Rave It looks like the long drought of unemployment might finally be ending soon. I got in contact with an awesome recruiter who has been sending me some great leads. Rant The more promising leads entail commutes of 2 and a half to 3 hours round trip. The upside (for me, anyway) is that I can do it through public transport and not have to drive. And since I hate driving with the fucking fire of a thousand suns, I won't mind the commute through public transport, lengthy though it might be. Rave I met and chatted up a cute, funny, and really interesting girl at a holiday party last weekend. I unfortunately blew it by drunkenly, awkwardly, terribly, stupidly, moronically proposing we do the "Dance with No Pants" as the cool kids* call it. It ended well, predictably. But, the subatomic silver lining that I'm choosing to see is that I was able to chat up a great girl just by being normal, dorky, pop culture obsessed me. One of many events that have validated moving to a bigger city. If I had a time machine, I'd go back and reassure younger, dorkier, chubbier bebop that things will, in fact, get much better. Rant The upcoming holiday with the family has the potential to get....dicey. There have been a lot of things building to a potential bridge burning situation with them (dad specifically) for a while and this may be the time where grievances actually get aired. And around Christmas, too. That'll make the holidays a barrel of laughs for years to come. *nobody, not even cool kids call it that
RAVE: Got surprised with a Macbook Air today, never used a Mac before but I can tell you I am never going back to a PC
RANT: A few month's back my dad's Maltese fucked up a disc in it's back. After a ten-day regimen of medicines, he was supposed to be alright, but not allowed to jump up or down onto/from things or risk fucking it up again and having to be put down. Short of putting him in chains, the no jumping wasn't possible. yesterday he apparently came inside limping. Ten minutes after, he couldn't move his back legs, and he's now completely paralyzed from the mid-lower back down. My dad can't afford $4k to ATTEMPT to rehabilitate him, and even if he did he'd have to be on a very strict diet for the rest of his life, with a near-guarantee of slipping another disc from just about any jumping about. Watching him lying there stoned on pain meds was hard, but seeing him try to drag himself across the floor to get to my dad was fucking painful to see. Which is nothing compared to hat it's doing to my dad, which is again nothing compared to how he's going to react after putting him down. RAVE: And not even a rave, but at least something positive that might come out of this, is my dad will probably give me the Peki-pom creature, which despite being incredibly stubborn and seemingly having the canine version of Down's, is a very sweet and awesome dog (did I mention he's really, really fucking retarded?). Still, not really worth it to see my dad become even more closed-off while the six months left on my mother's sanity ticks away.
Rant/Rave?: Saw that the add up top was from Southern Tide, looked down and have on a Southern Tide shirt. Well played machines. Well played.
Re: Rant & Rave Thread Came into work this morning and was told that the project was suspended and today was the last day. Even worse is our supervisor didn't bother to email me this information last night (she knew yesterday and told some people who had stayed late) when I could have quickly revamped and sent out my resume for last minute holiday projects. So... I guess I have the holidays off. Yay...
Rant: I have shingles. I've torn my rotator cuff and ACL, broken numerous bones and none of it comes close to the pain I'm currently in. Fuck me.
Rant: My wife's extended family is starting to really get to her. She spent 20 minutes crying because she can't see her grandma before, during, or after Christmas. Long story short, her grandma has had 3 strokes in the past 3 years, and as such requires constant care, and likely won't be around much longer. The care comes from her husband, my wife's grandpa, who we can't be around (for legal reasons, VERY long story), or from my wife's aunt. We were going to see her grandma tomorrow, but her grandpa will be there, so we can't. We can't see them on Christmas because my wife's OTHER aunt, in Illinois, insisted on having the dinner where her grandma can't make it (too long of a drive for someone in her condition). When we said it was shitty that they were having a Christmas dinner without their parents (my wife's grandparents), they just shrugged. Well, now we know why. They decided to do something the day after Christmas for the grandma, but my wife works that day, and they apparently planned it for "weeks" but only told us yesterday. Now my wife is furious she can't just go see he grandma without a bunch of bullshit popping up, and if she'd known since they started planning it, she could've gotten the day off. Rave: My side has their shit together, and my wife loves it. She is really looking forward to Christmas Eve with my family, and my daughter's first Christmas, which will also be awesome. Our gifts are also finally all wrapped, and eggnog with rum has calmed her down a bit, too. Rave: Aside from the crazy in-laws, my life is awesome. Perspective.
Rant: It's a pretty uncomfortable feeling when you wake up, pour a cup of coffee and open the newspaper to find an article about the middle school music teacher that taught both of your daughters was just arrested for child pornography.
Rant: Nepotism/hiring your friends. This bitch is the most useless cunt, i could get a monkey out of the forest with no training and it would do a better job. She is one of two buyers(her and her boss) at a huge industrial facility, it is going through a 300million dollar expansion. I could give a million examples of her ineptitude but i will settle for a few that just happened. Email (from Dumb Bitch - DB) 20/12/2012 5:30 PM Hi P&D please. (quote number 1234) Email (to DB) 21/12/2012 11:45 AM A few questions on quote # 1234. On line 1, i need more info. On line 2, i need more info. On line 3, i need more info. Email (from DB) 21/12/2012 1:41 PM This is an old one not sure if you have sent me pricing yet? (quote number 1234) Email (from DB) 21/12/2012 2:00 PM May have already got this one (quote number 1234) ***** Phone (11:00am this morning) DB - Last night i gave you a PO for the hose the guy came in for. Can you fax the copy of the invoice to me. Me - I already did first thing this morning. DB - Oh, i haven't checked my fax machine yet. **** She is so disorganized a lot of the time when i get requests for quotes, her quotes will be dated 1 week ago, and she will be in a panic for them and have to fly the parts in because she forgot to do it a week ago. Sorry for the work related, and this is just the tip of the iceberg with this dumb bitch.
Rave Have now been with my girl for ten full years, and not a SINGLE frantic call to 9-1-1. It helps she always used a phonebook on me, it leaves no contusions.
Rant: Out of absolutely nowhere my girlfriend just broke up with me. Loves me but can't see herself with me in the future. I think I might go drink myself into oblivion now. Christmas can fornicate itself with an iron stick.
RANT: Future mother-in-law has an enormous tumor near her brain. That's what's been causing all of her symptoms that we've been attributing to stress/Alzheimer's/neuro. RAVE: it's along side the brain, so doctors think they will have "great success" getting it out. RANT: This has meant driving back and forth across the state twice in the last 2 days. I'm exhausted. And surgery won't happen till Weds at the earliest, leaving us in this stressful "hurry up and wait" pattern over the holidays. Seriously, the doctors keep using the term "Great Success" which makes me think of nothing but Borat and start giggling. Which is always the response you should have when you're talking about tumors...
Rant: Only two hours in and already i am hating this. A week with the inlaws family is going to suck hard.
Rant: Unemployed. Fucker. Rave: The Guy is sitting on my couch, half nekkid, playing guitar and singing. Best. Christmas. Ever. Extra rave: Housemate came home with a box of Nerds for me. Win!
Rant: 2012 sucked. Husband lost his job for some bullshit accusation. It really was. over a 99 cent cup of coffee he supposedly stole (newsflash, he doesn't work Wednesdays.) and I hope to god 2013 is so much better. Even a little bit. Rave: applying for masters degrees. I know I will make an excellent teacher. I hope they agree.
RAVE: Went ice fishing with my brother for the first time in a few years. It was cold but I think the smallest bass I caught was 4lbs. RANT: Saturday night was rough, too much on my mind. RANT/RAVE: I fell in love with a stripper, OH so hot! RAVE: She actually gave me some sage like advice and spurred me to finally finish it, it's funny where insperation comes from. RANT/RAVE: Not sure how excited I am for the upcoming conversation with the girl.
Rant: Had to come into work on Christmas Eve and there's practically nobody else in the office. Rave: All the work I needed to review was done by 9:30 and I just was told my afternoon meeting was cancelled. Going to skip out early and get on the road to beat the traffic.
Due to my duel role of full time student/dad/house-slave I never get enough sleep. Thanks to that my immune system is fucked. When you couple that with the three little germ factories I interact with on a regular basis I BEEN SICK FOR DAMN NEAR ALL OF WINTER! This shit is getting old.
Rant Ah it never fails. Mom + sister + myself under one roof during Christmas time= lots of unnecessary yelling and stressing over things like Cherry Berry desert recipes and not enough room in the refrigerator for all the food. Rave Food, and cookies! Rave Screw it, think I'm going to whip up some rum and eggnog punch.