Oh Holy Hell.

I haven't checked in for a few days. The good news is that now I have a lot to talk about. The bad news is that most of it is going to be stress-filled whining and complaining. Take it or leave it. Honestly, I'm not even sure where to start. Might as well start with this morning. It was raining when I woke up. My other dog (not Parker) is named Moxie and she has been crapping all over my house when I leave to go to work...I guess she gets very nervous and/or anxious...anyways, I decided I probably needed to start crating her again when I leave and I thought that her crate was in the trunkof my car. When I went to get it, it wasn't there. So I decided to take her to with (it's just for one day, right?) and off we went. I stopped for coffee at Starbucks around 4:55 am and as I was sitting in line at the drive-thru...yes, there was a line at the Starbuks drive-thru at 4:55 in the morning...I saw the KCRA news van sitting not too far away. There as a reporter and a camera guy standing in the rain...obviously doing a segment about the rain....guess it was a slow news day. The whole time I was thinking to myself, "Oh holy hell! They better not think they're going to interview me with NO makeup on and a head full of unwashed hair piled on top of my head!"

Sure as shit, as I got my cup of coffee and tried to pull forward, the young perky reporter (in full makeup, in the rain, in her cute little rain suit) all but jumped in front of my car to flag me down. The camea guy ran up, shoving his camera in my face and she started asking me moronic questions like, "What does the rain mean to you?" and "I see you drive a convertible, guess you won't be putting the top down today, how else is the rain affecting your plans?" Keep in mind it was 4:55 in the morning, I had crusty's in both eyes AND saying that I looked like a homeless person would be an understatement. I probably looked more like someone who had just escaped from the insane asylum! I'm not kidding...I'm not one of those girls who can get away with not wearing any makeup. I applaud those who can, but I ain't one of them. When you work in radio, it gives youthe perfect excuse to say oh fuck it, I get up at the ass crack of dawn and I'm going to go to work looking like a looney tune if I feel like it!

So I continue on to work, praying the whole way that they'll cut out my interview...not likely considering they LOVED that I had Moxie in the car with me.

To make a long story short...I have no idea if they ever wound up airing it...but it was a nightmare, worst-case-scenario if I've ever experienced one.

Add in to the mix the fact that I feel generally overwhelmed right now...a feeling that always seems to coincide with PMS and comes close to invoking a full-blown anxiety attack. I bite all my nails off. I'm like a raging hormone-aholic. And to top it off, I just finished my bag of peanuts as I stumbled across an article about Salmonella in peanut butter. Oh holy hell. Wouldn't that just be the icing on the cake?

There is one little beacon of positivity I'd like to mention. I have successfully written my first screenplay. Don't laugh. I'm trying to find people (I trust) to read and help me revise it right now. Who knows, maybe someday I'll be brave enough to post it on here...

Anyways, the main reason I wanted to check-in on here is to get this out of my system. Here's the deal: I mentioned earlier that while I was living in Modesto I very stupidly bought a house there. This, of course, was right before the housing market crashed so I am upside down on it right now...and when I say upside down...I mean, like $65,000 upside down. Since I can't sell it, I've been renting it out. The two guys who were living there both decided to move out recently (one went down to San Diego and the other bought a house of his own). I've been looking for new tenants and the whole process is making me bat shit crazy.

The major problem is that my mortgage and HOA's are about $1450 per month but other places in my neighborhood are renting for $1000. Trying to be crafty, I thought I could get more bang for the buck by renting out both rooms individually and including utilities in the rent (since they're all still in my name) to make it sound like a great deal. I've been charging $700 for the master bedroom and $600 for the smaller one. It doesn't take a math whiz to see that even though I'm getting $1300 for the place, I'm still minus $150 per month PLUS all of the utilities on the place....so all in all, I'd say it's about $300 out of my pocket every month just to hold on to the place until the market turns back around.

Follow?

Anyways, I have found two females who want to move in on February 1st and so far they have managed to royally piss me off over petty, insignificant crap. It'll get me too worked up to go into all of the details of it right now so I'm going to stop....

And for the sake of your sanity and mine, I'm going stop bitching and I'm going to leave you with a picture I took of Moxie hanging out in the studio with me today...so damn cute!