So I’ve gotten a little distracted from this blog. My time has pretty much been spent looking for new jobs, wondering what will happen with my current job, and talking online to someone who may or may not become more important as time goes by - but who lives in Halifax so of course nothing is easy.

It does however look as if I’ll be in my current city for a while longer, well not unless one of the few jobs I applied for hire me. The Fredericton transfer is dead in the water that’s for sure.

Nothing is easy.

At this point I would accept something here if work would recognize (with my newest kick-ass test results) my genius and give me a better, permanent, job. It would be nice to have some job security at least for the next year or so while I build up my savings again.

OK, so I’ve been a bit busy lately, but there are updates. Like how I aced the latest supervisor test - I mean aced, they admitted it even. Hoping that means I’ll have some leverage and be able to get into a good gig once this week is over.

Gotta run, time to go to work, first I need to call the bank and yell at them.

Also PS Sally is in heat apparently, she’s driving me slightly nuts.

So I suppose I should do some variety of year in review, what with 2008 left behind us now.

Well, I can sum it up somewhat decently by stating “it was great, then turned to crap, glad it’s over”.

I mean, at the beginning of the year, I had just started what was an awesome job at work, had a lot of money saved up, and I basically lucked into a relationship without even trying - I kicked serious ass at first.

Then, things got worse.

The money dried up, my plans to ensure another awesome job at work were all met with rejection by the higher ups, and then the relationship basically fell apart.

Now here we are, I know nothing will be offered to me at work, as I have already shown I’ll be gone the first chance I’ll get - why bother offer anything right? The relationship is very much dead and buried, and I have no prospects of a new one so far, and my the bank account which once had enough cash to keep me afloat for 2 months if I lost my job, is now in danger of being overdrafted at the end of every month.

Now, I know ending one year does not end all the issues that need to be cleared up, when I go back to work tomorrow in 2009 for the first time, all the problems will still be there.

I will however, be quite willing to let all the bad stuff in 2008 be chalked up to “character building”, and nothing else. No baggage will be allowed to be carried on from this point onward. The good stuff from the early half of ‘08? Good lesson in knowing it can be done.

So that’s my year. Oh yeah, I got to see one show at least (Queens Of The Stone Age), got to travel to another province for the first time and see a friend get married (Dove-Young NFLD wedding), and I got the hairy children of Team Chat.

2009 will see me moving myself out of Moncton (unless I can find another, better, more awesomer job here). I will get a better job - this company or another. And finally I’m sure the relationship front will be better - my 2009 horsoscope seemed convinced of it anyway. If not, confirmed bachelor and cat hotel worker it is I suppose.

Oh, and if I can, I’d still like a house…but….economic climate, shit job, blah blah blah….it may have to wait.

*EDIT* I would like to point out that the relationship wasn’t bad or anything (seems like I was a bit angry over it, reading that back now), I just happen to suck at them I’m starting to suspect. One big bonus to it was the first hairy child (PS I’ll be needing child support for him, he still destroys things and costs a small fortune in band-aids for myself).

So today I was informed that my transfer to Fredericton will not be taking place, at least not for the foreseeable future…economic downturn, other sucky stuff, etc, etc….so the plan is to put me back on the phones and answer calls and probably wish I were dead and have my back go screwy just like the last time I was on the phones for an extended period of time.

F**kin’ A.

Also I came home, and the student loan interest relief papers were sent back….again….like the third time. I told them if they do it again I’ll cancel payment, which will be done tomorrow before I head to Fredericton for some new year’s drinking.

Honestly, the reasons for sending it back are so reaching, I suspect that even though I qualify for it, the fact that they could still get payments out of me means they’re milking it I’m sure.

Come January 2 they’re in for a surprise.

I don’t do resolutions at all, but right now, this instant, I resolve to dump some old baggage.

*Goes to dumpster*

There we go. Done. Through with it all.

Hopefully all that stuff that never worked in the past, stays just where I left it 10 seconds ago, in the past. I refuse to relive any of this crap anymore, life is too short.

So I’m back home. I had all kinds of things I wanted to mention, comment on, bitch about, but really it was a long drive, in some crap weather, so I’ll probably be dead to the world shortly.

I will say though, I am glad I left home - not because I hate those people - I love them all dearly - but I have noticed every year they can all be found doing the same thing. I don’t think I could have done that. Things need to change, I need change.

Also, I see why I was single for so long when I lived there, it would never have been a good match. I think that’s what is wrong with Moncton too - not my crowd, I’d just go nuts. Probably something to the fact the two relationships I’ve had here were with people from away…the things you think of when driving for 6 hours on your own.

I’m tired, there’s popcorn, cats are happy I’m home. So….until next time.

So no more posts for a while, tomorrow (or the day after, depending upon weather mostly) I’ll be heading “home”.

Really though I have no great desire to do this. Blah. My xmas gift to myself would really be to be able to do nothing for the four days I’ll have off.

Right now I can’t shake the feeling I’m pretty much completely alone.

Although if it’s true, that’s mostly my fault I bet. It ain’t easy being me sometimes.

Now everyone please come see me and adore me, but stay away, I need my alone time.

I’m a f**king catch.

PS Ubuntu is boring, I tried it tonight. Blah.

PPS I want to go out in the snowstorm from hell….just heard a crash so loud I thought it was thunder, or the building falling over. I’d probably welcome that.

PPPS I’ll just be cozy in bed with cats and my social networking sites.

Lee is…… full of ice cream.

*EDIT* I now have DJ software. 10 minutes of messing with it and I’m having a blast. Totally going to make some playlists.

Nothing really to blog about, my brain is fried from a long week on a different shift, full of random issues that had us all busting our collective asses to fix.

That, and there was a snowstorm, and then it got cold afterwards.

That, and I hate Christmas this year and am more annoyed at the hassle of spending money to get back to NS than anything else. I do need to see the family again, only saw them last Christmas…..but oh man….I so don’t want to do a damn thing this year for it. I honestly couldn’t care less about this holiday.

I wonder if it’s gone for good? Any warm feelings for this crap I mean.

I have heard having kids changes things, or so I’ve been told. I’d hate to think I’ll hate this holiday forever.

This weekend will be spent recovering lost sleep form the previous week, and cleaning….between myself not necessarily making a mess, but not really cleaning up after myself through the week, and Team Chat tearing the place apart, it’s a disaster really.

Part of the problem is though that this apartment was never really fully moved into. Partly due to a lack of furniture. Many months later, here we are, with stuff all over the floor in all corners, in all rooms. Easy prey for cats looking to cause a ruckus.

On a sad note, I received an email stating that my mixtape account will be no more quite soon…but really every account will do that. I guess whatever fight they had been waging to keep one step ahead of the copyright laws finally gave out, so there was a decision to just give it up.

So those dead links claiming mixtape fun? NOT MY FAULT.