petey_c

Yeah, so I had the Living Digital Christmas Party. Was pretty cool, got picked up by limos from our houses and driven to a secret location which wound up being one of our company's directors apartments. Really nice place, awesome balcony, and booze to boot. Started out the evening with the idea of "not getting too smashed"...

Result - Pete drinks more cocktails and martinis than James Bond in his ENTIRE career. Pete chases a friend on the balcony and rams his knee into a potplant and tips said potplant over and it smashes (director doesn't know that was me I don't think... :S). Pete proceeds to yak at director's house (in the bathroom thank GOD), half pass out on a couch (luckily other people were also sitting on it otherwise it would have been even worse) and eventually stumbles out to the elevator to go downstairs and wait for a taxi WITHOUT saying cya to pretty much everyone because he was too railed to speak.

Great night before the yak and pass out... even ramming my knee into the potplant was kind of funny, but yeah... at least I can cross that one off my list of things to do in life - Get blind at your bosses house in front of all your work friends and colleagues. CHECK!

Current Mood: embarrassed

Yeah ok, you can tell that work is dead when you come to live journal and post for the first time in like.... i dunno 5 months? Massively dead, and bored out of my mind. I hate work after long weekends. It just makes me feel so blah. Knowing that I only have one day off in the next 11. At least I will have paid off my car before the end of the year. That's gold.

On another note I'm sick and frickin tired of retail. Worst jobs in the world I think. I suppose I can't justify that since I haven't worked in any other jobs really. People can just be so fuckin rude. It sucks when I realise I'm going to be in it for at least another year while I'm beginning to learn massage. Hopefully during my second year of study I'll be able to get some work doing massage instead. I hate retail it sucks. I must say I'm just glad I'm not one of the unlucky ones who work in BIG SALE style Christmas shops. Selling mobiles doesn't get too crazy so far as I've seen. Not like Electronics Boutique. Man. That was nasty last Christmas... everyday there would be a line to the back of the store and then it would curve and go out the door, and besides that there were people EVERYWHERE in the shop.

**PLUG** - Oh if anyone's looking for full time work for a while (as much as I bitch about it, working here is actually a pretty good deal) we need a store manager and a sales associate (like me). If anyone's interested let me know and I'll see if I can hook you up an interview. Pay is pretty good and hey it's not really strenuous work (notably what I'm doing right this very second). There are also some pretty cool perks, like I've just registered for this nokia rewards program, and every time you sell a nokia you get points that you can buy stuff with. Stuff ranging from MP3/CD deck for car(i just purchased this :D) through to golf clubs through to barbeques through to luggage. It's crazy though, you can't get a mobile phone off it. Go figure. Even if you don't want a job, come and buy a phone off me. I'll give you a 1kg tin of Allen's Snakes. I don't see telstra or voda giving you that! For the boys there are some good looking girls who work here and for the girls, well... there are some good looking girls here and a few of the guys are gay so you can have a nice 30 minute chat about handbags. haha kidding, nah they're all good guys.

I can't wait for christmas... it's gonna be so good. I love eating bulk meat and salad and delicious delicious pudding... mmm. eatthepuddingeatthepuddingeatthepuddingeatthepuddingeatthepudding. mmm. I've already got a lot of presents for people, and notably I now have no money... I really can't wait to get paid next week. Seriously... can't wait. I need it now. Lucky for me going out this weekend is still possible without requiring any money at all since it's the LIVING DIGITAL CHRISTMAS PARTY BABY! Gettin picked up by a limo from my house, taken to somewhere no one fuckin knows (and i mean no one. like the director and the marketing girl that's IT) and get food drink and a taxi ride home at the end of it all. All for a measly 0.0000000etc cents. It's gonna be great.

Anyway I'm gonna chow down my food because i'm starving. Still waiting for my first REAL customer. I wonder why it's so dead.

Current Mood: hungry

As claire said a couple of days ago, my cousin died on wednesday. We all knew it was a possibility since he got into the drug scene while at high school. I suppose the problem is that you always question if something could have been done to change what happened.

In the end you have to accept that people lead their lives the way they choose to. That doesn't make harsh realities any easier, and in this time of grief all I can do is think of my uncle and his family. I wish i knew words that could make it easier, but a tragedy of this magnitude isn't something that you get over in time. It's a sort of grief that lasts the remainder of your life, one that you have to learn to live with, and deal with as best as you can.

All i can say is all those people who do drugs, know what you're doing. My cousin was in the scene for about 10 years, so one would assume he knew what he was doing, but as the week has shown, the circumstances aren't always predictable, and what may seem safe can go terribly wrong. I won't say don't do drugs at all, because an addiction isn't something that you just brush off. I just wouldn't wish this sort of sadness upon anyone. It's not just for the life of those who do the drugs, but for the lives of all around them, and what then happens to them when something goes wrong. A life that gets destroyed by drugs often does more damage to the families and friends who then have to move on and bear the burden of wondering if it could have been helped.

I'm only glad that my immediate family have never been seduced by the evil of drugs.

Current Mood: sad

Well it sure has been a while.

Key points:
Started working at Rowe and Jarman... casually.
Got more hours at Rowe and Jarman. Biggest, Stupidest sale of the year started at EB.
Officially said I was quitting EB.
Got called about having an interview with OptusWorld. (This tuesday)
Worked 13 out of the last 14 days.
Prick tried to steal money off me through ebay.
Two weeks later I got it back.
Saw Shrek 2 with Claire. Pretty funny, maybe not so much as the first one, but still damn funny.

That's pretty much it. Can't really think of anything else really big that's happened. Oh, netball started up again. We lost today, due to tim not being able to play for me with a buggered arm (we all suspect he got drunk and fell over ahaha), thus leaving us a player down. I rocked up after work in the last quarter but was too late really. Bugger aye?

I like yet also dislike working sundays. I get paid $30 an hour for 4 hours, which is great, but I miss out on netball. Sucks because I LIKE netball. Eh.

so yeah I'm pretty excited about the interview on tuesday, it's for a full time position with optus, not some crappy half-ass part-time/casual job that I really WASN'T LOOKING FOR THANKS ROWE AND JARMAN. Bah. Note i'm not giving crap to people working casual/part-time jobs. Just to companies who hand them out to people who have CLEARLY stated they want full time. Wankers.

It's been pretty interesting working 2 jobs. As mentioned i've worked the last 13/14 days. Understandably I'm pretty tired. However money is good and money i have been earning. Plus i can't WAIT for my tax return. Sweet sweet tax return.

Blah. I can't think of anything more useful to say. Hope you're all good to all those who read this, sorry I haven't spoken to most for a fair while. :(

I miss my friends.

Current Mood: drained

well it's true. I did get a new job. What's not true is that i got a full time job. Irritating a little. Mostly because they knew i wanted full time work. Then gave me a casual job, after leading me on to believe i would get a full time job.

My hope is that they're testing/training me up a bit in a casual position, and will shortly put me on full time. HOPE. If they don't i'll be sort of annoyed. Oh well. Point is I got a new job. YAY!

Now if you don't mind i'm gonna go get smashed.

Current Mood: indifferent

Stressing is stupid. Pointless. Annoying. There's no use in stressing, since it doesn't achieve anything, except possibly doing worse than you could do if you WEREN'T stressed.

I have a trial at rowe and jarman tomorrow. If i do well i get out of EB and get a full time job in a sport store. Good move. If i do badly i stay at EB for a while longer, and get a) underpaid b) mistreated. Bad move. So the question must be, why stress if it's gonna stop you performing at your best? Stress is so shit. Sometimes i wonder if smoking really does help stress. Then i also think, smoking is stupid, deadly, and really gets you even LESS far than stressing. I think i'd rather stress.

Anyway, trial goes from 12 till 4, and with luck i'll be home by 5 to be here when people start getting to my place :|

Current Mood: anxious

Being 20 is much like being 19. Exactly like being 19 actually. Had no one said anything, i wouldn't have noticed. Anyway, one present i got from my sister was juggling balls. She thought since i was 20 and "mature" (pfft yeah.. whatever) i should put aside childish things. Therefore she gave me childish gifts. She's funny like that. So for the last hour or so, i've been learning how to juggle. it's not really too hard, i can do about 20 or so, then it goes awfully wrong. heh. I find whistling the harlem globetrotters theme helps though... weird. hehe

Anyway, life has been a bit odd recently, wanting to see claire, feeling guilty for not being home enough, going to work, going for job interviews, going to massage course. It's hectic on one hand, and hectic on the other, while hectic is also up in the air ready to be caught. sometimes hectic goes out the window though, and i just sleep in and read a book. that's nice sometimes. especially if it's raining.

I might just add here, that i had to close the shop by myself tonight, which means banking, etc. I had to be at thornlie tafe at 6:30. We close at 5:30. Took me about 35 minutes to close up the tills, clean up the shop, mop the tiles and stuff. Got to the nightsafe and the RETARDS WHO WORK AT RED DOT JAMMED THE NIGHTSAFE. I was pissed off to say the least. So i called the manager, who told me i had to go back to the shop, unlock, un-alarm, and open the stupid combination safe, and put the money in there. this was at 6:10. I was getting a bit worried about getting to class on time. so i spun my wheels, ripped it up through the car park at carousel and went back to the shop. I am proud to state that in this period of time i hit absolutely no pedestrians, vehicles or any other objects. Morale of the story is people who work at red dot suck. Also, bad shit always happens at the worst possible time. stupid murphy with his/her stupid frickin law.

To finish the story i made it to my massage class pretty much smack on 6:30. It was lucky. :) Now i believe i will go to bed.

***This journal log proudly brought to you by... Pete's Barbeeeeequuuuuuuuuuuuue.*** End cheesy music.

All friends please come to my bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbq on saturday around 5:30 - 6ish. We're going to freo (somehow) around 10:30-11ish, so dress niceish :D

Current Mood: happy

Hey everyone, just a slight change, since I have a trial at rowe and jarman on saturday (only got planned today sorry) I might make my bbq start from 5:30-6ish.

Also we will probably go to freo around 10-11ish or whenever it feels suitably good to be going :)

Oh, and also, will make it inside, since I'm not sure that the weather will be too good, plus it'll be freezing outside even if it isn't raining.

So to sum up, BBQ at 6 instead of 5. Will go to freo afterwards. Will hold bbq inside.

P.S. We won't actually be bbqing inside.

P.P.S. I really want this new job.

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How good is that little anxious face! haha.

Current Mood: anxious