YAY!!

So today at work my manager, Leslie, informed me, in more detail, about the pre-sale that we are doing. Basically if you have a belk card, you're able to hold your merchandise until wednesday or later and you can purchase it for 25% off. I was told that by next wednesday, when pre-sale is over, I have to have sold a total of $380. Well today I pre-sold about $280, so now I only have $100 more to go!!!!!   Yea! I really needed to get my pre-sale in, b/c I haven't been able to get anybody to open up a credit card yet, and I'm supposed to be getting at least 1 every week. I'm not sure what's going to happen if I don't get them to open one up, but I suppose it's only a matter of time before I find out. :/  I also figured out how I can check what my sales goals are for the day, so now I always check in on that periodically throughout my shift to see how well I'm doing. Today I sold over $2,000, which is pretty good I would say! I'm sure in time I will do a lot more than that, but it's hard when everybody else is jumping in there to try and capture the sale. :/ But oh well, all I can do is my best, and so far that's what I've been doing!

I have the day off tomorrow, and that'll be nice b/c I have to go to Nathan's and drop off little man for a couple of days so he can stay with his daddy and hang out. I'm thinking that I might not come back down there until Tuesday night, but I'm not sure yet. It's just a lot of driving back and forth for me when I have to work both monday and tuesday. I was kind of thinking I would drop him off sunday night and stay then leave from his house monday to head to work, and then not go back down until I got off of work on tuesday to pick him up...that way I wouldn't have to drive back and forth, but idk b/c I would really miss little man, and it'd be nice to stay with Nathan....maaaaybe I could convince him to come hang out up here..lol. Nah, probably a bad idea, not to mention Nathan would  be bored out of his mind, b/c there isnt really a whole lot to do around here. I think he'd be better off to stay at his house anyways and hang out with tiny there.

UGH! So we found out there was an additional hospital bill that we still have to pay that hasn't been covered yet, which totally sucks b/c it's going to be 300 something, and that's 300 we could have used for our house fund. :/  Though I do suppose it's best to get it out of the way now so we don't have to worry about it when we are living in our house. We only have 9 more months left to pay on the other bills, and that one will be fully paid off and we won't have to worry any more about hospital bills!!  And that will be such a relief!! The only thing now I have to start picking up is my credit card bill. After this month, I'm only going to be using it for gas purchases so that hopefully it won't get to outrageous every month. Eventually.....maybe once my contract is up, I will take over my cell phone bill and I can start paying for that one, so it's one less my parents have to worry about covering. I'm thankful they have been helping out up to this point, but I think it's time that I start taking over my bills little by little. I'm thinking about writing up a separate contract for myself when my plan expires in August so I will know how much it would be month, and it would make me feel less dependent on other people.

I'm trying to be as independent as possible, b/c once Nathan and I get our house, I would feel better if I wasn't needing to still rely on my parents for help with bills and what not. I want to take over what I have, and at some point I will probably sit down with my dad and come with a rough estimate of what each bill is, like car insurance, phone, etc...all the things they are covering for me and eventually I will be taking over, so I will know what my total cost would be each month for everything I would be paying for. I think it would be smart for me to know so that then I would be able to budget my money and spend wisely with what I would need for those bills and what I would need for Jayden and what, if any, I would have left extra to put aside for savings. I'm thinking that will be this months plan, to come with a rough estimate of what each thing would be. Maybe then I could draft up a seperate car insurance plan with a company and get a better rate..or something like that..who knows?! But It's something I need to focus of thinking about since at some point I'm going to need to become independent of them.

So my birthday is coming up this month, I'm not really sure what to ask for, the main thing that comes to mind is money so I can start saving up for our house fund, and other such things. My grandma is letting me go shopping and pick out some cute things at work, so I think that's going to be something I do tomorrow at some point when I'm bored in the afternoon. Our extra discount ends tomorrow, so I need to take advantage of it while I still can. I would be getting 20% off my total purchase, and then an additional 20% off of whatever that first total came out to be...so it would end up being about 30% off total or something like that..I'm not really sure. but basically if I got a shirt that was originally 29.99, with my discount, I would be getting it for 19.50...so I would essentially save about 10 bucks...not so terrible, but also not the best it could get. I will try to keep my initial cost under 20 if i can and I won't exceed $100, b/c then I would feel really terrible. I'm going to try and find a light weight cover up and try on some of our really cute tops we have. I have had my eye on a lot of things, but after trying them on, hopefully I will only really love a couple of them...it will make having to pick and choose a LOT easier. I always love it when I walk into a dressing room with like 10 tops and walk out with about 2..it makes my decision making much easier..though it's also kind of depressing at the same time, especially if i really need to find something. I'm also thinking about trying on our various brands of jeans, b/c we have a lot of great styles and they all come in my size, I just don't have any idea how they would fit, so we will see.

But yea, anyways, right now I'm texting Nathan and watching "The Walking Dead" As well as watching Jayden sleeping in his swing. I'm almost afraid to move him. AW SNAP, I just realized it's 11pm and we are supposed to be losing an hour of sleep tonight due to daylight savings time. I'm thinking that I'm going to get off of here and head to bed for the night. Everybody else has turned in except for brian and his friend. My mom and sister are leaving for Michigan in the morning at about 5:30am, so they went to bed early...it's going to be a long drive for them, but I'm sure they will find things to talk about to keep them entertained. :-) Well, anywhos, time to take my butt to bed!
Night Might!

~Sarah~