Hi Susan,
This sounds good. I am available for all of the dates listed but as requested my session preferences are:
1.Mar 22, 23 (Mon, Tue)
2.Mar 18, 19 (Thu, Fri )
3.Mar 16, 17 (Tues, Wed)
Thanks,
Summer
Friday, March 05, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Almost there!
$450!
Working at the Arlington location is a big boost to the Moving Fund. $60 yesterday, $55 today. Of all the things I miss from Addison (and I miss them all, trust me OMGIMISSADDISON) I do not miss the $20-$40 I would go home with on a week night. I'm actually looking forward to work tomorrow... Alice in Wonderland in 3D is coming out and I'll (hopefully) make the big bucks in Arlington that Addison always promised but never delivered.
I'm hoping to save MINIMUM $600 by the time I have to move. $1000 would be awesome for gas/food/buffer, but $600 is enough.
It's getting a little better at the new location. The people are sweet and have a good sense of humor. They're a younger crowd and a preppier one. The location is run a whole lot better and the work is easier because of it. But I would trade in a second... I miss my Addison friends :(
Something that Arlington affords me, though, is a safe haven to think. I started getting mad today. The situation with Him, when you step back and look at it from an outsider's perspective, was a crappy one. The Summer who gives relationship advice to her friends ("don't let him treat you like that", "you deserve better", etc) surfaced today and screamed bloody murder at me. The anger hit me hard.
I am still a little hesitant to embrace it. Angry Summer is not Logical Summer (I don't think I've been thinking logically lately anyway). I'm just scared of what this feeling could bring. What's the better evil - to lie around in sorrow or to walk through life in hate?
Working at the Arlington location is a big boost to the Moving Fund. $60 yesterday, $55 today. Of all the things I miss from Addison (and I miss them all, trust me OMGIMISSADDISON) I do not miss the $20-$40 I would go home with on a week night. I'm actually looking forward to work tomorrow... Alice in Wonderland in 3D is coming out and I'll (hopefully) make the big bucks in Arlington that Addison always promised but never delivered.
I'm hoping to save MINIMUM $600 by the time I have to move. $1000 would be awesome for gas/food/buffer, but $600 is enough.
It's getting a little better at the new location. The people are sweet and have a good sense of humor. They're a younger crowd and a preppier one. The location is run a whole lot better and the work is easier because of it. But I would trade in a second... I miss my Addison friends :(
Something that Arlington affords me, though, is a safe haven to think. I started getting mad today. The situation with Him, when you step back and look at it from an outsider's perspective, was a crappy one. The Summer who gives relationship advice to her friends ("don't let him treat you like that", "you deserve better", etc) surfaced today and screamed bloody murder at me. The anger hit me hard.
I am still a little hesitant to embrace it. Angry Summer is not Logical Summer (I don't think I've been thinking logically lately anyway). I'm just scared of what this feeling could bring. What's the better evil - to lie around in sorrow or to walk through life in hate?
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
3 decades is a long time
So I did the math. To pay off $80,000+ in debt/loans on a $40k/yr salary with bare minimum rent/gas/food/utilities and no fun/life/shopping at all, it would take me 30 years. 30 years. Daunting.
I am not comfortable planning the next 30 years of my life.
That is longer than I have lived.
And I sure as hell know I wont last a week on bare minimum. A girl's got to live a little, no? So this is not going to work. But that's ok. First order of business in loving yourself and having more confidence is accepting who you are. Therefore I, Summer Berdin, accept that I will go out and have fun and be happy at the expense of paying off my financial woes in a timely matter. And as part of that acceptance, I promise to:
1. stay responsible and pay my loan payments first
2. stop worrying about having credit/loan debt
3. use my education to further my money making opportunities, and put all those extra monies towards loan payments
Not bad, eh? Now all I gotta do is start making that $40k a year again.
P.S. I looked him up on the internet. His processing photo is heartbreaking. There is something in his eyes that looks so sad. I couldn't sleep at all last night. He could be an amazing man - he just needs to have faith in himself again.
I am not comfortable planning the next 30 years of my life.
That is longer than I have lived.
And I sure as hell know I wont last a week on bare minimum. A girl's got to live a little, no? So this is not going to work. But that's ok. First order of business in loving yourself and having more confidence is accepting who you are. Therefore I, Summer Berdin, accept that I will go out and have fun and be happy at the expense of paying off my financial woes in a timely matter. And as part of that acceptance, I promise to:
1. stay responsible and pay my loan payments first
2. stop worrying about having credit/loan debt
3. use my education to further my money making opportunities, and put all those extra monies towards loan payments
Not bad, eh? Now all I gotta do is start making that $40k a year again.
P.S. I looked him up on the internet. His processing photo is heartbreaking. There is something in his eyes that looks so sad. I couldn't sleep at all last night. He could be an amazing man - he just needs to have faith in himself again.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Hello Again, Blog
I wish I wrote in you more. I really do. A classmate of mine at MIU, Juan Pena, once told me, "If you want to gain confidence in yourself keep a journal. And write in it, everyday."
I would like to gain confidence. Lots of it. But that's not necessarily why I want to start writing in you again. It's just big things keep happening in my life - big joys, big successes, HUGE mistakes - and if I wrote in you more I'd be able to go back and learn from it all. For example, since the last time I wrote in you I
- produced a feature length documentary
- took part in a company uprising
- started/helped start 2 independent businesses (failed at one)
- produced a reality tv pilot
- failed desperately at 2 serious relationships
- became a waiter
- traveled everywhere
- met (and worked with) many brilliant, unique people
- went to SXSW and Carnaval twice
- experienced the birth of my 4th neice
- played soccer for the first time! (FAIL)
- did motivational speaking twice to underprivileged teens
- had the worst. haircut. ever.
Sad, right? You missed all that, and probably more that I've already forgotten.
I really, really should write in you more.
I would like to gain confidence. Lots of it. But that's not necessarily why I want to start writing in you again. It's just big things keep happening in my life - big joys, big successes, HUGE mistakes - and if I wrote in you more I'd be able to go back and learn from it all. For example, since the last time I wrote in you I
- produced a feature length documentary
- took part in a company uprising
- started/helped start 2 independent businesses (failed at one)
- produced a reality tv pilot
- failed desperately at 2 serious relationships
- became a waiter
- traveled everywhere
- met (and worked with) many brilliant, unique people
- went to SXSW and Carnaval twice
- experienced the birth of my 4th neice
- played soccer for the first time! (FAIL)
- did motivational speaking twice to underprivileged teens
- had the worst. haircut. ever.
Sad, right? You missed all that, and probably more that I've already forgotten.
I really, really should write in you more.
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