Observations

Woke up at eight this morning and haven't been able to go back to sleep. I'm not really tird, but have enough of that sleepy residue that I want to wash away. I should probably do some of my homework readings, but since that's what I plan on doing all day, I'm in no hurry.

Happened to log into Google AdSense yesterday on a whim and I noticed that I made $3.02 off of my other two blogs in the past week after a few months of nothing. Talk about weird. The majority of it was through The Screaming Eye, my editorial news blog and had something to do with this guy named Edward Maltass. Seems like some people were searching for him plus the keywords of "scam" and "lawsuit." The other prominant search term was "dinarbank scam" which I assume refers to his website, dinarbank.com. I wonder if maybe I judged him correctly when I warned people against him.

Since The Screaming Eye is making money again, I'm considering writing in it some more. The only problem with it is that it takes so much research and time to even write a short article. Maybe I'll start stressing more on the Editoral side of things instead of stressing so hard on the News side. After all, the Daily Buzz does this and has a huge readership. The only question is what to write about. I have a hard enough time talking about my daily life.

Speaking of my daily life, I thought I should mention that I have two weeks of school down and fourteen left, I think. If these past two weeks have taught me anything, they have taught me that I didn't actually get dumber when I went off to college, I just hadn't been managing my time appropriately. I thought it would be really hard to take fifteen credit hours worth of classes and work twenty hours a week, but I was pleasantly surprised. My classes are easy as hell with the amount of studying that I'm doing, the studying isn't taking too very long, and work - though stressful - is really easy. I actually have a ton of free time now. I guess it helps that I only have to worry about myself and my schedule for a change. I miss having Renny around, but this amount of absolute freedom is really helping me get the amount of work that I need to done.

I have already started doing research on houses in the local area that might be up for sale when I graduate. Mom found one on realtor.com that seems to really fit my specifications. It's a four-bed, three-bath former duplex with wooden floors that is over one hundred years old for less than $100,000. Sounds like it'll be a real fixer upper for that price, but it also sounds like it could be a diamond in the rough. I plan to go take a look at it at some point today, probably before work. I contacted the Realtor to have them contact me with more information, but they haven't gotten back to me. Hopefully that's not a bad omen.

I'm not set like concrete on this house, obviously, since I haven't even seen it yet, but I really like the sound of it. The only problem, I realize is raising enough money for a down payment. At $100,000, a five percent down payment on a mortgage is five grand. Believe it or not, I don't have five grand just sitting around. I calculated it out that if I work through all my breaks and pinch pennies like hell, I can raise a total of just over $4000, closer to $4500. Of course, I'm sure that's being optamistic, but it's still short. Hopefully I can work out some deal with the Realtor/bank. I've never done this before, so I don't exactly know how to go about doing it. I guess I'll find out first hand, eh?