March Begins

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28F and sunny this afternoon.

I was up by 1PM today, and sat down to pay the bills, first thing, with my coffee.

Everything's paid, so I'm into March now!

But today there was only 3K in the bank on the 1st!.. compared to 5K last month, and 6K on January 1st.

So, the assumption that I made back in January, that I seemed to always have 6K left on the 1st... which was based on that having been the case for 3 months in a row... was in error!

I'm still determined to get into a 1BR as soon as possible, because that's only an extra two or three hundred a month... and I feel like I should be able to deal with that.

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5:21PM

Okay, I've been keeping track of the bills for a few years with a text file template, that has a cheklist of all the bills I need to pay, so I don't miss anything.

And in those text files, I put the bank balance at the top, then record what I paid to who, add that all up, and subtract it from the bank balance to see what I have left.

BUT, this month I've added something new, which is a spending log.

So... 31 line item entries where I'm gonna fill in every night what I spent that day.

This'll show me where my money's going, and over March & April I should be able to see what's really going on, and what's necessary to afford a 1BR here.

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Obviously every month $780.00 get's sucked up by PNC, and then AmEx has a massive minimum payment of $170.00.

So, by ditching them both... which I can do after I'm in the new unit, I'll instantly have 950 more dollars every month!

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In semi-related news, I decided to force myself to record vocals this afternoon, because I've been procrastinating about it for months!

And the main excuse has been, I don't want to bother the neighbors.

But I started to think this week, maybe that's just an excuse! The neighbors probably won't be home, or won't care. You're just being self conscious and making excuses!

So after the first part of this blog entry, around 2PM, I got all set up and started doing some vocals for Archeology the song.

And I shit you not!.. as soon as I started doing takes of the first line, a few times over... I stared to hear voices on the other side of the wall.

I ignored them, not wanting to be paranoid, and kept working on the vocals.

As I did, they got louder, and I started to hear a lot of laughing.

I was like, do not be paranoid!

And then when it came to recording the loudest part, where I belt out, "ACRHEOLOGY!.. FOR THE SAKE OF ME!"

Right after the first take of that, the neighbors all began to mock sing back to me the exact same tune!

Then they were laughing and mock singing and like, "La la la!... hahah!"

And So, mother fuck!

Not only could they hear me perfectly, but they were actually MAKING FUN of me!

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I forced myself to finish the last of the vocals, but holy fuck!.. how embarassing!

And now it's only 5:30PM, so I could easily get vocals down for a couple more songs before settling in to do the post production in headphones the rest of the night but... now I'm too humiliated to try!

But what kills me about this is that they're NEVER home on a Saturday afternoon like this!.. much less entertaining friends!

And I'm hearing noises from the other neighbor as well... like everybody's decided to just stay home today for some goddam reason!

So... I really DO need to get into an 07, if I want to ever get this album finished!

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