Goings on

We’ve not quite decided on the house yet. We put down a deposit to keep it for now and we received the lease but we’re still considering. It’s been such a stressful situation for all of us, because of how big of a decision it is. I’m tired of big decisions. Ever since August it feels like I’ve been making them every single month.

No one ever told me how hard graduating and moving on from school would be, and I feel sort of betrayed. Everyone said how weird it was to go to college and I felt almost prepared for that. This, though. This is different. My mum keeps saying, “Welcome to the real world,” but it’s the real world on a student salary, with a student mindset, and I have known nothing else outside of what I see when I stand on the corner of Speedway and 24th Street. School.

So I’m not sure what to do right now. And even though we got the lease Friday night they’re already sending us reminders to sign it.

I wish everyone would stop talking about the economy. Talking about how bad it is can only make things worse, because everyone gets terrified and then they don’t spend money and right now the best thing everyone can do is act like everything is normal. But it’s like you can’t even read a decorating magazine or an article about bunnies without hearing about it. It’s enough to make you scream, especially for a “just-getting-out-of-school-20-something.” It’s as if people are obsessed.

It’s raining for the first time in a long time. Hot and rainy is the weather for today. Hot and rainy and therefore disgustingly humid, but it’s the first time we’ve had rain in awhile.

Tomorrow is J’s and my one year anniversary.

I’m not one to sit and mope these days. But sometimes you just need a weekend to be a bit bummed out about how fast your life is moving.

February 9, 2009 @ 9:10 am .

Culture — Tags: bad luck, Future, the world

5 Comments »

1. I think you should have danced in the rain. That sounds like fun.

   I am really excited for you about the house, but then again I am thinking from the mindset of having a place of your own to decorate by yourself and not the mindset of taking care of yourself and having to pay for it all. I think you’ll do fine though. Hey! You know one thing that’ll be really good to do rather than worrying about the economy? Buy local as often as you can. I don’t know if you do that already, but it’s a good way to keep money in your own local economy and boost it up.

   Comment by Stephanie — February 10, 2009 @ 11:59 am

2. I KNOW! I get really frustrated because every single time I watch the news:
   4000 people have been laid off at ___
   And ____ is laying off 10% of its full-time employees today
   And as a result of that, it’s sister company _____ is about to lay off all its part-time workers.

   And what are people doing? Holding on to their money and not spending it. This isn’t helping at all!

   Anyway, I hope the whole transition into the “real world” will get better for you. I know it must be really stressful right now but I bet that in a few months you’ll look back and everything won’t seem so bad anymore

   Comment by Felisa — February 12, 2009 @ 2:35 am

3. i know what you mean. and i agree. they always hype up bad news though and they always remind us we’re in a recession and lala when weve been in a recession for about 2 years so its just about of hoolala.

   Comment by claire — February 12, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

4. I agree with you about the economy. It’s driving me a little bit crazy too.
   Congratulations on your anniversary!

   Comment by Holly — February 15, 2009 @ 4:28 am

5. It’s quite scary graduating into a reccession! I’m just hoping everything’ll be okay.

   It takes me about 20 minutes to get to Liverpool city centre on the train

   Comment by Helen — February 19, 2009 @ 5:05 am

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