16 posts from February 2009

Have you ever dream of just leaving everything behind and starting new somewhere else?

I have been planning out something like this for months. Actually, probably about a year now.

I think I have been presented with the perfect opportunity right now, and I may just go with it.

Eventually, the plan ends up with me having a full time job, supporting myself, san roommate drama in a one bedroom/studio somewhere nice. All the while taking courses through Athabasca, or night courses, or whatever could be fit in for the next few years.

Here's hoping.

There's always something going on where I work.

They make stupid decisions, they treat their employees like crap, the rumor mill is ridiculous, they screw you over behind your back, and they've jipped me on my cheque before. So eff.

A person can only take so much.

I'm thinking it may be time to move on.

Some random thoughts of the moment.

- I miss my daddy. I think I'm going to go see him tomorrow.

- The boy's favorite hoodie actually smells like cars (oil/grease) and cologne.
- Speaking of "boyfriend", all is very, very well.

- I want my freakin' blackberry, now. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas every day at work around the time  the couriers drop things off.
- I'm already picking out my applications, themes, wallpaper, etc.

- My tattoo is bugging the crap out of me. The one on my foot, I usually forget about, but the one on my neck is right where my collar hits, and has been chaffing me none stop regardless of how many times i put lotion on it. Eff.

- I am starting to really miss being in school; I pretty much feel like i"m doing nothing with my life.
- I'm looking into Athabasca University
- I love my job, but I also feel like it keeps me in a bit of a rut.
- At work my co-workers make my day, it's like friends/family, but I'm not going anywhere, I'm not advancing very far, and I feel like I keep getting screwed over in hours and treatment from my bosses. I'm kind of tired of being walked all over, and I think it might be time to consider expanding my career options.

I'm pretty obsessed with this song:

Acceptance - So Contagious

Acceptance

One of my favourite musical discoveries of the past week or so is Moving Units.

Moving Units - Between Us & Them

Moving Units

Dear Annoying, Cockroach of a Co-Worker,

Please leave. You are obnoxious, and you are affecting my ability to perform my job in a productive manor. That and I just plain don't like you for a ton of personal reasons. One of us needs to go, and I have decided it is you and not me.

Fuck you,
Amber

Photo Blog of my day today.

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Another dollar, another day. Hanging out in the showroom at The Eagle. If you're a people watcher, my job is amazing. If you like to goof around with a bunch of guys who are like dads, older brothers, and ocassionally perverts then my job is for you. If you can answer the phone, do some basic accounting, and asign some stock numbers here and there, then you are more than qulified.

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I have the sweetest sushi deal with one of the guys in finance. Every few days he has a craving for sushi, I pick it up for him on my break or before I head home, and I get some free sushi.

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It was so nice out when I got off of work today. It's been so cold and blah out for the past few months. Today I actually got to bust out the sunnys.

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Sitting in traffic. Traffic is terrible right now. Everywhere you go in my area is so congested because of all the preparations for the 2010 olympics. New bridges, traffic pattern changes, more lanes, merging, counter flow. You can never really "drive" around town. I like to refer to it as non-contact bumper cars.

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Rear view mirror, and accessories, of coarse

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One last shot from traffic. Look at the mountains in the background. My phone doesn't take pictures that give any amount of justice, but they are just beautiful on days like today.

* Waiting for my Blackberry Curve: Day 2

I didn't think I would be this excited for my berry to get here. It was such an impulsive decision. Like I said, Linds has been trying to get me to switch for ages, but I put up a fight. Tuesday I was sitting behind my desk at work, like I am most morning, vegging out while mindlessly adding up accounting on new vehicle invoices when I got a text message from my carrier telling me my plan was almost up, and I could get a new phone starting at *$0. Well, zero was actually $75, minus a $50 mail in rebate, but that's a ridiculous steal and it gets billed to my account so I can pay it off like it's on my visa. Brilliant.

The anticipation is killing me, I'm having it sent to my desk here at work, so every time UPS comes I may just wet myself a little.

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I'm enjoying my last few days with my Nokia e65. I love Pinky, but she freezes on me constantly, she's been dropped so many times that she doesn't slide as well as she could, there's huge chunks out of her, a crack on the screen, the toggle has been used so many times it's gone from silver to orange to white in some places, and the ring tone has taken to changing randomly from preassigned ones to the default one - it's the strangest freakin' thing.

So here's the biggest job. Emailing all of my files to myself. This is going to be a job and a half. I've been meaning to get all my pictures uploaded to flickr for how ever long, I just keep putting it off because I'm lazy. Now I have no choice.

p.s. Crackberry = already my new favourite place.