An atypical day is… well… atypical.

Today was… a weird day. To say the least. Lately, Jackie and I have been having some tough times. Not so much with our relationship, but money-wise. She hadn’t been able to find a job (more on that later) and I really hadn’t managed my money very well, leaving us broke. More broke than I’ve been since before I left Marshall. It’s kind of eye-opening. However, this month will be an example – I already know I won’t let it get this bad again. That being said, I’ve been selling stuff just so that we’d have money for gas and essential groceries. Well… and I cheated and bought some beer. Sometimes beer seems essential though, y’know?

To be honest, the stuff I sold was stuff I really needed to get of anyways. I sold 12 DVD’s and got $18. I sold my old surround sound system (that didn’t really work) for $30. I sold all 6 of my old game systems (Sega/Sega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, Atari, Gameboy, Playstation) for $150 to this really cool dude on Craigslist. It’s kind of nice to have the stuff out of the apartment, especially since I was on the verge of throwing a lot of it away/giving it away in the first place. There’s a giant pile of boxes and other stuff in the corner of my bedroom that I need to go through still, and when I’m done, hopefully there will be a couple more things I can sell.

So last night I drank with Jackie and Steph. Steph and I had a couple of shots of Patron, and then we all had beers. It was actually really fun – we watched American Idol and just kind of joked around. Towards the end of the night though, apparently I decided to jump into my bed. And apparently my bed decided to not stay together. Crap. So now I have to use at least part of my tax return to buy a new bed. I mean, we were planning to get a new one anyways, but this is much sooner than planned.

This morning I woke up kind of hungover. I slept off and on all morning, actually. I finally woke up enough to start making lunch – tacos. Thankfully the great lunch erased the hangover. I took Jackie to her interview at 2 – her third one in a couple of days. As of right now, she officially has 2 jobs, and another interview for a 3rd one on Saturday. She already technically has a job at Radio Shack that hasn’t started. She hooked up a job today with Von’s on their “dot-com” team, for which she has a drug test tomorrow. (6am is going to come really, REALLY early.) The interview Saturday is for a position at Payless Shoes… as of right now, that job is iffy – they want her to possibly work down on Blue Diamond, which is a half-hour drive away from where we live right now. At the rate they’d be paying her, it almost wouldn’t be worth the drive.

My job situation has been as stable as ever. More than stable – it’s been great! I started my GameStop job last week, and it’s going to be just as easy as I thought it would. At my radio job, I got a curveball thrown at me today. I was on my way out when I saw Justin (my boss). I was going to head into his office to reschedule an appointment (we were supposed to have an aircheck session tomorrow morning, but he had to cancel because of a funeral), but he actually asked me to head in and sit down. At this point I really had no clue what to expect… I honestly thought he was going to ask me about something that had to do with Ty (the Production Director) being gone until the end of the week. It wasn’t.

He goes on to tell me that our station’s been having a tough time trying to hire a web guy – they’ve interviewed a bunch of people, and none of them have really been what they were looking for. Then he asks me if the web position is something I’d have any interest in. I told him that I don’t think I have as much experience as our old web guy, or even anyone they’ve interviewed, but that it was definitely something I have interest in. He said that really anyone could do the job “with how easy it’s been made”, but that he and others in management like the design work I’ve done for the station, and that my combined design experience and knowledge of the radio business is kind of what they want.

I sat there a little flabbergasted. If I ended up with the job, it’d be a huge pay increase (almost $5,000-$7,000 more a year, if I recall). It’d be some I think I’m more suited to. I love doing audio production – I love my job wholeheartedly. I can’t lie though – design would be sweet. I’d learn a bunch of web stuff, and I think that would help me immensely in the future. So, we’ll see where this path goes. If I don’t end up with that job, I’m still amazingly happy where I am. If I do… I can’t imagine anything but good coming from it.

So I’ve got a lot on my mind. It’s good stuff, though. I’m excited to see what each new day holds… and that’s definitely a good place to be.