Current mood:

up and down

Good news, bad news, good news, bad news...
Well, so far, MY scooter hasn't arrived. On the bright side, though, I found a local dealer who has even better prices (if not lower quality scoots) and got a scooter for Derrek. Which I will be keeping for myself until he pays me for it. :3 That should give me enough time to get the one I ordered. It's a nice scooter, all black and purty and shiny with big 16" wheels. Riding it home was AWESOME. We also took it apart over the weekend, cleaned it up, made sure everything was in good order, adjusted a few things to make it run better, etc. As soon as the rain clears up, I'll be riding it to work.

Yes, I was planning on riding it rain or shine, but I have an ulterior reason for not riding in the rain: I just got over being sick. Had the call center bug-of-the-month, which left me exhausted, woozy, feverish, and sniffly-sneezy-coughy. I finally broke my fever on Sunday, and Monday was spent sleeping and recovering, and I'm still feeling a bit weak from it all. So I'm going to wait until I feel 100% before I make cold, wet rides to and from work.

Work is doing well, by the way. Somewhat. My quality scores have dropped from being perfect, due mostly to two calls that had to have been the WORST two calls of my entire month, which were coincidentally the two calls they picked to listen to and score. Otherwise, I've been working hard on getting better at my calls, and I also got to do some job shadowing for a position which, I have decided, I MUST HAVE. So I didn't call in for any of my days of being sick, and I'm gonna work hard at being better in my scores, and I'm going to do everything I can to get into that team!

Financially, money is GONE. I had enough money for the scooter, just fine, I had budgeted for that, but all the little things that came up after it, well, THOSE have robbed me of money. The little things needed for the weekend maintenance on the scooter (including a few things I didn't need but which wound up in my basket anyhow, wtf). Gas money for friends to come visit and money for going out to eat to be sociable and pretend I'm not a total hermit. The pet deposit, which was $100 more than we thought. Groceries, which are on my head because the roomies are usually too broke to buy. (Yes, Derrek, I'm including you in that statement.) And of course, the usual monthly bills, which this month had to come out of the same check as rent.

And of course, with all my money gone, here come the holidays, with Thanksgiving dinner to buy, and tickets to purchase to go see family for Xmas, and presents to get, and vacation days to take (which I may not have enough vacation time to cover the holidays, so that will cut my finances worse)...

Thank goodness they're giving out quarterly bonuses soon.

EDIT: Oh wait, rumor has it there's not going to be a bonus for this quarter. Well... Now what?