Bending over and taking it one roommate at a time

I would like to preface this by saying "fuck you Miguel colbert. You are a piece of shit."

Shit has hit the fan in my house this week. On Friday night I got home at 10pm to find a note written on a piece of mail on the table. The note read "had to move asap. See ya! -Miguel"

Yep. That's right. My roomate up and left 2 days before rent was due, with zero notice, and left 95% of his shit here. I went into his bedroom to find his mattress, desk, side table, keyboard, computer cords, and copious amounts of garbage and food all over the room. There are food stains on the carpet, mouldy food dishes in the closet for some obscure reason, and in general just shit everywhere. All he took was his clothes, bedding, computer, phone, and truck. I guess wherever he was going he didn't need his stuff.

I don't think you can even begin to understand how pissed off I was. I have been trying to call him but he very obviously isn't going to answer my phonecalls. I've decided I might call the place he was working to see if he's still around there. I might show up at his work and make one big fucking scene if he is there still.

Who does shit like that? Seriously. And I thought this roomate was a normal/good one. I thought wrong.

I am leaving for Paris on Thursday and I really don't have time to deal with this. I had two days to make a decision as to whether or not I was just going to move out and get a place of my own, or whether I was going to find a new roomate. I've decided getting my own place will well be worth the extra rent if it saves me from ever having to go through this again.

Needless to say I could have used without the stress. I have now ended up taking off Mondays at the salon completely so I can work a minimum of 24 hours a week at the shop and 32 hours at the salon. I need to do it for November so I can make up for the extra expenses moving will end up costing me.

Thankfully, even though I have shifty roomates, I have very good friends who've been so helpful, and that gratitude absolutely extends to both of my bosses from the salon and shop. I can't tell you how awesome, accomodating, and understanding/sympathetic they were when I talked to them about what happened.

I wasn't planning on moving until feb or march so this couldn't come at a more inconvenient time but hopefully it all works out. I put in Pmy notice today and will need to be out of here for december 1st. It's kind of weird and really scary. I haven't moved in three years, especially when I wasn't ready to, nor have I lived without a roommate since before my Vancouver days. It'll all be fine but I won't stop freaking out until I have found a place and paid deposits and signed papers etc.

Even though it's a mass amount of madness I'm going to enjoy the fuck out of my trip to Paris. I leave on thursday morning. I still have to clean the disaster room, finish packing, get travel insurance, and get euros all while working before we leave.

I will say though that Halloween was another success! My mugatu costume was pretty amazing and everyone loved it. I was told multiple times it was the best costume at the bar that night which was sweet. I only have pictures on my cellphone though because I forgot my camera soooo no pictures for you yet. :( sorry!

I'm going to sleep though. I get to wake up in 5 hours. Yuck.

Boring updates

Well... What's new? My computer has completely bit the dust so this means few updates and no pictures. Booooring. That's okay because nothing too exciting has happened or will be happening anytime soon.

My cousin Riane got married on the long weekend. I spent my thanksgiving in salmon arm with my family and it was an awesome weekend. I have caught a cold though so I'm slowly nurturing myself back to health. I am working at the steel fab shop on my days off but I've decided that for this week I would keep my regular days off to myself. Why? Well... Sometimes health is more important than making some extra cash. Also, I'm exhausting myself and I've got more than enough shit to do to keep 3 people busy for a month.

Fall classes have started up again. This means that yesterday I spent 11 hours at work. All in all it was a 13 hour day from the time I left my house to the time I returned to it. This will be a weekly thing until next summer. Whoo.

I'm still busting my ass at building a clientelle. It's not easy and 5 new people were just hired which is going to make it even harder to build but I guess I'll just have to work that much harder. I won't lie though, I don't really know what else I can do to speed the process up and that is slightly discouraging but, such is life.

I'm going to go work on my laundry some more now and prep for the next couple of weeks. 3 weeks until I leave for Paris! Holy fuck.

Sometimes I think I'm crazy!

Well, shit's about to hit the fan! I am starting on 60 hour or more work weeks and only two days off for the entire month. Those two days will be spent in Salmon Arm for my favourite cousins wedding! I'm so excited to go now. Originally I was annoyed that the wedding was being held in such an inconvenient place for everyone to get to but it's not so bad now that all the plans have been made. I will fly to Kelowna Saturday after work and then my aunt will pick me up there. I fly back monday morning... Just in time to get shit done since my next day off will be when I leave for Paris!

It should all be well worth it. I'm working 40 hours a week at the salon, still 5 days as well... But I shortened my Monday shifts and lengthened my Friday and Saturday shifts so that I can work 5 hours at the shop on Monday morning, and at least 7 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I will likely want to die by the end of the month.

As for my goal list! The eating healthy thing has been going really well. I'm not on a diet but I am watching what I'm eating and how much of it I'm eating. I had a chocolate bar the other day but I don't feel bad about it. It was delicious to say the least! As for exercising, I am managing to squeeze things in where I can. I head to work today at 2 so I'm going to go for a jog as soon as I'm done this. I'm actually looking forward to the exercise for on e in my life. I don't know why I'm feeling so motivated but I'll take it! On average I'm walking and jogging at least 9kms a day.

The only other thing I need to figure out now is what the hell I'm going to be for Halloween this year! I barely have time to breathe between exercising, working, and commuting... But I will damn well figure something out! I love halloween. I don't even have plans yet cause I have to work that day and the day after, but we get to dress up at work! Soooo excited!

Anyways, I think I will have a bite to eat and head out for that run. I sure hope I see some results with all of this, but if not I'll at least feel better and have more energy. It'll probably help keep me sane while I put in 180 to 190 hours in 3 weeks...

Oh and other good news? My roommate said he wouldn't mind moving to Vancouver with me so now I just have to try to talk him into living in the westend. I'm pretty sure i've decided that's where I want to live. I think we're aiming to move out for February or march 1st! I can barely wait!!