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Let's start with the loan stuff.

I got a co-signer. A lovely and caring woman who was willing to put her financial status on the line for me and mine....

The day I get the conformation from this wonderful wonderful woman....I find out that this particular credit card company "doesn't do settlements"....so my whole plan is now shot to hell and I am stuck making the month payments til it is cleared up. At least I have the money and am in the right mind to do so. It should take a little over 2 years maybe less if I work hard.

As for my mom, I let her know...that is about all I can do for her right now. I could still use the co-signer for a car loan and get full coverage but that would push back my getting out of debt quite a bit, and with the hella interest I am facing now, we both agreed to do it this way. She'll manage, I'll manage. Like mother like son.

Second on the agenda: moving...

So I'll begin moving in less than a week. I've already been packing. I can't believe I'm going through with this. No offense to Joe Joe, but Becky and I are....what?....a platonic couple, I guess. I this is probably the end, truly. She has even said she never come visit me. I could come see her. This would be easier if I had a cell phone. She call me to do stuff at least. And will see each other at work....probably plan to schedule lunches together....and then just never do. I don't know, it feels weird. On the one hand, I got a sweet little slice of the house all for me; space,...actually that is about it. Space. I'm trading this all up for space. God damn it, I'm so confused on how I feel about this. I mean I don't even think I'll have walls to separate me from the rest of the house. More like the illusion of walls, I think. I don't know. I asked Joe Joe to see these so called retractable walls. I really think this is gonna a be a deal breaker. And then I feel bad, cause he has gone to,....well not great lengths, but he has done some things to help me feel welcome. And it was all for me,...technically. I mean, now that it is done, he could really offer it to anyone. He is just so picky and everyone in his circle really want me to move in...somethings would be easier. A car. I would have a car and no longer share one with my mom and then have to sacrifice my weekends since I don't have a car. I need to talk to my therapist...if only I had time this week...

Which leads me to the last.

So I was able to finally document RBC's (red blood cells). Yes, I finally got a login....for 3 days. Then they ask me to come into the office and ask me to tell them how I do this process of creating, documenting, and storing RBC's. I so nervous. I thought I ruin like a whole days worth of RBC's. What turn out to happen is that since I have one foot in the paper work and the other in new high tech, integrated system, that is suppose to make everything easier, the fact that I can actually do the job that they finally allowed me to do was nowhere to be found in either system. So, ...I was productive for a whole 3 days. And man what a 3 days it was. On the last day we had near 600 units come in. An average is about 350 with a high volume day being about 520. So, 600 is huge. We never finish spinning and freezing the plasma on a 520 day,...never. On my last day of productivity. Not only did we finish spinning all 600 units, but we even finished freezing all 600 units. I was able to inspire the laziest person in the lab, by merely working my ass off, to be just as productive as I and my semi-trainer. We were all psych-ed and pumped. We were like, "now the morning crew has no reason to slack off on LR-ing (leukoreducing...filtering)." I get in the next morning...morning crew only did 100 units....that is bad...I talking way bad. Apparently we did so well, they thought they deserved a break....frelling morning shift. Then I find out I can't be productive anymore til they figure it out.

Ain't this some shit. So now I'm back to being lab-bitch. And in truth everyone I work with is just as pissed as me, cause the system is so frelled up that now someone who has been there for about 2 years also can't create RBC's. He can do everything else, just no creating....and guess who was partnered up with me tonight on spinning? Yup, so here are 2 guys, spinning blood, separating it, and then labeling it unprocessed cause we can't do shit with it. And now they have order me to do 6 hours of mandatory overtime before midnight on Friday....even though I can't do anything but be lab-bitch. And those tasks are done in like 2 hours max.

God damn, my life is slammin' ;)

Update-polluza

Okay, so still no login; which may be a little bit my fault seeing as how I was not a work 2 days last week. I took a few personal days. My great aunt died last week. Now I am the first to admit that I am a cold, heartless bastard. People die everyday. I care very little for the passing on of the populace in genral as well as family. I met this aunt, maybe twice in my life. However, upon rememberence of which relative it was I realized that a lot of happy memories surrounded this aunt. Them I started to accociate them with death and did not please me. Sort of like soiled underwear; ya know, when you just stand there and yell "Damn it." Well, I was not about to let some joyous childhood memories to become soiled underwear. So I took a few days off, got a lot done, then went to the funreal. Stay for the wake, upon which I did not socialize but did serve food. All in all, although a somewhat askew way to resolve the grieveing process, I came out with childhood intact. Teach her to try to soil my underwear.

Moving on. I plan to move out around the 1st of March. Money problems will be sort of resolved and sort of tight still. I came up with an ingenius plan, after being shot down for a car loan about 5 times. So I can't buy my car back unless I have a co-signer. Okay, done. Now I can't have a car loan until I get full coverage and now I can't have the 5K signature loan, which we plan to get as well, even with the co-signer. Well, here is the problem. With payments of 300 to one card, 25 to the second, 15 to the third, 200 in student loans, 250-300 in rent, getting full coverage on top of 185 for the car loan is a bit much. Well, I know what your asking. Why try for the loan in the first place. Well the 5g's was to bring down the 300 payment card + what ever was left from the car loan. Now none of that can happen. Well, here is what I came up with. This one card is pretty much holding me back. So, I go to the loan agent, with my co-signer, while there I get the card company on the phone in order to settle my account. As long as I settle for less than 5k. I'm good. Then I have my co-signer and myself sign for the signature loan, of which will be 125 per month (if at 5k). That deletes the bad card. I spend the next few paychecks lowering my 15 card (which will have an interest of 25% in June). Then all I have is Student loans at 200, rent at 300, loan at 125, and card at 25. That is less than one paycheck, of which I get 2 a month. So around mid-June (which is the deadline I have from my mom). I should be sitting pretty enough to try for the car. (By the way, these payments have been the bane of my exsistance for who knows how long. So getting month bills down to one paycheck is unfelling believeible to me).

And on lighter news. I have found a new WoW addiction. Rappelz Epic III. It is free and not to bad. Controls kinda suck but other than that it is pretty cool. Not equipment based, not party based. Just simple hack and slash quests. A blacksmith that upgrades armor instead of buying new stuff, skills depend upon killing stuff for points to upgrade them. Money is virtually non-exsistant. The only drawback (of which I do not partake in) is if you want the uber gear you have to pay the website to buy it. This how they make there money. tons of kids want this cool cape or mask, or whatever so slap down a couple 20's to get. But what is cool is that you don't need to nor are forced to. It pretty much for show. Lag is bad in the towns though. In case the gamer out there are curious the website is www.gpotato.com. It takes like 3 hours to download and another 1 hour for updates. But pretty cool. Also, I don't feel bad about leaving for like a month and coming back to it because it isn't a life. It is just something to do for a few hours (Of which I have plenty of on the weekends since I have no transportation).

That will do for now.

A positive with thorns

My Computer is up and running again. It was the power supply. Somehow, it shorted out. I blame the Hrdy sisters. I don't know how they did it, but I have speculations. Since none that can be proven, I can't charge them for it. Oh well, you won this round Hrdy sisters.

But you'll never guess what happen today. I final got offically signed off on a few things at work today. There was lots of cheering and congradulatory affection. Then they asked to go ahead and start creating RBC's.

"I can't."

"Why?"

"I don't have a login."

"WHAT? You mean you have been standing around for two weeks."

"Yup."

"Why?"

"Everyone I asked said they were looking into it or mentioned something about BiTS (new computer system at Red Cross) and how things take time cause it is brand new."

"I told Skip and Yolanta about that 2 weeks ago."

"I know, I was there."

"I can't believe this. We spent all that time trying to get you signed off and this we forget."

"Yup."

"Well, I guess all I can do is.....look into it."

"Yup."

"Sorry."

"Yup."

Not exactly for word but mostly. This is what I deal with, everyday. It no wonder I spend as much time as I can in the computer lab studing. Well, break's over.

So....

Are people...like, dead. Out of the people on my blog list (which needs to be updated), 2 still blog. Aw well,...I hope the services rocked the ....well, whatever.

I'll be brief

So I got sign off on, like, three things I could do in the lab Friday. Now I have to wait for the paperwork to go through so that the company recognizes I can do these things and gives me my passwords. Funny thing is that the other trainee got sign off on the same thing I did and heard back in the same day that she was allowed to do these things. So now she is productive while I still clean everyone's mess. I'm not pissed about (though I should be) because I having a difficult time of it lately and it is good to come here and little responisblity right now. Especailly since I am mostly studing for more things I will eventually be signed off on. And there is the fact that the other trainee has been here for a month longer than I and finally getting signed off at the same time as I. I have a feeling that their rushing me through because: 1. I'm that good; 2. they need night help; and 3. their gonna switch the entire system in a little over a month. The system is getting a complete over haul and they are just being sure that I know the basics.

On a lighter note, they interviewed this girl to be in the componet lab (I know cause everyone gets a tour of the lab). I hope she gets it...cute red-head and all :).

My hours changed, moving has been put on hold again, there messing with my paycheck (which is now corrected, we'll see if it truly is by saturday), My computer is still busted, I'm a mess, my room is a mess, my place is a mess. I can't wait for them to put on 4 10-hour shifts. Still don't own my car yet, doing a lot of waiting....