you track dirt from outside and I like a clean carpet. After looking past the carpet, I looked around and it's actually a nice apartment. It's small, but nice.

To be continued.

I Got the Job

I got a call on yesterday and the Director of the Homeward Bound program offered me the job. I was happy. She asked me if I could come to her office on tomorrow at 10am to meet with her. I told her I would be there. At the time, I wasn't concerned about how I would get to work, I just wanted to jump at the chance. Consequently, today, I've been trying to figure out how I'm gonna get 50 miles to work. I don't want to call Mel. Actually, I don't want to talk to him at all. He violated me and I can't believe he did that to me. Ugh!!!!! I text a friend of mine to ask her if I could borrow her car and she told me that she was going out of town to the same town that I work in, but the problem is she is leaving at 7:30am. Grrrr. I called a shuttle service to see what their rates were and they charge $80 to go 50 miles. That's nuts! It used to cost $40. I also called the taxi here in town, but they never returned my call. So, I don't know how I'm gonna get to work. I may have to take the day off so that I could get things taken care of here. I know they said they wanted a days notice, but man. It's difficult not having a vehicle in this type of town. The bus stops running at 7pm. When I first moved her I wondered how the people who worked in the evening got to work? I'm gonna pray and see what I can do.

I'm A Survivor

Blown Tire

After my interview, Mel and I went to get lunch at KFC. I really wanted some grilled chicken, but they didn't have that type at this KFC. I had to settle on some baked beans and snack size bowl. We then headed to the gas station to gas up to hit the highway. I paid for the lunch, gas and some oil to put into Mel's truck. I was happy to do it. He didn't have to volunteer his time to drive me 100 miles for work. As we were riding I realized the door hadn't been shut completely. I wanted to open it, but we were driving so fast I was scared. Mel told me to open and shut it really fast, he said he would hold me. We joked about it. He then started taking the joke a little too far by telling me that he would have to tell his girlfriend that he was holding me. I moved from the conversation. He talked the rest of the way about his work and right as we got about 10 miles from my job, there were this pop and hissing sound. I yelled, "JESUS" and was telling Mel to pull over because it was the tire. The front tire on the passengers side had blown. We got out the car and the time was in shreds. It was all the way off the rim. I have never been in a car where this happened. Neither have I seen this happen before. He called a friend of his and while he was on the phone a tow truck pulled up behind us. Mel didn't have any money, but I had gone to the bank earlier that day so I had excess cash on me. He talked the guy into towing us for half price. Mel's friend said he would meet us at the tire shop and he would buy Mel a new tire.

As the guy was hooking the truck to tow it, he asked us if we were gonna have someone come to get us because there was not much room in his truck for the both of us. Mel told him that his friend was gonna meet us so the tow truck guy cleared the seat to allow us to squeeze in. This is when things got pretty awkward.

In order to sit halfway comfortably Mel had to wrap his arm around me and I was pushed up against him so not to be in the guys way of driving the stick shift. Mel then began to joke about how he has always wanted to hold me like that. I did't find anything funny. I was uncomfortable. Then the most awkward thing occurred. As Mel has his arm around me he began to fondle me. Yes, through my coat, he began to caress me. At first I didn't know what it was that was rubbing up against me until I saw his hand. It was almost near my breast. UGH!!!! This man has a girlfriend that he claims to love and yet he is molesting me. WHAT????? I don't know what he was thinking but the devil got in him and I didn't want to make a scene all squished in the man's truck. I couldn't wait to get out of that vehicle. He touched me the whole time driving. UGH!!!!! When we finally got out the car, I wanted to go wash myself. I was so disgusted. I began to understand why his gf is having insecurity issues. It's his spirit. It's not totally her. At one point, I was thinking that she was simply insecure. But, he is way ttttooooooo flirty and touchy feely. If I was in love with a man and I wanted to marry him, I wouldn't even want to be close to another man. I wouldn't have eyes for anyone else. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM???? This is the reason why I stopped being friends with him before. He would say inappropriate things to me. He claims to be a man of God, but he needs to take care of his issues. I'm not questioning his faith and belief in God. But he needs to check his spirit. I understand that as a Christian there are times of temptation and there are many, many, many, many, many times, I've fallen, but I don't want to sin like that anymore. The Bible says, not unto Him who is able to keep me from falling. I don't want to fall like that. So I can't be friends with him. I don't want to sin and I don't want him to sin. UGH!!!!

As his car was being worked on he and his friends took me to work. I talked to my supervisor and went on about my day.

I'm so exhausted now, my eyeballs hurt. I literally want to take them out of my head and go to sleep.

Father, God. Please let Jen hurry up so we can go home. I'm tired!

Emotional Interview

I asked my friend, Tam, about the Residential Manger position and she told me, on Sunday, that she mentioned my name to the program director and was told that she would go through the applicants to choose. I left it at that and just figured that the job wasn't mine. On Saturday, I was locked out of the house. I'm not complaining, I had to sleep in the cold car, so I did't mind sitting in the car to wait on Jen to get home. I did, however, feel a little bit uncomfortable when she finally arrived so instead of immediately getting out of the car, I hid in my snow covered car for another 20 minutes or so. Crazy, right?! On yesterday, I was so tired. We had a meeting at church and Jen was there and after the meeting, I asked Jen for the key to get into the house because I wanted to go home to go to bed. She said that she didn't have the key, but she had the garage opener, but she didn't want to give it to me because she wouldn't be able to get in the door if I was sleeping when she got home. I just said, 'ok' and went to the office to work while she finished her work. I told God that I was tired. Then I told God that I was still grateful to have a roof over my head.

When I opened my email I got a message from Tam. She said that the Director could not find the other applicants, so I was the only prospect for the job and she wanted to interview me the next day. I immediately replied, "what time? when?" I was so excited. I was amazed at how God was orchestrating this situation. She was in desperate need of someone to manage the building and I was the only one who was available. I'm sure she didn't want to advertise for the job all over again. Newspaper ads alone cost over $300.

I was so awed by God that I couldn't sleep. There were some things on my mind--I needed to figure out what to do about work, since we were on a warning. I needed to figure out this other situation. So, I needed God to speak to me. I read the word of God, cried at what He was telling me, prayed about some other stuff, sang a few worship songs and finally tossed and turned on my cot that I sleep on. I finally got to sleep after 3am and was up at 5am to get ready for the day.

When I got up this morning, I text Mel to see if he could take me to work after my interview. He said he would. So, I needed to get him some gas money. So, I took a walk....in the frigid
-15 wind chill weather to make my way to the post office and the bank. I had no money to get on the bus. This guy saw me walking and gave me a ride to the post office. Then I footed it to the bank. It took me about an hour. Once at the bank I got enough money to pay some bills, get Mel and Kim some gas, give Jenny some money, and get something to eat and then get on the bus to get back home to get my bag. Mel came and got me to take me to the interview.

The interview started off kind of shaky. I hate the question, "Tell me a little bit about yourself...." I wasn't prepared for it. Grrrrr. Then she started telling me more about what was going on in the building--people fighting and not doing right. After she told me all of that she got through the interview questions and asked me why I wanted to the position and I told her I wanted to help somebody to have hope. These are people who are at the bottom. They have no place else to go, but up and some of them have a hard time getting up. Sometimes their situation can consume them. I got emotional when I told her that I was in a bad situation, but I had a strong faith and good people around me to keep position to get through this!! There was an old song that we used to listen to growing up and it said, "This too shall pass." and that's the way I feel. I don't know how she feels about me getting emotional, but I did the best that I could. She was even asking me if I could hold building meetings which is not apart of the job description, but I told her that I could.

There was a snafu when she asked me if I had transportation and insurance. Ugh. I told her yes. My intention is to get my car running and get reliable insurance. I also kind of mentioned that I worked as a night supervisor. Well, I did kind, but not at the time that I told her. I think I said during college, but I hadn't done that during college, it was actually after college which I didn't remember until just now.

To be continued...

Real Housewives of W$#%^# F$#$%^

I feel like I'm on a reality show laden with drama at work. I've never seen so many people that talk ssssoooooo much about their business. I just want people to BE QUIET so that I could get some work done. I'm getting ready for a leadership meeting, so I can't expound, but I need some really BIG headphones at work.

THANK GOD for my job, though. LOL.

I Have A Hope

When it Rains it Pours

Not only is my job in jeopardy, I'm getting emails left and right about a community program that I'm supposed to be hosting--why aren't the flyers posted??? Because I have no money to buy them. Why are you emailing your job instead of calling them??? Because I have no minutes on my phone. What else could go wrong??? I understand that this is just a test. I have to stay strong and not allow this to rattle my cage. Plus, stress eating causes me more stress. I gained 2 pounds today. Ugh!!

In other news..

I've been catching the bus and I have no problem with public transportation. I'm a green person so I love public transportation. But, I don't like loud obnoxious people, like the girl at the bus station who had to loudly talk to her friend on the phone. "Girl, it looks like I"m 6 mos. pregnant. I may be 3 or 4 mos. though. Tell so and so why he leave me. He know he saw me get off the bus....blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She went on and on and I just wanted to ask her politely to please lower your voice. She did not have to talk that loud and no one wanted to know if so and so called you a b*tch. Dag. Have some couth. As I was riding the bus, the bus driver and a man who I found to be my neighbor began a foolish discussion on a quote in the paper. The quote said something to this effect, "It's a terrible thing for a man to not know what he doesn't know...." The bus driver decided to disagree with him. Then he asked my opinion. In my mind I remembered the scripture, "my people perish for lack of knowledge" and I also remembered the saying, what you don't know can kill you so I told her the latter and he partially agreed with me, but I believe he just wanted to talk, as ignorant as his comments were, I really believe he felt he was right. The worst part is that I think he was a preacher. How are you gonna be a preacher and say something ignorant like, "you should know what you don't know." WHAT??? How many people say, "if I knew then, what I know now...." Knowledge is power!! And ignorance is NOT bliss!!!!

I just came to the conclusion that this man was a fool. Only a fool will despise knowledge. Thats a proverb in the Bible, but I don't feel like looking it up right now.

Stress Eating

I gained a lot of weight by stress eating. There were times when I would be stressed about something and to make myself feel better, I'd put food in my mouth. I'm trying not to be at the point right now, but I want to EAT and EAT and EAT. I'm trying not to be stressed. I need to pray, I need to read my Bible, but I just want to sit here and watch TV and EAT. I'm watching Say YES to the Dress and the Real Housewives of Atlanta on Hulu. They are selling broccoli cheese soup and I want to get a bowl along with a ham and cheese sandwich.

My Job is in Jeopardy

The weather has been crappy. It took us two hours to drive 50 miles on Monday and on Tuesday and Wednesday everything was shutting down, even the highway. When I checked IDOT's website on yesterday, it said ice and snow on the highway. When I check it this morning it said ice and snow patches. Because my car is not running I'm at the mercy of someone else, so she said she wasn't going to work, so I had to say ok and stay home today. The temp agency that called us called to say that our jobs were in jeopardy because we didn't attempt to go to work today. WOW!!! I'm glad you care about my life. If IDOT says snow and ice patches that meant it was gonna take another two hours to drive over the highway. I don't know what to say because I have no transportation to make it there 50 miles. I told Kim, the girl who drives that I'm not gonna worry and that is the truth. I'm not gonna worry. Father, I place this situation in your hands. In Jesus name, Amen.

Blizzard in Full Swing

Yep, the Midwest blizzard is in full swing. It's coming down like cats and dogs. I caught the bus here. I hope I'm not stuck here. It's cold here at the university. I wish I had a heater and a blanket, I'd stretch out on this couch and take a nap.

Lovely Snow Storm

Actually it's a blizzard warning, but it's not good.

It took us 2 hours to drive 50 miles yesterday. It was sleeting and snowing the whole way home. Semi-trucks were zooming by and we just prayed all the way home. When we finally got home at 7:30, I got out the car and my body was still going with the car. The car had stopped, but my body was still going. We didn't drive more than 30mph on the highway. So, this morning, the schools were shut down, day care centers were shut down, even the university that I'm sitting in now is closed, so there was no need for us to take forever to get to work today. They said that we are supposed to get 12 inches of snow. Boooooo.

I started my car on Sunday and the engine light came on. I puttered to church praying all the way, then I puttered home. Thank God that Kim is our back up when my car is not working. I'm kind of glad because my tires on my car are horrible. There is no way that I would have been able to drive over the highway.

My goal was to hang out here at the university today because I didn't want to be at home with Jenny and the children. Actually, I would have loved to sleep in today, but oh well. So, I took of this morning all bundled up on foot. I needed to get to the post office and then to the bank so that I could get some money to catch the bus to the university. Before getting on the bus I stopped at Kroger to get something to eat. I had about 20 minute wait for the bus. It wasn't so bad.


In other news...

The lady that told me about the Resident Manager job told me to call the director. I called on yesterday. I also told my friend Step to call. I figured that if I don't get the job, then she could get it because she needs a place to stay too. So, I left the director a message. I pray she calls me back.