Random Updates

I’m really bad about not updating as much as I should, but it seems that sometimes there’s not enough time, sometimes there’s not enough to say, and sometimes I just can’t get alone long enough to write everything out.  And it’s just going to get worse from here on out. 

First off, I hope everyone’s had a happy holiday and that it was a good one for everyone.  I had a good Christmas; Maili came over so we had the whole family together for an extended time for the first time in ages.  We watched Beserk and talked and ate.  I worked on maile and Maili and the boyfriend spent a lot of time talking about anime and bullshitting.  By the end of the night, I had promised to give Maili my laptop so that way she could read manga and zoom around online without having to deal with her crazy landlady.  Oh god.  That woman… has some crazy ass rules and mood swings.  One of the rules is that there’s a time limit of 5 minutes for all showers… I don’t know about anyone else, but I have a hard time washing my hair in 5 minutes.  I have really long hair (down to my waist) and i just can’t get it properly washed and rinced in that time.  There’s also to be no one in the kitchen (Maili’s kitchen in the trailer doesn’t work) after 8pm.  Which isn’t a problem except for the fact that my sister doesn’t get home from work till 10:30pm or so.  And that’s just the legal stuff.  Apparently she decided that she wants to supliment her income by dealing with not so legal items and wants my sister to help her.  Erm.  No.  Maili got out of that life for a reason. 

I got a lot of small gifts, some maple themed stuff from the boyfriend’s mom, a few games I picked up for myself, a lucky cat and stuffed animal from Podling and his family, and the boyfriend and Mom got me a bigger cage for Persephone.  And oh is she loving it.  The cage is a good three times as big as the old one, and she has her wheel and her house, a ball, a ufo kind of running thing, and two perches. 

Every day I get more and more glad that I gave in a bought her.  I’ve never been much of an animal person but it was one of those spur of the moment things.  I’m so glad that I did though… Having Persephone has given me a better… I don’t know… grasp on reality.  I’ve never really understood the whole pets help depression, but it’s easier to get up in the morning when I know that I have her depending on me to get up and keep her routine.  It’s also helping me with my routine, which is a plus.  Also, sitting and watching her makes me happy… specially when I put her in her ball.  Oh my god.  She’s a trip, rolling around exploring everything.  My house is really junky, a whole bunch of stuff’s sitting stacked up and there’s maile and stuff everywhere… she loves looking at everything and finding new places.  Gave me a heartattack though – I couldn’t find her and it turns out that she was behind the bathroom door. 

Work.. Work is… well… stressful doesn’t begin to describe it.  I’m feeling more and more trapped and ressed in and a bigger and bigger failure as days go by.  B’s stirring up more trouble for me.  Telling the boss man that I’m not doing anything and that I’m not holding up my weight and the like.  Which is total bullshit.  She was 3 weeks behind for over two months and still considered herself "holding her own", I’m less than 1 week behind, and I wouldn’t have been that if I didn’t get sick last week and miss a day.  But she went bitching to the boss, and so K came over and talked with me.  Told me that nothing was said by the boss man, but for my own good, I might want to sit down and keep a log of everything I’m doing, just so that B can’t bitch and say that I’m fucking around all day.  

Oh, I talked to the roommate about the whole living situation last night. I explained that it was nothing about him, but Maili needs a place to stay and we only have the one extra room.  He was really cool about it; specially since I told him that Maili’s looking at around mid Feb, and I’m actually giving him time to search as opposed to saying, "Yeah, you need to get out now."  Which I wouldn’t do, but his ex roommate’s done.  So that means Maili (and my laptop) will be back in the house for the third time.  This time she’s paying rent though.

I’m trying to write a story for Bonnie; that’s all she wants for Christmas, a story written by me, and I have an idea for it.  I’ve been so enthralled by the pictures of Hashima Island that I’m wanting to use that as the setting.  And I keep forgetting to write.  ::laughs:: I get caught up in the pictures themselves and the like.   That and the lack of a laptop’s really cut into my writing time… specially since Mom and the boyfriend are both on WoW all the time; and the other computer’s hooked up to the t.v. and I don’t want them seeing what I write.  Not that I’m writing *only* smut, but sometimes I really just want to have my stuff private.  Specially when I write here.

::thinking:: I’m not sure if there’s anything else that I really want/need to vent about right at this time.  Boyfriend’s still unemployed, life still stinks, I still have Christmas presents to send out, my fingers and wrists hurt from jewelry making, and I lost 6 hours of my playtime on Fallout: New Vegas.  Oh, and it’s almost the end of the year. c.c