Kinda late for resolutions, but hey...
I'm just hoping this year is better than the last. I've got a new chance for a new beginning, whether that job or college. Hoping to get back on track with getting back into shape. And maybe a few extra bucks to start going out again.
Here's hoping!
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college Heheh... so I had finally worked up the nerve to finally put in my two week notice at my work. Lo' and behold I go in the morning to find out everyone is quitting. My friend who works the front and keeps everything together at the paper somehow came up right after I got in and said she was putting in her resig. At our meeting I also found out one of the sports editors was moving and had to leave the paper as well. This after about two other reporters ad left (voluntarily and forcefully).
Talk about a skeleton crew in a couple weeks with a few bones missing. I felt really bad until the calls started pouring in and the work reminded me why I wanted to quit in the first place.
Ah well... hopefully this will be the fresh new start I need. Maybe I can figure out how to start going to school hopefully full time.
Man... my hands are killing me too... me and M had gotten home after house sitting for a couple she's always house sat for, and I realized how dirty our apartment was. You know when you go on vacation and stay in nice, clean hotels and restaurants only to come home and find how far your domicile has fallen from grace? Oh yeah, this epiphany struck me like a red brick thrown by... someone... who can throw bricks really hard.
It was so dirty I couldn't stand it. This is how dirty it was... first time being home after being gone all weekend, working an 11 hour day and having to pick up M in about 2-3 hours when she got off of work... and all i wanted to do is mop. so i did... kinda... more on my hands and knees with a rag and lotsa chemicals, but it got the job done. Scrubbed the toilet, shower, bathroom in general, vacuumed, scrubbed the kitchen, picked up almost everything and cleaned in general (like hardcore moving all the furniture to get every little nook and cranny), and i still only got maybe 50% of what i wanted to get down after about 2.5 hours.
My hands may be losing the skin because the concoction of chems in the bucket, but by god, they're clean!
Talk about a skeleton crew in a couple weeks with a few bones missing. I felt really bad until the calls started pouring in and the work reminded me why I wanted to quit in the first place.
Ah well... hopefully this will be the fresh new start I need. Maybe I can figure out how to start going to school hopefully full time.
Man... my hands are killing me too... me and M had gotten home after house sitting for a couple she's always house sat for, and I realized how dirty our apartment was. You know when you go on vacation and stay in nice, clean hotels and restaurants only to come home and find how far your domicile has fallen from grace? Oh yeah, this epiphany struck me like a red brick thrown by... someone... who can throw bricks really hard.
It was so dirty I couldn't stand it. This is how dirty it was... first time being home after being gone all weekend, working an 11 hour day and having to pick up M in about 2-3 hours when she got off of work... and all i wanted to do is mop. so i did... kinda... more on my hands and knees with a rag and lotsa chemicals, but it got the job done. Scrubbed the toilet, shower, bathroom in general, vacuumed, scrubbed the kitchen, picked up almost everything and cleaned in general (like hardcore moving all the furniture to get every little nook and cranny), and i still only got maybe 50% of what i wanted to get down after about 2.5 hours.
My hands may be losing the skin because the concoction of chems in the bucket, but by god, they're clean!
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I am listening to older 90s music and remembering all the awesome fashions ; p
Soo... I had my first real evaluation yesterday. Fourth job in my life, but first evaluation. Been working the classifieds in a newspaper for a year. Funny thing is, though its not been the worst job ever, I've been searching for "better" jobs and realize that these so called better jobs are not that much better at all. One is a grunt at a lumber facility, another is a parts/warehouse spot for a local hardware parts supplier, and the best bet so far is basically being a hired back/ditch digger for a municipality. Not really aiming the bar that high I realize, but also being realistic. I was almost a high school drop out, whom had a short stint in the Navy, have a shabby driving record and whom has jumped around for the last couple of years. Doesn't look so good on a resume for any position.
What really got me though, was when I was cascading through the BS of the Eval, the one question I've usually heard at make shift evals and interviews wasn't asked by them... Where do you see yourself in five years? Instead, I found myself asking that question to yours truly. And for once, it really struck me. I've never looked to the future except for the next paycheck and maybe a laid back weekend. Already I've stayed over a year in an area that I really don't care for. If I wasn't bound by this gal I love, I'd had taken off a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure I'd still be facing the same predicament regardless.
I glimpsed upon a slew of "what ifs" while my two bosses rambled off seemingly false praise (even if it were real, wouldn't really matter... because of the hiring freeze no one is getting a raise anyhow and a pat on the back nor congratulatory speech will ease the ache of bills and taxes). I saw myself working at a large zoo, taking care of animals and explaining their lives to curious visitors... I also saw myself working in a white lab, conditioning samples in petri dishes and studying traits under high powered, electric magnifying scopes... then I saw myself swathing paths through a jungle on the edge of the savanna, studying the animals and some of the ancient traditions still held dear by the local tribes... and finally I saw myself taking an extended vacation to Norway (hey, some people got Hawaii and the Mediterranean, I've got Norway... don't judge me monkey :p ).
I guess maybe I should start college. Really hard though, admittedly because I really don't want to give up the few little and simple comforts I have now. And to get a degree in a sort of biology (kinda obvious with the semi-epiphany there... 'cept for the savanna one, that might be a sociology sort... have no idea about Norway though, heheh) takes a lot more than just night/on-line classes. And I don't have the time nor the funds to get started. And this area's colleges are always seemingly on the line with whether or not they'll be offering certain courses or even stay accredited (though I thought once a school was accredited, it always was... hmm).
But if I keep on the path I'm on right now... I know I'll end up as maybe an assistant manager/ lead grunt for a company in which i'll just be looking for another job to jump to.
Kind of bums me out though, thinking about careers and what not. Don't know about you, but I remember when i was a kid and a teenager I had a vivid imagination of having wild adventures and ruling my own lil piece of the world as soon as i was outta the house. Remember when in the movies and stories, the year 2008 would have flying vehicles, mass space travel, wars that tore the world apart and new governments taken over. Heheh... maybe next year.
What really got me though, was when I was cascading through the BS of the Eval, the one question I've usually heard at make shift evals and interviews wasn't asked by them... Where do you see yourself in five years? Instead, I found myself asking that question to yours truly. And for once, it really struck me. I've never looked to the future except for the next paycheck and maybe a laid back weekend. Already I've stayed over a year in an area that I really don't care for. If I wasn't bound by this gal I love, I'd had taken off a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure I'd still be facing the same predicament regardless.
I glimpsed upon a slew of "what ifs" while my two bosses rambled off seemingly false praise (even if it were real, wouldn't really matter... because of the hiring freeze no one is getting a raise anyhow and a pat on the back nor congratulatory speech will ease the ache of bills and taxes). I saw myself working at a large zoo, taking care of animals and explaining their lives to curious visitors... I also saw myself working in a white lab, conditioning samples in petri dishes and studying traits under high powered, electric magnifying scopes... then I saw myself swathing paths through a jungle on the edge of the savanna, studying the animals and some of the ancient traditions still held dear by the local tribes... and finally I saw myself taking an extended vacation to Norway (hey, some people got Hawaii and the Mediterranean, I've got Norway... don't judge me monkey :p ).
I guess maybe I should start college. Really hard though, admittedly because I really don't want to give up the few little and simple comforts I have now. And to get a degree in a sort of biology (kinda obvious with the semi-epiphany there... 'cept for the savanna one, that might be a sociology sort... have no idea about Norway though, heheh) takes a lot more than just night/on-line classes. And I don't have the time nor the funds to get started. And this area's colleges are always seemingly on the line with whether or not they'll be offering certain courses or even stay accredited (though I thought once a school was accredited, it always was... hmm).
But if I keep on the path I'm on right now... I know I'll end up as maybe an assistant manager/ lead grunt for a company in which i'll just be looking for another job to jump to.
Kind of bums me out though, thinking about careers and what not. Don't know about you, but I remember when i was a kid and a teenager I had a vivid imagination of having wild adventures and ruling my own lil piece of the world as soon as i was outta the house. Remember when in the movies and stories, the year 2008 would have flying vehicles, mass space travel, wars that tore the world apart and new governments taken over. Heheh... maybe next year.
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Rant 'n Rave about Eureka
Right, so a little background to this help you understand where i'm coming from here. I just got out of my short stint in the Navy, and after living in between NY & Boston, Wisconsin & Chicago, Southern Cal and Japan... i figured I'd try out Northern California. Big mistake... Tell you what, if you want to see an arm pit of the world, visit Humboldt County, more specifically, Eureka, CA. No, I take that back... don't visit, but take a haitus here.
This place is named after a famous german explorer who never visited nor wanted anything to do with this place. That, right there, should really give you a clue. If you're a full blown hippie (not just a hobbie or a "yuppie") and love marijuana over almost everything else, this is the place for you.
This place is so sealed off from the rest of the world... on one hand, I can name all the major, nationwide/international corporations that reside here... McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Target. Yeah... the rest are mom & pop stores, and tons of them. I've never seen business come and go so quickly, its literally flavor of the month. You think that sounds good? So did I... until I needed some toilet paper and had to visit three stores til I finally found a place that didn't sell "All Natural" cardboard/sandpaper aka toilet paper. Effin ridiculous.
Not only that, but its one of the biggest non-profit areas in the state if not the country. Again, sounds pretty decent? Yeah... no. The vast majority of homeless in the north west USA flock here and are known as "Transients". They're called this because they come here to get a place to stay, some handouts enough to fill their bags before they get a free bus ticket to ride to another city and repeat the cycle again. I've never felt anger toward the less fortunate until I've moved here... anyone who is homeless in this place is so because they choose to be, period.
And then there is the pot. I'm not a fan of the stuff myself, believe it or not i really don't like the feeling of being "high"... i just don't feel in control of myself. Then again, i do enjoy the liquor quite a bit. Hypocritical? Yeah, sure. But anyway... this place has the best pot en masse in the nation. They call it the Emerald Triangle up here because of the three counties... Humboldt, Mendicino and another one. I guess a huge portion of all the pot in the country flows outta here. That, plus the justice system speculates that hundreds of millions of dollars of marijuana come through here. i've never really thought of pot as a gate way drug until i've seen the effing rag of people who you might mistake for homeless. believe me, there are more tweakers and crack addicts per capita here than anywhere else in the country. I do not doubt they make up at least a double digit of the population here.
And finally... there is the driving up here. Worst in the state. This place has more accidents than the whole of los angeles (per capita of couse), and by a huge margin too. Here reside the most idiotic, moronic, plain effing stupid drivers in the world. They turn left in front of traffic at green lights, they don't even stop at Stop signs, literally (not even a California roll), they leave their lights off in the heaviest of fog, rains and even in the middle of the night, they don't understand what a turn signal is for except to show you occasionally where they've been, and i can't even name the rest because there is too much, way too much. But my sister finally saw why everyone here is a horrible driver. She spotted a student driver car with an obvious student behind the wheel while the instructor was on his cell phone staring out the opposite window...
Whew... now I feel better... sorta... but the music and liquor help! G'night!
This place is named after a famous german explorer who never visited nor wanted anything to do with this place. That, right there, should really give you a clue. If you're a full blown hippie (not just a hobbie or a "yuppie") and love marijuana over almost everything else, this is the place for you.
This place is so sealed off from the rest of the world... on one hand, I can name all the major, nationwide/international corporations that reside here... McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Target. Yeah... the rest are mom & pop stores, and tons of them. I've never seen business come and go so quickly, its literally flavor of the month. You think that sounds good? So did I... until I needed some toilet paper and had to visit three stores til I finally found a place that didn't sell "All Natural" cardboard/sandpaper aka toilet paper. Effin ridiculous.
Not only that, but its one of the biggest non-profit areas in the state if not the country. Again, sounds pretty decent? Yeah... no. The vast majority of homeless in the north west USA flock here and are known as "Transients". They're called this because they come here to get a place to stay, some handouts enough to fill their bags before they get a free bus ticket to ride to another city and repeat the cycle again. I've never felt anger toward the less fortunate until I've moved here... anyone who is homeless in this place is so because they choose to be, period.
And then there is the pot. I'm not a fan of the stuff myself, believe it or not i really don't like the feeling of being "high"... i just don't feel in control of myself. Then again, i do enjoy the liquor quite a bit. Hypocritical? Yeah, sure. But anyway... this place has the best pot en masse in the nation. They call it the Emerald Triangle up here because of the three counties... Humboldt, Mendicino and another one. I guess a huge portion of all the pot in the country flows outta here. That, plus the justice system speculates that hundreds of millions of dollars of marijuana come through here. i've never really thought of pot as a gate way drug until i've seen the effing rag of people who you might mistake for homeless. believe me, there are more tweakers and crack addicts per capita here than anywhere else in the country. I do not doubt they make up at least a double digit of the population here.
And finally... there is the driving up here. Worst in the state. This place has more accidents than the whole of los angeles (per capita of couse), and by a huge margin too. Here reside the most idiotic, moronic, plain effing stupid drivers in the world. They turn left in front of traffic at green lights, they don't even stop at Stop signs, literally (not even a California roll), they leave their lights off in the heaviest of fog, rains and even in the middle of the night, they don't understand what a turn signal is for except to show you occasionally where they've been, and i can't even name the rest because there is too much, way too much. But my sister finally saw why everyone here is a horrible driver. She spotted a student driver car with an obvious student behind the wheel while the instructor was on his cell phone staring out the opposite window...
Whew... now I feel better... sorta... but the music and liquor help! G'night!
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