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7/21/2009

(+++) We got the apartment!

(-) Doesn't come with a refrigerator. Oops.

7/22/2009

(+) One month until move in! Than I'll be rid of these stupid girls forever!

7/23/2009

(+) Credit check went through!

(-) I apparently have to get Jewel licensed and vaccinated before moving in

(+) Animal control says the cat licensing is not required in Huntington Beach!

(+) Found a cheap place in Santa Ana to get Jewel vaccinated: rabies, 4-in-1 and feline leukemia for ~$45

7/24/2009

(-) The class I was supposed to tutor during summer session II disappeared

(+) It looks like I'll be tutoring for Bio 94 instead

7/25/2009

(+) I got a letter of recommendation from the zoo!

7/26/2009

(+) Whole day spent with Dan, including grocery shopping for an awesome lunch and a How I Met Your Mother marathon. <3 him!

(-) Banged my knee really hard at the gym. Now it hurts to go up and down stairs

7/27/2009

(-) I am officially out of a job. They already have two Bio 94 tutors and not enough students to justify a third

(+) I already have a ton of vet clinic applications

(-) I should have returned them weeks ago

(+) yay 40 bucks for private tutoring

(+) yay 20 bucks for selling my physiology lab manual

7/28/2009

(s) Pauline (AKA Persilla Queen of the Desert) managed to spill a can of my beans (that was NOT precariously placed) all over the kitchen floor. She refuses to clean it up.

(0) Persilla is finally cleaning the mess, half an hour after she made it

(s) Nevermind, she only half cleaned it, and left the rest of the sticky mess to harden!

(+) Yay, another 40 bucks for private tutoring! (in less than two hours, too!)

(+) Only have to get Jewel the rabies shot, and that's only $10!

(-) Persilla took the cans for recycling, most of which I think are mine. Now she's getting the money that I deserve

Key: + is good, - is bad, s is stupid ass crap pulled by an immature 18 year old who will remain nameless (Pauline), 0 is whatever


So, yeah. That's how my life has been lately. Ups one minute cancelled out by downs the next. I need a job.

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For the last few weeks, Dan and I have been visiting different apartment communities around Irvine. We found one in Huntington Beach that is almost perfect for our needs. It's a nice little community with a pool and landscaping. That apartment that was showed us was on the second of two floors. It's a one bedroom apartment with a gas stove, a ceiling fan in the dining room, a large living room, and a walk-in closet in the bedroom for a total of 615 square feet. It's a little smaller when compared to the 652 square feet of our current apartments, but it seems bigger. And there will only be two people living there and sharing everything instead of three people, all with their own stuff. There are two windows on opposite sides of the apartment: one on the living room/dining room wall and one in the bedroom. This apartment faces the ocean on the bedroom side, and since there are no other tall buildings in the immediate vicinity, it catches a really nice breeze. The previous occupent lived here for 22 years before getting married and moving out, so everything in the apartment has been redone very recently. And guess what? We got this exact apartment! Rent is $1050 (compared to $1500 now), and the manager managed to waive the pet rent for Jewel, which saves us around $25 per month. Our move-in date is August 22nd, so I have less than four weeks left with these idiots! The only really bad thing about this place is it doesn't come with a refrigerator, so we'll have to hunt one down on craigslist fairly soon. Oh well.

Oh, and Awesome Fact #508: It's about a half mile from the beach with wetlands and hiking trails in between. It's also fairly close to a big touristy mall and a farmer's market held on Thursday evenings.