Why does everything have to cost money? There's just so much I want to do with myself, to do with my youthful sprightley-ness, but I can't afford any of it. I love rock climbing but I can't afford to go more than like, once in a blue moon. I love kayaking, tramping, sailing, diving...all sorts of stuff like that. I just can't.
I want to go sailing, but it's $100 to join and then I think it's like $30 or something each time to take out a boat.
I'm playing soccer, but indoor is $120 for a season, and outdoor is $170 for the season.
Diving is massively expensive, obviously to hire gear and all that crap.
Tramping shouldn't be expensive, but it involves getting clothes and food and some way to get away from the city, plus you've got to find a place to stay and that costs money.
Kayaking you've got to pay to rent the kayak. Climbing you've got to hire shoes and wall time. Shoes and a harness to purchase you can get as a package for $190 or so. So much money!
If I want to go home it's more than $3000, I want to take Andy snowboarding, gotta allow something like $500 for that. Just buying groceries for the week is like $60. I can't figure out where the rest of my weekly income goes. It's like it just turns into smoke and disappears or something. I guess I should work out a planned budget or something to make sure I know where my money is going, but then I can't be spontaneous at all.
I got invited to go visit the Pacific Islands with a friend, but that's heaps of money as well and I'd LOVE to go, I really can't afford it without help from the parents. I HATE asking them for money, but I'm finding myself doing it because I SUCK at living on such a tight budget.
Grrrr.
I'm hungry. I'm sick of everyone at the boys work just being fuckheads and him having so much work. He hasn't been home at a normal hour in the last 3 weeks, has been in every weekend....he's not paid enough for that, but he'll never say anything. Just frustrating to watch, especially since I know I can't even sneak around and try to fix it myself like I tend to do. Argh!
In other news, the liquid scintillation counter (LSC) up at uni is possessed and since my recent experiments all rely on it working to give me results, I'm frustrated. Tomorrow I've got to call the tech and see if they'll come up and see what's wrong with it. I can still do experiments because there's no limit on the time you can wait to get the results, but not knowing if they're working is not very helpful. It's kinda crappy. Like today I had a good, fun day at work, but then I went up to uni and just got more and more frustrated.
Tomorrow I've got to go up to uni early...8:30-ish and hopefully call the tech people then. I've then got a doctor's appt. at 10:15 and then gonna work over lunch, so about 12-2. Then it's back up to uni to clean my anemones and set up my next experiments, or maybe have a play with the damn LSC machine if the tech people were helpful at all over the phone.
Anyhow...I'm bored. I really should work on uni stuff and writing stuff up when I've got time like this, but I really just can't seem to get started on it. I've tried like 6 times. I hate starting things! Once I get going it's not that bad, it's just starting. Poos.
Laterz