Sticky Beak
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The Skinny
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...life in small Northern towns, working for assholes, boys who refuse to become men, synthetic personalities, anorexic models and their link to emotional scarring, bad marijuana trips, crazies on BC Transit, beer, piece of shit cars, living out of a suitcase paycheck to paycheck, unrequited love, Seinfeld, minimum-wage jobs, broken New Year�s resolutions, and over-limit Visa accounts.
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Continuing to Elude Employment and the Visa Mafia Alright, alright, ALRIGHT!!! Here I am children, here I am. I know you've been lost without the spiralling tangents of your misguided, fearless leader here on the blog, but not to worry, I'm back. Yup. Here I am. Again. Back. *sigh* I'll do my best not to be a downer or complain about "missing Damian" or even talk about him too much, because as fabulous as he is, as much as I adore and love him to bits and can't wait to be back with him again, and could talk about him forever, I realize that it's just not all that interesting to the vast majority of my fickle fans... :) SO! Here we go. Today will be fairly short, kids, since I have to get up and moving here PDQ in order to make it to the airport in plenty of time to be poked, prodded, screened, frisked and X-rayed before my flight at 11:20. Heading up to Edmonton, AB today to hang with the sister and her chitlins for a while... should be a fun ride. Picked up my final paycheque from Bucky's yesterday... well, actually, Kris did. I called them "from Edmonton" and said that my brother and sister-in-law hadn't received the cheque in the mail yet, what's the story???? Well, in order for it to arrive in the mail, it must first be posted. Geniouses. So, Kris got that sorted out while I lay down in the back seat of the truck trying not to be seen... so now I have exactly $200 to my name - this has already been allocated to Visa bills, so in actual fact, now I have exactly -$200 to my name! Ohhhh.... Sweat. Panic. Nausea. More Panic. Christ... all I think about lately (aside from Damian and how much I miss him!!! (puke! puke! gag! gag!)) is "MONEY - why don't I have any, and where can I get some????" Traditionalists would recommend that I try working in order to obtain some of this desired piece of the pie... and I'm not particulary adverse to the idea of employment... I'm just not keen on the idea of working another shitty grunt job (i.e. Bucky's) where I will have no self-respect. Basically, I'd like to avoid a uniform if possible. Particulary those with baseball caps. So, off I go to further extend my financial irresponsibility by attending a wedding in Saskatchewan next weekend that I have no means of affording... BUT! I made a promise that I would be there, and I'm not one to break promises easily. SO! I may not have any money, but Visa has loads of it. (Sorry Dad... I can see and hear you giving out from here....) Still not sure where I'm going to land, and am getting a bit anxious over the whole thing. Mainly due to the employment factor, or more to the point, the debt factor; how long do I wait for the cruise thing to come through before I say "SOD IT!" and get a real job? I'm not really comfortable with aquiring employment only to quit a month later, like I did at Bucky's. I still feel crap about that. Well, sort of. The point is though, that I can't keep waiting. The whole idea of the cruise thing was to get myself out of debt... but the longer I wait, the further I sink. What a conundrum. And then of course there's the whole aspect of "when will I see Damian again?"... If the cruise bastards don't come through for another 4 or 5 months, that will mean nearly a YEAR before I see him again. That's just not acceptable to me. I've decided to give them two months, and if I haven't received a placement by then, I'm jamming. Surprise, surprise. Did any of you out there really think I'd go through with something???? You all know I'm a FLAKE!!!! Get real! Ah, well. We'll see. Anyway, this is starting to go down one of those spiralling tangents, so it must be time for me to sign off. Before I do, though... Generally, I'd post a picture here, but I've noticed that once people have kids, they stop sending photos of themselves and only of the children... so no pics of Ange to share, sorry! :( To everyone else out there - big hugs to you all... I still have some catch-up to do on my trip to Oz ... namely the trip to Melbourne with Clint & Rozzy... and will get to that ASAP. I'm gonna have fairly limited access to internet while in Edmonton (i.e. whenever nephew Wyatt grants me 10 or 15 minutes...), so don't get panicked or pissy if you don't hear from me for a while... K? Take care and be kind to yourselves, always. Miss you all - |