happiness_in_a_pill : less worse in a hearse

So, I haven’t found out if I’ve made it into WINTEC yet, and I was supposed to have found out on Friday. It’s now Sunday. It’s pissing me off cause I need to know if I’ve been accepted, so, if I haven’t, I can sort out what I’m going to do next year. I don’t want to work at BK for another year, I think that would probably kill me.

I’m getting pretty stressed out about things at the moment. I mean, there’s the whole tech thing, my friends, money troubles… and add the usual teenage problems, such as relationships, friendships, and family.

I’ve been really uptight lately. My friend STILL hasn’t paid me the $50 she promised me. See, we were going halves on a gift for our mate, and I paid for it all, over a MONTH ago! When we first decided on it, we agreed that she’d pay for it like a week after my friends birthday, my friends birthday was on the 31st of August.

This is frustrating because I’m trying to save up for an iPod 30GB in Black, and my fucking bank is delaying this. If I’m something small, like fifty cents short, they charge me a $25 ‘OverDrawn Fee’, even if I’m that short for a couple of minutes. What a fucking gyp!

Another money issue is my brother. I went down to Christchurch to and helped my brother and his flatmates out with cash. $20 for petrol, $50 for food, $20 for electricity [they have a prepay system down there], plus, on top of all of that, my brother pawned off the Playstation 2 WE BOTH BOUGHT! So, that’s about $150 all up.

I have $250 saved up all together. Now, if I was to get the money they both owe me, I’d be sitting on $450, that’s a lot of money, and it would make me THAT much closer to getting my iPod, considering the iPod is around $579. Plus I want to get the three year warantee and an AC Charger.

Plus, I’ve put myself in charge a leaving managers’ farewell gift, even though he left last week, the person previously in charge of it was fucking useless so I offered to pick up the slack. We’re getting all the crew to sign one of his old shirts, [which is stained, and thus, unusable].

So, on the positive things of the week. Evanescene is releasing their new album "The Open Door" either tomorrow or the next day [it’s confusing because New Zealand has a different release dates to people reading this in America.

That’s a positive, plus I believe I’m not doing split shifts all week, but have either two or three days where my shifts will only be 5 hours which is always a bonus.

That’s about all the postiveness that’s happening this week. It’s possible at least one of our staff members could be getting fired this week as he’s already got two written warnings on a "Three Strikes And You’re Out" Policy. To make things worse, the new policy is that if your till [as we are only allowed to work on one till] is over three dollars short, or over three dollars surplus we get a written warning! Lovely for us who are slaves on front counter. People in kitchen have no problem with it, cause they’re not involved with it. It’s stupid, I mean, even if our till has more money than it’s supposed to we get in trouble? Where’s the logic in that?

*Sigh* I suppose writing all this stuff about BK will probably get me fired one of these days but still, it was the same sort of thing when I was working at Pak N Save, at least it’s different now. Back then when I was working for them, my till was short $40 every fortnight, and then a year later I got told that one of the employees upstairs was pocketing money from my till and spending it on her kids education. Also, I learnt that they can’t make you pay the difference, and that if I didn’t sign their form I wouldn’t have had  to pay it off, which pisses me off to this day.

So tomorrow, after work I’m going to check out two banks, National Bank and ANZ, to find out which one is better, then I’m going to open up an account with them, sort out my automatic payments and then close my account with Westpac, that bunch of motherfuckers.

 I’m listening to Jack Off Jill at the moment, I’m really quite obsessed with them, trying to get my friend into them. Her name is Anastasia and her nickname is "Star". I found it funny cause they sing a song called "Star No Star". In fact, I was listening to that when my friend told me Star was in an accident.

I’m also loving the KITTIE video/song "Into The Darkness", watching the video on YouTube every day. I might include the lyrics, just to give you a taste of it. And as much as I’m desperate to listen to "The Open Door" I’ve refrained from downloading the album. I’ve only listened to the samplers and stuff on Evanescence’s website [www.evanescence.com], I haven’t even gone to aol and listened to it, mainly cause I have no idea what AOL is [I mean, I know it stands for AmericaOnLine] but to be honest, I don’t want to. I want to wait till I can listen to the music with the CD case in my hand kind of thing. It’s keeping me alive. And then after that, it’s going to be waiting until "Final Destination 3" comes out on DVD [bastard American’s already have it – obvious jealousy] especially because it’s the first movie to be made with the DVD release in mind, you can choose how the story goes, how awesome is that??? And if you have the DVD don’t leave a message telling me what it’s capabilities are cause I don’t want to hear it, I’ll find out on the day of release thank-you-very-much.

The link to the KITTIE video "Into The Darkness" on YouTube is available by clicking here.

Well, that’s all for now, I hope you all are well.

Yours SINcerely,

-SImoN
happiness_in_a_pill.

"Into The Darkness"
by Kittie:
I feel helpless waiting.
Could this all be the end?
It’s all coming down all at once.
Am I losing you?
No Way Out!

Until this all crashes down, I’ll hold on.
you’re going to make this work
Into the darkness…not knowing at all….
you’re going to make this work

Are you out there waiting, wondering about me?
Never felt so alone as I do now.
No way out!

Until this all crashes down, I’ll hold on.
you’re going to make this work
Into the darkness…Not knowing at all
I’m just trying to make this work

Until this all crashes down, I’ll hold on.
Into the darkness…Not knowing at all
Until this all crashes down….