this year too

i am proud to report that Dr. Nusbaum finished reading my lit review and he likes it! he said that it is very thoroughly researched and good. yah you bet this thing was thorough! i only spent like freakin forever on it. i should be an expert of fish immune systems now. but alas, i've already forgotten a lot, if not most, of what i wrote. such is life. you spend so much time and energy on something only to forget it.

adam and i might have to get my mini cooper sooner than expected. his silver bullet is dying. so sad. being the first borns we are, we're both afraid to touch the car with a 20-foot pole in fear it might explode because of its given death sentence. but i'm totally pumped about getting a mini. i'll make excuses for us to go driving all the time. my poor bike will grow neglected.

adam and i went to a seminar that taught us about buying your first house. not that we are anywhere remotely ready to buy one. sometimes i don't think we'll ever be able to afford a house here. they are SO expensive. and what scares me is that what used to be a $70,000 house last year is now close to $200,000. how do we know if it was under priced then or over priced now? and if interest rates go up, will the house market take a dive? PUH-LEASE i hope so! a $200,000 house is crap around here too. most of the nicer homes are over $250,000, but it's going to take over 2 years to even save 20% of that! which i guess means we really can't afford that price. oh well. i'm just having to learn about contentness. this week i thought i was going to go out of my mind living here any longer, but then we bought air fresheners and i'm MUCH better. i just hate that our apartment smells like stale smoke and dander. gross! but air fresheners help a ton. and hopefully when i get a job, being away from the apartment will help make it less annoying. i just have to keep telling myself "i can do anything for 2 years!" oh and i'm so sad. i was hoping to get a job that paid around $40,000 a year. i don't think that's too unreasonable. but maybe i was wrong. maybe i'll be lucky to make $30,000. one of my friends seems to think i'll make that much. i always expected more, and i guess that's wrong. but my plan was to buy a mini within a year and a half, and after i buy the car, use the money i was spending on the car to buy furniture etc. but i think adam would rather me not buy that stuff and save ALL the money. i guess though it's not wise to spend money before you have it. =) so i guess i'll stop my complaining. back to work for me!