Some Rants and stuff
I have spent the past two days (well part of them) compiling the Medieval Family Feud Poll answers. I have to get that done so I can figure out how the game is going to be run at the event, so I can figure out what we need to run the game because I HAVE to get a budget ironed out. (Whoa that sentence was looong!)
Anyway, I was going to post a really big rant on how I can't wait to move out of my parent's house, which feels like it will never happen because I have to have money to do that and every time I actually save anything my car breaks down or I need a root canal or I get pnemonia for four months and lose my job or some kind of crap like that. (I am not caring about my sentence structure and/or run-on-ness right now - my English Major friends, you are going to have to deal or ignore this post!). My rant was going to be about how much it totally sucks that I have to wash dishes that have piled up in the sink when I hadn't been home to eat dinner off of them for almost two weeks, except the one night when we ate Pizza and DIDN't USE ANY Dishes!!! and that I'd been washing my own lunch plate when I grabbed something. Also that I am the one who collects all the trash in the house, scoops the litter boxes, and drags the Trash to the curb BEFORE I leave for work at 8:30 (which amazingly I have done ALL Summer!) and Emily wont even take the empty ones down when she gets home from work AFTER they've been emptied. Yet, when I get home from work, I am ORDERED to sweep, mop, dust, scoop litter, clean off tables, etc. BEFORE I can check my e-mail or work on stuff for ITMC2RAV which is coming up really really soon. And I am freaking about from all the publicity (within SCA) it has been getting and that people keep asking me if they can help and I don't even know what to tell them to do. Okay, so I guess I still needed to Rant! - Although my language is significantly cleaner than when my original rage was running through my head while I washed other people's stuck on food nasty dishes. I wasn't going to rant because I've decided that NOT having to pay Rent, Utilities, for my Cell phone, car Insurance, food, water right now is really awesome. At the same time it would be really nice to not have to tell someone when I'm going to be home. Also, I am technically 'breaking the rules' right now because everyone is in bed and I am still on the computer. Apparently, my clicking the keyboard in the living room is too loud and my sister has trouble sleeping through it in her bedroom. Whatever! Her bedroom isn't attached to the living room - the TV is right up against my bedroom wall, as is the computer and the piano. If she'd shut her door she wouldn't her it at all. Besides, maybe she'd sleep better if she turned off her fucking light! Interestingly enough she leaves her computer on in her bedroom playing music all night and all day - she has this "the only classical music you'll ever need" cd (or something like that) and she falls asleep to the third track but the fifth or sixth one sounds like a bloody carousel! But my typing is too loud! She complained about the fact that Lorcann used to send me texts at 3:00 (when he got home from the bar) and I would call him back and that my talking on the phone bothered her - because she has to get up at 4:30. She yelled at him the first time she met him in person and lectured him on "consideration". Now he hardly ever even calls me anymore because he doesn't want to get me "in trouble". I miss hearing his bar fight stories. My family thinks I want to date him, which I don't - not that he isn't adorable and awesome, but our personalities are too similar and neither one of us is really responsible. Besides, he's a womanizer, mostly drunk all the time, and currently his main source of income is gambling with his unemployment check. Not exactly dating material in my book. But he's fun and charismatic and an awesome drinking buddy.
That's another thing my mom keeps lecturing me about. How I'm never going to find a guy because I am "One of the Guys" and guys don't like to date "a guy". She keeps pointing out that I was the only girl playing Beer Pong at Pennsic and that none of the other Ladies got drunk, let alone drunk enough to get sick. I am the ONLY girl my age who was at Pennsic.
alliquay is the closest in physical age to me in the household, but we discussed last year how experiance-wise she is actually significantly older than me, and aside from my own sisters and
lady_marna (who is 5 years younger than me) who is there to hang out with besides Guys? I love kids and youth, but I like Grown-up time too. Bull (George), Lorcann, Octavio, Vegor, are all close to my age. Who does she want me to hang out with? What does she want me to do? Besides kid's activities. I'm not good at fine motor skill stuff - I don't have the patience for it, I still kind of want to fight, but without health insurance I don't want to risk it at all. Lorcann and Octavio both individually talked to me about why I shouldn't fight, but I used to be a LARPer, and when I Larped I was an NPC. Basically, all I did was fight! When I spar with empty wrapping paper tubes or light sabers or foam swords at Wal-mart I surprise people with how fast I get them. I found some of my old LARP money the other day so maybe I'm just reminiscing, but I'm kind of missing it. Or Maybe I just really want to hit something. Also, I want to lose weight and I did lose weight when I spent a lot of time running around the woods hitting people. I am wondering if I could afford a gym membership somewhere this winter. I'm going to try really hard this fall to be able to go back to school in January. A lot of people have been suggesting that I go into Social Work. That is a lot of school for me to buckle down to, since SW is a Masters program pretty much everywhere, but I am going to try. I might just have to be resigned to letting the doctor prescribe ADD meds - I have been really resistant to it because I don't want to be a Zombie version of myself. I don't know. I just know that something's gotta change soon. This is my last week of nannying and then I'm out of a job because school starts. If anyone knows of any job openings in the Brighton/Howell/Ann Arbor/Lansing area that aren't Food Service or require a degree let me know. Esp. if they have benefits. ;o)
I don't really like the new format for Facebook, so I've been spending more time on OkCupid lately. I've been using the site since it first got started up and was called TheSpark!, it was created by the Cliff's Notes-like website Sparknotes (which I used a lot to pass my Children's Lit Class - when I didn't feel like reading books I haven't read in ages). I originally joined OkCupid because I love taking personality tests and they have a plethora, but I've also taken advantage of the dating stuff in the past few years - I've met a few people off the site. I actually know two people (who don't know eachother) who have met their SO on OkCupid - I recently attended the wedding of one them! Anyway, if you have never checked out OkCupid - it's completely free! - it's fun! (Plus if some of you join by following this link, I can get a free t-shirt - I love Free Stuff!)
Anyway, I was going to post a really big rant on how I can't wait to move out of my parent's house, which feels like it will never happen because I have to have money to do that and every time I actually save anything my car breaks down or I need a root canal or I get pnemonia for four months and lose my job or some kind of crap like that. (I am not caring about my sentence structure and/or run-on-ness right now - my English Major friends, you are going to have to deal or ignore this post!). My rant was going to be about how much it totally sucks that I have to wash dishes that have piled up in the sink when I hadn't been home to eat dinner off of them for almost two weeks, except the one night when we ate Pizza and DIDN't USE ANY Dishes!!! and that I'd been washing my own lunch plate when I grabbed something. Also that I am the one who collects all the trash in the house, scoops the litter boxes, and drags the Trash to the curb BEFORE I leave for work at 8:30 (which amazingly I have done ALL Summer!) and Emily wont even take the empty ones down when she gets home from work AFTER they've been emptied. Yet, when I get home from work, I am ORDERED to sweep, mop, dust, scoop litter, clean off tables, etc. BEFORE I can check my e-mail or work on stuff for ITMC2RAV which is coming up really really soon. And I am freaking about from all the publicity (within SCA) it has been getting and that people keep asking me if they can help and I don't even know what to tell them to do. Okay, so I guess I still needed to Rant! - Although my language is significantly cleaner than when my original rage was running through my head while I washed other people's stuck on food nasty dishes. I wasn't going to rant because I've decided that NOT having to pay Rent, Utilities, for my Cell phone, car Insurance, food, water right now is really awesome. At the same time it would be really nice to not have to tell someone when I'm going to be home. Also, I am technically 'breaking the rules' right now because everyone is in bed and I am still on the computer. Apparently, my clicking the keyboard in the living room is too loud and my sister has trouble sleeping through it in her bedroom. Whatever! Her bedroom isn't attached to the living room - the TV is right up against my bedroom wall, as is the computer and the piano. If she'd shut her door she wouldn't her it at all. Besides, maybe she'd sleep better if she turned off her fucking light! Interestingly enough she leaves her computer on in her bedroom playing music all night and all day - she has this "the only classical music you'll ever need" cd (or something like that) and she falls asleep to the third track but the fifth or sixth one sounds like a bloody carousel! But my typing is too loud! She complained about the fact that Lorcann used to send me texts at 3:00 (when he got home from the bar) and I would call him back and that my talking on the phone bothered her - because she has to get up at 4:30. She yelled at him the first time she met him in person and lectured him on "consideration". Now he hardly ever even calls me anymore because he doesn't want to get me "in trouble". I miss hearing his bar fight stories. My family thinks I want to date him, which I don't - not that he isn't adorable and awesome, but our personalities are too similar and neither one of us is really responsible. Besides, he's a womanizer, mostly drunk all the time, and currently his main source of income is gambling with his unemployment check. Not exactly dating material in my book. But he's fun and charismatic and an awesome drinking buddy.
That's another thing my mom keeps lecturing me about. How I'm never going to find a guy because I am "One of the Guys" and guys don't like to date "a guy". She keeps pointing out that I was the only girl playing Beer Pong at Pennsic and that none of the other Ladies got drunk, let alone drunk enough to get sick. I am the ONLY girl my age who was at Pennsic.
alliquay is the closest in physical age to me in the household, but we discussed last year how experiance-wise she is actually significantly older than me, and aside from my own sisters and
lady_marna (who is 5 years younger than me) who is there to hang out with besides Guys? I love kids and youth, but I like Grown-up time too. Bull (George), Lorcann, Octavio, Vegor, are all close to my age. Who does she want me to hang out with? What does she want me to do? Besides kid's activities. I'm not good at fine motor skill stuff - I don't have the patience for it, I still kind of want to fight, but without health insurance I don't want to risk it at all. Lorcann and Octavio both individually talked to me about why I shouldn't fight, but I used to be a LARPer, and when I Larped I was an NPC. Basically, all I did was fight! When I spar with empty wrapping paper tubes or light sabers or foam swords at Wal-mart I surprise people with how fast I get them. I found some of my old LARP money the other day so maybe I'm just reminiscing, but I'm kind of missing it. Or Maybe I just really want to hit something. Also, I want to lose weight and I did lose weight when I spent a lot of time running around the woods hitting people. I am wondering if I could afford a gym membership somewhere this winter. I'm going to try really hard this fall to be able to go back to school in January. A lot of people have been suggesting that I go into Social Work. That is a lot of school for me to buckle down to, since SW is a Masters program pretty much everywhere, but I am going to try. I might just have to be resigned to letting the doctor prescribe ADD meds - I have been really resistant to it because I don't want to be a Zombie version of myself. I don't know. I just know that something's gotta change soon. This is my last week of nannying and then I'm out of a job because school starts. If anyone knows of any job openings in the Brighton/Howell/Ann Arbor/Lansing area that aren't Food Service or require a degree let me know. Esp. if they have benefits. ;o)
I don't really like the new format for Facebook, so I've been spending more time on OkCupid lately. I've been using the site since it first got started up and was called TheSpark!, it was created by the Cliff's Notes-like website Sparknotes (which I used a lot to pass my Children's Lit Class - when I didn't feel like reading books I haven't read in ages). I originally joined OkCupid because I love taking personality tests and they have a plethora, but I've also taken advantage of the dating stuff in the past few years - I've met a few people off the site. I actually know two people (who don't know eachother) who have met their SO on OkCupid - I recently attended the wedding of one them! Anyway, if you have never checked out OkCupid - it's completely free! - it's fun! (Plus if some of you join by following this link, I can get a free t-shirt - I love Free Stuff!)