I just got caught up in a great money-making opportunity, posting advertisements through Google or something like that… and now I’m pretty sure it was a scam. I realize this AFTER I’ve given my credit card number and email address AND home address–I suck SO MUCH right now. I can’t believe I actually bought into all that. I thought it was pretty legit because I read a newspaper article about it online, which interviewed a guy who was using the system. And I thought that if it was good enough to make it into a paper around some guy’s success story, then it’s worth a try. But now, I’m terrified that I’m going to have a monthly fee for using it (even though the website said nothing about a monthly fee or anything like that, but I’ve heard complaints about the program since I downloaded it and realized it’s harder to use than it sounds). Argh!
So now I have to worry about that, as well as trying to find tons of other jobs. Supposedly, I’m going to housesit again this summer, though I only have one job lined up and it’s for mid-July. I’ also freelance writing again, which is great. I don’t get paid fairly at all, which is a problem (about $15 a week for 10 articles) but I like it and it’s good practice. I applied to some “real” jobs around town, but none of them have taken. Anyway, it boils down to being completely SOL money-wise.
And if that weren’t bad enough, the weather is awful. The rain seemed to follow be back here from Olympia, and it’s windy and VERY inconvenient. My town hosts the Ironman triathlon every year, and this year it was yesterday. The swim portion was blustery (I was volunteering in a kayak along the swim course from 6 to 10 am), the bike was cold, and towards the end it started raining. So then, the poor people had to run in the rain as well, and it was just terrible. But I had tons of fun in the kayak, and then I went to a Father’s Day celebration with my family, and I ate wheat! :P I mean, I had to–my aunt made an absolutely incredible chocolate cake. The only thing that made it taste bad was her asking every 10 minutes whether we liked it… but that’s sort of a thing in my family. Everyone gets uncomfortable about the food they made, and we have to reassure each other that it’s the best we ever tasted. And usually, it is just perfect. Anyway, I broke my no-wheat regimen for hamburger buns and chocolate cake, and I didn’t give a whit. (Ha, ha.)
But then I got an awful headache. I’d had one all day, which was expected because I always get one when I cry, and I always cry at the Ironman. The last qualifying swimmer out of the water had to literally be carried up the path to the changing area, and it was heartbreaking to watch. Anyway, I was fine with the light headache I’d been dealing with, especially because I was more concerned with being sore from kayaking and exhausted from getting up at 4 am. Until we got in the car to go home after dinner, and my headache intensified. I’m pretty sure that eating wheat really contributed to it.
By the time we got home and we were watching a movie, it had migrated to the right side of my head and it felt like my right eye was going to pop out of its socket. Naturally, I asked my dad for his migraine medicine, but he recalled that it hadn’t really worked last time I tried it. So I went with hydrocodone, of course. If you’ve ever had hydro (I’d only used it once before, when I had my whole wisdom teeth fiasco), you know that it will completely knock you out. And it did. It was amazing– I usually have a horrible time trying to get to sleep, because I can never get comfortable and relaxed enough, and I can never shut my brain up. But with the hydro, I was plastered to my mattress. And I barely had time to enjoy that feeling before I was falling asleep. I had my sleep playlist going at the time, and the last thing I remember was hearing my favorite song (“In My Life”) before drifting off.
Then I slept for 13 hours, woke up, and got involved with that stupid internet scam. What a terrible thing to do today.
