Rave For the first time in my life, I have been given the full Christmas week off my job. Now I can finally build my laundry room AND get high doing it (Daughter will be at daycare). BOOYA.
Rant: Fuck people. This asshole wants my truck and is factoring in a bunch of repairs that aren't necessary. I already came off of what I wanted by $900. And now this dick wants me to take off another $500. Go fuck yourself sir. Rant: This means that I have to get a friend to sell it for me as I leave the country on Friday Rave: The money would be useful but I don't need it. That part feels kind of good.
RAVE: I just got a tarot card reading from a friend of mine. I would guess that most people on here think that stuff is total bullshit, and I don't necessarily disagree, but it was still cool. Even if it is just a well-designed system to give general statements that apply to everybody, I'll be damned if the vast majority of what she told me didn't hit home, hard. Bullshit or not, it was a really cool experience. Oh, and the girl who did it is a mega babe, so that might have helped.
RANT: Just got home from 6+ hours of class and smelled gas once I walked inside my apartment. Apparently, the stove top had been on that entire time with no flame. Had to rush around opening all the windows, and now it's approximately 10 degrees inside. AWESOME.
Rave: 1st job is well into the black. Got my first EVER bonus after wroking there 5 years. All regular employees got the pay back to previous levels. Job secure for 6 more months. Rant: My position was reduced to part-time over a year ago. I finally scored another part time gig after taking all the fun out of my finances. Rave: 2nd job rocks, should be able to get full time after I catch up on my debts. Plus, Christmas party at the local Japanesse Steakhouse. Thinking of pulling a reverse-Tucker and ordering everything on the $100 menu. Rant: This sleeping 3 hours at night, then to work ovenight, back to bed for 4 then off the job 2 with you day walkers is skull fucking my brain.
Rave: Wife's last Christmas gift came in the mail yesterday. Feels good to have MOST of my shopping done this early. Rant: I said most because I have no idea what to buy for my brother. We've got him a t-shirt so far. That's it. We keep asking him what he wants and he never fucking takes us up on it. Rant: Look... I've come to accept the fact that 90% of the people who live in my apartment building are inconsiderate assholes who don't possess a shred of common courtesy, but I just want ONE day where they don't shove it in my goddamn face. There's a metal fence that runs around the building's property and there's a locked gate in said fence. Every tenant who has a door key also has a key for it. When I took the dog outside last night, we went through the gate. We came at it from one side while 2 guys approached from the other side. I got there first, so I pulled my key out and unlocked it. That's the polite thing to do, right? Anyway... The gate opened towards me and I fully intended to step back and let them come through first, but the fucking thing was barely opened when the first guy started barreling his way through. My key is hanging out of the lock and this asshole is pretty much pushing me out of the way without a word. Thinly Veiled Racist Addendum: Spoiler Maybe they absolutely had to make it home before Outsourced started.
Rant: Slacktivism. From the WDT: Agreed. In my eyes they're also marginalizing actual good causes, like cancer awareness. The one I'm seeing now all over the place: Now, I have a little cousin (less than 10 years old) with cancer, and believe me I want him to get better, but I show my support by donating time and money to help him out, not sitting behind my fucking keyboard putting up holier than thou messages on my facebook wall.
Rave: Hell week is over. Had 3 papers and two presentations due this week. Now, just two finals in two weeks (neither of which I'm particularly concerned about) and the semester is over. Off from work yesterday and today and no assignments to work on this weekend--what a nice feeling. I actually slept in til 8:30 this morning. Rave: Nothing to rant about!
Rave: My name was selected from a drawing at work and I won an iPad! Rave: Revising my Christmas wish list as we speak. Rant: Mud butt.
Rant: Something you never want to hear from your girlfriend: "Well, I'm better looking than your previous lovers, so I don't have to try as hard". It might be easier to start over with someone else than try to fix this relationship.
Rant: I have to memorize 3 pages of bacteria for a test on Thursday. Rant: It's stupid because I'm already a medical lab tech, and have worked in hospital labs for 10 years. Rant: It's even more fucking stupid because I will never, ever, ever need to know any of that shit, because there are lab techs to do that for me. Rant: Did I mention it's 3 fucking pages of bacteria? Glad I get to memorize that for Thursday, rather than, oh, I don't know, studying for the fucking final, which covers the second half of the semester.
Rant: I had a job interview 3 weeks back where the hiring partner said he'd get back to me this week. The week is over and no call. I'll call him Monday, but I'm not optimistic that I'm gonna get the job. Rant: I've had several interviews since graduating in August, but still no luck in finding a job. Either the law firms are scared off by my LL.M. in Taxation or I get passed over for a more experienced candidate. Rave: I have a interview scheduled for Thursday, and it matches up really well with my background and experience. Plus its not an hour plus commute to work like the other job, fifteen minutes is much more to my liking. Rave: It was sunny and in the 60s here today, much better than being snowed in like my former city of Syracuse is.
rave:Just got back from seeing frank turner. He absolutely killed it tonight, played everything I wanted to hear including a Postal Service cover which I've only seem youtube clips of him doing, so was absolutely made up to hear him play that. rant: Working with the ex again tomorrow.. Fuck.That.Shit. rave: Booked my flights to India so I've only got to put up with that shit for another 4 weeks before leaving everything behind for up to 6 months depending on money.
Long Bitchy Rant: I was supposed to get my tattoo tonight. It's going to be a pretty large piece, and I've been sitting on the idea until I was done with student teaching. I gave him a picture of the painting I wanted something similar to two months ago. I called him 2 weeks ago to get the appointment set up. Then I called earlier this week to confirm it. Today I get a call because when he started looking at it he realized there was a problem and I needed to come in. I would have no problem with this, except for the fact that the problem was big enough that he has to re-work the whole tattoo,and it's not ready to be done. I can't get another appointment for another week, which is causing me to change plans with the girlfriend who lives a few hours away, and is basically fucking my shit up. I want the tattoo to be perfect, and the wait will be worth it, my issue is that he was unprepared for the appointment, and I gave him ample opportunity to be so. When I went in he was basically holding his head in shame. He knew he fucked up. Yeah, it's just another week, but I'm impatient. I don't go into school with a lesson plan not done, he should have known better. GRRRRRRRRR.
Rave: Made it through two audits at work this week. SELO and ASME. If we didn't make it, it would have most likely cost me my job. Rant: My house is an animal shelter right now. Thanks to my girlfriend we have four cats and four dogs (she works for an actual animal shelter). While I love animals, I hate taking care of them. Rave: Animals can be pretty cool sometimes. My Shepard/Lab mix was trying to get me to come outside and play. She does this by barking at the door and when I open it, she takes off wanting me to chase her. Cue me running around my front yard in the dark like an idiot for 10 minutes 'chasing' her. She is ridiculously fast but runs close enough to me so I can almost get a hand on her. Rant: I feel like a little kid with a grownup job. How the hell did I get to be the engineering manager? Seriously, people ask me so many questions. Most of the time I have an answer, but sometimes I feel like saying "How the hell should I know? You have worked here longer than me!"
Rant: Had the conversation today. The 2nd worst, most awkward conversation I've ever had in my life (most awkward convo is spoilered as it is pretty irrelevant to this rant). Mother-in-law was crying the whole time. Concessions were made. We're going to church with them Christmas Eve after we leave my parents house, and having them over for dinner the Sunday before Christmas. I'm perfectly happy to see them, then, to be honest. Mother-in-law is hurt, but seems to be fairly understanding. All things considered, my mother-in-law is absolutely in the right in this case and has every right to be annoyed. Problem is, she is upset for a plethora of reasons that have nothing to do with the Christmas Eve situation (i.e. she feels my wife and I spend more time with my family than hers, is upset that our house is closer to my parents than hers, and this has been building since we moved back to our home town). Our house is closer to my parents house, but the truth is that worked against us buying it, as I felt it would be weird to buy a house in the neighborhood where I grew up. More importantly, my brothers and sisters-in-law are also our closest friends. My mother-in-law sees it as "they're seeing his family" whereas my wife and I see it as 'we're hanging out with our friends.' Therein lies the issue, as that is a fact that my mother-in-law has been unable to process. Rave: BOOZE!!!!!! I'm drinking the awkward memories away. Spoiler Most awkward conversation story: My wife and I started dating in high school. She was a sophomore and I was a senior. Long story short, about eight months into our relationship, her mother asked her, point blank, if we'd had sex. My wife told her the truth; yes we had. Her parents forbade her from seeing me until I came and sat down with them for a talk. My friends told me to dump her, claiming she was incredibly stupid to admit that to her parents. Alas, I was in love, so I went and talked to her parents. That conversation ranks as the single most awkward conversation I have ever had with anyone, any time, anywhere. I don't even remember what was said, I only remember that it was so awkward that I would have done anything to get out of it. Now, the second most awkward conversation of my life also involved my mother-in-law. Go figure.
Rave: Yesterday 2 guys in my class got into a heated discussion on if you can crush an egg between you hands or not. Guy 1 claimed that Guy 2 could not (clearly fucking with him) and somehow managed to talk him into a $10 bet. Today Guy 1 brings an egg to class and in the middle of a lecture hands it to Guy 2. Guys 2 takes the egg, and yup you guessed it... crushed it between his hands causing it to explode all over his shirt and desk.
Rave: Was just about to walk out the door to continue building a fence for a client when he called and cancelled. Now I can drink and watch the Duck game on TV, instead of pounding posts into the ground and listening to it on the radio. Rave/Rant? I have more time to study for finals this week.
well fuck me I have had my pup for 16 years, and I am gonna have to put him down within the next day. fuck he just got so sick so fast, granted he is 16 but they just hit a wall ya know. today he stopped eating all together after barely keeping him eating and I can't be the type of owner who lets their dog sit around not being able to walk, eat, shit, or piss because im to selfish to do the right thing fuck