Life

I have a girlfriend like a lot of other people out there in the world. There are reasons why we are still together that I can’t figure out. Maybe she is that understanding and tolerant of me. Maybe she just doesn’t know what else to do.

I will focus on the first one there and hope that she stays that way.

Recently things have been pretty okay with us even though I keep screwing up. Money has been tight but it’s okay because I always have a backup plan just in case things go wrong. The problem with that backup plan is that I had some money set aside for rent and bills just in case something went horribly wrong. The horribly wrong happened back before Tamberly started working after she had left a previous job. Now she didn’t leave on bad terms or anything she just wanted to go back to school. Working where she did would have made it impossible to get any work done with the mandatory overtime and other things that they do to there employees. Now I am not a fan of being required to do anything and working up to 48-52 hours a week and going to school full time would have been impossible for anyone. Well that is a digression from my story.

Recently I was working at a retail store in the electronics department, I was doing fairly well in sales and I was making some pretty good money on commissions, that ended abruptly all over some politics in that store. So the day I was canned I went ahead and applied for unemployment. Now I am not afraid to work or anything and I would go back there if they wanted to give me a job. So the unemployment I was inelligable for at first and then everyone got my earnings all together and now I am elligable with one small problem, my last job is fighting it. Now I know that this was going to happen since day one but I figured that I would get some type of payment before they did all that. The problem being is that they can’t possibly win any case in fighting it. I was on time when scheduled, I worked my shifts, I stayed late when needed, and there wasn’t ever a write up for any reason while I was working there. Now as far as I know to fire someone you have to have a better excuse than you don’t like them. Also since it was a department store I can only assume that “this job just isn’t working out for you” could mean that the department that you are working in you could be doing better, and since it is a department store I take that as they could have put me into another department to work where I may have done better, well that’s if I was really doing that bad in the first place. Work politics suck and I don’t like them and don’t want to be involved in them anymore. I think that it is safer to work for myself than it is to work for someone else. I would rather line my own pockets then to help someone line theirs. So enough said about that one.

All in all life isn’t that bad right now all things considered, I have good friends that love me for who I am, I have an improving relationship with my parents (although I still think that my dad is a dick), I have a roof over my head, I have food in my belly and I have a girlfriend that will stand by me even when I am retarded.

I guess that I have some things that could use improvement, I know that I have a lot to work on. As I sit and take a personal inventory of my life I can come up with things I need to work on, I need to work on patience, I need to work on communication, and I need to work on professionalism. I haven’t ever been able to be uber-professional and I know that it even comes across in my writing, I try though and that’s more than I can say for some people. At the least I can see that things need to change but am still not sure how I go about making that change.

Well regardless I am making professional progress by going to school and I even have some people at my educational institution that are fighting for me. It feels really nice to have some people on your side. I can remember some people that have really helped me throughout the years and I will now present a short list of those people. (you all know who you are BTW)

• The Marvin’s
• The Grimaldi’s
• The Sottolano’s
• The Lyon’s
• Aunt Deb
• The Williams clan
• The Morris’s
• The Hulse’s
• Mama T

And I will now mention all my friends early on, you all know who you are again. Erica, Rich, Jack, Chris W, Carl , Chris A, and Adam. I wonder where some of you went though…

Well I lost complete sight of my goal of a post so I will have to write another one really soon to make up for it.