Since Frank has moved here now I am trying to look for some options and different places to get some furniture at good prices to save money. He has some settlement payments coming in from a lawsuit that his dad won a long time ago so I wanted to see if there was any way we could get all that money now instead of in long term payments. Anyways I found this website that lets you sell annuities or other similar things like lottery future payments to get the money immediately so you can use it right away.

I’m thinking I’ll tell him to look it up later and see if he can get a free quote and to know how much that would cost since the money would really help him out until he can get a job here. That way he can sell annuity on this set of payments and another one that he also gets from something his dad had before too. It says that it would take around 45 to 90 days to be approved then another 5-10 days to get the money but that would probably still be better than waiting for the payments later on.

OH yeah and of course there was the whole hurricane Ike thing but I wasn’t all that affected (luckily) since I was only without power for 3 days.  It was still quite an experience since even with power at my own house there’s not much I could do that whole week anyways because nothing around here was open.

Well I guess I didnt have much to say afterall, but I felt like checking in here and coming to delete the spam that gets through when I’m not looking.

so anyways im really excited about graduating now even though i dont think ill go into med school right away.  i’m looking into maybe getting my master’s first and then trying for it but i’m not sure yet.  im also excited about just getting out and getting a regular job and actually being paid more than like nothing.  well besides just school going on nothing else has really been happening.  frankie is finally moving here in less than2 months now so i am really excited about it too.  i think today i will go to the library and study if i feel like making the drive there.

Anyways if you want to buy any gold for investments there are websites that help you do that. Normally you have to open an account with these companies but they are usually free and might charge you a fee to do other things relating to the transactions afterwards. The website I found to buy gold on has guarantees against theft and some other features to help secure your investment after you sign up with them and make a purchase. The gold is stored in a safe place by the company and they charge you a fee to store the gold for you.

Besides that I have been looking at stuff to get so i can do my oil change.  i know i always say im going to and i havent yet.  So in the next week I’ll be gathering supplies so i can finally do it.  I’m thinking about recording it in case i die then everyone will at least know exactly what happened.  Theres a lot of random stuff that i want to get like one of those rollie things to lay back on, i am not going to lay on the concrete - its dirty.  and then like until late yesterday i didnt know that i needed a special wrench to get to my oil filter, so i gotta go buy that too now.

Nothing else has really been going on besides that I”m been trying to eat more to keep my stomach feeling better and I feel like I’m getting fat.  havent been playing tennis which makes me sad, but i will re work that into my schedule hopefully next week.  well I still got an hour left before study time so I gotta get off here and get ready. =)

This reminds me too I need a new flashlight for Arisu. I bought her one of those led flashlights and somehow it died because I think I dropped it too many times. I should probably get a new one sometime soon since it only works half the time now and I have to hit it a little to get it going.

Well on a ligther note the past weekend I had my birthday dinner with Linda at this Italian restaurant. Everything was going pretty well until the end where we came up short of money to pay and it was a huge disaster. After we finally left we went to dave and busters and stayed until they closed though so I guess I still had a lot of fun and it was nice seeing all my friends again all together.

I still had a pretty bad stomach ache this morning so I finally made an appointment for the doctor’s tomorrow. Apparently being a new patient means they need a lot of time or something cause no one would see me today just cause I’m new. So I will have to go in tomorrow finally. Yesterday Arisu went to the doctor for her bumps and itchyness. I went with my friend Michael and he brought me to the humane society to go tot he vet there. the place was completely PACKED. I have never seen that many people at the vet before. The place opened at 10 and we got there at 10:30 and it was a 2 hour wait and the entire place was full already. We had to go there, sign in, then go back to his house for an hour before going back. Good thing Arisu could play with his dog though so when we went back she was already tired from playing and wasn’t trying to get at all the other dogs or barking a lot. So we found out that Arisu has a special dog skin allergy. They gave her a shot to stop the swelling/inflammation/itchyness and then also some medicine to help it heal. Then some dog food too that is special for sensitive skin. All together the bill was 70 dollars so i was SUPER happy because at the regular vet place it would be at least 150 for all that. It’d be like 45 for regular exam (20 there at the humane society), then they charge me like another 30 for ‘diagnosing’ too like theyll probably take a test or something, then they would charge me at least 30+ for each the dog food bag and the shot and medicine. So from now on I’m going to bring Arisu to this new place and have her treated without being all crazily ripped off. They also sell the proplan dog food for puppy that Arisu ate as a puppy too there for cheaper than at the store. The place is a little far, but its worth the drive and saved me a lot of money. Today I got her to take her medicine finally, I tried to last night but she wouldn’t so today I had to get her some baby food to feed with it.

Well Frankie is out tonight at this concert so I don’t really have anything to do tonight, I’m gonna go read a little bit and watch some tv. I was going to take some p ics of the gifts I got but they were mostly shirts and gift cards. I did take a lts of pictures of the tennis bag i got though:

I wonder if its better to get the money right away or later though since Frank mentioned that his grandmother had won the lottery before and is still getting payments every week so that’s a good amount of income for her. They said something like shes gotten over eight hundred thousand so far or something. Of course back then when she won the lottery this was an insane amount of money already. I guess the cash for settlement option would be good in case of emergencies or if you want to get the money out to invest in something else immediately, plus they give you quotes so you’ll know how much it will cost you and how much you can get before you do it.

my parents just got back from new york last night so unfortunately i didnt have a few more alone days but i guess its okay.  i’m going offline now to get some stuff done and play with arisu =)

For the next few days we mostly just stayed home and oh yeah Frank took me to a shooting place and I shot a gun a few times.  i’ll post a picture of my target thing sometime

Then we also went shopping where I made Frank buy a bunch of nice new clothes.  It seemed like he really liked the new clothes so I was happy plus he looked really good

Oh yeah we also went to the aquarium with his cousin and his cousin’s gf together.  That was pretty fun except we ate at cheesecake factory and it was freezing cold outside the entire time.  According to them I even had goosebumps on my neck (wearing a tank top). After the aquarium thing we just spent a few days sitting aruond at home and playing games.

Finally we went on a 3 day thing to ocean city beach and that was really nice but again it was freezing cold and super windy.  we went on the board walk for a while and just walked around.  I got some popcorn from fischers and fries from thrashers.  frank was literally raving about these two places but honestly the popcorn and fries were good but they were nothing insane enough for me to specifically remember from a vacation.  I’m thiking that its just the hype that makes people buy them.  I mean its freakin 5 dollars for a tiny cup of fries thats probably less than 15 fries.  the largest thing is a small bucket and its 9 dollars for fries. I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much money on french fries before.  AND they didnt have any ketchup.  when we went there on memorial day the line was so insanely long i was thinking there must be something about these fries.  but on the other hand im like…how good can you make a stick of fried potato taste??  oh well they were still good, I just don’t think they are worth the price or the hype around them.

Our hotel was really nice and we had a jacuzzi in there which was really cool.  I wish they would put more grip on the bottom though cause I kept slipping since I’m not big enough to put my feet on the other side.  We went to play putt putt too. Theres a ton of mini golf places there that looked really cool and we played inside in this water theme one.  Oh yeah and we went to this Assateague place to the beach too and saw some wild horses which were really cool.

kay well i’m tired so i’ll just cut this short.  i would post more pictures but im too lazy to organize them and stuff so i think ill just leave them all on flickr and facebook.