today i found out how much i'm going to get for my first commission check. this is supposed to be the small one, since i just started last month and was in training, etc. it's $470. woot! i'll be drivin a big clunker car around in no time... believe you me.
i'm also workin my ass off doing these transcriptions. i just worked a full day at work and then came home and typed for six hours. i'm exhausted. but it feels good to know that i just made the equivalent of about $250 just tonite. the only weird thing is that it is so freaking cold in our apartment. it makes it hard to type. i already have bad circulation in my fingers, and they are cold all the time, but just sitting here typing for hours on end in what feels like a meat locket doesn't help.
at least i'm not in the basement anymore. it's great that our apartment stays cooler on the bottom two levels (actually, cooler is an understatement) but it's horrible for what i'm doing. if i put on slippers my feet slip off the pedals of my transcription machine. and if i put on gloves, i can't type even half as fast. i'm considering cutting out the fingers on some gloves and trying that. i do feel dumb wearing long sleeve shirt and pants and slippers and gloves when it is 80 degrees outside. this house rocks so much :o)
our dry run for the big housewarming party went pretty well this weekend. we managed to get eight cars packed into the driveway and i think we could probably squeeze in another 2 or so. the only problem is that you have to stack them in, which makes it a bitch for people leaving. but everyone loved the house, and it has a good flow to it, and lots of different areas to hang out in. chuck actually brought up whether we would have the christmas party here this year. apparently josh says the other place may not be a gimme anymore because they are selling the complex. it's too early to worry about it, but how parties go in the mean time will definitely have some bearing on it.
the other thing is that i've been throwing my trash into a dumpster for so long that i forgot what it's like to have a trash day. we missed our first one and now we have assloads of trash (mostly pizza boxes and beer bottles oddly enough). huey says all the trash has to be in the can for the guys to take it. i'm thinking we might have to make a late night run to a dumpster in the near future to get rid of anything that doesn't fit in the can. we pay an extra $8 a month for our trash guys to walk up the driveway and pick up our trash. i know that sounds lazy, but if you saw our driveway you would understand. i had forgotten you have to pay people to do your trash. it's weird having a sanitation bill.
speaking of weird things you forget... apartments have taken a funny toll on me. the other day i was driving home from work through a neighborhood and all the mailboxes looked funny. then i realized what it was. most of them had the little flags up. and it took me the entire drive home to figure out why the mailboxes had those little red flags anyway. duh. the things you forget.
seeing how used to apartment living i am... i could easily see how someone who grew up with a silver spoon up there ass would be surprised or confused at having to do things themselves. you just don't know how and forget that there are other ways that things are done. well, no, on second thought... those people need to get out there and do shit for themselves. spoiled bastards.
