Making Baby Steps

Let's see...

I have officially paid off my Dental Loan (captial one) !!!!!
Yay! I can finally put that fucking root canal behind me.
So I'm moving August 1st!!! I'm so excited to move. I really need to move.
I currently live in East (Spanish) Harlem. Which is fine, but my management company/super
are horrible and don't fix anything. They are seriously terrible people.
(Beware of Sassouni Management if anyone in nyc is looking to rent).

Anyway. I'm looking to move to Astoria, which is an area in Queens. I have several friends who live over there and they seem to really like it. I also think I would enjoy being in the same general neighborhood as my friends. So we can go have brunch with out a subway being involved. Also, Astoria has alot more young people, than are in my current neighborhood. There are shops, restaurants, cafes and such there too. In my current neighborhood most places of the restaurants are Mexican food, which I like, but it would be nice to have more options.

Another reason, a HUGE reason for leaving Manhattan is rent. My rent is 900 right now. I believe it is going up another 100 dollars or so. It's annoying because my noisey neighbors upstairs only pay 500 for the apt, because the apt has been in their family for a long time. Between my roommate and I, we pay 1800!! Isn't that crazy?
I'm hoping to pay around 750 in my new apt, so with utilities it would be around 850ish.
Which would be much better than my current situation.

What else can I tell you?
Every month or so I try looking for a new job. But I really think it would be hard to find something where I would be making what I am now and still have flexability.
Then I think of all the college graduates coming out of school and busting into the job market, just like I did two years ago. So many college grads and such a shitty economy.
I had dinner with a friend of mine who is a senior at NYU. He's a wonderful smart guy.
He's going to study abroad this summer. He pretty much told me his 5 year plan.
I think about how I was at age 21. It wasn't that long ago. I thought I had my whole life figured out. Here I am at 24 and I'm not sure where I'm going. Just trying to take it one step at a time.

I'm rambling.

I've started to kinda adopt a new philosophy. Just letting things go.
There are people in my life who aren't half the friend to me that I am to them.
And I'm done trying.

Umm.

I got a gig at MTV. It's not really acting, nor is it paying.
There's a new show called F'N MTV. Where they play new music videos.
Basically I just comment about the video in quick little clips.
It's fun. And it's cool to go to MTV.


Ok! Now I'm going to start paying off my VISA card. Right now the balanceis at $1058.17.
Using the snowball method. I'm going to add the $63 dollars a month I've been paying on my dental loan, and now add that to the $50 a month I pay to VISA for a total monthly payment of ..... $113. A month.

I am going to try and pay more. I need to redo a budget. I've never been able to stick to a budget... I suck at anything with money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!