So in a moment of panicked realization, I decided that I simply wasn't going to stress myself out with the demands of full-time when I knew I couldn't handle it. It wouldn't be fair to the company I'm temping for and it wouldn't be fair to me. So I got in touch and explained I simply realized how much I could realistically commit time-wise and offered up the option of either 3 full-time days (giving me two week days plus the weekend off) OR five, four-hour days. I got home this evening to a message saying that 9am - 1pm Monday - Friday would be perfectly fine with them. Yeah! I was so ready to throw in the towel and expected they'd end up saying nevermind completely, but they agreed and so I feel a hell of a lot better now. *whew* One less stress in my life.

On the other side of the coin, bad news is that we got turned down for our second choice of apartment. Dammit. Now we have no idea what to do. The first place wanted a really high deposit and the second place said that we didn't have enough "current lines of credit" to qualify. Let me get this straight. Because we aren't in debt and because we don't spend more then we have on credit cards, we don't qualify? What kind of shit is that?! So, now we're thinking of trying to go back to the original place afterall, and finding a way to raise the deposit. Oy. Life is never simple.

Today we went to a cool art show and walked around for an hour or so. Nice stuff. I was really surprised at the quality of items they had. After that, we got some food and then had a bunch of errand shopping to do (like get cat food and paper towels, etc.). Just got back in and had a generally nice - if not COLD - day. It only got into the low 50's today and once the sun went down, it got even colder. Even when the sun was up, the wind had a really sharp bite to it. It was in the 70's yesterday, so it was quite a drop in temperature.

Had a really great mail day today. Couple Changeling items I ordered (trying to complete my collection!) came in AND a really nice surprise from Edo as well! I totally wasn't expecting that! She sent a lovely peach soap, a warm vanilla sugar lotion (mm...I love that scent!), a perfume sample, and two lovely angel postcards! Thank you so much! Then, if that wasn't enough, I got my first card of the season, from the lovely Dawna. (Psst: Your card - with a small surprise - went out, er...yesterday. I'm making all my cards so they're going out in batches. More will follow.)

Let's see...oh yeah. Speaking of presents, I was reading Ruthie's journal today and she linked to a cool site which I just emailed to join. It's called I Wish You Wish and it's a collection of blogger's wish lists. Silly but neat. :)

Er....think that's it for now. Ta.

~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream at 12/6/2003 08:48:32 PM ~ ~