Rave: Had my particular brand of crazy compared to Adam Sandler kind of crazy. Best compliment I think I have ever gotten. Rant: Uni is making me want to simultaneously tear my eyeballs out and stab myself in both my ears with a rusty fork.
Rant/Rave/? - My ex-girlfriend-turned-stripper called me up and wanted to hang out tonight with her and her friends. I'm not sure if I'm happy or unhappy how the night went. Also, I probably won't remember typing this tomorrow. Shit. PISS.
Rave: Had an epic weekend, played some hockey, drank some beer and caught up with some mates. Marathon 18 hour drinking session yesterday and no hangover. Rant: Had to drive seven hours there and then back again. Running low on sleep and sore from hockey made the drive home murder. Rant: Have to work tomorrow.
Rant: Bought my first pair of Sperrys. Wore em all day today and they blistered the fuck out of my feet.. Thought these fucking things were supposed to be comfortable? Rave: After months, the girlfriend is finally moved in up here. Rant: She has baby fever. Uh oh.
rant: So Mrs. L4L goes to work this morning and her asshole of a boss tells her she can either take a 50% pay cut, or leave. Understand that when she took this job, it was for less than half of what she had been making at the telco. So now we're both unemployed. On the plus side, daughter's tuition for the year is already paid and we've got about $25k cash on hand. We can also tap into our retirement funds if need be, but I hope it doesn't come to that. I had an interview last week and was one of 4 out of a field of 126 for the short list. Here's hoping and praying. Man, this has been a shitty year. "This too shall pass." But in the meantime, it's gonna suck.
Rant: Well there was no escaping it with the career path I have for myself, but I had to fire my first person ever today. I knew it needed to happen. I supported it happening, but it still sucked.
Rave: Done with undergrad on Wednesday (finally). Rant: No call-backs for jobs yet. Applying for jobs is so demoralizing. Any of you in SE Michigan hiring BSWs? No? Didn't think so... Rant/Rave: Next up: Grad school applications. Also, new theme song.
So apparently eating about a quart of French onion soup over the course of 24 hours makes for some smeeeeeelly farts.
Rant and Rave: Habanero brats are really good. Until the neverending fire dump this morning. Seriously I think I smelled burning ass fur and I have a feeling the pain will continue for a while. They really are good though, I just need to remember not to eat any for a couple days to... recover.
Rave My twin brother is restarting his PhD, his first day is today. Its insane to think what he's been through, three craniatomies, a shunt placement, chemo, and radiation. Its insane to think how far he was from this two years ago when this all began. Its insane to think he's perfectly healthy now with no visible trace of the tumor remaining. He stepped up and pursued getting into graduate school again, not easy considering he had to reapply, get people to send out new recommendations, and consider to list his grades from the school he was at when he got sick. I'm very thankful he can do this, I'm all to aware that most people with brain tumors don't get to wake up one day and move on.
Raves: I'm 28 today. After applying to (probably more than) 150 jobs over the last few weeks, I finally had a face-to-face interview yesterday in NYC. I feel like it went really well, so I'm crossing everything that I hear back from them with an offer in the next few days. My bachelor party was awesome this past weekend. I basically drank until I couldn't drink anymore and then passed out both days. I didn't wake up with a hangover either day despite the incredible volume of alcohol consumed, and the group of guys who came all had a great time. My best man couldn't have planned it any better.
RAVE: I started a side business with some friends about a month ago with the end goal of hopefully growing to the point where we could potentially move to full time positions in waves eventually. The process so far has been really exciting and just really helped motivate me in both my deliverables as well as at my "normal" job. Its good to keep a carrot in front of you and even better when its something you're professionally passionate about. RANT: I like my building. Its a nice building. But its not a super luxury highrise filled with glamorous and important people. In the front of the building is a covered U shaped driveway, sized and looking much like a hotel would. The whole south wall is for 20 min parking. Well my sister recently lost one of the grills on her car and burned out a bulb so she came by with replacements for both so I could help her replace them. We pulled it off to the side, well out of the way, popped the hood, replaced a bulb and I ran back inside to grab a different screwdriver. By the time I came back out 3-4 min later, my doorman sheepishly asked if I could move the car and volunteered a garage space inside. I guess a fellow resident on the board complained and said, "This car must be moved. We can't have broken down cars all over the entrance. This isn't a mechanics garage. This affects my property value." And not being snotty, but my sister has a 3 year old BMW in mint condition that she got when my grandma could no longer drive, so its not like it was some rusted out beater sitting in the front. I'm almost certain it was the same bitch who tried to get my roommate fined $500 for breaking moving rules when he moved a coffee table through the lobby without renting the elevator and using the loading dock, which cost $250 for rental. Nosey cunt. RAVE: Premier League starts on Saturday and NCAA and NFL soon thereafter. Quickly approaching my favorite time of the year. RANT: I have a bitch of an under the skin blemish/zit near my nose. Ive had pretty great skin the last 6 months after changing up my dairy consumption habits but without fail, I get one of these fuckers every 4-5 months or so. Unsightly and even with proper care, I still have to fucking wait it out for the week or two it takes to clear. I feel like a leper.
Rave: Moving my girlfriend across town yesterday was a success. She had everything packed and ready to go and it took us less than five hours total. Her new roommate was around and he seemed like a good guy again, and his boyfriend was there too so he is definitely not some creep just posing as a gay guy like several of you hypothesized. Rant: Driving to Omaha for a wedding over the weekend fucking sucked but we had a great time. Rave: Now my sister is getting married this weekend. She's the first of my siblings to get hitched and it will be a hectic, busy weekend with lots of family in town but all will end well and I'm happy for her and her fiance. Not that it matters too much, but they picked a memorable place for the ceremony too: Spoiler
RAVE Got an invitation in the mail today for a good friend's wedding, who I went to uni with. I still catch up with her and a couple of other girls every 2-3 months, and they're basically the only ones I stay in contact with, so it'll be an awesome time. The wedding is a bit of a trek from home, so I'm getting a hotel room with one of the other girls. I'm anticipating drunk sex.
Rant fishing very slow today in Cabo Rave my friend in cabo knows a guy who dives, dives for lobster which are out of season and always of out bounds for Americans, said guy picks me up in a inflatable rigid hull boat with 2 other guys, one who speaks broken English and a midget. Here is a list of things that was offered to me on the way to our poaching site, weed, Marlboro lights, coronitas. I took the beer and passed on the others. The little man who is 16 and dropped out of school to be a fisherman was the beer opener and weed roller, my dive guide smoked a joint and 3 cigarettes on our way. He freedove to 50 f eet and came up and told me to gear up, we did 2 tank dives and ended up with 100 lobsters. The dive guy was bitten by a morey eel during one of the dives but he shook it off. I came back to the marina and his friend had blue marlin sashimi for us which we topped with lobster eggs. How was your day?
Rant: Boyfriend's mom is trying to play mind games with me. I think she finally figured out how difficult it is to manipulate me, and she's not happy. I feel a nasty storm rolling in. Also, Atlanta summer is killing me. I'm developing under-boob sweat before I can finish drying off from the shower. The backs of my legs stay so damp, I can barely pull pants on. And the fucking cockroaches. I was sitting in my car after getting home from dinner last night, and saw a palmetto bug crawling across the passenger seat. I tried to kill it, but it managed to escape into the depths of my car. I cleaned my car out and vacuumed today, but didn't find it. God help any driver in my vicinity if it reveals itself while I'm driving, because if that thing flies into my hair or face like the last one I slaughtered tried to, I will panic and likely wreck. I hate cockroaches more than I hate mosquitoes, wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, and silverfish combined. Fuck cockroaches. Winter can't come soon enough.