The Michael Swayne Story V: King of his Castle

Long time, no write!

I have not been busy. I have not visited the site often. I have not done much of anything.

Work is the same as always. Kind of. The chain on my bike broke apart, and I'm using Carma's mountain bike until I finish paying off the ones I've been making payments on for the last few months. I bought a messenger bag to help me on my route. It is blue, and smaller than my old one. It works.

Work with Larry had stagnated. One week, I'll work every possible day. The next, I may not work at all. I use the money I get from Larry to put into my savings account, and the Messenger money goes for the checking account. So, now that the Money Saving Challenge amounts each week continue to increase, I am worried that the work with Larry will continue to lessen. All I can do is continue to put as much money into the savings each week to put myself ahead enough to not worry as much. And now that I'm not having to spend as much in my monthly bills, I can use that to help in the savings account department. My checking account tends to stay at around $25 or less, but the savings account is now over $1,000. So, I am halfway to my goal in my money saving challenge, and halfway to my goal amount for the move to Florida.

Speaking of Florida, the move may still be happening. And what's more, Autumn is not coming back until May, or maybe never. I applied for public housing assistance back when I thought she would be coming back. But now I am waiting on it to go through or for the move to occur. I don't want to stay here forever, but I also don't want to miss an opportunity at bettering my life. So, I'm waiting.

I finally got in touch with Wal-Mart about my Schwinn bike, as well as the Huffy I recently broke. Their online support claim system has gotten so much better. I didn't have to provide copies of the receipts of the bikes, and send them via UPS to Wal-Mart. I was given eGift Cards almost immediately in the amounts of the bikes. Now, as I am already getting new bikes, I don't really have plans for the money I got. I looked at video games, and found $200 worth that I want. But that is a bit crazy for me to spend. So, I'm going to hold onto them for a while. Mom says to save them for after Thanksgiving.

The new laptop I ordered came in last week. And, it won't turn on. So, I called them and they are replacing it. That's cool!

I have purchased quite a few games. Quite a few. Mainly digital copies, but also a physical copy of the PSP version of Final Fantasy Type-0. I bought it because I thought I could use it as a learning tool for Japanese. And because it is a Final Fantasy game. Other purchases include Russian and Icelandic languages textbooks. Just because, you know.

Joey's in 2nd Grade now. It's the 3rd week of school. He seems to be doing well in school, according to what I see him bring home.

Well, that's about it for now. I will try and do a more in-depth update soon. So, until then...

Later!

Michael