3.2.13 March Madness

3.2.13

March Madness

Heya, well its officially march. Its been a while since I last wrote. I guess I have been getting settled in and into the swing of things. Instead of march 6^th being my last day, we agreed to extend my contract until the 15^th. I will drive back to vegas the next early morning so Cyn and I are able to go to the Maroon 5 concert that night. I didn’t tell her yet, but I bought the tickets last year in October. It’s going to be her early birthday present. Last weekend I drove to Reno and finally got to go to a mall. It was nice to be back in diversity and “a city life.” Walked around the mall and then bought sweat pants from JC Penny. Hung out at Barnes and Noble, bought an awesome book A Thousand Splendid Suns and had some Starbucks. Went to Best Buy for a portable Verizon wifi/mifi connector thingy. I bought $60 worth of wifi and within a day, I apparently already used up over 75%!! So thought I could use the internet more, but for that much money…nope. Work had been alright, happy to have a job and the patients and staff have been nice. I asked mom if they wanted to fly up to Vegas for my birthday since Cyn will be flying back home for the majority of April. She said they’ll think about it. Mom said she was thinking about a family Disneyland trip in the early summer. So we’ll see what pans out. I just interviewed yesterday after work with a facility in Paradise, California which is in Nor Cal. It would only give me a week in Vegas to get everything done. Part of me wishes that I could take a couple weeks break to breathe and hang out in Vegas doing per diem jobs. Another part of me is scared to not have another position lined up because I don’t ever want to be unemployed and broke again. I need to focus on saving and paying off my debts. Trying to keep in mind that I will probably move back home sometime. My dream would be to live in Hawaii part of the year and here in the mainland. That would be an ideal life. Spend holidays with family and friends, but also have the opportunities and experiences that are only here. And then you can always switch it up by spending the holidays up here somewhere new. It just gets hard traveling all over with finding an apartment, unpack and settle in, and then have to pack up and deal with the inspections after only a few months. It would be a nice change to have a stable and permanent place to come home to everyday. I feel like as of now that Vegas is my home. But if I choose to do another travel assignment then I’m back to packing things up again. I don’t even know what Cyn’s plans are from here on out. She’s finished with her externship at the end of the month. Her graduation is in early May and then her plans are unknown. All I really have is my bed. Not sure how I would move it since my car is so small and that’s really all I would want to bring. Since it was pretty cheap, I would probably just leave it there or let Cyn give it away. I sometimes think of my apartment studio in Makiki. I had not much, but it was my own home. It was comfy and enough for me. Lanai, parking spot, pool, secured building, only a couple neighbors, and a short walk to work. Family was only a 15-minute drive away. I do miss that. Can’t believe its been almost a year since I moved to Vegas. My whole life from being stable now has become nothing short of adventurous. Vegas, San Jose, Sacramento, Modesto, Sonoma, Monterey and Carmel, Boston, Cape Cod, San Francisco, Torrance, Tahoe, Fallon, and Reno. Places I’ve visited or stayed in. Of course, Hawaii as well. I wonder if it would be possible to live a life in Hawaii and a life here in the mainland. Not the easiest or simple. Living in the mainland would probably tend to be cheaper. I could buy a condo or small home to stay in when I’m here. Keep a cheap car in the garage to get around. Buying a place in Hawaii would be more costly. Would have to be an apartment or a home that was on the West side of Oahu. If I were wealthy and had money to spend, I would buy a place in Hawaii and on the mainland. It might be nice to live outside of town, but that drive would be horrendous. Def not because of the distance, but the crazy traffic. Like my patient, Charlie, would say, “where there’s a will, there’s a way!” That would be a lot of hard work, but how would it work with my job. It’s not like I can just pack up and say that I’ll be back in a couple months. If I were a writer I could do it because then I could write wherever. I can spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family. And then maybe New Years in Hawaii or on the West Coast. I still haven’t been to Oregon or Washington and I think I would like it there. It does get cold though. Maybe San Diego is a nice compromise of weather: sun, cold, beaches, and food. I always thought that I’d enjoy the cold weather and I do, just not for long periods of time. Maybe if we kept our apartment warmer it wouldn’t be such a drag to go out in the cold.

So anyways, I have 10 more days of work and 14 days left in Fallon. If I didn’t extend, it would only be 3 more days of work. Crazy fast. I do think it was really worth it to stay an extra week and a half for $1500 more in my bank account. I paid $400 for rent for March 1 to 16. Not bad. I have $700 for my deposit, they need to take out my utilities for the 5 weeks and the cleaning costs. So I’m expecting about $400 to $500 to be returned. I still need to return a grand that el let me borrow and I owe Cyn $300 for the July concert tickets and for my portion of the utilities in Vegas. And I need to pay rent for March and April. Gosh, I feel like I have so many bills. I really need to cut down my payments for my car insurance. And then I pay for my medical. And my school loan. Life as an adult…why the heck did I want to grow up when I had it so good as a child?! Haha. I do think that even though its hard, I prefer life as an adult. =)