Post by geekguy on May 9, 2012 11:21:33 GMT -5
Before I begin, with regards to the last thing I posted in this thread, their "relationship" lasted less than a week. So... umm... anywho...
I figure its about time I do a re-evaluation of my life and this thread and website seem appropriate enough, so on with the show:
General: I guess I'm dong pretty well. I could be doing far worse I know that for sure. I have my friends I talk to online regularly and see every weekend or so, I occupy myself at home with video gaming, reading and internet browsing, and I still have my 2 jobs. I haven't had any romantics occuring, or been working out or looking after my physical health as such, but thats really the only downside. So into the specifics...
Dating: None of this has happened still, so that kinda sucks. The whole thing with my friend getting a girlfriend reminded me that I would like it to happen, that I haven't completely shut myself off to the want for it to happen. The only real progress I've done is by "rating" some people (out of 5 stars) on the dating website I am a member of. It's the most I've EVER done in online dating as I've never even had the balls to message someone first and I often don't reply to people who message me. I don't have much hope of it going anywhere but whatever.
Friendships: Nothing I'm eager to change here, other than meeting new people and catching up with those I haven't seen in a while. Stuff is pretty much dandy I suppose.
At home: I recently upgraded my computer to the monolithic one I linked on this website a while ago and it is absolutely beautiful. It's fast, it's quiet, it has tonnes of storage space and it hasn't given me any issues in the slightest (apart from the adjusting to Windows 7). I am 100% prepared for when Diablo 3 comes out, Guild Wars 2 eventually comes out, and all the most graphically intensive release titles that will be sure to head our way soon enough. Ironically, since purchasing the computer, the game I've been playing the most is one of the least graphically intensive, "Super Monday Night Combat", but I am gonna go back and finally pass Skyrim from start to finish and Deus Ex Human Revolution, that's for sure. They just look too awesome on ultra high settings to not.
I am reading a decent amount too, even if I keep my books out for longer than the library would like :3 . I should play with my Devil sticks more though and poi and diabolos so I can keep myself fresh on those. The cat is also being more adorable in snuggling into my dressing gown now that it's heading into winter here in Australia.
Work: There is good and bad here, so let's start with the bad. I am sick of working at my bar job. It's incredibly boring, I don't have particularly strong friendships with any of my co-workers, and I'm getting sick of serving drunk people at all. I feel depressed every time I go to work now and try to get through the day doing as little work as possible because I just can't stand it. I have 3 shifts in a row coming up starting tomorrow ending Saturday, and already my dread is palpable.
The good is that I'm starting my 2 month full time library contract tomorrow which will mean I have far less availability for bar work at all, and I am really looking forward to the library work itself. the only downside is that I'll have to get up and be at work by 8:30 in the morning which is early but whatever, I'll get used to it. I'll be earning more money, gaining more experience, and hopefully showing the team that I am completely capable of doing the work really well, so that maybe I can continue to advance in this line of work.
There is one thing I'm considering doing to amend the bar problem, and that is to quit the job and get a job as a Barista somewhere nearby. The nearby area has a LOT of coffee-shops/cafes etc, but I have some concerns with doing this. The courses required to get barista training cost $400 total. This doesn't seem like much, but my availability to work in a coffee shop will only be Fridays and Saturdays, every second week due to my library hours, combined with the lower pay I'll receive thanks to my second job being taxed higher than my first, and It will be quite some time before I actually "pay off" the cost of the training through whatever hours I manage to get. Then there's the fact that to an employer, an employee who will guaranteed only be able to work fridays and saturdays every second week probably looks REALLY bad, so I don't even have much optimism about getting a job from that point...
Still, it is an option, and could help in the long run rather than just while I have this contract, as well as being a decent "backup" job option for if things go sour at some point down the road.
Health 'n' Fitness: This is one area I'm sorely lacking in. I've not been eating well lately when it comes to breakfast food (its usually just sugary cereal), lots of sugary biscuit snacks/hot chocolates/junky food at other points in the day and soft drink when I'm at the bar job. It's not all bad on the food front though: I still have quite healthy dinners and I don't consider subway wraps full of vegetables to be bad for me at all (the sauce is probably not helping me but its just SO DELICIOUS). I also drink plenty of water just in general. If I want to be nutritionally healthy though, I need to give up soft drink (diet doesn't count either, that shit is just as bad) and try and eat some alternative food for breakfast like omelettes, boiled/fried eggs, muesli, leftovers from dinner, Salad, etc. I'll also need to start making my own lunches or prepare to spend a lot more money on subway once I start my library work and avoid eating all the cookies and lollies they leave out on the break room table :3
Exercise wise, I don't just lack, I am non-existant in this regard. I do literally no exercise beyond walking from place to place (when I even leave the house that is), and it is no doubt not helping the fact that I have virtually no muscle to speak of. I have not been back to the boxing place, even though I've thought to myself "I should go back/I'd like to go back" and I haven't tried to do anything beyond investigate other activities I'd like to do. I've looked at martial arts, Tai Chi, and Yoga for the most part, steering clear of team sports and generally sports in general. Yoga and Tai Chi may be gentle exercises but they do interest me and I do think they would be beneficial to me in a variety of ways. I would also happily do a martial art if there was one in semi-close proximity that I actually was interested in. The ones that I find interesting are all located too far away unless I could drive to them. There are also no local Tai Chi places. There is however a local Yoga place that would work well for when I start finishing working at the library at 5:30pm daily as the classes start at 6pm and end at 8:15, so I could finish up, bus home, eat dinner, and jump on the computer or hop into bed with a book to read. This is something I feel I must seriously consider and follow through on. This also could have the added benefit of meeting new people with the potential to foster new relationships with people.
Oh and I'm not giving up hot chocolates, fat chance of THAT ever happening.
Driving: I am very close to taking my practical driving assessment so that I can move onto the logbook phase of getting my license. I did a mock driving exam the other day and I barely passed but I now know exactly what I need to pay attention to next time I get into it. I need to just remember to take it easy, not focus on the fact that it's an exam and I'll do fine. I actually deal with tests and exams really easily in this manner, I just remind myself that I just need to do what I've always been doing and it's really just another day of schoolwork/learning. I'm confident and excited that I'll do well when it comes to my driving assessment and I actually have my next driving lesson tomorrow at 1pm which is great.
Miscellaneous: Not much more to add apart from that I'm discovering that my musical tastes are becoming more mellow and chilled out. I'm finding that I love all sorts of slow jazzy songs rather than gritty dubsteppy stuff (and I've also come to hate skrillex and his awful style of music), so there's that.
That's all folks
I figure its about time I do a re-evaluation of my life and this thread and website seem appropriate enough, so on with the show:
General: I guess I'm dong pretty well. I could be doing far worse I know that for sure. I have my friends I talk to online regularly and see every weekend or so, I occupy myself at home with video gaming, reading and internet browsing, and I still have my 2 jobs. I haven't had any romantics occuring, or been working out or looking after my physical health as such, but thats really the only downside. So into the specifics...
Dating: None of this has happened still, so that kinda sucks. The whole thing with my friend getting a girlfriend reminded me that I would like it to happen, that I haven't completely shut myself off to the want for it to happen. The only real progress I've done is by "rating" some people (out of 5 stars) on the dating website I am a member of. It's the most I've EVER done in online dating as I've never even had the balls to message someone first and I often don't reply to people who message me. I don't have much hope of it going anywhere but whatever.
Friendships: Nothing I'm eager to change here, other than meeting new people and catching up with those I haven't seen in a while. Stuff is pretty much dandy I suppose.
At home: I recently upgraded my computer to the monolithic one I linked on this website a while ago and it is absolutely beautiful. It's fast, it's quiet, it has tonnes of storage space and it hasn't given me any issues in the slightest (apart from the adjusting to Windows 7). I am 100% prepared for when Diablo 3 comes out, Guild Wars 2 eventually comes out, and all the most graphically intensive release titles that will be sure to head our way soon enough. Ironically, since purchasing the computer, the game I've been playing the most is one of the least graphically intensive, "Super Monday Night Combat", but I am gonna go back and finally pass Skyrim from start to finish and Deus Ex Human Revolution, that's for sure. They just look too awesome on ultra high settings to not.
I am reading a decent amount too, even if I keep my books out for longer than the library would like :3 . I should play with my Devil sticks more though and poi and diabolos so I can keep myself fresh on those. The cat is also being more adorable in snuggling into my dressing gown now that it's heading into winter here in Australia.
Work: There is good and bad here, so let's start with the bad. I am sick of working at my bar job. It's incredibly boring, I don't have particularly strong friendships with any of my co-workers, and I'm getting sick of serving drunk people at all. I feel depressed every time I go to work now and try to get through the day doing as little work as possible because I just can't stand it. I have 3 shifts in a row coming up starting tomorrow ending Saturday, and already my dread is palpable.
The good is that I'm starting my 2 month full time library contract tomorrow which will mean I have far less availability for bar work at all, and I am really looking forward to the library work itself. the only downside is that I'll have to get up and be at work by 8:30 in the morning which is early but whatever, I'll get used to it. I'll be earning more money, gaining more experience, and hopefully showing the team that I am completely capable of doing the work really well, so that maybe I can continue to advance in this line of work.
There is one thing I'm considering doing to amend the bar problem, and that is to quit the job and get a job as a Barista somewhere nearby. The nearby area has a LOT of coffee-shops/cafes etc, but I have some concerns with doing this. The courses required to get barista training cost $400 total. This doesn't seem like much, but my availability to work in a coffee shop will only be Fridays and Saturdays, every second week due to my library hours, combined with the lower pay I'll receive thanks to my second job being taxed higher than my first, and It will be quite some time before I actually "pay off" the cost of the training through whatever hours I manage to get. Then there's the fact that to an employer, an employee who will guaranteed only be able to work fridays and saturdays every second week probably looks REALLY bad, so I don't even have much optimism about getting a job from that point...
Still, it is an option, and could help in the long run rather than just while I have this contract, as well as being a decent "backup" job option for if things go sour at some point down the road.
Health 'n' Fitness: This is one area I'm sorely lacking in. I've not been eating well lately when it comes to breakfast food (its usually just sugary cereal), lots of sugary biscuit snacks/hot chocolates/junky food at other points in the day and soft drink when I'm at the bar job. It's not all bad on the food front though: I still have quite healthy dinners and I don't consider subway wraps full of vegetables to be bad for me at all (the sauce is probably not helping me but its just SO DELICIOUS). I also drink plenty of water just in general. If I want to be nutritionally healthy though, I need to give up soft drink (diet doesn't count either, that shit is just as bad) and try and eat some alternative food for breakfast like omelettes, boiled/fried eggs, muesli, leftovers from dinner, Salad, etc. I'll also need to start making my own lunches or prepare to spend a lot more money on subway once I start my library work and avoid eating all the cookies and lollies they leave out on the break room table :3
Exercise wise, I don't just lack, I am non-existant in this regard. I do literally no exercise beyond walking from place to place (when I even leave the house that is), and it is no doubt not helping the fact that I have virtually no muscle to speak of. I have not been back to the boxing place, even though I've thought to myself "I should go back/I'd like to go back" and I haven't tried to do anything beyond investigate other activities I'd like to do. I've looked at martial arts, Tai Chi, and Yoga for the most part, steering clear of team sports and generally sports in general. Yoga and Tai Chi may be gentle exercises but they do interest me and I do think they would be beneficial to me in a variety of ways. I would also happily do a martial art if there was one in semi-close proximity that I actually was interested in. The ones that I find interesting are all located too far away unless I could drive to them. There are also no local Tai Chi places. There is however a local Yoga place that would work well for when I start finishing working at the library at 5:30pm daily as the classes start at 6pm and end at 8:15, so I could finish up, bus home, eat dinner, and jump on the computer or hop into bed with a book to read. This is something I feel I must seriously consider and follow through on. This also could have the added benefit of meeting new people with the potential to foster new relationships with people.
Oh and I'm not giving up hot chocolates, fat chance of THAT ever happening.
Driving: I am very close to taking my practical driving assessment so that I can move onto the logbook phase of getting my license. I did a mock driving exam the other day and I barely passed but I now know exactly what I need to pay attention to next time I get into it. I need to just remember to take it easy, not focus on the fact that it's an exam and I'll do fine. I actually deal with tests and exams really easily in this manner, I just remind myself that I just need to do what I've always been doing and it's really just another day of schoolwork/learning. I'm confident and excited that I'll do well when it comes to my driving assessment and I actually have my next driving lesson tomorrow at 1pm which is great.
Miscellaneous: Not much more to add apart from that I'm discovering that my musical tastes are becoming more mellow and chilled out. I'm finding that I love all sorts of slow jazzy songs rather than gritty dubsteppy stuff (and I've also come to hate skrillex and his awful style of music), so there's that.
That's all folks