Rave: Tomorrow I'm taking the twins to get enrolled in school as they are now living with us! Ex wife and I were able to come together and decide that this was what's best for our children. Everything was handled very amicably and our kids can see that this is a good decision and neither of their parents were "the bad guy" so they're really enthused. Rant: They are in first grade and can barely make out letter sounds. The South Bend school system really is just atrocious. Minor kind of shitty and extremely selfish Rave: No more child support payments. I know it makes me sound like an ass, but not watching thousands of dollars walk out the door will be nice.
Rant: Always make the joke that the boyfriend's problems are always so much bigger in scope than mine. Just off of feeling sorry for myself over my job, and he gets cold-cocked by some shady dude in our parking lot, and the next thing he knows he's waking up to flashing lights. Apparently two people walking down the street at 11pm saw him just getting pummeled against his car while completely unconscious. The last thing he remembers is having a cigarette and noticing a guy coming his way trying all the car doors. His face is a fucking wreck. I'm certain his nose is broken and probably his hand too, but shitty health insurance means waiting a few days to go to the hospital. I maintain that he goes now, but he wants to wait. My only regret is that I did not come out early enough to catch the fucker.
Rave: So yesterday morning I did a Child ID event during which I made CDs for 23 kids that contained their info, pictures, fingerprints, etc. Now, if something ever happens to them, their parents will have an easy to send file to email police and federal agencies in seconds. Not a bad way to spend a morning.
Whatthefuck: A tiny, drunk, mentally ill woman started pounding on our front windows about half an hour ago. Apparently her utilities got shut off and she was cold. She met someone who lives in the apartment upstairs at church, and was seeking her help or something. I made her a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tea, and gave her some information about programs and non-profits in the area that help with shut-offs and a list of places to get free hot meals in the area. I also got the name of her caseworker so I can call them tomorrow and tell them she is a hot mess right now and needs some help STAT. On the one hand, it felt like the right thing to do, but on the other hand, I'm afraid she might make a habit of it. After all, it was a pretty good grilled cheese.
Rave: Halloween action so good it broke my cheap ass bed ...Rant: I need to buy a new fucking bed. Or at least some wood to support my mattress in the meantime
Rant: ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME, CAR? ANOTHER FUCKING TRANSMISSION? THAT IS THREE (used) GODDAMNED TRANSMISSIONS IN THREE GODDAMNED YEARS.
Rave: Moving is scary, but I am excited at the potential. I have stagnated here. Rant: My parents are getting older and I really hate that I am moving away at this time. I feel like they need me.
Rant: so Monday I wake up to the wife telling me that our already really busy day has a fun new kink in it. Some fucking ass clown tossed a brick through my car window and stole my back pack out of it. Goodbye Nook. Goodbye the majority of my school books for the semester. Goodbye 550 dollars in repairs. Fuck if I EVER find out who that fucker is he is getting his brick back via his anal cavity. Rant: Needed legal documents stating my children's change in custody. So they have been out of school for the better part of a week. Oh and also, goodbye couple hundred dollars in attorneys fees. You can go hang out with my divorce money. Rave: The boys start a much better school tomorrow, and they were even cool about us choosing to send them back to kindergarten. I also think they're ready to get back into school. Extended weekends are a lot less fun when the adults around you are constantly busy, stressed, and in a generally pissy mood.
Rant: Finally convinced the man to go to the doctor. Broken hand, broken nose, nerve damage in the face, scheduling a CT scan right now because apparently his vision has been severely blurred and he was downplaying the whole thing. If I find this person, EVER, I will rip out his fucking eyes.
I fucking hate people that own dogs and don't take care of them properly. For example, my wife's boss lives about a half mile away from us. She likes to treat us as dog sitters whenever she goes on vacation. Instead of you know, taking the fucking dogs to the kennel like every other responsible dog owner I know. My wife basically gets guilt tripped into it. I can't bring her dogs into our house because we already have a cat and two dogs. Her dogs are ill behaved, and I don't think they are up to date on their shots. So now I have to plan my fucking day around these other dogs that have to be taken four times a day. Jesus Christ people get your dogs vaccinated and take them to a kennel. Train your dog. It shouldn't be my responsibility to look after your fur retards.
Rant: Fuck waiting to hear back after interviews. It's been a week and I know they've made up their mind, but for whatever reason they haven't sent out the acceptance/rejection letter. They also haven't responded to my post interview follow up e-mail and only called one of my references (who I know gave really positive feedback). Probably not a good sign. The job is so ideal and opens way more doors than I have access to, and I might have to wait another year or more for the same opportunity. Since it's been as long as it has, they're probably securing offers from the candidates they want and I'm sitting in the back up rejection pile. Life's a bitch. Rave: Whether I get the interview or not seeing my college friends was worth flying up. One of them lives in downtown Minneapolis so I crashed at her place and it was a fucking blast. I've moved around so much and I'm never on Facebook anymore so it's rare I get the chance to catch up. Rant: On my way to my friend's place I was listening to the radio about a children's health program the area had recently instituted and was soaking up the good ole Minnesota niceness when some mother fucker plowed into the back of my car and rapidly drove off before I could get his license plate number. This was in a car the interviewing company rented for me. Mother. Fucker. Rave: Over the last few years I smoked marijuana fewer times than I can count on one hand and haven't done any other drugs. After reading a book about research into DMT I'm looking forward to trying it. My friend has done it about 40 times and is going to hook me up when the chance comes along. Shit is hard to find. Jumping back into drugs isn't supposed to be a good thing, but I'm really excited about this, and having read so much about the drug I'm confident it won't be dangerous. Well, once I sober up anyway. No telling what the fuck is going to happen on that stuff while I'm tripping. Rave: Bears/Packers at world of beer on Sunday. Rant: I'm selling my piece of shit Land Rover. I hope whoever buys it was a Nazi in their past life.
Rant: If I have to hear one more time how microwaves destroy all the nutritional value of the food you're heating up and how canned foods and frozen foods are also completely devoid of nutritional value, I may actually blow my brains out. Honey, if that's the case, how's about you just eat frozen whatever from the microwave every single day? Cuz then I'm pretty sure you'd lose the 40lbs you are complaining that you've gained recently. FUCK. Edit- this is someone I work with. We should change our name to Einstein's because of all the geniuses we employ.
Rant Ever feel like that you're at the end of your rope? That despite your best efforts you'll always be fucked? That life doesn't work out for some people and you happen to be one of those? Kinda wish I could talk to the family about this but there's no way to do it without making the uncomfortable and making a scene. Kinda wish I had a family that didn't care so I could just fade away and no one would notice.
Rant: The ADF has just had it's pay review go through and we're getting what is in effect a pay cut. The 1.5% pay rise is below inflation and we're losing a days annual leave plus other entitlements to cover this pay increase. All this from a government party that has traditionally been good to Defence. Don't get me wrong, if the economy was as up the shitter as they say it is then I'd be happy to take the hit but when the fucking politicians keep getting pay rise after pay rise it makes it hard to stomach.
Rant?: Girl at house party I'm throwing cracks my fridge open, fishes out a Negra Modelo (a Mexican beer for the uninitiated) and asks if it's from Africa....I gave her a look of quiet befuddlement. I didn't know what to say...maybe I'm just a biased asshole having grown up in Texas? Was I in the wrong?
Rave: My aquaponic system is very close to finally being done. I have one grow bed up and running, but the one I added today has a little more fine tuning of the siphon before I'll be satisfied with how it's running. The difference in growth of the lettuce is pretty big between soil and aquaponics. Some of the growth can be because it is sharing a bucket with the eggplant and cherry tomatoes. For the few that are interested.
Rave: shit is (touch wood) back together. It's strange; life occasionally punts me in the balls hard enough to kick off mildish depression. I know damn well that there are two ways to claw myself out; training and travel. And yet every time I spend a few weeks trying to drink, drug, and eat myself into comfort. It has literally never worked but I do it anyway. This time around I copped to having a substance abuse problem. Cut a couple of triggers out, and dried out while reading the first 9 David Robicheaux books and Mary Forsberg (Weiland)'s autobiography between boxing sessions. Probably not a recommended strategy but seems to be working so far. Now to lose the weight I put on like a chump.
Rant: Fascinating. We have 9 Regional Operations Managers who are in charge of day-to-day operations at facilities across Canada. Very smart individuals, capable of multi-tasking, thinking on the fly, problem solving and troubleshooting every kind of problem known to exist across our company... and none of them know how to use a fucking conference call line. I mean, come on. Is there a way for me to say "your conference line participant code isn't working because the moderator hasn't logged in yet, you dumbasses" that doesn't come across as utterly bitchy?