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posted by [personal profile] aliasofwestgate at 02:06pm on 11/05/2009 under , ,
Back in GR again. At the moment i'm moving slowly and glad i don't have to get to work until tomorrow. I'm still emotionally raw and i think i will be for a while, until it truly settles in a bit more. All of mom's friends and the remaining family have closed ranks around her to help her out, and if my brother manages to keep his head on straight things should go on alright. 

It looks like Mom's going to stay in the US for a few more years anyway, and once Scott's got his situation sorted to where he can cross over to canada again and bring his kids. Then after that, mom will likely move back to ontario. I'm still over here in the west, but i still have other options and my own eventual plans to migrate to canada that have been on the burner since 2001 anyway.  Mostly i wish i had a little more time to rest, but i have a feeling work's going to be best right now. It'll get my mind active and thinking about other things for a bit.  Like things to go for this summer for one. A day for JAFAX, setting aside time and money for YoumaCon at Halloween and other things.

I still have to start rommate hunting as i'll have to be out of here by the first week or two of july. Which i don't mind, that's plenty of time. I just wish i wasn't so damned tired today. Can't be helped for now.
Mood:: 'drained' drained
Music:: none yet
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posted by [personal profile] aliasofwestgate at 08:26pm on 13/05/2008 under ,
Mushishi Volume 9 and Artbook/box
Latest Saiyuki manga, artbook
Tokusatsu goods, preferable some GoOnger or possible Boukenger if can be found.
Suga Shikao's Nobody Knows single. (Limited Edition XXXholic Kei version optional)
Kimono accessories if can be found, if not order later.
The Pillows latest album
OreSkaBand's WAO! album
Shitajiki of various fandoms. *grin* Whatever catches my eye, at this point. Maybe a new wallscroll.


Pretty small, but fairly decent. Shouldn't tax my wallet too much i hope.  Still need to buy more minutes for my phone too. -_-x 


(and yes, i do have the song on loop. i just got the single last night off Tokyotosho. XD WAAAAAAAAAANT)
Music:: Nobody Knows--Suga Shikao
Mood:: 'optimistic' optimistic
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posted by [personal profile] aliasofwestgate at 01:01pm on 26/04/2008 under , , ,
Here in port huron again on my parent's computer. Kurogane is offically MIA for a bit longer, it seems. I got him totall put together right. But i can't get him to boot up at all, since i'm missing a particular registry file. I wonder if it was a boot virus or something. But if it was, it would have gotten my desky too. Odd that. I think it was a consequence of me opening him up and messing with it.  So....gotta wait for Nox to show up in the first week of june before he can get here with the right disk. I don't have any kind of backup discs for Windows2000, which is Kurogane's OS.  

No Kurogane for ACEN, sadly. But that means i have more room for costumes, the kimono and loot. XD Now we get ready to go to my drama queen cousin's wedding shower. Then i can come back here and nap for a bit, aftewards. The drive was fine, if a little cold at first. 

One more week nearly done, and a little bit closer to vacation. I'll make it. I will...
Music:: none yet
location: port huron, MI
Mood:: 'sleepy' sleepy
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posted by [personal profile] aliasofwestgate at 01:10am on 18/04/2008 under , ,
Hey [profile] mbwun interested in seeing a movie this weekend? I'm game for you or [profile] thundrheart to tag along so i can laugh and likely mock Forbidden Kingdom half to death. i think i'm going mostly to see the usual Jackie Chan antics and Jet Li pwning everyone else, but the really bad adaptation of Journey to the West plot/attempted story needs to be MST3K'd--badly.  I need to get out and this is the way to do it.  Reply to this entry or kick me on IM or something. *grin*

Part of my plan to avoid burnout. *grin* I figured that the best way to make it through these next few weeks is to basically reward myself a little bit at the end of each week.  I already got my hot fudge sundae for surviving this week, the movie completes it. If it's not possible, i'll likely go myself, either way. Next week? A massage of some sort, maybe the place nearby.  It'll make working bearable when it irritates me to be inside the place at the moment. Not a good sign, and it makes me tense at the thought of even going in. I've got thankfully short work weeks the next three weeks before my vacation, which is good.

I can also start jobhunting all over again. I turned in my resume to that independant without much luck. Not quite enough experience for what they wanted. Ah well, still lots of chains to apply at. Maybe one or two regular retail monkey jobs for once a week if it looks like i'm to be ignored again to wait until cold/flu season shows up for this fall. For now? Just avoiding feeling burnt out is a good thing.  I need genuine time off and time AWAY from work and my usual routine, badly.

I was gonna go to my parentals but opted out on it. I'll miss my lapcat but i can always go next weekend. I have next saturday off and can make  a decent trip of it on a saturday morning. About all i have planned for tomorrow is to start my spring cleaning and to call and yell at Wells Fargo auto finance for being such 'tards. The payment was set up for today and it hadn't posted throughout the company yet--and they pretty much started the harassment calls again. The rep i spoke with today was a total idiot too, which did not help. I can't move th payment until i'm caught up and i can't get caught up entirely until have the money--IN MAY. I understand about being behind and i shouldn't have to repeat myself 3 times to get the point across to a single customer service rep!  She also tried to talk down to me as if i didn't know i could change it. I tried to change it when i was setting up the paperwork and the dealer refused to. Then i asked when WF themselves called for verification and they said i couldn't until after the first payment. Shortly after that(when i was planning to change said date?) all hell broke loose, which is pretty much normal in my life.  Ending up with me one month behind and their 'harass paying customers from day 33 on--several times a day EVERY day' policy.  i can see it after 60 days without payment, or 90 but 33? bullshit and the several calls a day? Not right on any level


  They basically make it so you have to call every single month and give them a general time when you can pay them or they harass you. Then they harass you when the payment hasn't even finished posting throughout the company! If i ever get a chance to refinance this car loan through someone else and have dad come agree to that move? I'm going in a heartbeat, but because WF are a bunch of assholes--enough said. I know i can make the payments and have been making them, they don't need to be so rude about the late bit. I can't help that when the date is after the 1sf of the month, which is rent.  And if i have to chose between rent and a car payment? i'll pay the damned car late, i need a roof over my head first.

So yeah, back to movie mockery, if you please? ^_^
Mood:: 'cynical' cynical
Music:: Higher than a Skyscraper--Hybrid
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Yeah. I had surprising bit of charity come through for me from a friend on a political blog i hang out on. Last year's insanity was still weighing me down and now i've got the means to get myself out of this hole.  So at the moment i'm in the 'ohmyGOD' i'm not in a crisis!  bit of sluggery.

I've been dealing with stress induced insomnia for almost a month, and pain flare ups on top of it from said stress and lack of sleep. So i think i'm entitled to a bit of rest, before i start up and go crazy again. Mostly i intend to rest, clean and apply for a second job in the meantime. I realized i can't leave WrongAid quite yet.  Not till i'm done with this bloody well lamisil treatment for my toe.  i'm on  month one, so by month three a new job or else stay put with a second job(unlikely). I'd do better with a single, better paying job in the long run, i'd be less likely to fall over on every single day off. I'm still going to look around for both types though. Including some local independent pharmacies. (which means whipping up a resume, dammit.)  Just for the next 2 months i can't have a second job that does the 'breach of ethics, working for hte competition' issue.  Ah well, still lots of options. I'm just too lethargic at the moment to think all of them through. Bookstores, coffee shops, whatever for something for a short time.  Easy work after what i do now for a living. I'd only need it once a week until i got hired by A: A hospital or B: a better paying retail chain(IE anyone but WrongAid).  8 hours a week build up over a month, even at minimum wage, i did that for the longest time when i worked with both ATT and KFC.  The once a week KFC thing was a nice extra bit of money i shoved away to play with at that time. This time around it'd be money for bills and some play too. 

My current earworm? Actually isn't japanese at the moment. Gnarls Barkley's new album just game out.  ^_^  I'm really liking the sound of it. Old school soul vocals with Danger Mouse's beats and triphop vibe.  It's been referred to as 'experimental' and 'alternative soul'.  I definitely will buy this at some point. I just have a few other things to get out of the way first.  *puts The Odd Couple on to buy list*  Typical sampling in the usual R&B and Rap circles is pretty much crap most of the time. Pairing a soul singer(and yes i know he used to be with Goodie Mob too! :P)  with an actual DJ that knows his craft and knows how to build sounds for and around his vocalist partner in crime? Something interesting and actually fresh... It just works. I was raised on the Motown sound right along with everything else i heard, so this vibe just CLICKS right along with my unhealthy love of inventive electronica.. XD  Pure pop, but wow. Inventive and absolutely crazy in that way that these two guys don't take themselves TOO seriously. (Cee Loo in a wedding dress? CRACK!)

By the way. ACEN is official. I paid for my badge and registration, just waiting on arrival of said badge in the mail. XD I'll buy the train ticket on the next paycheck and i should be able to cover my own expenses as well by the time that paycheck arrives. *yawns* YAY. I'm entirely too stir crazy at the moment, now that the stress is mostly gone. Vacation? Yes. And a visit to the parentals on the weekend of April 19th. I wont' be paid for that weekend since my turnover is the week after that, but oh well.  I won't be a panelist this year, just a guest but next year is in the works on a new panel. Just needed a break since the last year has been utter chaos for me personally...

Now it's time for some recovery and then i can start making things even better, bit by bit.
Mood:: 'sleepy' sleepy
Music:: Going On--Gnarls Barkley
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posted by [personal profile] aliasofwestgate at 01:07am on 15/02/2008 under , ,
Been a bit since i used this icon.  *grin*  But things are going well. I'm pretty sure i passed the Boards for a Pharm Tech Certification. I should know by Feb 25th at the absolute latest on whether or not i have the official Credentials to get my foot in the door elsewhere.  Teri also mentioned i could play the system a bit and see if we can't get the company to match any offer i get from some other company. Match the pay, is the key. The benefits i have are actually pretty decent if you know how to work them right. (Which i do.)  She's going traveling again for Brooks&Eckardt Conversion again in the middle of march. We figure i'm not gonna get any offers until i've got that Cert in my hand anyway at this point. So if anything turns up before she goes or while she's gone, we can find out if they'll match it. If they don't? I go to the new job, after she returns. If they do? I just might stay.  I won't get my hopes up about it actually happening, but it depends on just how hard Kara bludgeons the upper management. I don't want more money than i'd guess Kim makes, but i at least want on par with living wages AND the fact that i've been doing way beyond cashier work for well over 4 years. The National Certification just makes it official and gives me the option of getting out of their little trap, if they choose not to ante up. 

The Corporation itself i hold no illusions on. I have no idea if they do that kind of thing for Techs. As far as they're concerned i'm expendable, and Kara knows i'm aware of it. *grin* It's one advantage i have.  They do this kind of thing to keep pharmacists, but techs(who are hourly employees unless part of a buyout and get bargained for wages that way) are another animal all together. Again, in the expendable area of things. It should make the next few weeks interesting.  I know i wont' be there forever, the question will be whether i leave now or in a couple more years. (and the next leg of my journey, which is canada)

In the meantime? I play a bit, get myself back into Second Life and back on air with Radio Riel. Clean up and see what i can pull off otherwise.  I can work the system if i play it right. If they chose not to play? I can go where the offer is given. Either way, i win. For once, i like the sound of that. And i'll have tangible proof of my skill too, in hand. Something to show after 5 years of being west! FINALLY, a goal accomplished. 
Mood:: 'mellow' mellow
Music:: Mind Forest--Gackt
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posted by [personal profile] aliasofwestgate at 04:35pm on 10/01/2008 under , ,
This is why i've been keeping my phone disconnected from pretty much 7am in the morning until after 10pm at night. (except for when i forget to reconnect it.) Credit card company call again. yes, i want to make a payment but i'm sorry i don't have the fucking money. I'm in the process of job  hunting for wages i can pay  you with. The condition? You idiots wait until i can get the money to pay the lot of 'em off.  Then i get transfered to a very patronizing idiot in the area where i could have applied for some bit of hardship help.  I hang up on the asshole and disconnected again with good reason.

Take a fucking number. I'm more than aware of my debts. It's a question of getting to the place i need to pay them off. I can't do that in my present situation and as bad as they want the money, they won't get it. Not yet.  I really know they're doing their jobs, but they likely get paid more than i do for a job that's got a helluva lot more risk than theirs. Irony of ironies isn't it? 

I'm all scheduled for the National Pharmacy Tech Certification Boards on February 13th, bright and early at 8am.  A manual/workbook is all ordered so i can actually study in the meantime.  The money for that? Was a gift card(thank you!) from my parents to Barnes and Noble, not any money i have left of my own! With any luck i'll get it by next friday. It has to ship from Texas and that always takes about 5 days with standard shipping. I'll start applying and hoping i get asked for an interview in that time as well.  As long as i've got leads, i can do this. But i really hate talking to bill collectors who's companies really don't give a shit since i have no kids, not laid off, even though i can barely afford to feed myself. 

I'll take care of damned debts, when i have money to spare. i don't have a viable 401K, my savings basically don't exist!  Right now getting to my current job is more important, along with keeping myself well and functioning (which means food dammit!), and a roof over my head. 

Sorry about the rant, i just hate these calls with a passion. I'm not stupid and i hate being treated as if i don't have a fucking clue. When i clearly have a plan in mind and i'm taking steps to remedy it. But i can't spare anything because i have nothing to spare!  I'd gotten the credit cards when i was in much better financial straits. Of course, life isn't predictable and here i am.  No safety nets, no major assistance because i decided i wasn't going to get pregnant right out of high school.  Pardon me for having a fucking brain.  (no offense to those with kids, but that bias is there in government help. If you're single, with no dependents and poor? You're pretty much fucked over in this country. That also includes the truly  mentally ill and handicapped.)
Mood:: 'bitchy' bitchy
Music:: Raven--Do as Infinity
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posted by [personal profile] aliasofwestgate at 01:11am on 22/11/2007 under , ,
The new car is gotten. I now have a 2004 Chrysler Sebring. Going over the specs tommorrow since i can peruse the danged manual at leisure in my own home. AFTER a nice long bit of sleeping in and enjoying a good book and my heating pad for my belly. The prednisone still doesn't like me but i'm not as twitchy on this dose than i was on that initial 60 mg dose.  

I had gone in with the idea of getting a Kia or a Saturn or something, the problem was nothing else was around that i could afford at that price below 350$. He brought out the Sebring and let me test drive it. Sound car, handles nice and 200$ payments over 72 months. Doable with a little wiggle room. the fun part is the full coverage insurance i'll need to cover this baby.  That's gonna hurt no matter what.  But it at least gives me peace of mind and i'll still be able to get it fixed in the long run with that coverage.  It's got more bells and whistles than i'm used to after driving 90s and 80s junkers for so many years.  I'm still leery about this but it galvanizes me into actually getting the better job and better standards. Along with giving me a car i won't have to have so much work done(or get a new vehicle entirely) to get Canada inspection ready. Emissions and a few other tweaks, otherwise? I've got running lights, kmph markings and whatnot.  Doable. Milage isn't half bad, about the same as the Spirit though the engine's bigger with a 6 cylinder. So i should have something i dont' have to take into the shop every 2 months for this kinda money. It's the reverse of the year of the neons. Two junkers in 6 months to a newer car. Where that year? It was two 95 neons (round 99 when this happened) in 6 months to a long line of junkers that has ended with Mushi. 

I won't be naming this one anytime soon. She's grey by the way. Cars are definitely girls with me for some reason. *grins* I've had very few 'boys' and the Geo Metro was one.  Really need to look over the specs big time though tomorrow. I'll grab the manual while i'm downstairs. But after a nice long morning sleeping--dammit. 

I actually felt human at work today and did better than i did yesterday. Mostly because the cold's mostly gone and i kicked the fever out of my system on monday night.  Which helped most of all.  Now it's just a day of rest and a tiny bit of work. Then i work friday and FINISH my firggen meds and then get to slide into a weekend off.  I can do job research from the comfort of my own home and maybe get a look into the papers as well. If i decide to get the sunday edition anyway. 

Most of it? i just plan to rest and do computery stuff while sitting DOWN.  Otherwise? Long term prospect? Good.  Short Term? Let the games begin.

*falls over* 
Music:: Elokainu--Zohar
Mood:: 'hopeful' hopeful

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