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It's hard to believe I've already been in Utah for over a month. This last month has actually gone by pretty quickly. I'm getting used to being up here I guess. I've been much more careful with my money, but since I'm still on a very tight budget, I've decided to get a weekend job. I doubt the job will be very difficult. I'm not looking for something that requires a lot of thought and energy. I do enough of that during the week and I can imagine I'd exhaust myself quickly if I had to sit in front of a computer on the weekends too.

No, I'm actually looking at manual labor type jobs or sales stuff. I need to be more active anyways. I haven't been to a gym in months. One of the jobs I'm looking at right now is for a Saturday parking lot cleaner position. That position is 7-5:30pm at 11.75/hr. That would be enough to help me get by, and it would be physical labor instead of mental. My brain is usually tired on the weekends anyways. I wouldn't mind a job stocking books or shelves at a bookstore or grocery store, but with those jobs I'd almost have to drive around from place to place asking if they have a weekend position open. I might end up doing that if nothing comes through.

I considered night jobs, but I think they would exhaust me way too much no matter what kind of job it happens to be.

Well, not much else has happened around here this last week or so. I'm starting to get tasks outside my job description, which I like. It looks better when it comes time for a review. I'll have to wait until next July for a review, but until then I may be living on the edge with my expenses unless I find some sort of weekend job.

Well since certain people have commented that I haven't written in here in ages I decided to go ahead and fill you in. I'm all settled in here in Utah. I like my job, and I love my reclaimed independence. It's come at a price though. And I'm not just speaking figuratively: getting my finances under control is proving to be a challenge. My net income is a little less than expected so I'm having to cut back and consider taking a weekend job or something to make up the extra amount. I'll be getting by until I start making more money, but until then it's going to take some serious planning and control.

So last weekend I went to visit my dad's cousin Elsa in Heber City. Earlier on in the day we ate at Chuck-O-Rama downtown, and it was good, but more than I wanted to pay. I'm gonna have to pass on such lunches or dinners in the future for financial reasons, but since my grandaunt was in town I figured it was worth the extra expense. Afterwards I had to finish some laundry before driving over to Heber City. I had a little trouble finding the house since its off a small road that runs off the highway. Once I finally got there, she was already in her car and I just got out of mine and into hers and we left to the dollar theater in Provo to watch Wild Hogs. We showed up about 15 minutes into the movie so I missed a lot but from what I saw, it was pretty funny. By the time the movie finished it was around 6 so we went back to Elsa's house where I just visited and stayed for dinner until 8 or so. Last time I had been to her house was when I was maybe 12 or 13 years old so it's been a long time. I didn't get back to my apartment until around 9 but it was nice getting out for a bit.

I think I'm getting into the swing of things at work. I'm finally being assigned projects, which really don't take me a long time to complete. Most of the time I'm waiting on other people to approve things or to get me clearance so I can have access to certain files. I have a lot of downtime, but I'm hoping things pick up once I have all the necessary passwords and I get e-mail approval on things.

That's really about all thats been going on. I'll write a little more in a private entry for those of you who have access.