an update...
Everything is well on the home-front, it seems. At least froma financial standpoint. I paid off SLCL the $15 & change i owed them so i have full access to the library again. I also paid off the $318 I owed STLCC for the Summer 17 course (that i dropped) and am on my way to taking on the $900-ish loan i have out through a government/private borrowing service and will start payments in April & do everything in my power to get approved for financial assistance for the Summer 18 class(es) at STLCC. I need to get a “good standing clearance letter” from this loan entity & when I do, i will have everything i need to get the Pell Grant (bc i'm always broke, haha). That will take down any and all barriers from a successful college experience & i will work towards the AAS or AA as fast as possible over the course of two years.
I informed my people of this (fam/case worker) & all is good.
Now i am having coffee & chillaxing on the WWW. Need to get the domains i bought mapped to the proper Websites. Doing that soon.
be back in a bit!
eyeglasses: ORDERED!
these are on their way out so i got the ones i looked at the other day. happy abt this purchase.
other than that....
not a damn thing going on other than writing. always writing. too much writing. always, all the time writing. it's all good.
OH & i paid SLCL back bc i was $15 overdue and now i can get books & whatnot again :D
anyway, be back in a bit!
domains & stuff...
....i bought litebytes.co as well as oleary.io (the latter for this blog :)) and i of course upgraded to write.as Casual & carrd.co....something or other. I'll call it Casual. So those are my Web services i wanted to pay for for the year & i am v happy i made those purchases. Still mulling over ideas for litebytes.co but i am thinking it will deal with writing (i am almost positive it will). Newsletters are pop as hell right now. Maybe that, too!
Anyway, tonight is a nice night in S St Louis County w/ fresh, warm air & a slight breeze. (i sound like a weatherman sometimes)
now, to buy or not to buy silver????
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this is a chill night but it is turning into a chillY one!
i know that tomorrow i have a lot of running around to do but as i do my budget (again) i realize that it is not as much running around as i had expected. which is probably a good thing. it is going to rain (i think) & it is overcast as fuck right now & that is not super-great, either, because i am not sure if it will clear.
long story short: i am ordering a shitload of shit online tonight and i need to do the shipping As Fast As Possible bc i am very impatient (unfortunately). there is also a possibility of me getting the domain i want + possibly paying for ProtonMail Premium but the latter is still undecided. it is not a matter of IF i will get it, but WHEN. It is a worthy service that is beautiful, safe & secure. I love it! #fuckGoogle
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hey! look! a blog post on my reg blog! :P
this RPi is about to bite the dust i think. it is always lagging & being shitty on Google Chrome (or Chromium) & even the lightest of websites do not like to load at all. Of course i can fix this by ordering a fucking nice Chromebook tonight & not bother w/ such issues, but i am cheap. Anyways, i have been updating the offline Pi Journal Vol.1 for quite some time now & on Twitter i have been linking to write.as posts but only from the anonymous blog version (bc there is no way to log into a regular blog on the Android app). So there's that.
I have nothing to really say bc all of this journaling/blogging/writing bullshit is for my own amusement and so i can document this and that if i like & save it on a flash drive or some shit later and i already poured out a lot of thoughts and words in my offline journal so there isn't a whole hell of a lot to say atm. Oh well.
Today is a good day. Tomorrow will be, too. And many days after.
Be back in a bit!
home sweet home
laundry is done. bought veggies, pasta & a variety of organic teas. threw out all-possible animal products. now i am about to make green tea (w/ acai) & maybe listen to some music. good times here, friends. good times.
fuck. dairy.
i had too many meals that involved eggs over the past 48 hours. they are a disgusting “food” (not really a food) and i am so fucking grossed out by them. i had some left over and i just threw them in the garbage bin outside of my apt. i also felt v sick over the past 48 hours not just to my stomach but psychologically as well. Not because i had food poisoning (i didn't eat that many) but because since i am a healthy vegan (90% of the time) the eggs really fucked with me. dairy fucks with me as well when i eat it. i haven't had meat in almost four years and if i were to eat it, i would probably die. i do not plan on eating eggs or dairy ever again. What i am going to do is buy a bunch of tea & fruit at the store later on (coffee can go to hell too. too dehydrating) and i am going to try to eat as many raw foods as possible in the near (& probably distant) future. i really do not like cooked food very much and tho i am v sick of rice and pasta, it helps stretch the food budget a little bit (& it's vegan). Vegan spaghetti, vegan stir fry's w/ a lot of veggies, these types of things tend to get me by. But i am going to decrease the amount of food i eat and try to do: A) mono meals of fruit, & B) one meal per day of either rice & veggies, or pasta & vegan spaghetti sauce. To hell with burning through food and getting sick of it. I am not “dieting” in any sense of the word, i just feel that at this time of my life (really the past year) i have been consuming far too many calories. Definitely more than what is required by a nutritionist for healthy weight maitenance. But i am also going to start getting in walk because it is warm(er) out and when the weather is nice is when i get in exercise.
so anyway, that is about all for now. Be back in a bit!
time to get/be wired
i just had a 1L Dt Mt Dew. Now i am making v bold coffee. So tonight is/and will continue to be, a good night :D
I think i am going to read a little bit of “Fight Club” later bc i am on Ch.3 and the book seems to be p friggin' good so far, and, yeah. Great read.
i am also looking for more longform to read so any suggestions would be good (if you happen to be reading this (i'm @olearytm on twitter)
every evening i seem to think about what to possibly spend this upcoming $600 on and every evening i am baffled on what i would even want to spend it on. it will be some impulsive thing at the last minute. it'll be something(s) cool though.
i am not going to worry too much about writing tonight but more so on reading, i think. both of these abilities/skills are equally important, but for me, reading seems to be something i am delinquent in and i want to “catch” up on all the terrific longreads that have been put into the world in recent weeks.
be back in a bit!
i think it is tattoo time
i racked my brain last night trying to think of things i “need” and i came to the conclusion that i don't NEED very much. i have all the material possessions i need (for now, things change).
so i think a tattoo is in order when i get paid in about one week's time. i am going to finish up the collar piece tattoo that i already have going because, let's face it, i do not want to have an incomplete tattooon my chest for the rest of my life.
i can go to Steel & Ink Tattoo in S St Louis County and just do a walk-in, i think. So this is a v good thing.
be back in a bit!
Nicotine lozenges: RECIEVED!
Thank Dog! I really needed these bad boys as i literally just spit out my last piece of nicotine gum on my walk back from BP when i bought my soda. Feeling better now that i have these. About time to take a frreshhhh to death showa & contemplate what to do w/ the rest of my Saturday.
Also, i am on the fence (as i knew i would be) on which phone to buy next month. Either it will be an iPhone 7 or a BlackBerry KEYone. I would be pleased as punch with either one and both of them are about the same price and both have the same storage and everything about both phones are good so....idk. LOL!
all i know is that i submitted “Metro” to a literary magazine (online magazine) & i really hope they decide to publish what i sent them. I also have an incredible pitch written for a story that i want to write about a number of “techie” things and i am going to continue my search for people to pitch it to. Need to build that resume!
So i am feeling p good this afternoon. You?
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