Thursday

 Trying to organise my life.  My credit record has two black spots on it that I believe have been paid, but the credit file company hasn’t been advised that the debts have been paid.  I have sent off emails to the appropriate places and now have to wait and see what information they need from me in order to look into it.  I hope I am right in thinking they have been paid, it’s over $800 to pay if I am wrong.  I certainly don’t want to pay that, but at the same time, bills are bills and these are mine, so I can’t blame anyone but myself.  It is nice to see that my years of being an irresponsible little idiot are almost entirely behind me.  I have two other black spots (confirmed paid) that will be wiped from my record next year.  I have worked hard to become a responsible person (and to just GROW UP a bit) so it will be nice for my credit record to eventually reflect that.

My boss had a chat with my assistant today.  Offered her some feedback, asked for her feedback.  He said she seems happy in her job, and said that she is still surprised that she even got the job.  She said my training is "amazing" (I still doubt that) and she realises that I am insanely busy.  She even commented on how everyone in the office is always asking me dumb questions, and how I seem to know "everything".  I am still feeling frustrated with her, but am comforted by my boss stepping in to help me with her.  He has far more weight behind him to tell her what to do and that sort of thing, and I just don’t have the time to be on her ass every second.  My boss feels confident that this will work out in time, and he doesn’t want me to worry about it.  So I will try not to.  We’ll keep plugging along.

Not that it matters, anyway.  Me moving away into the spare office is miles away from the horizon, and to be honest, I couldn’t in good faith do that now, knowing that I am leaving in September.  When it comes up, which it will in a few weeks, I am going to just ask for more money, but tell him not to bother moving me.  It’s an absolute waste of money and time to do that, a disruption to the office, and like I said – I can’t do that with the knowledge I have about me moving.  It would just feel dishonest and unethical.

M has cooked spaghetti sauce for dinner tonight, and it smells great. I am feeling slightly disappointed with him for letting me down with something simple I asked him to do for a friend of mine. 

(Grumble, grumble, grumble. The one thing I ask him to do…)

Pouring rain today, and freezing cold.  While walking my dog this morning, we were approached by my asshole neighbours’ larger dog.  He had been left outside, all night, in the freezing weather.  I took my dog back inside pronto, Ernie started to get a bit feisty, but it was fricking annoying.  Those assholes treat that poor dog so badly, he could have been run over on the main road at any time, and he would have had an absolutely miserable night out there; also, I walk my dog on a leash, I shouldn’t have to deal with their dog running around loose and following us all the way up to the front door. 

Of course, I am too gutless to complain about them anymore.  We’re just putting up with the constant noise, the fights, the dogs, all of it because it’s not worth the trouble.  It’s not worth risking them fucking with my car again, not worth having to try and get in and out of the apartment without seeing them (our doors are literally at right angles), not worth more empty bullshit from my landlord about evicting them.  Instead, WE are leaving, and that day is creeping closer and closer.  

It’s time for me to go and put my pyjamas on.  I am still working on dismantling and cleaning all the speakers.  We have three sets, all with sub woofers and multiple speakers.  I hope to sell the whole lot in one go.  They are in fine condition, except for one little speaker that struggles, but probably could be fixed with some new cable.