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The past two weeks (warning: crazy as hell...)
13 years ago
The past two weeks, in detail...
-Last week...
*Got a 2003 Hyundai Accent on Tuesday. Parents paid cash for it, $4,300. Had 118K miles on it.
*On Wednesday night, my friend Lewis and I were talking about an apartment and set a time the next day to, after my first class, I would pick him up from his place (Lewis was sub-renting from his room-mate/best friends mother) and we would give it the look-through...
*Thursday morning, I called Louis and woke him up prior to my class. Sometime shortly after that, his friends mom, the true renter of the apartment Louis was sub-renting from, gave him until Sunday, because she wanted her daughter in there, basically kicking him out, this made the apartment chase more critical...
*Upon reaching the apartment after class, we realized that they have one three-room apartment up for grabs, to which, at the time, we had one known rival group to get it. 1,067 Sq. Ft. at $1,207 a month, with a minimum of three occupants on the contract.
*We spent the next several days finding, losing and looking for a third person. I discover that parents will not need me at the shop (I work for my parents at their electroplating company as the “everything man”), but that's a long story in itself that, other than the fact that I am now pretty much unemployed, is irrelevant to this matter. I took a picture of the now hiring sign in front of the New York Pizza Deli (N.Y.P.D.). They are going through a remodeling and are hiring servers, cooks and drivers. The only way to apply was to go to their Facebook and print out the two images of their application.
*We were supposed to get my new car, Vroom Vroom (VV), up to the mechanic for an oil change and a look-through on Friday, but that didn't happen and parent's postponed it until Monday. I set out and gathered applications from Pizza Hut and Papa Johns. Louis and I continued our vain search for a third person...
*Over the weekend, I go to Monster and Careerbuilder websites and update my profile and resumes, as well as set daily emails to employers seeking people. I also filled out the three applications and attached my new resumes to them. Louis and I continued our search for a third person, now having gone through 10 people, two of which having been a couple.
**Sometime on Saturday, I had taken Louis to my place and he, mom and I went over the contract for the apartment. Later that night, and by that I mean Sunday morning, I took Louis back to my place in VV, then grabbed several empty cardboard boxes and loaded up dads car and took Louis home so he can pack.
**On Sunday morning, I picked up Louis and filled the SUV to the brim with his... everything pretty much. Drove from what was no longer his apartment just down the street from Hidden, which is three miles from my place in Yorba Linda, to his moms house out in Buena Park. (The exact details of the weekend are fuzzy, because the weekend is technically one 48 hour day, am I right?) While all this was happening, mom had one of her customers over whom was interested in buying her 2001 Beamer Convertable (which has been sitting in the garage for over three years due to an accident Jess got it into, which we have gotten nothing from him other than a “ill help pay to fix it” nothing from him other than words has come our way.) She set AAA to flatbed tow it to the mechanic on Tuesday, giving me a responsibility post-class for that day.
-This week...
*On Monday, parents took VV, leaving their car, a 2006 Accura MDX SUV for me for the day. I drov around, depositing the application/resumes to the three pizza places. They returned with VV later that day. However, by the time they got home, I was already gone and picked up Louis from his moms house out in Buena Park so he can make it to work (I am now his official driver it seems :P ) VV had a complete oil change, as well as replace a broken axle.
*On Tuesday, everything finally seemed normal until I noticed a HUGE, and I mean 4X3 feet fresh oil stain right under where my car was. I didn't notice this until I had gotten home from class. I parked out on the other side of the street and phoned mom at work, to which she smartly advised me to not drive it again. AAA came, but they wanted moms ID card, which they failed to tell her she needed to leave it with me. So they pretty much wasted everyone's time that day. Mom rescheduled the tow for the next day, as well as scheduled a tow for VV to get this oil problem fixed.
*Wednesday. Same guy from Tuesday came and we gave him cash to tow moms car. About 20 minutes after that, VV got towed. It turns out that something to do with the replacement of the axle caused a massive leak or something. The transmission was also clunky when it got to third gear, but we are waiting until its dangerous before we rebuild it. VV got all fixed later that day, and mom notified me that in order to get both cars home, they would need to take me in for work on Thursday, which means I need to wake up at 4AM, which would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that I had offered Louis a ride home from work, and he got off at 2... Good thing is, he found a third person, a couple, and even as I write this, they are sticking with us, which is good. That evening, I met (forgot his name) and went over the contract with him at the hookah bar and he signed it and all that noise. I stayed at Hidden Cafe until 11:30 PM. I asked Louis to find another ride but if he can't then I, as his friend, am here to help, then went home. When I had been home for about 10 minutes and had gotten moms coffee done (I set it up every worknight so my 71 year old trooper of a mother has at least one less thing to do in her insane life), Louis called me and said he was off, so then I was off to pick him up and drive him home, at least I wasn't going to have less than 2 hours of sleep, drive back and forth, then another two hours before I have to get up for work transport. All that happened, leaving me at home by 1AM, so I got three hours of sleep in total.
*Thursday. “Slept” in parents car riding to work and while at work. Woke up at 8AM to do homework, internet wasn't working, decided to just drive to FJC and do it on its wifi. Used my iPhones GPS to get me there, had NO idea where the hell I was going. Meanwhile, Louis was calling and texting me constantly. When I got to college, I finally called him back. He had found a craigslist post for a three-room apartment for only $700 a month, but the catch was the owner was on a church mission in Nigeria and wanted us to front the first $700 via Walmart money transferring service then he would fed-ex the keys to the place. I told Louis to call mom, which he did. I then called mom, verified that he had indeed called her, which he did, and mom said that even though it seemed very weird, I should go for it. The other part of that problem was the window we had was in direct conflict with my morning class. I made a call to use of of my three sick days (I had already used one for actually being sick, meaning this is my second sick day, my fourth means I'm kicked from the class). So I drove back to Buena Park, picked up Luis, backtracked back to parents work out in Pico Rivera (because I had forgotten the folder with the finished contract FINALLY done for the apartment), drove to a Chase bank branch so he can get his Social Security number, drove back down all the way to basically the other side of Orange County, filled in the last bits of the contract, then were informed that we make too much money to live in the low-income housing apartments by at the least $2,400 (basically, you need to be making barely enough to just survive to live in there). Luis and I then went to another complex, and the office was closed but according to someone whom was just getting back from their two hour lunch break, they had no rooms open anyway. I then drove Luis back home, then went back home. By the time all this crap was over with, it was 2PM. I had been on the road back and forth for over five hours... I also got my secret shopper assignment from FedEx and the two checks turned out to be fraudulent, so there goes that potential employment (damn scammers). And there was the past two weeks, in a nutshell...
-Last week...
*Got a 2003 Hyundai Accent on Tuesday. Parents paid cash for it, $4,300. Had 118K miles on it.
*On Wednesday night, my friend Lewis and I were talking about an apartment and set a time the next day to, after my first class, I would pick him up from his place (Lewis was sub-renting from his room-mate/best friends mother) and we would give it the look-through...
*Thursday morning, I called Louis and woke him up prior to my class. Sometime shortly after that, his friends mom, the true renter of the apartment Louis was sub-renting from, gave him until Sunday, because she wanted her daughter in there, basically kicking him out, this made the apartment chase more critical...
*Upon reaching the apartment after class, we realized that they have one three-room apartment up for grabs, to which, at the time, we had one known rival group to get it. 1,067 Sq. Ft. at $1,207 a month, with a minimum of three occupants on the contract.
*We spent the next several days finding, losing and looking for a third person. I discover that parents will not need me at the shop (I work for my parents at their electroplating company as the “everything man”), but that's a long story in itself that, other than the fact that I am now pretty much unemployed, is irrelevant to this matter. I took a picture of the now hiring sign in front of the New York Pizza Deli (N.Y.P.D.). They are going through a remodeling and are hiring servers, cooks and drivers. The only way to apply was to go to their Facebook and print out the two images of their application.
*We were supposed to get my new car, Vroom Vroom (VV), up to the mechanic for an oil change and a look-through on Friday, but that didn't happen and parent's postponed it until Monday. I set out and gathered applications from Pizza Hut and Papa Johns. Louis and I continued our vain search for a third person...
*Over the weekend, I go to Monster and Careerbuilder websites and update my profile and resumes, as well as set daily emails to employers seeking people. I also filled out the three applications and attached my new resumes to them. Louis and I continued our search for a third person, now having gone through 10 people, two of which having been a couple.
**Sometime on Saturday, I had taken Louis to my place and he, mom and I went over the contract for the apartment. Later that night, and by that I mean Sunday morning, I took Louis back to my place in VV, then grabbed several empty cardboard boxes and loaded up dads car and took Louis home so he can pack.
**On Sunday morning, I picked up Louis and filled the SUV to the brim with his... everything pretty much. Drove from what was no longer his apartment just down the street from Hidden, which is three miles from my place in Yorba Linda, to his moms house out in Buena Park. (The exact details of the weekend are fuzzy, because the weekend is technically one 48 hour day, am I right?) While all this was happening, mom had one of her customers over whom was interested in buying her 2001 Beamer Convertable (which has been sitting in the garage for over three years due to an accident Jess got it into, which we have gotten nothing from him other than a “ill help pay to fix it” nothing from him other than words has come our way.) She set AAA to flatbed tow it to the mechanic on Tuesday, giving me a responsibility post-class for that day.
-This week...
*On Monday, parents took VV, leaving their car, a 2006 Accura MDX SUV for me for the day. I drov around, depositing the application/resumes to the three pizza places. They returned with VV later that day. However, by the time they got home, I was already gone and picked up Louis from his moms house out in Buena Park so he can make it to work (I am now his official driver it seems :P ) VV had a complete oil change, as well as replace a broken axle.
*On Tuesday, everything finally seemed normal until I noticed a HUGE, and I mean 4X3 feet fresh oil stain right under where my car was. I didn't notice this until I had gotten home from class. I parked out on the other side of the street and phoned mom at work, to which she smartly advised me to not drive it again. AAA came, but they wanted moms ID card, which they failed to tell her she needed to leave it with me. So they pretty much wasted everyone's time that day. Mom rescheduled the tow for the next day, as well as scheduled a tow for VV to get this oil problem fixed.
*Wednesday. Same guy from Tuesday came and we gave him cash to tow moms car. About 20 minutes after that, VV got towed. It turns out that something to do with the replacement of the axle caused a massive leak or something. The transmission was also clunky when it got to third gear, but we are waiting until its dangerous before we rebuild it. VV got all fixed later that day, and mom notified me that in order to get both cars home, they would need to take me in for work on Thursday, which means I need to wake up at 4AM, which would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that I had offered Louis a ride home from work, and he got off at 2... Good thing is, he found a third person, a couple, and even as I write this, they are sticking with us, which is good. That evening, I met (forgot his name) and went over the contract with him at the hookah bar and he signed it and all that noise. I stayed at Hidden Cafe until 11:30 PM. I asked Louis to find another ride but if he can't then I, as his friend, am here to help, then went home. When I had been home for about 10 minutes and had gotten moms coffee done (I set it up every worknight so my 71 year old trooper of a mother has at least one less thing to do in her insane life), Louis called me and said he was off, so then I was off to pick him up and drive him home, at least I wasn't going to have less than 2 hours of sleep, drive back and forth, then another two hours before I have to get up for work transport. All that happened, leaving me at home by 1AM, so I got three hours of sleep in total.
*Thursday. “Slept” in parents car riding to work and while at work. Woke up at 8AM to do homework, internet wasn't working, decided to just drive to FJC and do it on its wifi. Used my iPhones GPS to get me there, had NO idea where the hell I was going. Meanwhile, Louis was calling and texting me constantly. When I got to college, I finally called him back. He had found a craigslist post for a three-room apartment for only $700 a month, but the catch was the owner was on a church mission in Nigeria and wanted us to front the first $700 via Walmart money transferring service then he would fed-ex the keys to the place. I told Louis to call mom, which he did. I then called mom, verified that he had indeed called her, which he did, and mom said that even though it seemed very weird, I should go for it. The other part of that problem was the window we had was in direct conflict with my morning class. I made a call to use of of my three sick days (I had already used one for actually being sick, meaning this is my second sick day, my fourth means I'm kicked from the class). So I drove back to Buena Park, picked up Luis, backtracked back to parents work out in Pico Rivera (because I had forgotten the folder with the finished contract FINALLY done for the apartment), drove to a Chase bank branch so he can get his Social Security number, drove back down all the way to basically the other side of Orange County, filled in the last bits of the contract, then were informed that we make too much money to live in the low-income housing apartments by at the least $2,400 (basically, you need to be making barely enough to just survive to live in there). Luis and I then went to another complex, and the office was closed but according to someone whom was just getting back from their two hour lunch break, they had no rooms open anyway. I then drove Luis back home, then went back home. By the time all this crap was over with, it was 2PM. I had been on the road back and forth for over five hours... I also got my secret shopper assignment from FedEx and the two checks turned out to be fraudulent, so there goes that potential employment (damn scammers). And there was the past two weeks, in a nutshell...
