My husband just called to report that the Tattoo shop he's been setting up over the past several months is now open!
I am [at least] one-eighth of the way to full-time status at work. Two 36+hr work weeks down, fourteen more until I achieve a goal I should've already reached.
I’ve been genuinely happy for the last month and it just feels so good, coming from such a low I appreciate all the little things and not taking em for granted.
Meeting one of my most favorite voices of all times is certainly one of the greatest moments of my life.
I applied for three entry level jobs at a factory where my brother works. It will be a career change, but I'm just trying to get home.
Finally got my favorite anime movie on DVD, They Were 11! Now if only there were a soundtrack CD somewhere that's available for a reasonable price... --Moony
Got my second headline submission green lit on Fark.com. Lloose llamas in Llas Vegas could llead to llikely llitigation. Got several compliments on it in the discussion. Made my day.
Got my garden going today, and found that my last-year marigolds had dropped a few babies to go with the tiny nasturtiums scattered about, and I hopefully didn't kill them (the marigolds that is, there's plenty of volunteer nasturtiums but just about 4 marigolds) while moving them to the middle of the pot. I thought last year's hadn't dropped viable seeds, but obviously they did. Got all 6 of my basils in the ground (2 Genovese, 2 Large Leaf Italian, 1 Lemon, and 1 Purple Opal that I have no idea if its taste will replace the Purple Ruffles I was actually looking for in my dried basil mix), plus two lavenders and a rosemary, some possibly too old dark purple hollyhock seeds, and my Asian garden neighbor gave me some of her too-many lettuces which hopefully survived my rough planting. I think the last plant I need to top things off is a clematis to climb over the curved branch that fell nearby and is now arching over the back, in a color or mix of colors that will either highlight the middle (orange and red from the marigolds and nasturtiums, plus white yarrow) or tie the ends together (purple hollyhocks and white daisies on one end, purple lavenders and blue rosemary on the other). Sadly it looks like the wild succulent I raised from one tiny floret to a couple dozen tiny florets got eaten by something over the winter, tho, but some tiny leaves of a different succulent landed in my pot, so we'll see what happens! --Moony
Being able to spend more time with my dog. It might not seem like much, but with my usual schedule, it's a lot to ask for.
Since march-now ive been the happiest ive ever been in my life, ive had so many great memories and feel like im living life more then jus watching the days go by. Im so appreciative of it and hope this lasts long. Because lord knows some of the dark times ive had with myself.
My mother in-law is officially planning on leaving my father in-law sometime this week- and I'm super-happy about that- because here's the thing: When a marriage or relationship, as shitty as theirs, is allowed to go on for too long- it starts to impact everyone else. Because the drama floods into everyone else's lives some way or another- like a toxin. They should've separated at least 20-25 years ago- they haven't been happy for a LONG time- and it's strained and stressed the family paper thin. Ever since I joined their family 6 years ago, it's been driving me crazy. The constant drama. It never ends. I just hope this is it- I seriously hope this is the end. I hope she finds a lawyer, starts the divorce filing process, and cuts all ties. It's time to bury this bullshit for good- because it's not fair for them to put the rest of us through their marital turmoil- and I've personally had enough. (Crosses fingers) Please be it, please be it, please be it, please be it, pleeeeeease be it.....-_-
I know exactly what you mean. Won’t go into too many details, but my mother is the most toxic person I’ve ever met in my life. Completely destroyed my dad’s life, and severely damaged mine in terms of relationships, what it means to be a good son, etc. She never takes responsibility for her choices, tries to blame us for everything that’s wrong in her life.
I'll call my in-laws Bertha and Ned for this. Ever since I joined their family 6 years ago, I've had to listen to Bertha's constant bitching about Ned every single visit. Eventually it grinded my patience down to the point where I looked at my wife and said: If she's just gonna come over and bitch about Ned, I'm not letting her in. It's not our marriage, It's not our business, It's not our place to be involved, So why the Hell does she keep bringing it to us? How are we supposed to help? And often, my wife and I come home from work at the end of the day- tired, hungry, mentally and physically worn- and the last thing we need is Bertha coming over to bitch about Ned again. I've had days where I came home tired, or wasn't feeling well, and I just looked at my wife like: NOT TONIGHT. SHE'S NOT COMING OVER TONIGHT. I FORBID IT. SCREW BERTHA, SCREW NED- NOT TONIGHT. 0_0 Because after years and years of the same old bullshit, you get to that point where you're like: I'm done being polite. Get the Hell out of my house. Seriously. We're not counselors or therapists- I don't know what you expect us to do. Unless you want to pay me $500 per hour, I can't listen to this anymore. Either divorce him or shut the fuck up. Enough is enough. AND SHE'S FINALLY DOING IT. She's moving out this week, getting her own place, and HOPEFULLY she shuts the hell up forever. I don't want to hear another PEEP about Ned or anyone else from this woman. FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN'S SWEET AND SUGARY ROD- SHUT UP BERTHA. 0_0 I hope this is it...I hope this all finally comes to an end- because it's drug me, my wife, and everyone else through a lot of bullshit over several years- and none of us deserved that. Their business never should've touched us. (Crosses fingers) Pleeeeeease be over...-_-
After several months of working to curb online purchases and cut back on things within the next 3-4 weeks will be back at a point where the only way to move forward with things is to put my feet up and relax. This will be easy to do since I've got a figure I've been wanting on and off over the past 19 years coming in Today and when that one gets in hand it will be one of those pieces that brings a lot of satisfaction and enjoyment to me so there would be little reason to continue to spending a lot on this hobby so if all goes well and according to plan a nice rest period is ahead and by my Birthday in September things should be a lot better than they are now if I stick to the plan to chill out and ease back off adding stuff in since I am more content now with the Hobby than I have ever been and it feels GOOD. Found that going over things and looking at the positive stuff that's going on is making me feel better these days and just looking at the collection as it is makes me smile because it's where it needs to be and I'm glad to be done for the most part with the expensive parts of the Hobby and it's will be the best thing to happen this year is to get away from overly expensive collectibles and appreciate the collection as it is and it just feels great the way things are going to be so no need to splurge anymore. I can't really talk about this on the other Collecting site that I've been on the past few years since dropping off TFW since all they do there is complain about the high prices of Anime figures and grumble about things there cutting collecting Anime out of what's done has been an excellent decision since that saves me a ton of money over the rest of the year and that means more can be devoted to collecting Transformers and I'm happy about that decision.
Transformers Takara Car Robots Scourge Been after it on and off for 19 years and getting one in box 100% Complete today put a smile on my face and now it has me looking at other RID/Takaras from that era and already added the G2 Laser Prime to my To Get List since it's an Awesome figures and still cool to me after all these years.
Getting paid, and having one day to not have to deal with problematic coworkers. This was Friday, by the way. Also, hearing said problematic coworkers' days here are numbered. The only thing that's saving them from being fired right now is that the bosses can't find anyone to replace them at the moment...but I expect that will change soon enough. Normally, I wouldn't wish for anyone to lose their jobs...but they've created so many problems, I can't say I'll be sorry to see them go.
