acatisfine_too

STILL ALIVE

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:32:49 GMT

The move went well. A LITTLE TOO WELL, you might say. No trouble with the real estate office, no trouble getting the phone set up, no trouble (thus far) with getting our broadband connected. I really thought it'd be more difficult.

The new house is AWESOME. Literally a stone's throw from both Hungry Jack's and KFC. It's a small house, but everything's laid out really well so there's heaps of room to move. The two main rooms are close enough that we can yell insults at each other during a heated CoD4 match, but sound-insulated well enough that we can both listen to our own music at any reasonable level.

One week and it already feels like home :3

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:14:39 GMT

Now that I've got a concrete date for moving out (next Wednesday, the 20th) I'm actually motivated to clean this room up a little and get everything nice and neat so it's easy to pack away. It's great having room on the floor again.

WOOOO WOOOO

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:21:24 GMT

Dad just got a call from Stean Nicholls, the last real estate agent we applied to. Apparently the woner of the house wants to take another look at us. Here's hoping they like what they see this time.

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:03:14 GMT

Emo and Goth to be made illegal in Russia.

Do want.

Edit: posted a nothing link. It should work now.

:D

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:44:52 GMT

<AnonDesu> I, on the other hand, will try to find a job doing awesome things.
<Marisa> AnonDesu, you mean awesome like playing guitar on the back of a shark?
<AnonDesu> More awesome than that.
<AnonDesu> Like playing a guitar made out of the back of a shark on the back of a guitar-shark hybrid.
<AnonDesu> The shark is also a dragon.
<AnonDesu> Made of lasers.

In other news, I'm not working next week. Like, not at all. I'm really gonna have to find a better job when I'm settled in Albury.

Brrrrrr.

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:38:09 GMT

I hate Winter, it makes me so damn lazy. I spent the last five minutes looking for my pajama shirt, turns out it was under my jumper.

/quit #life

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:18:48 GMT

I'm well and truly coming into a low. Fan-friggin'-tastic.

Bleh.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:15:11 GMT

I wish I was more passionate about... well, everything, I guess. I've got a bad habit of sitting back and waiting for things to sort themselves out, even if I want to pursue something I'm rarely motivated enough to do so. It's... it's frustrating how many opportunities I miss out on because I'm just to damn lazy to 'chase my dreams', as it were.

Something has to change. Too bad I'm not motivated to push for it.

I'll learn my lesson someday.

Note that I'm actually in a good mood now, this is just... a realisation of sorts. Doesn't mean I'm depressed or anything.

In other news, going to see The Dark Knight with Wernyoh, Lachlan and probably others tomorrow (well, today). I wasn't the biggest fan of Batman Begins, but this new one definitely has me interested. I've got really high expectations for some reason. We'll see whether they're justified or not.

Might meet up with Em, might not. Not really sure how I feel on that whole situation, since that was one impetus for the first part of this particular post. Oh well, we'll see what the future brings, I guess. God I'm sick of saying that.

Going for coffee tomorrow morning, too, presumably with the usual people. I'm looking forward to that, it's nice to get myself up early and go out to meet friends while the day's still fresh. Always puts me in a good mood. Tomorrow's going to be fun.

Be nice if I felt like sleeping, though. 1a.m. has become an early bedtime, and 4a.m. late. I might have to do something about that, too.

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:14:54 GMT

i've had a bit of a shift in the past few minutes. ate some dim sims and had a nice warm shower. my stomach has calmed down a bit, but now i'm not concentrating on not throwing up my head is a bit of a mess.

oh well, i get that a lot.

i've developed a crush on a friend, so that's kinda nice, but it's a bit lame that it doesn't look like it's going anywhere. not like that's a new experience, but y'know, i'm used to that too :p whatever though, right? i'm not in any mad rush to date somebody new anyway, meeting up with rose and realising how much love obfuscates people's qualities to me kinda put me off the whole love thing a bit. i prefer to see people the way they are.

i had fun with her last night, even if i was only conscious for a couple of hours.

god i need sleep, my vocalbulary has shrunk like crazy. i know what i'm trying to say but the right words seem to be hiding. eh, that isn't new either. i've spent the past couple of minutes debating whether to even post this, but i did say i'd post more now that i'm back in depressed mode so here it is.

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:04:22 GMT

eugh, last night was horrible. never drinking that much again >.> i think i passed out by 11:30. sorry about that, everyone. i feel really bad about it :<

i think i activated my ronery mode at some point, too, but y'know, whatever. i'll survive, i always do. on the plus side, that means i'll probably be posting in this thing a lot more.

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:57:22 GMT

Work called yesterday, told me they didn't need me. Sweet.

They called again a few hours later, told me they only needed me for four hours today instead of nine. Double sweet.

As I was leaving today, they told me they won't need me tomorrow either. Fuck.

I was expecting 26 hours this week, ended up doing 12. I was looking forward to that money :<

Now, I'm not working till Thursday. I'm going to enjoy my days off, even if I don't get paid for it.

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:39 GMT

I'm not dead, just out of things to talk about. With this whole moving out thing looming around the corner, I think the usual minutia I drone on about are kinda overshadowed.

Oh boy, Saturday is going to be fun. 9-hour lay-by shift. NINE GODDAMN HOURS jesus fuck. I usually do four hours, a couple of times I've done five, but nine is just... oh dear god. So not looking forward to that.

Back to moving out, seems like we're moving to Albury. Work is closer for me (and Lachlan too,if he gets a transfer), and... uh, Sodens is closer too. That'll save us ~$20 for an interstate taxi. Plus, Albury's internet is like superfast compared to Wodonga, and a lot cheaper to. I basically live on my computer, so a good internet deal is one of the bigger concerns I've got >.>

Guh, soooo tired. I guess staying up till 4am for a week will do that. I've gotta find a place that does nightshifts so I can just go nocturnal already.

bawww

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:10:14 GMT

I gotta stop watching such depressing shows :(

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:36:00 GMT

Update time. I didn't realise how long it'd been.

Well, we don't have the house yet, but we... don't not have it (forgive the double negative). They're still recieving applications, but we haven't been counted out yet.

I'm working five hours on Monday, can't remember how much public holiday pay is but it's sgnificantly more than otherwise. I'm happy I'm getting a lot of work, I'm moving out pretty soon and I'll need all the money I can get.

One thing in the way of that, though: My computer died. I'm going to have to replace the video card before I can do anything with it, and that's going to cost a bit.

I've been sleeping well, getting less sick, et cetera.

Bump.

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:23:15 GMT

So, I guess an update is in order. It's been a while.

I'm slowly recovering from this cold again. I'm definitely past the worst of it, I lost my voice a couple of times on Tuesday, I had a couple of mid-customer coughing fits at work on Wednesday, ditto Thursday, got to work with three hours of couch sleep on Friday. Not much to say about the weekend, thankfully. I've got no work until Thursday this week, I'm looking forward to having some relaxing time.

Lachlan's cat went in for desexing on Friday, and turns out that... his balls are still inside his body, to put it bluntly. A minor, $80 operation has escalated to a major ~$300 operation. If nothing's done about it he'll become infertile (but hey, isn't that the idea of the operation?), but he could also develop cancer which is, of course, bad.

Uh, some bad news on the house, we think. Jess has become convinced that we've missed the application (because we never heard back from the real estate people, and the rent has been dropped by $10 since we applied) and her paranoia is rubbing off on the rest of us, so we'll see what happens. If we get it, great, if not I'm getting an application form for every house for rent here or Albury.

Bump.

Sun, 25 May 2008 14:28:45 GMT

So, a few minor developments. Work is progressing well, I'm getting a lot better and a lot faster. That's... really all I have to say on that front. Nothing really out-of-the-ordinary has happened in that respect.

My grandparents are going to give me $200 to get me started when I move out. They're also going to try and buy me a car. a 1989 Mazda, driven only ~65,000km by an old man who died on the weekend, which means it should be nice and clean. And well taken care of. Not like the guy it belonged to >.> It's worth about $1,000 they said, and they'll throw in twelve months registration if they get the car. All I'll have to do is take a train up there and drive it home.

It's, uh, four-cylinder I think, which means cheap petrol. That's about all I'd want in a car.

I'm sure there's more, but the past few days/weeks/months have been exhausting. I need to sleep to get my thoughts back together, I think.

Mon, 19 May 2008 08:01:05 GMT

I got a phone call from Work today. They want me to do four-and-a-half hours tomorrow, on top of the sixteen-and-a-half I'm already scheduled to do this week. If they're calling me up for extra work I must be doing well. Also, 21 hours work this week, at... $15.45348 an hour apparently, totals ~$325 for a week's work. Shit yes I love working.

Sunday was great. I had to do all sorts of complicated crap and I didn't need to ask for help even once. I feel so much more confident about it now, it's fantastic.

Apparently, Lachlan has found a different house we could move into. Roughly same price (a little more expensive, maybe $10 a week) but it has four bedrooms so I won't be stuck converting the loungeroom into a makeshift bedroom. Kind of a pity, really. I was looking forward to having the biggest room in the house.

Sun, 18 May 2008 13:13:22 GMT

Short post, since it's been a while.

Work today was good. I didn't have to ask for help even once.

Ernie (the old cat) has a thyroid gland infection of some sort, which is why he's so damn thin. He needs surgery or medication for the rest of his life, which according to the vet, will be a couple of years at least. We'll probably get him operated on, for everyone's sake. He hates taking medication.

That's all, I think.

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:24:19 GMT

It's early days still, so I guess it's progress report time. Work is still fun (apart from 'door shifts'), and I come off a completed shift with a weird sense of confidence and exhilaration. It's nice. Plus, flippantly checking my ATM and finding $90 that wasn't there yesterday is a nice feeling.

Since I started I've bought myself a good tablet and decent mp3 player speakers to replace my old dying pair, and I'm pretty much set until I move out. Get that application thing dealt with, Lachlan. I wanna be out of this place.

As life in general gets better, Uni is getting worse. I dunno if I'll make it to the end of the year, and even if I do I won't be going back next year. I'll get my life moving in one direction, and I'll pick up Uni again somewhere down the track I think.

That cold or whatever it gone, but it left the sore throat behind. the more I talk the worse it hurts, which would be fine if I were allowed to be my usual cave-dwelling self, but Adam's been here for the past... nine hours? So no such luck.

Having visitors is great when they're unannounced. I think my problem with Adam is the way he... well, interrupts me a lot. I don't like being interrupted. We planned for him to come over though, so it all worked out good. We played TF2 and Warcraft 3 for a while, then ended up playing through most of Doom, half-coop-half-deathmatch. My fucking God that shit is fun multiplayer.

Joel is in town, as well. It's good that he actually got in contact with me this time >:| We bummmed around Birralee for a while, that was fun. Then we came back and watched videos and shit. Exciting, I know.

I can tell I'm getting boring, so wrapping up: Still having fun with shit, nothing to complain ab9out really.

(Lachlan, if you wanna do metal night next week get in contact, we have shit to discuss)

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:35:27 GMT

Looks like that flu or whatever buggered off just in time. The sniffles lingered, but they disappeared somewhere along the car ride to work. Very naise.

Being sick is a bitch.

Mon, 05 May 2008 10:03:49 GMT

I'm sure it's just a cold or something, but damn. I haven't felt this bad in a long time. My whole body aches (especially my throat). I freeze even under three layers of clothing. I'm starving, but as soon as the aroma of food hits my nose I feel even worse. I'm shaking almost constantly, partly because of the cold but mostly because my limbs aren't strong enough to hold themselves up. Fuck, I hope it's gone by tomorrow. I've got my first shift on Wednesday and I'm sure I'll leave a terrible impression if I have to call in sick.

I'm sure this bedroom is contributing in no small way to my illness. There's no carpet and a gaping hole in the wall, which leaves absolutely fuck all in the way of insulation. I can not wait until I can get the hell out of here. Maybe if I clean the place up a bit it'll get better, but I can't find the energy to do something so time-consuming if new lodging is right around the corner.

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with friends, over things that have nothing to do with me. I hate hate hate when that happens. I'm hoping I'll get over it soon, I rely on my friends a lot and I can't really afford to lose them.

There's more to say, but you know how illness sucks away any motivation. I might go into more detail another time.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:30:49 GMT

Oh shit, going to a concert with Lachlan on Saturday. We'll see how that fits in with the Aphex thing.

On another note, working next Wednesday, for four hours. Longest shift, and first unaided. Woo hoo.

On yet another note, I got a tablet today. It's easier to use than I'd expected. I'm planning on producing some quality Touhou fanart, but we'll see how that goes.

Fuck it's cold.

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:22:52 GMT

Uh... what to say tonight? I've got a few things saved up, I guess. It's been a few days.

Next time I work, I'll be completely unassisted. That's gonna be scary, but I should manage as long as nothing too outlandish happens. I'm looking forward to it.

I think I may be becoming an alcoholic >.> Seems like the only reason I never drank at home alone was because I didn't like Tequila that much. I snagged some apple vodka last week, though, and that mixed with lemonade is one of the nicest things I've tasted.

Life is good right now. Very good. I've got some direction, which is exactly what I need to stop myself from getting bored with life. Keeping short-term, easily attainable goals is the key to happiness :D

Weekend is looking to be... an 'experience'. Aphex gets out of the Navy in the next couple of days, and since maybe three of us Desuchanners can make it to wherever he's going to be at the time we're going to find some simple videoconferencing software and get drunk together. Exciting!

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:28:53 GMT

So today was my last training shift. I'm on my own from here on. It was kinda fun, if a tad monotonous. Whatever, I'll survive.

Some girl tried to steal a pen. Then her mum tried to steal a CD. lolwut.

Going to Lachlan's again. I'll have been there five days in a row now e_e At least i'm getting a feel of what it'll be like to live with him, kinda.

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:12:07 GMT

Short post today. Had register training for three hours. Seems like it's going to be a lot of fun when I go back on Saturday. It'll be a 'buddy shift', where I serve customer with a guy behind me making sure I don't cock it up. After that, that's it for my training. I'll be on my own. It's kinda daunting, but I'm still looking forward to it.