My Little Houdini
Jul. 6th, 2019 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousme Peggy is learning how to break out of Puppy Jail, aka her crate. She has done it twice now, including today when I was trying to nap. Then she peed on the bedroom carpet out of excitement. >_< It's a process. The house training is still a lot more miss than hit these days.
Otherwise, she continues to both be adorable AND dance on my last nerve, bless her. I've been trying to write this entry for a whole hour, if that gives you any indication of how much trouble she gets into on a regular basis. :P I have introduced her to ice cubes, and I may have created a monster. She looooooves ice cubes, but she keeps losing them under the fridge. At this rate I may end up with an ice cube-induced flood. I'm almost done with my summer class (just over a week to go!), and then all I will have to do until September is regular work. After that, I start my Masters degree. Here's hoping it goes as well as my first year back at university, or at least that it's not so hard I fail right out.
I have an OSAP update waiting for me (that's student financial aid in Ontario) and I should really just go in and check it, but I've been putting it off all day because I'm worried I'll get refused again. I could really use the grant, and maybe even some of the loan in there. Right now affording university is dicey at best. Okay, never mind, I decided to go check, and I've been approved, so YAY! I won't get the money before after tuition is due, alas, but I can scrape by, I'm pretty sure of it.
I am dithering about the loan. Currently I actually have a fair bit of debt (by my standards, anyway), and I could use this loan to clear a huge chunk of the debt off my line of credit. The student loan is at a lower interest than the line of credit (2.5% vs 5%), and I have a grace period to repay it until after my degree is completed. So I'd have debt, but a different kind of debt, and if I am more careful with my money (I've been sort of careful, but not careful enough), then I could be entirely debt-free in not too long, which is not shabby at all, really. But it's a Big Decision, and I have never been good with those, so I guess more pondering is in order.
I should get going. I have a D&D game tonight, which I get to play live on Twitch! It's been a pretty fun game so far. I've been playing a Kenku (a bird person, basically) who, instead of going with the usual crow stereotype, looks like a budgie. Her name is Coco, and she's so much fun to play, because Kenku don't have their own language, they can only mimic what they hear, so I've been having a great time trying to communicate with a combination of gestures and repeating phrases others have said (I am keeping a running list in a Notepad document). Coco is a rogue, and since she does quite a lot of damage with her sneak attacks, we've all nicknamed her Murder!Birb. XD
See you on the flip side, everyone!
Otherwise, she continues to both be adorable AND dance on my last nerve, bless her. I've been trying to write this entry for a whole hour, if that gives you any indication of how much trouble she gets into on a regular basis. :P I have introduced her to ice cubes, and I may have created a monster. She looooooves ice cubes, but she keeps losing them under the fridge. At this rate I may end up with an ice cube-induced flood. I'm almost done with my summer class (just over a week to go!), and then all I will have to do until September is regular work. After that, I start my Masters degree. Here's hoping it goes as well as my first year back at university, or at least that it's not so hard I fail right out.
I have an OSAP update waiting for me (that's student financial aid in Ontario) and I should really just go in and check it, but I've been putting it off all day because I'm worried I'll get refused again. I could really use the grant, and maybe even some of the loan in there. Right now affording university is dicey at best. Okay, never mind, I decided to go check, and I've been approved, so YAY! I won't get the money before after tuition is due, alas, but I can scrape by, I'm pretty sure of it.
I am dithering about the loan. Currently I actually have a fair bit of debt (by my standards, anyway), and I could use this loan to clear a huge chunk of the debt off my line of credit. The student loan is at a lower interest than the line of credit (2.5% vs 5%), and I have a grace period to repay it until after my degree is completed. So I'd have debt, but a different kind of debt, and if I am more careful with my money (I've been sort of careful, but not careful enough), then I could be entirely debt-free in not too long, which is not shabby at all, really. But it's a Big Decision, and I have never been good with those, so I guess more pondering is in order.
I should get going. I have a D&D game tonight, which I get to play live on Twitch! It's been a pretty fun game so far. I've been playing a Kenku (a bird person, basically) who, instead of going with the usual crow stereotype, looks like a budgie. Her name is Coco, and she's so much fun to play, because Kenku don't have their own language, they can only mimic what they hear, so I've been having a great time trying to communicate with a combination of gestures and repeating phrases others have said (I am keeping a running list in a Notepad document). Coco is a rogue, and since she does quite a lot of damage with her sneak attacks, we've all nicknamed her Murder!Birb. XD
See you on the flip side, everyone!
