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so today went by pretty slowly, but i got very little done. mostly casey and i just spent some time together goofing off, but that was nice. we don't do that enough these days.

tomorrow i have an errand to run though. tomorrow i need to go over to the dorms and find out how to start putting up and passing out flyers/posters for one of my clubs (the only one i'm going to keep up with) and see how many i'm going to need. unfortunately i don't have any color ink right now, or money to get any, so i'll have to stick with black and white versions (some of our ideas have color to them) for now. once school starts though not only will i have money (financial aid and my part time job will start) but i'll also have access to the printers (color and non) at school, so we can make a whole bunch of color copies.

so just as a general catch me up (for some of my friends as well as to any of you readers that might care).

i'm starting school on the 24th of this month, so that's about a week and a half away. sometime in october i'll start that part time job i referenced above. it's not a big deal, only about $500/month, but it'll definitely help with bills, and i should have a little left over for savings and fun money both. the best part is, i'll be able to keep it up all year round until i move out of the area (in 2+ years), so no more summer job hunting and no more going broke at the end of the quarter.
this will also free up my financial aid to the point that i'll only really need it for school expenses. that said, casey and i are planning on stashing as much of it as we can to help us with moving costs for latter on. i don't know if i've ever mentioned it here in my journal, be we're planning on moving to ireland sometime in the next 2-5 years.
on casey's end: she's still just working part time, because after she got done with Apollo we decided she may as well take a little holiday. after all, she'd been working 7 days a week since decemeber (and just stopped the end of August), and honestly it was so close to when i got financial aid and started working PT, that we figured there wasn't much of a hurry for her to start full time. so yeah, after i start school up again, at the end of this month, she's going to start a) asking for more hours at work and/or b) looking for another job. she doesn't really want to leave the one she's got right now, and i really don't want her to. see, she loves it so much, and that's worth more then a couple more bucks an hour. besides we're making it decent even with her only working PT there. so really, she's going to hope to either find a place so similar that she'll be happy to switch and get 40hrs/week and maybe more $$ an hour, otherwise she'll just pick up a little more PT work at something pretty similar and call it good.
either way our financial situation should be looking pretty good after october.

emotionally, things have pretty much settled for the moment. i can't say i'm completely over what's been bothering me, but i will say that it's out in the open and that helps a lot. i think we're both just waiting for the right time to bring it back up to each other. for now, mostly we've just got some of our own stuff to deal with.

as for my mom and the whole moving situation. i really don't know anything more about it right now. last i heard my mom was going to stop by in the morning before heading home, but she never showed. i left a message for her to call me when she got home, but i think she thought it was an older message. at any rate i haven't heard anything out of her since the weekend. i think i'll call her tomorrow and see what's up.
also, i haven't recieved that form in the mail that we're waiting on before we can move forward again with her possible (please god let it work out) new place. really, it's a bit soon to hear anything from there though, since the lady told us she probably wouldn't even get things finished to the point that she could fill it out until this morning. so that means she probably won't even have mailed it until today at the soonest, and it'll take at least one day for it to get through the mail.
casey and i are both really hoping my mom doesn't get all hyped up and drive back down here as soon as she gets her copy of the form (we're each supposed to receive one so that we have a choice of who turns it in). the idea is that i talk her into letting me turn it in so that she saves a trip over here (and about $40 in gas), then she calls and sets up an appointment for this inspection thing she has to have before she can move in. that way she only has to make one more trip down here (not two) and that should be the one in which she can start moving in right away, and we don't have to deal with the stress of having her pop in and out again.

the way my mom's been lately though, she'll probably drive down here like a bat outta hell, just to turn in the form, stay with us for waaaay to long, then have to drive all the way the hell back home for a night or two just to get some s**t taking care of on that end and THEN drive back again for the inspection (which she has to be at) and then drive home AGAIN to finish with stuff on her end that she really could have been doing while she was staying too long with us the first time.

*sigh* i really hope that doesn't happen. i mean, it's not that i don't want to help her or i'm not happy to get her set up in this new place, it's just that ... well she's been over here practically every week since the second week of august. she leaves for a few days and then she's back again, and she's always coming and going at the drop of a hat. so i keep having to switch gears between prepping for school and working on her move and dealing with normal s**t like my whole financial aid thing at school, our money problems, working, getting set up for this new job, all of that. *sigh* i'm really just getting burned out on the whole thing, and it would be nice to be done with at least ONE of those many things, ya know? or at least take it a bit easier on it.

besides, she really needs to get going on sorting through her stuff, setting up for a moving sale, getting the details of the actual move taking care of, and all that great stuff. there's just not much reason behind running back and forth over and over again. it's just stressing and wearing all of us out. besides the cost of time and gas.

that and she really stresses casey out (long story there that i'll save for another entry), and that just means even more stress on me. i hate listening to her b***h about my mom, and i hate it when they have their little tension moments and i have to play the middle man or peace keeper. seriously!

wow, well i've been going on like this for quite some time now, haven't i? i guess i'd better let you all go.

if you made it to this point, thanks for sticking with me until the end : )