Greetings to all my loyal voyeurs *cough* I mean viewers!
I bet the three people out there that actually read my blog have assumed that I have tragically died in a freak Chupacabra milking accident and this means the end of random crap being posted on this page… You wish!
So, in the time I’ve been gone, many, many things have happened.
Our fat cat has gone under the knife and is now a sports model. Also, Sydney swears that he’s lost weight since ‘the incident’, but I still see him gorging himself on kibble when he thinks no-one is watching. That manic glow in his eyes, white foam in the corners of his mouth, the unearthly sound he makes when he notices me staring at him open-mouthed… That aside, we have also since my last blog entry, acquired the cutest little sewer rat. His name is Ash and he is the half, much furrier brother of Akuma/Fat cat. He is the most attention seeking creature ever to walk this earth, but he makes up for his CONSTANT annoyance by being very cute and cuddly and a complete little laser-pointer chasing slut 
The three of them together makes an awesome pack. They play together, they sleep together (when Boo decides that she doesn’t have the strength to attempt a decapitation on Ash) hell, they probably hunt together as well.
We are also leaving the comfort of the cramped little hole in the ground we call our flat to move into a place about four times the size of the place we are in now. It’s still like two weeks before we move in, but I have been dreaming about living in the new place (which is a double story by the way, eat your heart out bitches
) since I heard there was a duplex available at the exact time our current contract runs out. What luck!
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That’s roughly what our place would look like except we don’t have the nice dark tiles.
Just looking at it makes me crave Mexican food. Long story. Anyway, it’s even closer to both the university where Sydney works and my job as well and my friend Celecia stays literally right behind us. It’s a two bedroom duplex and it apparently has a swimming pool which I am yet to see.
So far Sydney and I are planning on using the extra room as a gym/bandroom which would be very cool, so I can get on with learning to play the bass. I guess that can only happen once he is finished with his dissertation and I am finished with my photography course. I’m just waiting for my road accident claim to pay out and bam! new camera she is mine!!!
As far as work goes, I no longer slave under Darth Vader. He now has a new victim and she has my dearest sympathies.
I quit that job and worked for the largest classifieds in South Africa called Junkmail. Don’t even get me started! I almost went from bad to worse on that one. Luckily didn’t last very long and very nearly bankrupted us, because apparently these folks are shy when it comes to delivering on promises. They make you work like a slave where you aren’t allowed to eat or drink at your desk, give you either a few short smoke breaks at pre determined times or a half hour lunch a day. That’s it. In my department you had to make at least 50 “effective calls” meaning you had to sometimes phone up to 80 or 90 companies to speak to the decision maker. Then the actual tricky part starts. Trying to convince the person on the line that they need to advertise their business with your business. The great thing is if you are a good sales person, you rope ‘em in at the end of the day, but see, here is the trick… The more money you make for JM the higher they push your targets, meaning you never get those sweet incentive bonuses they caught you with in the first place. Also, when you eventually pull up your pants, wipe away your tears and put your bra in your handbag and say, no more, they tend to pay you only half of your expected salary for that month and write it off as this and that and admin costs yadda yadda yadda. Buttholes!
Luckily now I am back at my old company, but in a different position, so I don’t have to work under Captain Kill anymore. The job is hectic, but bless me, I do love it. Or at least the money I make from it.
I just want to add that I did end up getting the Ipod and that it is most definitely the most magical device this universe has ever seen. I use it for everything! I mean EVERYTHING!!! I listen to music with it, I read from it, I study for my course with it, I use it for gaming, I watch Anime with it, I read comic books with it. I admit it, I <3 Ipod 4!
I leave you with this thought…
Game of Thrones/True Blood/Venture Bros/Naruto/Modern Family/Terry Pratchet/My car/My man/My cats/My Family/My family is awesome!!!
PPS, check the cool human calendar I added on the right side of the page! Funky.
-Bam! WINNING!