10 posts tagged “life”

I cannot believe I only managed 1 post in November.

Sorry I've been away for so long and thanks to those of you who asked where I was. I went through kind of a bad time in November (nothing huge, I just feel like a tool and that's embarassing) and then I had to pack up my apartment while starting a new job with a strange work schedule.

Anyway, as of the end of this weekend, I'm mostly all moved in with family, I've gone a week with my new job so the stress level has gone way down and I have renters all eager to move into my apartment and that helps with expenses.

I actually had a lot to say in November; I just ... well, I felt like a tool and didn't want to really talk about it. I've missed you guys, even though I tried to pop in once in a while to keep updated.

Am I back for good? ... well, let's not go crazy. We'll see. At the very least, I'll do my best to pop in here more to read what you've all written.

Love you, miss you, wish you were here!

Hi, you probably haven't noticed but I haven't been on Vox for the last 5 days (or so). I'm taking this first aid course and it's kicking my ass a bit.

... I actually had some funny stories to add but for the life of me, I can't remember them. I'm so freaking tired.

Anyway, I'll try to catch up when my schedule goes back to normal (probably by the end of July, if I pass my exam) and catch up with you all.

... seriously, the stories were hilarious. I just need to remember what they were.

So, some of you may have noticed that I've been replying more these last few days than I have in the last few months. Guess what?! I've changed jobs again!

... yeah, it's a long story and my old boss can jump up my ass.

What else has been going on?

I finished my Construction Safety Officer certification course and now I just need to do Level 2 First Aid, TCP certification and Skip Hoist certification and then I'm super employable! Woooooooo! You know, I don't think I've ever been super employable. It must be nice.

And yeah, that's pretty much it. I'm still looking in to creating my magazine but life's been kind of busy for even attempting anything like that (I apologize deeply to people who've sent me things to read and also to my Secret Santa recipient. I swear, I'll read your things soon and I'll mail your present soon! I have it, I just... need to get off my ass and actually mail it) and I'm still not quite sure how to get everything laid out or if there are rules about signing agreements with US citizens living in the US while I'm in Canada or compensation or whatever.

If you have information on things like this, I would be most grateful for any assistance.

Oooh, I've also been listening to quite a few BBC Radio podcasts. You know, some of them suck. A lot. There's this one guy (who I'm sure must be super popular or something) but just sounds like a twat with nothing to say except "ooooh, porn" or "ooooh, sex." SNORE. You have Chrissie Hyndes on your show and you ask her about mother/daughter porn? Good one, douche.

Yes, I know. The podcast is just an abbreviated version of his show. BUT I had to sit through 40 minutes of his blechness to get the minute and a half of Chrissie Hyndes (who's name I'm probably spelling utterly and completely incorrectly and I apologize.)

But the Chris Moyles show and the Scott Mills show are funny so I recommend those.

And if you're into suspence romance, my new favourite writer is Karen Rose. She's AMAZING! Start with Don't Tell and just work your way up. It's a fairly incestuous universe she's writing in (and I mean it in the sense that the characters are all connected in some way, not in the mother/daughter porn way) but it's hard to fault her for it when the characters are so interesting. There are a couple I didn't really like (I thought some of the motivation was slim and wasn't fully realized) but others are so good that it's hard to complain too much or too loudly about ones that don't live up to that.

What else...

... Don't watch Club Dread. It's a horrible Broken Lizard movie. Skip it and go directly to BeerFest after you've watched Super Troopers.

... I bought new glasses.

... My car was broken into again.

... My tire blew while I was driving in a city that I don't live in but still close enough that I wasn't all that worried. But I broke a little bit when my car was broken in to a couple days after I had to buy two new freaking tires for my car during a time when I was unemployed. I know it's self-evident but being broke is really no fun.

... and I think that's about it. I've missed you guys and I apologize but I'm about as caught up on your blogs as I can be. I went through about 40 pages or so and that only got me to about mid-last week. If there's anything you really want me to read, please email it to me!

When did you really get to make a difference for someone else? 
Submitted by bodhibound.

... for the good? Wow. Um. Huh. I... held open an elevator door for people carrying groceries today.

Yeah, I know. Weak.

Is it too lame to hope that I might have made a difference for someone (for the good) and just didn't realize it? That something that, in my mind, was really little but actually helped them? I'd like to think that.

I'd also like to think there are hundreds more women looking at themselves naked in the mirror and smacking their asses, proclaiming themselves "a damn fine piece of beef" but that's probably in vain as well.

What are your irrational fears? 
Submitted by Dan Culhane.  

How much time do you have? And how do you define "irrational"? I mean, some of my fears are based on things that have happened to other people. Like that woman who was killed by her laundry falling on her! How scary would that be?! And no one knew she was under there, not even her husband. It wasn't until a couple days went by that he started to get really worried about what might have happened to her.

Can you imagine?

Or even just slipping and falling and dying in my bathtub. Who would know I'd died?! It's not like there would be a disturbance in the Force or anything. Not little monkey servant to chitter away at people to let them know I'd died. No faithful doggy companion to let Timmy know that lostdwarf wasn't in a well but dead and naked in her bathtub.

Then there's the parkade thing but this is based on how strange men seem to like to talk to me in parkades at night and don't seem to understand how freakish that is.

Seriously, guys, don't talk to women walking alone in a parkade at night. All she'll think is that you're going to bind and gag her and throw her in your trunk and then her family's going to find her dead body strewn through varying areas of her hometown or fed to pigs.

Show of hands: Irrational or RATIONAL?

Which person from your past, who you've lost touch with, do you wonder about the most? 
Submitted by ancora impara.

Okay, this is going to show you that I'm not a nice person. I'm sorry to disillusion you:

I had a friend who I met through another friend. I actually ended up being a better friend with her than the original person but... well, I really didn't understand some of the choices she made in her life. She was smart and capable and just... gifted. There's no other way of saying it.

But because of some choices she made, she never really was able to develop these qualities. To me, she settled. But not just settled but (and I'm still trying to be discreet) she made some VERY bad choices.

And not just that. She became this emotional vampire where, talking to her on the phone, I would feel EXHAUSTED, like I didn't have enough left to give to my own life. And she would call, talk about herself and then say, "Oh, I have to go." And the only thing I got out in the conversation was, "Oh, hi. How are you doing?"

Anyway, I broke ties with her. I still kind of wonder how she's doing.

::cough:: I partly wonder if I'm doing better than she is.

::hangs head:: I'm NOT a nice person.

What's the most memorable crush you have had? 
Submitted by spectacular.  

There was this guy that I worked with when I was in university. The first time I met him, he had to open the door for me because the store was closed and my first thought was, "Huh, cute. Must be really stupid." And didn't think about him again.

Yes, I'm one of those.

Then I actually talked to him: articulate, smart, ambitious. THAT? Is so my type. You know, in case you're looking for my Christmas present.

But what really made me fall was watching him walk across the store. There was ... I'm going to sound like such a dork... there was such purpose in his walk, real direction, like he knew where he was going and how he was going to get there. There's nothing worse than watching an attractive man walk and see him shuffling his feet or slumping and slouching around. Blech.

He was transferred to another store because they wanted him to move up within the store ranks and they always start people out with smaller stores.

Man, I love crushes: all the dreaming, none of the commitment.

Finish this sentence: "I am glad to say that I have never ___." 
Submitted by chl*.

... watched Titanic. And no one can make me.

What's the best thing you ever bought off of Ebay or Craigslist?

Oddly, considering how big an internet shopper I am, I haven't bought anything off of either. I know my aunt likes to buy flowers off of there and I've looked at desks and book shelves and all that but yeah, nothing really. With eBay though, I find it a little on the sketchy side. I've heard a lot of really good things about it but the idea that you'll get the product you paid for is dependent on whether the seller will send it... well, I'm a control freak.

Hell, even as a seller, you're really dependent on whether the money will actually clear (though that is probably less of a worry with the advent of PayPal). Hm.