Yesterday we went to the beach (for the second time this summer!) and Kito brought us our huge manga package. Heh... group orders are awesome because you can get something for yourself and look at other people's books for free. Anyway, I got my 3 new books (Baku-man, Vampire Knight and Natsume Yuujinchou) and flipped through my friends' manga. I also received the payment for my, er... random freelance work. ^^ I have to thank Kito for this, too. ♥ Greed is my favorite Fullmetal Alchemist character for a very good reason, yes. I'll probably waste it very soon, but right now it looks so nice in my wallet... ≧∇≦ Alright! Let's look for other money-making strategies! \*∆*/ Oh, and Vampire Knight is just too pretty with its Yuuki x Yori cover, and so is Natsume Yuujinchou, and Baku-man, well - I finally have a book with lots and lots of fantastic Eiji-centric scenes in it! Hmm... Oh, yeah, I saw episode 2 of Aoi Hana today. I won't blog about this series regularly (I'm afraid I'm too lazy and unorganized for proper anime-blogging), but I definitely will fangirl about it from time to time because it's beautiful and I love Akira to death.

My January salary was ridiculously small (lower than the official living wage). I... don't want to name the exact sum, it's embarrassing. Well, it has always been kind of... symbolic, yes, but it's much worse now. For God's sake. I must find a new job because this is unacceptable. I can't even think of independent existence with my current earnings. So why on earth am I still here? Uh... the problem is that my office work is intertwined with my post-grad studies (long story, don't ask) which are important to me. Ah, life. Stop being difficult.

Saving money is ridiculously difficult, especially during the Christmas season.