What was I doing again?

On any given day you can find me sitting quietly at my desk working but in such a fashion as to have been mentally checked out for a while. I don't know what to say about it. Just have other things on my mind. Today I spent almost an hour thinking about where I might have gone wrong, how did I get to be sitting at this desk and how can I get out of it without losing my job. Sure millions of people do that everyday, so nothing special about it right... Well that is right, I am probably not even unique in the fact that I write it down into stories and poems. Well it is what it is....this thought is being completed weeks after it started.... 06/01/2010
Also my other problem is what I like to call ADD, but in reality I just lose interest easily. I would say it's my fault but that isn't what kids today are taught to say. I think it's all hogwash, but that is neither here nor there. Fact of the matter is I AM changing jobs at work. However, it is forceably. So the job that I acctually enjoy is being tossed aside so that I can join the other drones and hate my job. Isn't this a wonderful world. Life isn't fair sometimes and some people want to boo hoo about it. I think my best option is to go ahead and do the job with gusto and be keeping an eye on a way to get out, while making myself look good. Yeah, that seems like a good plan.

Lazy Sunday

Spent the whole day still unpacking boxes and cleaning and doing laundry. It really is going to be a never ending process. I have to do laundry nearly every day because the stacked washer/dryer is I think about 1 cubic ft. So it only holds a couple of shirts and a pair of pants at a time as well as some under ware and socks. So in order not to spend all day doing as I have been doing I wash at least every other day. Today was a little different because I am washing my sheets and that has thrown off the schedule. I have found an interesting flaw in the washing and drying system. The condo does not vent the dryer outside so I have a special little dryer box attached to the end of the dryer vent. Lent does not come out and get on anything, but all the humidity is now trapped in my place, fogging up the windows and on a positive side heating up the place. So in order to counter the humidity I need to open my front door. Not a big deal right now because the weather has been relatively nice but when it gets warm out or the bugs start showing up, that will be a new set of problems to encounter.

What was I thinking...

Well, Happy Day After Saint Patrick's Day!

The universal day of mourning the loss of good motor and decision making skills. Yes, I did go hang out at a local establishment, but they had a pipe band and a band that did some traditional Irish music.... So you see its not my fault, that is like a sirens call to me. I am proud to say that I drank plenty of water because this guy is not getting caught with a DUI (see this guy has become a responsible adult...sort of..). You meet interesting people at bars, people that you more than likely wouldn't meet anywhere else and if you did, well; then they still wouldn't be the same. No matter who you are, there is a 99% chance that you are not the same person at work that you are at a bar, unless you're a bar tender then that has a different set of rules altogether.

As much as I would love to just sit here and ramble on about nothing, my day awaits me to go to my local courthouse and take care of homesteading my taxes (see responsible adult). So I mustn't waste such a day, I have to get out into it.....SLAINTE!!!

It goes fast...

Coming up quickly on my first month in my own place, and now the bills are starting to find their way home. I sat at my desk yesterday afternoon and wrote out checks for my first mortgage payment, power bill, and home phone bill. I don't really know why I decided to pick up the home phone..in the bundle I got from AT&T it was something like 5 bucks worth of difference in the total bill, I could do do without it all because I use my IPhone for everything and have really no need for anything else. But too late now, I have the phone; all be it is not hooked up. So it is doing me lots of good.

As far as the bills go, they are not all that bad. Sure it is expensive but I knew that going into this deal. I have been working on getting a 2ND job for over a month as of yet to no avail. I want the job in Asset Protection or Loss Prevention with my local best buy. I need the experience so I can bid on a security job with my current full time employer. Now I am also look forward to the extra cash it will bring in, giving me a little more breathing room. It's always nice to pay everything on time and still come in under budget.

New...everything...

After four years living back at home I have finally stepped back out on my own. Sure I lived away from home for over five years while I went to college but this isn't the same. Then it was all about parties and making it to class on time, finding time to study and having a part time job that wouldn't interfere with the previously mentioned priorities. Needless to say fantastic time.

Now five years after leaving Auburn University and the part time job that somehow became a full time one, unlimited parties endless days and great friends I am stepping out on my own again. The last several years have been a display of complacency. I have a good job, plenty of friends, wonderful family why would I move to change it all now? Well friends it was those same great things that were keeping me from finding my potental and self. I think of my time at home in some ways like "Failure to Launch" except without McConaughey's abs. But I did have a good time at home, however it was time for me to go.

On Feb 26th, 2010 I bought a "home" for myself. Its nothing special, a one bedroom, one bath condo in downtown Birmingham's Southside. It's a trendy area full shops and resturants, the art scene is big there and it is mostly a younger crowd...late 20's early 30's. I think this will help me to grow and force me to proactive in my own life. This experince will be eye opening, unlike college my parents are not paying for this one...come to think of it I paid for a bit of it in college, hince the somehow having a full time job and not just a part time one... I digress... Now it is time to look to the future and document all the fun. Care to come along?