Yay Closing!

It has come, it has finally come. The day that I can close on the apartment and start moving in. Tomorrow I will pay a lot of money to basically get a set of keys and call this apartment my new home. I am extremely excited. I can't believe all the struggles are now over and I can move on to the struggles of painting, clean and dealing with installation people of all sorts. I guess i feel like I deserve a moment in the sun for this, I want everyone that I know to share this experience with me. I guess this is how some people feel when the get a brand new toy that they just can't believe they got. Except this is a really big toy that I get to live in. This is so cool! DId I say that already?

Dalai Lama Visit

So I went to see the Dalai Lama at Rutgers University. He really is a very nice, smart dude that is down to earth even though he has all this Holiness and stuff. Put it to you this way, it would be nice to just sit with him one dat and have tea and discuss life and all that good stuff.

Dr. Lama made some pretty good points about war and how it's an outdated concept. He also talked about compassion and how we are all on commuity and depend on each other to exist. I have already thought about these things and always wonder why some people don't get it. We are all the same and no matter where you live people are people. We all depend on each other and need each other to exist. Some people think violence is the answer, but it hasn't given us much in recent days, what makes us continue to think that it will make things better?

All in all it was good to listen to him speak. Although I expected to be much more enlightened than I was. I guess I was really tired and also it's a bit hard to understand him sometimes. The volume at the stadium sounded awful low and his accent made it hard to decipher some things he said at time. In any event, I think he is a good spiritual leader and all people can learn from him.

Target Baby! & the Dalai Lama

I am so excited about my trip to target tonight. I don't know why, I feel like it's new year's eve and I'm counting down the time, but it's not time for a new year time to go to target. I have to get several necessary items for my new pad (which I still have not moved into) but might as well get stuff when I can. Plus I got paid today!

Nothing much else going on. I do need to mention that I'm going to see (and hear) the Dalai Lama speak this weekend. I think it's just what I need to settle me down during these troubled times. People always find it weird that I, a Roman Catholic, can practive Buddhism and Hinduism at once (I read the Life of Pi because someone told me that I could Pi due to all my religions). But you know what, I believe it makes me more well rounded in my spirituality. I'm not a hard-core anything but I do have certains beliefs about morals and other stuff like that.

Chit Chat

I figured since other people have time to chit chat around the printer I could take a few moments to blog and collect my thoughts.

It looks like the apartment thing is going to be finalized this week after a long and painful process. As far as I understand it, everything is done and taken care of, I'm just waiting for a date which should be no later than friday. I'm starting to get excited again about the move. The feeling of excitement was lost since I was mainly aggavated for a long time about how this was taking so long. Now I'm looking at things to buy and work that I have to do. My new favorite store is target. I wish I could just go right now and buy everything that I need, but I need to pace myself since I need to make sure I don't completely run out of money. I have gotten some "donated" items which really helps me out. Starting with nothing at all kinds sucks but at least you get to shop more that way.

Coincidence....may be not

May day started off a little rough today because I had a "verbal dispute" with my landlord today. I am so grateful that I am moving out of that apartment, that guys is a total jackass. I brought it to his attention that I changed the locks of the apartment in light of my pursue being stolen and showed him the bill. I wasn't expecting him to pay me back but thought maybe he'll pitch in or something. He got all bent out od shape saying those people (meaning locksmiths) ripp you off and that he's not paying for that. So I got upset because of the dumb way he responded. So i told him it was an emergency and that he doesn't live on the premises and i did not have his phone number so i could reach him. He says to me that I should have woken up my neighbors at 2 a.m. to get his number. So it went on from there. I got really upset and spoke to him in avery condesending tone.

After that encounter first thing in the morning, I got on the subway and getting off at grand central some has the nerve to grab my butt! Can you believe that! I couldn't tell who it was because it was too crowded so I just kept walking. What I really wanted to do was kick some one because I was already upset but I missed my chance. Anyway, I hear Cristian Slater has issues with groping, quite the coincidence isn't it. He wouldn't happen to take the 7 train and get off at Grand Central station would he? Just thought it might have been him, you never know.

Harry Potter Movie

Forgot to mention that I'm super amped about the new Harry Potter movie. It's coming out in november and I just can't wait. The trailer is out already if you haven't already seen it, check it out.

Harry Potter Trailer

Greetings and Salutations to All

I feel like slowly but surely all the pieces of my life are coming together. I got my debit card last week and my driver's license was in the mail on Saturday. My wallet is whole once more. Now I have to send some stuff in to the bank so that they can credit my account for the metrocards that were bought with my debit card.

I also spoke to my lawyer today. It's a shame that you have to be rude to people in order for them to take you seriously. Now he is being helpful and actually getting some stuff done. No, I still don't have a closing date. It's ridiculous, but now I have just given up to the fact that it's not my fault it's taken so long.

I guess if anything the experience has taught me patience. I still don't have any patience but maybe I'll "grow" to appreciate all the troubles I've seen in recent days. It's really hard to just sit ans wait for other people to do stuff for you though, i'm so used to doing stuff for myself all the time, it's hard to give up the control.

Mini Time Out

Well I thought I would take a mini time out from work and just catch up on some blogging and stuff. It's still very hectic at work, at least for some of us, so I continue to be stressed out here. That's not really new but I figured I would let people know anyways.

Also on my sh*t list is my lawyer. I know buying a home is stressful but I shouldn't have to yell at you for you to get stuff done. I went off on him the other day (I even told him I would cry) because he wasn't helping me out. He just seemed to be strolling along as if twirling in a meadow. Meanwhile I'm doing all the work. Maybe, I think, I should pay myself. I told him it is unacceptable that I have to hear things from different people and that I don't know what I need to sign or not sign to get this done. So, I think the threat to cry must have scared him because now he's actually being proactive, and calling me and stuff. So there you have it, boys really can't even handle the threat of a woman crying.

News

Time for me to put my two cents in, since I feel as though I haven't really been keeping up with any of the important stuff that is going on in the world today. For example: Isreal. I know what we have been consumed by all that is Katrina and it's disaster, but this is a moment in history that will affect all of us and should not be overlooked. We have had to pay severely for our involvement in the middle east crisis, now is not the time to keep Americans in the dark. I'm surprised VoxInfo has not touched on this subject some more. Check out this link:

www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/53394.htm

In other news, I voted yesterday. Yes, technically I am a registered democrat so I decided to exercise my right to vote. So I voted for Weiner, the only reason for that is that he is the guy with the next highest projection of votes and I really did not want Ferrer to win. I don't like that guy, I think he is fake and would do no good to the city. I don't know why I feel so strongly about it but I just do, to put it in simpler terms: he gives me the creepy crawlys. From what I hear Ferrer did not get enough votes to win the nom so we'll probably have another go at it. Check it out:

www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/53368.htm

P.S. I also voted for public advote even though I didn't know any of the candidates. I thought to myself, I'm already in the booth, so might as well vote for some one on there. So I voted for some guy named cabbagestalk only because he has a funny name. It's a silly reason to vote for him, but at least I voted, and he didn't win.

Chocolate

I feel like a total pig. These past two days I have completely thrown caution to the wind and have eaten chocolate like chocolate is a major food group or like I have chocolate deficiancy like it's a vitamin. Which reminds me that I should take my multi-v's. So why can't I stay away from chocolate, you know why because it makes my day a heck of a lot better! that's why. I know it shouldn't be like that but I firmly believe that I handle myself better when I have chocolate in my system. I defeats the purpose of all the other good stuff that I try to do for my body like eat organice food and vegetables but I don't care. I feel good right now, that's all that matters.

Nothing New

Nothing really new to say. I'm really aggravated. The whole apartment purchase is very stressful. I officially hate my lawyer, my mortgage officer, the seller and everyone else in between. Between that and work still being disgustingly overwhelming I have my hands full. Peachy! Oh, I just wish I could be on vacation to unwind and relax a bit, and still get paid. I'll keep wishing......

P.s. my weekend was good. I went out with friends on Friday, and went to a BBQ/Housewarming on Saturday. It was a nice distraction from the norm. After the BBQ we all went bowling. I didn't play I was just a cheerleader, nonetheless I had fun.

Pigeon Poop

I thought I would let everyone know that while I was out to lunch on Friday I had the pleasure of being pooped on by a new york city pigeon. I realized that the poop had gotten on my very expensive coach bag, thank goodness it didn't get on my white linen jacket. After being back at work for a few minutes I realized i had poop in my hair too. Funniest thing is that everyone tells me it's good luck. Lucky for what exactly?

Break Time

Right now I'm feeling a tad overwhelmed so I thought I would take a break from work. I'm having one of those days where there is so much to do I don't even know where to start. Does anyone have any ideas?

I know that instead of blogging I should be trying to find out which way is up and try to make sense out of what's on my desk, but when I have too much information thrown at me at once, my brain tends to shut down. Today I thought to myself that I would come in and get some paperwork done but instead my phone has not stopped ringing all morning. Sometimes I feel like I don't make any progress here no matter how much I do. Then we have the "time hoggers" which are those people that no matter how many times you answer their questions, and help them, they keep coming back for more. Time hoggers please chill!. Truth is I need help, I can't do it all on my own, and I have to understand that there is only so much I can do in one day.

Break time over, back to work.

Thief!

So my weekend was interesting. My purse was stolen on saturday night (or you might say sunday morning). It's one of those things that make you wonder how it happened because I never left the purse unattended it was on the table by my side the whole time, but I was entertained talking to friends so I guess the thief saw opportunity. It really bothers me that this kind of stuff happens. I know it's new york city but why would you delibrately take someoneelse's stuff.

In any event, I'm just aggravated that I had to spend a ton of money replacing my stuff, mor so because I decided to change all my locks since I am more careful than most. Hey, I thought to myself, some creap out there has my driver's license and the keys to my apartment, they just managed to take my stuff while I'm right there so they may or may not decide to go to my house and take the rest of my stuff. I wasn't about to risk it. In a way I felt kind of stupid but it happens to the best of us. I'm glad nothing worse happened and that everything that was in that bag was replaceable. Still, my space was invaded and it feels yucky. Good thing I have a lot of cop friends, not that they are out looking for my bag or anything but somehow it makes me feel better when they come to my house to check up on me and stuff. In total so far it's cost me $600 and the thief ended up with $100 cash and a metrocard.

Somehow it doesn't seem worth it but I wonder what the situation of that other person is. You never know why someone is driven to do stuff like this, I would like to think its more out of need but some people can be just plain violent and distrubed. I don't see how stealing like this would make you rich so I highly doubt it's greed. I guess that's something I would just never know.

Hooooooray!

I'm happy that this week is over and that I can now move on to the long weekend. I heard that my closing is going to be next week so I am going to take advantage of all the labor day sales and do some shopping for the new apartment.

I'm so happy that this finally came through for me. I know it's expensive and that I'm going to be on a serious budget from now on but at least I'm doing something that I always really wanted to do. On to other news, the pickles are coming down this weekend so I'm happy that I'm going to see them too. Yay! The week is over.

Brand New Day

Today is a brand new day. It's gorgeous weather outside and should the weather should continue this way through the weekend. Good thing because it's a holiday weekend so we get a whole three days off.

I intend to use these days to begin shopping for my new furniture. There are plenty of sales going on that I need to take advantage of. While I'm on the topic, I refuse to have another bad day today. I will not let my mother, my work, my co-workers, my lawyer, my mortgage officer, or any boys ruin my day. I absolutely cannot stress out. We'll see how long that lasts. In any event, I shall be moving forward trying not to think too much about crap.