Making My Moolah!

Welcome back everyone to my ever fascinating blog. Lately I've been talking about my new position in the working community, and at least for the first paragraph I will continue to do so. I have made my first paycheck and have just gone out to cash it. I don't think I have ever made this much money on my own before. Surely with a lot of help from relatives around Christmas and birthday, but never $200.00 in the course of 2 weeks of working. It's a strange feeling that I've never had to deal with before. The idea that I could go out right now and start buying many of things that I've always wanted as a kid baffles me. The thought that I have the freedom to do such things is so foreign to me due to my reliance on the parents for so long.

With all of the new and odd things going on I began reminiscing of my past. More than anything I began to remember my former stepsister Bethany. I remembered my brother had her as a friend on Facebook so I decided to go and look for her. The first thing I find when I go looking for her account is this. I had heard that her mom wasn't all there, but this truly brought her situation to light. I was so out of touch with the rest of the events in the world that I didn't notice when this came up on the news. Remembering my old sister brought back memories of sneaking candy past the parents in our backpacks where we would hide it behind frame of her bed and the wall. The world doesn't turn around one person. My life has gotten much better since then but there is nothing that can replace the joy I experienced as a child back then.

Despite everything that happens to me I still manage to come back here to my blog. I have to say that I'm glad to have some kind of outlet from what I have to say. I think I might go insane if there weren't some way of getting my voice out. We all have opinions and I don't care who you are and what you say, you have something you wish to say. You want your mind out for the world to see how clever you are to find someone to relate to. A world alone inside your head is the darkest hell I could imagine for anyone. Trapped with myself forever would be terrifying. The incessant nagging and the knowledge of all of my own faults. It's people out there like you reading this now that make my life worth waking up for. Thanks for being there for the last 2 1/2 years.

 

The Epic Struggle

Hello everyone and welcome back. Despite the basis of this blog being based around home schooling, lately things have made a much steeper turn towards my new-found life in the working world. Lately things have become a juggling act of being able to keep up with my school work and the working world. I think that I have been doing very good of late since I haven't had another meltdown from the stress that I have become all to familiar with. A few small headaches and some really frustrating nights but nothing so horrible that I couldn't get over it with a good nights sleep.

On top of the average work load I need to keep up my debate within the school. I think debating is extremely fun and interesting as it requires you to go outside of your average comfort zone to go up against someone with conflicting ideals to yours. What other ways are you going to get that kind of adversity without traveling the world? The new resolution or idea for the Lincoln Douglas style of debate is whether or not minimum wage should be a living wage. Pretty convenient if you ask me. if you are considering my new job right before the subject. Either way, it will be really interesting to see people's opinion on whether or not it should be a living wage or not. I personally believe that it should be living for people over a certain age, but for someone my age who gets to save all of the money that he gets, no. It should be minimum wage for the average teenager looking for a job, but for the majority of people there should be some kind of security. Even if you work at Walmart.

Despite the new found responsibilities, it hasn't been that bad. I'm enjoying myself at least a little bit of late. The problem I find is the lack of time I have to do something in my free time due to other responsibilities. My weekends are not my own as well as my evenings and this was exactly what I was not looking forward to. I will get used to it, but it will not be done over night. I feel as if I've become ever distant from my friends as they continue to enjoy the time that they have and here I am trying to earn a paycheck. There is an obvious division in personality's between us in a good way, but lately it has been a little to noticeable for me. Things don't straighten themselves out, yet I don't even know if this a problem. Time will tell.

Not the Sick Day!!!

Welcome back everyone to another entry on my ever expanding blog. For the first time in the last eight years or so I have become sick during a school day. I would like to attribute at it is willpower or something equally manly but I can't quite pin down why. One of the best parts though is that it was possible for me to be in attendance for every test and never have to make up any work within the school day. Sadly I managed to get sick on the last day of the previous quarter which was for my finals. This means that I now have to fit in the makeup work in my now busy schedule. I can never truly stress just how much I hate sick days. They are awful and I would've gone to school either way if I was allowed to go. Too bad they kick you out of school if your throwing up.

Along with my random sick story, I have been slightly stressed out of late. This is due to the finals that I have missed on my sick day along with my new job. I have the job and it is not going to be too easy for me to keep. I know that everything is going to test me with new problems to throw my way. Things I was thinking that I wasn't prepared for. I will stay strong under the duress of new events and be thankful for what I have because despite the stress, I know that this will pan out in the end.

Despite all of this, I'm optimistic. The reason is that I now have money to be used for whatever purpose that I want! That's the stuff that I put to the side outside of the money for the car. It is really good to have some kind of freedom. Whether that is freedom to leave the house to a location over a mile away or the monetary freedom that comes with having a solid paycheck. I don't think that I say it often enough but I'm lucky to have a family such as this.