The past 9 months
I’ll give everyone a quick rundown of my life since, uh, 9 months ago.
Goddamn, has it been that long.
On August lst year I left utbox.net, after having been rewarded for turning the business profitable by being demoted. I took on a contract job at ThreatMetrix and worked there until Feb when I had enough money to live on until late May. This was going to be the break to make up for 3 years solid on-call duty.
So I spent a month doing nothing essentially. I was supposed to relax and get to work on a couple of projects but repeated harassment from the insurance company about the car crash more than a year ago didn’t help. I spent most of April visiting my sis in the US for the first time since she left for there about 3 years ago, and visiting my 2 neices for the first time ever, so that was good. But I also received notice, one week before the flight out, to get out of the place I was renting by end of May. I decided to visit the US anyway, leaving a month to move out. This turned out to be insufficient thanks to the state of the rental property market at the moment (I’m competing with 10-20 applications!), so now, after spending the last 4 weeks of my holiday plus another week packing and trying to find a place in vain, all my stuff is in storage and I’m staying with my mum in Penrith. Now I am living off my credit cards and still have to find some more work, then find a new home (somehow) whlie working full time in the city from Penrith. The move has/will cost a month of holiday and about $3500. Oh, and during all this I’m hopelessly in love with a girl that doesn’t want me.
After all that, I don’t feel like I’ve taken a break.
Goddammit everything better fall into place or I swear am going to go postal.
At least I got to see my nieces.
Knuckle down and sort out one thing at a time. Rather than trying to tackle everything at once, get one thing off your shoulder at a time, you’ll feel all the lighter for it, and by tackling one thing at a time you’ll be able to see your progress. You’ll be fine. Good luck and see you on the other side. :-)
Comment by knet — June 26, 2007 @ 9:57 am
You should join us for lunch on Wednesday. Come, relax, vent. It’s fun!
Comment by Colin — June 26, 2007 @ 10:45 am
Finding rentals is the worse thing in the world. I hated doing it when we sold our house and had to rent while the new one got built. I so will not go back to doing it again for as long as I can remember the pain it caused.
Comment by Michael Fox — December 31, 2007 @ 5:44 pm