I find myself becoming incredibly frustrated with the concept of money. I throw myself into making a budget each week and also monthly, but the recent turn of events in my life that is preventing me from enjoying all this extra hard earned money is- my lawyer. I paid him 1,000 for the first month os his employment, this was supposed to cover the preliminary trial- that was cancelled. Now he hands me this beautiful piece of shit contract that states he would like a total of 4,500 by early February. At that rate, if I have 16 weeks to pay this off, I owe him 281 dollars a week. That's over two thirds of my paycheck. TWO FUCKING THIRDS. Needless to say I am slightly irritated with him. I could have a much better lawyer for that cost. So today I get to shop around for a new lawyer. FML. If they quote me the same thing, I'll keep my current one, if not I'm going to save myself a hell of a lot of money...which is supposed to be getting saved for a trip to Belize in May. :/
In other not so depressing news: I bought my first art pad thing..... er, canvas paper book thing. (Obviously I am not up to date on artist lingo, considering I am attempting to be artsy with my hands and not words for the first time since high school). I have a whole bunch on conceptual ideas I want to start working on with paint and the whole nine yards. I also bought these really nifty cross-stitch packs, because I'm a poor waitress/ barista. My family members are each getting one of these cross stitch things, so I can save money, and put some effort into the present.
What else? Poetry my dear friends, SO MUCH POETRY. What I'm looking forward to the most is planning two additional vacations for next year. These won't be able to be finalized until I get the verdict from circuit court. I don't know if I am allowed to travel in the off chance I would get pbj (for something I didn't do. Dammit). However, if all those things come together nicely after the trail date I can finalize a summer trip to nags head and a week and a half trip to new jersey for the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival in October of 2012. Budgeting is a wonderful thing.
So, specifically about poetry now: I am in the process of writing one- Holy Shit I finished it, never-mind! I will post in on here probably this weekend.
More excitingly is what I am going to do with the next series of poem I am endeavoring to write! I promise, if they turn out you will all greatly enjoy them! What I will tell you is that the pieces will be both artwork and poetry, and it is going to be super banging, hopefully
So yeah, if anyone has any advice about the lawyer issue I get to so joyfully get to deal with, I would appreciate some feedback on what I should expect/do about the situation.
Thanks for reading this! Hope everyone had a very happy halloween.