I feel bad for not updating as much as I have needed to as of late. I know you guys hang on my every word and love hearing every sordid detail of my life so I almost feel as if I’m neglecting you. :P Kidding. Anyway, a lot has happened. To quote Ferris Bueller (yes, I’m totally doing it) “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.” This quote both has something to do with my journal entry and in part, is just there because it popped in my head and sounded like a fun little introduction to me.

To make this easier on all of us, I’m thinking that categories are needed in order to explain what is going on in some sort of clear and logical matter. They are listed in no matter of importance seeing how I don’t want to talk about most of them but I find that talking about it sometimes is the only way I can see things clearly. Plus, this is my life. It will always be my life, and I want it recorded. So, here it goes, get ready for a long post. Eat popcorn if you must.
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The government is taking about 130 dollars from me a month!!! WTF? I dont' want them to have my money. That money is over a months worth of groceries for me while I'm in England. I shouldn't have to pay them that. Yeah yeah. I know I get a good eighty percent of that back, but I want my other twenty percent they're taking from me as well! And I want it all now. *whimpers* I don't know how I'm ever going to get ten thousand before March. I'm working my ass off in this shop but I know it's never going to be enough. It's so frusterating, and to get my first paycheck and see it drop a significant amount of money since I'm now working less hours, and see that a good portion is then taken out for taxes... I guess it both aggrivates me and at the same time, is sending me into a panic. I need to win the lottery. That's my solution.

Alright, I know its time for me to enter the world of tax paying citizens. But I liked working under contract before and not having to pay out any money from my paycheck. It was nice. I want to do that again. I was walking away with about a thousand a month just last month. Now? Now, with taxes taken out and less work as it is, I'm walking away with five hundred... if I'm lucky.

It was an interesting night for me, full of things that I really did not expect. I went back to my old high school for the Mr. Billies pageant. A few of my friends were involved in it so I promised that I’d go and see them. Since they cheered me on last year, it was only fair that I went and cheered them on this year. But, by going back to this old town that literally scares me when I enter it since it seems to be the source of where things went wrong for me, I was once again faced with people that have hurt me and ones that I really thought I wouldn’t be able to handle seeing. But I did and I actually surprised myself with how mature I was about the situation.
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