Posts Tagged ‘financial aid’

Moving

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Okay, I promised an update regarding the move and here it is.

I’m still a bit ambivalent about this whole move. A large part of me will be intensely glad to be out of Alpine Meadows, but another part is still waiting for the next shoe to fall.

Parkwood Green accepted our application (they don’t do credit checks, in fact crime seems to be the only thing they’re concerned with) and the bank went through on financing.

The (new) trailer was moved into the park yesterday, though the crew almost got into an accident on the way over. We had a sudden snow squall go through, which reduced visibility to almost zero. Apparently some lady hit the breaks unexpectedly, a semi swerved to avoid her and almost hit our trailer. However nothing happened and they finally made it into the spot… only to discover our water line had broken during the night. ^^;

Mom visited this morning on the way home and saw that everything is hooked up now, which should mean we can begin moving our stuff in. I’m still not sure which room I’m taking, but we can hash that out when we can actually move in.

The only other ugly thing is that we’re going to have to rent a power-washer to clean the trailer once it gets warm and the shed is full of garbage from the previous owner. >_> But that’s not too bad, considering.

Trudy, the owner of Cedar Mobile Home Service, is a miracle-worker. I swear. She’s taken care of all the permits, phone calls, even managed to talk a building inspector to give us a permit on his day off. Right now it’s looking like we’ll be able to live in the new trailer Monday or Tuesday. Trudy is good, let me tell you.

Another bad thing is that we couldn’t stay with Comcast. They don’t offer service in Sparta, even though it looks like they’re only a mile away. *sighs* Bye-bye anime, Food Network, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Anyroad, we’re going to take a load of junk to the trailer today and then we’re going out with Jodi tomorrow to pick out new appliances. (Note to self, turn Amazon store to vacation and get financial aid papers filled out!)

In other news, my main blog can now be set to friends only! (Haha!) I knew there had to be a plug-in to do this. ^_^

Instead of trying to inform everyone who needed the password, I can just send them logon information and be able to set things just like I can do on LiveJournal.

I just know I have some pretty weird people checking out my blog and I wanted a better way to protect sensitive entries. This is still my online diary, afterall. Yes, I want to share with my friends and family, but I don’t necessarily want my classmates reading my health-related posts. (or rants full of obscenities.)

Don’t worry, this isn’t going 100% friends only. I was just looking for a better way to protect posts to varying degrees.

Shoot me now

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Well, our fate is sealed. Wednesday, July 27th, we’ll be going out for dinner with Sheba. Then, on the 31st, we’ve been invited to go for a sort of impromtu family reunion at a local diner.

But at the very least, we won’t be alone with her. Maybe she’ll behave. ^^;; (Wishful thinking on my part.)

I’d like to offer my sincerest thanks to Bevey for the offer to come down and visit her for the week. Sorry we couldn’t accept. *HUGS*

College is kicking my ass, though not too hard. I only have one week of class left for Human Relations and then I move on to the next batch. The extra financial aid should be coming in sometime during the next month, so we can do the new computer thang. I keep pricing factory built machines so I can get the best deal so maybe I can get some extra software. (Photoshop would be very nice!) Hopefully with two more computers we can stop fighting over the one we have.

The only thing I wish for is a decent digital camera, but I doubt I’ll have that much money left over. Lately, I’ve been posting my photos to Deviant Art and I’m getting some pretty neat reactions. ^_^ They’re so old, though, that I don’t really have any of my notes for them anymore. It’d be so much easier to simply import photos from a camera than waste the time and money for development. This latest layout actually cost me money to make, which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Anyway, I should get off so Mom’s the one at the computer when Sheba calls. :-P