Life update
Just some random stuff, because I feel bad for neglecting this place for so long.
- Kyr wound up quitting his job in June. Between 12+ hour shifts (sometimes as long as 16 hours on a bad day) with less-than-stellar support from management, and the fact that every Wednesday resulted in him getting hollered at for SOMETHING, he began having some truly epic panic attacks. It got to the point where he was crying and throwing up on mornings he had to go in. So between some soul-searching and talking with a therapist, he decided to leave. He's trying to go back to manual labor for awhile, as we've discovered that he needs to be working with his hands, and call-center work is just mind-numbing.
- I am gunning for a MUCH better job with the state, as I'm pretty goddamn burnt out on my job, too. I'll have hit my 5-year anniversary as of August 6th, and I just need to do something different and get paid better, preferably where I have more than a snowball's chance in hell of advancement.
- I took this semester off from school because I am just burnt out totally. I was missing assignments and I just didn't care anymore. It meant I went to work and worked, then had to come home and work until I went to sleep. So I'm giving myself a break. I fully intend to finish, but I need to get through this crummy part first.
- I actually managed to find a little bit of paid writing work with a friend of mine! I haven't been keeping up with it nearly as much as I should, what with everything else going on. I have a lot of work I need to finish for my friend. Fortunately she's busy as hell too, and very understanding.
- We've been trying to get Kyr's car together so we can sell it. It's just a terrible make/model and seems to need tons of maintenance to keep it drivable compared to my Honda. The Honda is 16 years old and, while it looks like a big dinosaur turd, it's taken everything I've thrown at it and kept humming right along. I am terribly hard on cars, so this is awesome. Plus the infusion of cash wouldn't hurt, either.