Rant: Just because a few of your baseball team mates are in line in front of me doesn't mean you can budge in line. Your jerseys mean fuck all in this store you little shit, now get in line behind me.
RANT: Blatantly apathetic people who give me incomplete info and end up shuttling me off to talk to other assholes who do more of the same, all without answering any questions. Is this a special case or the basic college-entry experience? RAVE: At least I went, which took a shitton of willpower because.... RANT: All-nighter. After a 9-hour shift. This being in a decently pricy barbecue joint on the 4th of July, at the intersection of two normally busy roads blocked off for a festival. Oh, and the local fireworks? The ones set to go off a 15-minute walk down the road? Yeah, those were postponed a night due to electrical issues. My balls were puddles on the floor by the time I left. And because the third one's charm, and this has been a lifelong peeve of mine: Blah dee blah blah, solve for X. Johnny can fill a sperm donor cup in ten minutes. Robert can fill the same cup in 15 minutes. Sue can fill the same cup in 2 minutes. How long will it take to fill the cup if they all circle jerk into it? WHO THE FUCK CARES? I'm going to be an EMT, I'm not going to be solving pointless algebraic equations while giving someone CPR or stopping them from bleeding out. RAVE: Unless my information is completely off, Uncle Sam is going to be paying for me to change careers. About time that asshole did something useful.
Rant: My dad cooks at the bar so sometimes he has to deal with drunk idiots wanting to fight. Apparently last night when he stepped in to keep a 70 year old man (part owner of the bar) from getting punched he ended up having three guys beating him while he was on the ground and their girlfriend was kicking him. Thankfully someone was able to pull them off and my dad is okay. Mom's going to get his glasses fixed today, hopefully broken glasses are the worst thing to come from it. Rant: My sister is going through some drama because she tried to help a drunk neighbor into his apartment and his girlfriend showed up and saw them sitting on his step. This obviously means they're fucking so she's threatening all over facebook that she's going to kick my sister's ass. Rant: People are fucking crazy. Rave: The most drama I've personally got going on is that my toddler knows how to push my buttons and that this pregnancy is irritating my sciatic nerve. Rant/Rave: I am covering shifts at work for all but 3 of the next 8 weeks. I'm sick of covering but the extra money will be nice with the baby coming in 3(!) months. Rave: They're taking apps to hire someone to specifically cover vacations so it won't all fall on me anymore. Rave: E has been watching Diego lately. In almost every episode a puma is chasing the animal he's trying to save. E has now started saying "I like pumas." I'm not sure that she's grasping that they're supposed to be the bad guys. Toddlers are funny.
Rant: Buddy's apartment in NYC has no AC or fans, and its 95 degrees in here. Im going to fucking cry.
Rant/Rave Well hell, I sold my car. Now I'm going to have to find another way to amuse myself that doesn't involve insulting strangers who irritate me.
Rant I just found out a friend of mine was killed. He was on his Harley and a car pulled right in front of him in an intersection, he was on his way to a charity ride. He had four kids under the age of thirteen. Goddammit this is fucking bullshit.
Rant: Financially tapped out after this move. We found a great place, less expensive, but with a wicked high deposit plus first and last month's rent. That plus hiring a crew of Polish cleaners to clean as is required, (who didn't do that great of a job), renting a van to move shit, paying a sky high electric bill, and cable bill tapped us out. Oh, and a debt we didn't know we had a year ago that got sent to the collectors in the amount of about 20 bucks (that got paid off immediately) means that we can't get internet without paying a year in advance. So we are literally down to about 450 bucks to last us until early next month when money comes in. Our anniversary is on Wed, and we are hoping that my dad and his wife will be generous like last year. It sucks. Rave: Going to be warmest day of the year so far. Off to bathe in the Baltic
Rave: Kilimanjaro climbed; Uhuru reached. Rave: Safari experienced; Big 5 sighted. Rant: Real world sucks. Can I go back to playing with the gazelles?
Rant: My girlfriend and I went to a surprise birthday party for her co-worker last night and the birthday girl was being a bitch the entire time, just looking for things to complain about. We felt really bad for her boyfriend, who had put a lot of effort into planning everything out. Rave: It makes me thankful for my girlfriend not being a high maintenance pain in the ass. She is the opposite. Rave: I was weeding the garden on Saturday and as I was about to pull this one I noticed the peanut shell at the base. Somehow a peanut shell made it's way into the garden and it actually sprouted! I have no idea how it got there (squirrels, maybe?) but we're gonna get some peanuts out of it. Spoiler
Rave: Didn't post this, but here is my boxing article on actress Rosie Perez. Had interviewed her for over an hour and put this together: <a class="postlink" href="http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/179227-famous-fight-fan-rosie-perez" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/1792 ... osie-perez</a>
Rant: I just read Mexicutioners' article(which was very good by the way), but every time I got to one of Rosie's quotes all I could hear was her voice from It Could Happen To You. And now...it's stuck in my head. Time to go off to youtube and watch Weebl's Amazing Horse to try and rid myself of that ear worm.
Rant: Holy fucking rain, Batman. Toronto is floooooooded (not Calgary-levels, but a shitload of water). This is the overpass where I used to live. Glad I'm not there now. Rant: The boyfriend is stuck on the highway and has been for an hour and a half. Rave: It isn't raining at my house. Rant: Yet.
rave: I am able to stream Netflix in this hotel. My last business trip, the streaming sucked badly. Oddly enough, I tried hulu earlier and it doesn't play for shit. rant: I really want my wii so I can play lego star wars complete saga.
Rant: I got fried at the pool. Rock Lobster. Rave: Obtained some wonderful Brie today at Sprouts. Also got some wild caught salmon on sale, hooray! Rant: Had a man come to the car to ask for money, then had a woman with a child try to get me to "cash" a check for her inside the store. CAN'T I SHOP IN FUCKING PEACE?! And if you must beg for money, don't approach a woman getting into or out of her car, it's cause for concern and possible mace.
Rant: Passed up at the eleventh hour for a promotion at work pretty much sealing my fate at that hospital for the next few years. A few years that I don't want to spend doing the exact same thing, day in and day out. It takes a toll on you physically and continues to destroy your social life. Rave: So I had been job searching anyway because this isn't the first time this hospital system has fucked me over like this and left me with nothing. The timing worked out because I was just offered a job doing the same thing but during the regular week during regular hours with no weekend, no call, and no holidays. It is just a cushy job with a slight pay increase. Rave: The real benefit here is the approximately $8,000 dollars a year I spend just being able to work at the previous hospital, staying in my bank. This includes the dog walker. parking, hospital cafeteria and health benefits. The new place pays all of my health insurance, parking is free, and I just have to bring my lunch now. And its a regular 8 hour shift instead of the 12's that I had been pulling. My dog will be fine.
Rant: The big cat shelter was hit by an epidemic of canine distemper about two weeks ago. Yesterday and today we lost a tiger and a lioness, respectively. Twenty more cats have it.