No one likes an 80's sax
A month without posting an update? What is wrong with me? Besides the obvious, I mean. Well, I missed the opportunity to describe a series of great events, so let me give the last month in a nutshell.
Work- I spend most of my time doing this. I am still working at EDS doing customer service for Pro-activ Solution. It is kind of strange. We are having constant mandatory overtime, it seems to be because people are quitting faster than they can hire them. And then people get so sick of spending all their time doing overtime that they quit. It is rather a viscious cycle. I have been tempted to quit several times myself. But there are good things about working so much- making a good amount of money. The bad thing is that I spend all the extra money I make on taking myself out to expensive restaurants and drinking expensive alcohol in an effort to numb the pain caused by my disgusting job. I applied to get a week off of work next month so I could go on a vacation to see some friends in Portland. I kept hoping that they wouldn't approve the time off, so that way I would have a good excuse to quit. But alas, my unpaid vacation was granted. Nonetheless, unless work gets nicer, I am going to start applying for other jobs as soon as I get back from my vacation. It's just hard to have time to find another job when I am working all the time. Yet another viscious cycle!
Christmas was good. I had fun hanging out with the people in my family that I actually like, Kristi and I made an amazing dinner, and I got almost everything I ever wanted, including books, cd's, some phat 80's clothes, and a flask. The only thing I didn't get was an ipod. That is my current motivation to continue working at my present job. I am probably not going to get one for a while though, not because I can't afford it, but because deep down I am still a cheap bastard. When it comes to expensive things, I spend months doing research before I actually fork over the dough. If anyone knows another brand of a similar gadget that is as good or better, give me some info and I will research that as well. It is kind of fun to be cheap I guess. Or at least educational.
New Year's was good as well. Mel and Brian had their anniversary shindig, and they made some awesome Mexican food and invited over some people I hadn't seen in a long time. There was me, Kristi, and Rachel as far as the single people and then Brian and Mel, Candace and Andrew, and Tiffy and Ben for the married couples. It was kind of strange to be in a room with my friends where the single people and the marrieds were evenly matched. It wasn't long ago when the idea of anyone in my age range getting married was out of the question. Now it is 50/50, and in a couple of years I am going to be the odd man out for still being single. I don't know. It is all making me too aware of my own mortality! It is a good thing that at the time I was far too drunk to think much about it.
Work- I spend most of my time doing this. I am still working at EDS doing customer service for Pro-activ Solution. It is kind of strange. We are having constant mandatory overtime, it seems to be because people are quitting faster than they can hire them. And then people get so sick of spending all their time doing overtime that they quit. It is rather a viscious cycle. I have been tempted to quit several times myself. But there are good things about working so much- making a good amount of money. The bad thing is that I spend all the extra money I make on taking myself out to expensive restaurants and drinking expensive alcohol in an effort to numb the pain caused by my disgusting job. I applied to get a week off of work next month so I could go on a vacation to see some friends in Portland. I kept hoping that they wouldn't approve the time off, so that way I would have a good excuse to quit. But alas, my unpaid vacation was granted. Nonetheless, unless work gets nicer, I am going to start applying for other jobs as soon as I get back from my vacation. It's just hard to have time to find another job when I am working all the time. Yet another viscious cycle!
Christmas was good. I had fun hanging out with the people in my family that I actually like, Kristi and I made an amazing dinner, and I got almost everything I ever wanted, including books, cd's, some phat 80's clothes, and a flask. The only thing I didn't get was an ipod. That is my current motivation to continue working at my present job. I am probably not going to get one for a while though, not because I can't afford it, but because deep down I am still a cheap bastard. When it comes to expensive things, I spend months doing research before I actually fork over the dough. If anyone knows another brand of a similar gadget that is as good or better, give me some info and I will research that as well. It is kind of fun to be cheap I guess. Or at least educational.
New Year's was good as well. Mel and Brian had their anniversary shindig, and they made some awesome Mexican food and invited over some people I hadn't seen in a long time. There was me, Kristi, and Rachel as far as the single people and then Brian and Mel, Candace and Andrew, and Tiffy and Ben for the married couples. It was kind of strange to be in a room with my friends where the single people and the marrieds were evenly matched. It wasn't long ago when the idea of anyone in my age range getting married was out of the question. Now it is 50/50, and in a couple of years I am going to be the odd man out for still being single. I don't know. It is all making me too aware of my own mortality! It is a good thing that at the time I was far too drunk to think much about it.