I'm a loose bolt of a complete machine

Urgh, major car issues. A few days ago, I went to the gas station to try and fill up my tank, but it kept clicking off as if it was full a few seconds into pumping. I went to the car repair shop on the 23rd and waited five hours (and $500 later...) to get the canister replaced. The person warned me though that while they're hoping that fixed it, it could be the valve (which they couldn't check until after the canister got replaced) and they couldn't check at the gas station because my tank was already full. Okay. So I drove around and around and went in this morning when they first opened after the holidays and the guy who'd check it wouldn't come in until 10a. Okay. That's 2 hours later, so I'd come back in 2 hours, but when I went to my car and try and start it...the battery had died! I mean, the last time I replaced it was 3 years ago ish and that's about the right time for this state because of the extreme heat during the summer.

A technician dropped me off at home so I can wait here (and they'll pick me up to get me back to the shop later), but that's the valve and battery and while I know the battery is going to be ~$200, I still don't know how much the valve will be. This was all seriously an expense I DID NOT NEED, not now! Especially when a bunch of my annual bills hit during this time of the year and I had to pay for a lot of things for my 2nd rotation (airbnb, scrubs that are a color I won't be able to reuse in hospitals in this state, etc etc). And because I'll be out of state, I won't be able to even deliver food for some amount of money during the 2 months I'll be on rotation.

So I'm just here, quietly panicking to myself.

ETA: I called and the person on the phone said they're 75% sure it's the fuel line tank thingy that the dealership has (so it's a few days out) and it's about $1555. They have one more test to run to make sure it's that/not that. I'm just going to lie on the floor and have a nervous breakdown.

My refund from the original airbnb got posted to my credit card and it paid off a good chunk of the 2nd airbnb I booked, but I still have a couple of hundreds to pay off. Good thing I just got paid from work study tutoring, so that pays off a good chunk of that amount, and now I'll just have to earn $13.13 to completely pay off the first payment. At least the second payment for the airbnb is under what I get paid from work study tutoring, so I'll have leftover that I'll put into other credit card debt as the amount would normally go to. Still not happy I'm paying this inflated amount for 2 months /o\

The 2nd airbnb only has a microwave and mini fridge in the kitchen. I can deal with the microwave just fine and I plan on bringing my crockpot so I could cook pasta in that, but mini fridge? Hrm. Not sure if there's even a freezer part attached to that fridge, so that's a bit of a setback as I tend to use the freezer part of my fridge more often than not.

11 Best Places to Sell Gift Cards for Cash
I use Bing and Swagbucks to get gift cards and while I have goals in mind for them, I've been thinking about selling the gift cards from the other accounts for cash. Cash is always good and the one account I used strictly for Paypal gift cards (thus direct cash) is on a super old computer that's hard for me to play videos on it, so it's more of a hassle to try building points on it. But if I can sell my gift cards for cash, then win/win. I technically have enough points to redeem a $25 gift card in something right now, so I could sell it for cash, but I haven't done it yet.

...my airbnb canceled on me today while I was taking my exam. URGH. Apparently they double booked which wtf. The rotation is in the middle of nowhere, so the host basically screwed me over with much fewer spots left to book 8 weeks worth of time PLUS the places are now double or more in price. I booked this last month and they cancel on me with less than a month to go? I put in a reservation for another airbnb that costs several hundred more than my original airbnb, so hopefully I get it. It's currently pending.

So yeah, boooo for me having to spending even more money on this rotation than I wanted, and I already had to do so to purchase scrubs and other essentials while having to live elsewhere. Oh yeah, and technically there's a much cheaper place to book an airbnb (about a thousand less from the 2nd airbnb, but only $400 less from the original airbnb), but it's an hour away. Honestly, I really thought about it, but a classmate convinced me that that's time I won't get back, especially since I need to study for boards. /o\ I need to pass on my first try. I don't have time or money to do it again.

I was going to go and try to do some food delivering tonight, but I'm just too pissed off today to leave the house. Oh yeah, the wifi on campus wasn't working, so I couldn't try and book there. I had to drive in rush hour traffic to do it at home. The salt is real right now.

December points bonus
For the month of December, all orders in the Shop of points and paid time (whether for you or as a gift) will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

adventdrabbles is going on and you don't have to be in Harry Potter fandom to write your drabbles. :D I haven't participated in it for so long, but I'll try this year. I can do drabbles. I love drabbles. Just gotta figure out what fandom to write in and catch up on the last two days.

It's cold enough that I'm forced to use my small heater or freeze. The fact that I've stalled for this long is amazing because I hate the cold and I wanted to keep my winter electric bill even lower by not using the heater yet, but it's time. I'm trying to compromise though by turning it on when I absolutely need it, then turning it off again instead of leaving it on all the time...like I want to because it's super cold.

I feel like a slacker because I haven't delivered food in about a week or so, but I've been busy with other RL things. Still, I need to do more because I got bills and things to save for. I also went grocery shopping to purchase premade Thanksgiving food for myself because I don't want to cook this year from a warehouse store, but I also bought a new winter jacket, a 5'x6' throw that's basically my winter blanket (I have two light blankets from the Philippines that's perfect for any other time of the year, but nothing for winter), and long socks because I don't have any and I'll need them for my next rotation. I also need 5 sets of royal blue scrubs, but urghhhh, they're so expensive at the places I've looked so far! And that's just counting if it's a shirt or pants, let alone the both...and 5x a set to boot. This is the most expensive time of the year, for sure, and I'm not even spending money on other people. This is just needing to not freeze or needing to get things together for my rotation. Heck, needing to pay annual bill things!

I was looking at my fic/author subscriptions and dang, so many subscriptions that hadn't updated in years. Sometimes I wonder if I have the terrible superpower of getting authors to quit writing once I subscribe. /o\



Well, I doubt I'm going to make my goal of reading and commenting on 200 fics by the end of November, but I'm just gonna push the deadline to the end of the year. Let's see what happens then!

Woo. I got an email about how my Prime Student was ending, but I could extend the membership and pay the cheaper student price if I uploaded proof that I was a student. I submitted my tuition bill from this term and got an additional year! $59 is so much better to pay. Alas, I only get one more year out of since I'm graduating next year, but I'm happy I got what I could.

I now have Disney+ bundle, but it was pretty confusing before and after the fact to find out the information I needed. Like, I can't actually watch the Disney stuff through the Hulu website, nor on the Hulu app. I have to do that on a separate Disney+ website and app. My Hulu bill stays separate since I already had a Hulu account and so my Hulu gift cards will never pay for Disney+. I'm still not sure what I need to do to activate the ESPN portion of this bundle, but I will.

I did the responsible thing by backing out of going to AYCE sushi tonight with some friends, as well as backing out of going to Friendsgiving with my classmates at a buffet in a week or so. They're both pricey events and I can't really justify the expense, especially since I don't want to stuff myself silly in order to eat the cost of the meal in the first place. Urgh, adulting. I also did some food deliveries today because I am on a never ending quest to make money/pay off my debts.

10% of the way through my NaNo fic reading and commenting goal!

Study: Actually, potted plants don't improve indoor air quality I currently have a plant, but it's sitting just outside my apartment door for sunlight. I've been meaning to organize an indoor garden of potted plants, but I haven't gotten around to doing so yet. I'll probably still use those type of plants meant for air quality though lol.

It's a few days away from Disney Plus launching and I am impatiently waiting for it. I'm going to get the Disney Plus/Hulu bundle, but that means waiting until launch day before I can even pay for it. Well, I say pay for it, but I've been using gift cards from Bing and/or Swagbucks to pay for Hulu for years, so.

I've been haphazardly looking at letters from Yuletide and there's one (two?) things that always slightly bothered me about some of the letters I see, and it's definitely just a me thing. The first is that the letters don't list what the actual characters they requested. Sometimes the letters don't even mention any characters at all! Or if they did mention characters, you have no clue if X and Y were the ones they requested, or just X and they wouldn't mind Y.

Which also leads into, since Yuletide is a character based and not relationship tag based exchange, I have no clue if the recipient is okay with ship or not. This mostly is a thing when the recipient is talking about two women and I'm over here like, "...but are you okay with femslash of these two? Or just gen?" And I'm cool with either! But I'd really like to know before I ever think of writing a treat because sometimes I want to write femslash and I'm not sure what the recipient wants. Nor am I going to assume. I don't know why, but I come against this situation more often than not with femslash vs slash.

I passed my first clinical rotation! It was exhausting, but I learned a lot and I did well.

It sucked though that I didn't have a lot of time to do anything else, including trying to read fics or write pinch hits, but I have a couple of months before my next rotation, so maybe I can do some of that during that time. Also, I was right, I'm not in this city for my second rotation. Ah well. I reserved an Airbnb in that new location and it won't be for long.

I binge watched seasons 1 and 2 of SWAT on Hulu and I really liked it. I wasn't expecting to, but it exceeded my expectations.

I'm also keeping up with Stumptown and I'm liking it. I heard it got picked up for a full season, too. Woot!

Dear Prime Time Player,

Thank you in advance for writing in one of my fandoms. My AO3 name is BridgetMcKennitt.

I like femslash, slash, het, threesomes/moresomes as you can tell from my various requested relationships. I like reading explicit as much as I do non-explicit. Don't feel you need to write a certain way because you don't. I've listed many different, varied options for each fandom below, and I would be thrilled with whatever road you decide to take.

I do have some likes and dislikes when it comes to fics. I don't expect you to use everything in my kinks/likes section, and I wouldn't want you to as a lot of it doesn't work together and/or doesn't work for a particular fandom, so don't worry about that. Just please don't write my dislikes and I'll be a happy camper.

Likes: Character driven plot, worldbuilding both big and small, alpha/beta/omega, smut/PWP, threesomes, bondings (forced or otherwise), obsession, tension, misunderstandings, subtle flirting, fluff, dub-con, non-con handholding (or whatever non-con non-sexual situation), kidfic, mpreg/fpreg (or preg in general, I don't have a particular person designated as the pregnant one), established relationships, foodporn or other non-sexual things described in loving detail.

I'd like happy endings for any fic you write.

Dislikes: Crossovers, first or second POV, character death, crack, bashing, not!fics, unhappy endings.

Fandoms: Ao no Exorcist | Blue Exorcist, Batman (Movies - Nolan), Captain Marvel (2019), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV 2018), The Chronicles of Riddick Series, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Hikaru no Go, Justice League (2017), RED (Movies), Wonder Woman (2017)


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Day 4

Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"

I commented and kudosed on someone's AO3 fic, and then subscribed to them.

Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

npt_admin: Not Prime Time, a medium-sized fandom fic exchange. It runs from April to July and this year will be its 8th round.

anime_manga: A comm for all anime/manga things. There are weekly discussions on what people are consuming and you can post your anime/manga works. It's a nice catch-all, whether or not your anime/manga fandom is big or small.

fandom_icons: So many icon batches from so many people and I enjoy browsing through what gets posted.