(no subject)
Things are looking much better than they did during my last post. I had one Down day, but it wasn't too awful and it wasn't anything a nap couldn't fix.
I interviewed for a call center position on Monday and I totally got it! I start next Monday, it is full time, guaranteed forty hours per week. Training lasts for three weeks and then on the fourth week my permanent schedule goes into place. It's a weird schedule but I don't mind. I get every Sunday and Tuesday off, plus I don't start until 12:30 which means I'll have some open hours in the morning for a) sleeping in b) actually showering before work ((don't you judge)) or c) setting up doctor appointments or going to the bank. My least favorite part about my schedule at Telelanguage was that since I worked from 8:30 to 5:30 it meant I never managed to get to the bank during the week. Disaster!
Anyway, hopefully this new job means a) I will be able to pay my portion of rent on or around the first of the month ((Today is the 22nd and I am still paying on December's rent.)) b)I will be able to catch up on all of my debts c) I will be able to buy some cannabis on a regular basis and d)I will be able to afford to go to culinary school.
Which brings me to the next portion of Things In My Life:
I have decided to go to culinary school to become a pastry chef!
I'm not sure exactly when I will be able to go, or where I will go even, but I am going! I love baking and I really feel like it is something that would bring me a lot of joy. I don't want to work in office settings all my life. I certainly don't want to keep working in call centers. I guess there is a Cordon Bleu in Portland, and also one in Austin, TX ((which is some place Yakiri and I have discussed living in the future)) so I think I might have to look into them and see what's up. Apparently the local community college also has a culinary program, so I will have to look into it.
So far I have already felt frustrated while trying to research culinary programs in the area. The information online isn't organized very well and somehow "culinary programs in Columbus, OH" still brings up information on Cordon Bleu schools around the country. Plus it seems like pasty arts are a bit of an afterthought in a lot of the programs so I'll have to dig a little deeper to find a place that will work for me. ((Although between you and me (and anyone who has tasted my cooking), I could really use some actual cooking lessons.))
The other good news is that although I have found myself a new, full-time job I still wouldn't be able to buy my ticket back to Portland until the end of January which is just way too late to buy a plane ticket for the first week of February. Yakiri was thinking about this and told me he would just buy my tickets on his next paycheck and then I could pay him back. HOORAY! I will definitely be able to see my lovely Dr. Nicci Muffin-face and my Loony, I will definitely be able to see my wonderful family, I will definitely be home for Super Bowl Sunday and I will absolutely get to smoke some wonderful Pacific Northwest cannabis. Done and done.
I'm so glad about this because I was really beginning to worry that I wouldn't be able to make it home. Even though I was able to find some more or less reasonably priced tickets (flying out of Cincinnati- boooo!), I still am struggling to pay all my rent and bills. Plus my mom let me know yesterday that she just can't afford to keep my cell phone on her plan any more so she needs to me to get my own phone on my first paycheck. I certainly can't blame her, but this is just one more thing I need to pay for on my gigantic list of bills. Frightening.
Plus I am nervous about having my own phone plan again because I haven't paid for my own phone in two years now. Maybe more than two years? I can't even remember. Two or three years. The point is, I am terrified about making monthly payments. Absolutely shivering. Whatever, I'll figure it out and pay those damn bills. I won't be going with any of the major companies (I owe T-Mobile roughly $400; Verizon and Sprint and AT&T are all too expensive), but with a smaller, much much cheaper one. Not Virgin because their service sucks so bad. I'll figure something out.
Anyway, I think this post has been quite long enough (ALTHOUGH I did want to point out that I found Bean's Harry Potter-mas present and it was CHEAP AS FUCK and I know what I am getting my Loony, I just need to do some money grubbing and I am still figuring out Muffin-face's present- what will it be?! It's a good thing that I technically do not celebrate Christmas as such, but rather give gifts as a congratulations for surviving another year; gives me more time, see.) and so I shall leave you with this one last thought:
I love you.
I interviewed for a call center position on Monday and I totally got it! I start next Monday, it is full time, guaranteed forty hours per week. Training lasts for three weeks and then on the fourth week my permanent schedule goes into place. It's a weird schedule but I don't mind. I get every Sunday and Tuesday off, plus I don't start until 12:30 which means I'll have some open hours in the morning for a) sleeping in b) actually showering before work ((don't you judge)) or c) setting up doctor appointments or going to the bank. My least favorite part about my schedule at Telelanguage was that since I worked from 8:30 to 5:30 it meant I never managed to get to the bank during the week. Disaster!
Anyway, hopefully this new job means a) I will be able to pay my portion of rent on or around the first of the month ((Today is the 22nd and I am still paying on December's rent.)) b)I will be able to catch up on all of my debts c) I will be able to buy some cannabis on a regular basis and d)I will be able to afford to go to culinary school.
Which brings me to the next portion of Things In My Life:
I have decided to go to culinary school to become a pastry chef!
I'm not sure exactly when I will be able to go, or where I will go even, but I am going! I love baking and I really feel like it is something that would bring me a lot of joy. I don't want to work in office settings all my life. I certainly don't want to keep working in call centers. I guess there is a Cordon Bleu in Portland, and also one in Austin, TX ((which is some place Yakiri and I have discussed living in the future)) so I think I might have to look into them and see what's up. Apparently the local community college also has a culinary program, so I will have to look into it.
So far I have already felt frustrated while trying to research culinary programs in the area. The information online isn't organized very well and somehow "culinary programs in Columbus, OH" still brings up information on Cordon Bleu schools around the country. Plus it seems like pasty arts are a bit of an afterthought in a lot of the programs so I'll have to dig a little deeper to find a place that will work for me. ((Although between you and me (and anyone who has tasted my cooking), I could really use some actual cooking lessons.))
The other good news is that although I have found myself a new, full-time job I still wouldn't be able to buy my ticket back to Portland until the end of January which is just way too late to buy a plane ticket for the first week of February. Yakiri was thinking about this and told me he would just buy my tickets on his next paycheck and then I could pay him back. HOORAY! I will definitely be able to see my lovely Dr. Nicci Muffin-face and my Loony, I will definitely be able to see my wonderful family, I will definitely be home for Super Bowl Sunday and I will absolutely get to smoke some wonderful Pacific Northwest cannabis. Done and done.
I'm so glad about this because I was really beginning to worry that I wouldn't be able to make it home. Even though I was able to find some more or less reasonably priced tickets (flying out of Cincinnati- boooo!), I still am struggling to pay all my rent and bills. Plus my mom let me know yesterday that she just can't afford to keep my cell phone on her plan any more so she needs to me to get my own phone on my first paycheck. I certainly can't blame her, but this is just one more thing I need to pay for on my gigantic list of bills. Frightening.
Plus I am nervous about having my own phone plan again because I haven't paid for my own phone in two years now. Maybe more than two years? I can't even remember. Two or three years. The point is, I am terrified about making monthly payments. Absolutely shivering. Whatever, I'll figure it out and pay those damn bills. I won't be going with any of the major companies (I owe T-Mobile roughly $400; Verizon and Sprint and AT&T are all too expensive), but with a smaller, much much cheaper one. Not Virgin because their service sucks so bad. I'll figure something out.
Anyway, I think this post has been quite long enough (ALTHOUGH I did want to point out that I found Bean's Harry Potter-mas present and it was CHEAP AS FUCK and I know what I am getting my Loony, I just need to do some money grubbing and I am still figuring out Muffin-face's present- what will it be?! It's a good thing that I technically do not celebrate Christmas as such, but rather give gifts as a congratulations for surviving another year; gives me more time, see.) and so I shall leave you with this one last thought:
I love you.