austincs interviewed me. Here we go.

1. What is it, exactly, that you do? To earn money I mean.I'm the manager at a payday loans store. We loan people with awful credit small amounts of money until their next payday at outrageous interest rates. My job consists mostly of loaning out money, and then convincing people, through various different methods, ( Read more... )

So I bought a new car.

Oh, and a house too.

Me: ....I can't respect that one iota.
Chad: Iota slap you in the face for talking like that.

Hola ( Read more... )

So Chad is going to be out $3700.

I feel really bad for him.

Argh ( Read more... )

One of the other managers in the city sent out an email suggesting we all chip in $20 to buy our boss a Christmas present. Personally, I think that if gifts are exchanged, they go from boss to employees, not vice versa. I mean, I'll be getting my staff something small, but certainly don't expect anything in return ( Read more... )

So my normal thirty-five minute drive turned into two hours and ten minutes this morning. Why is it that people like winter again? Have these people never been on the Whitemud during rush hour(s)? So I ended up an hour late for work. Gah ( Read more... )

Weekend was good. Lazed around mostly. Saw Jenny Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We didn't do much, more lazing around basically. Her first Christmas party (for IGA, where we met while I worked there almost two years ago) is Saturday. I'm excited. The IGA party is always a blast. This will be my third. I get free drinks, great food, and I get ( Read more... )

I got invited along for dinner by Jenny's family on Saturday night. Michelle, Jenny's sister, is headed to Australia for two months today, so it was a going away thing. It felt good being the only non-family member invited. They took all 12 of us (Jenny & I, her parents, aunt and uncle, 5 brothers and sisters, and brother-in-law) to the Sawmill ( Read more... )