Currently Listening Indestructible By Disturbed see related

Wow what a crazy day yesterday...

Since I am desperate for money these days, I accepted a job of what I was told would be counting ballots from 7-11 pm election night. It turned out there were many thousands more ballots then they expected and only 40 of us working in teams of 2 to count them. And they were all in huge boxes weighing 30-50 lbs each. So from 7 pm till not 11 pm, but 2 am, I had to lift a 30-50 lb box of ballots and carry it to my table. empty out the contents, count the ballots and record the number, then toss the ballots into a certain box and repeat. I did this for 7 hours. Needless to say, it sucked. Then I had to walk by a tv on my way out and hear that Obama won decisively. Bleah. I could write an essay on how I think Obama and his democratically controlled Senate and House will ruin our country over the next 4 years, but I don't feel like it. Mostly I'm just glad the election is finally over.

Oh, and the craziness didn't stop at 2 am. My poor friend who worked his butt off for Mccain for the last 4 months called me at 3:30 am because he was in downtown Columbus and completely wasted and thus not able to drive. So, since I am such a good friend, I went and picked him up. Driving around the downtown area of a city at 4 am is creepy... I'm not planning on doing it again.

Man I hate being unemployed. I need a job. Now.

Currently Listening Waking the Fallen By Avenged Sevenfold see related

Wait this can't be right... 12:40 am on Sunday night and I'm still up? Sigh... tomorrow is the first Monday that I don't have to be at 7 am to go to work. It doesn't feel right... man I hate being unemployed...

Well this week I discover what my future job prospects are. There's a chance I could work at the Chipotle regional headquarters in downtown Columbus. I would definitely love that job... mostly because of the free burritos I assume I could get hehe.

I do actually have one job lined up. Tuesday night I'll be counting ballots for 4 hours for $12/hour. I'm also trying to sell several of my old things. So at least those things will bring in some income in the short-term. Oh and I have one more paycheck from my previous job coming this Friday.

Well to make myself feel better tonight I am listening to the greatest album of all time: Waking the Fallen by Avenged Sevenfold. Unfortunately, since that album they've gotten steadily worse, and their latest album (the self-titled one) sounds terrible. So I find it hard to call myself a fan of theirs anymore. But Waking the Fallen is simply amazing. Amazing, dark lyrics (many pulled from the Bible), incredible guitar and drum work, and a phenomenal singer who has the greatest scream and yet an awesome singing voice at the same time. The song "I Won't See You Tonight - Part 1" is still my favorite song of all time. I could sing that song in my sleep, as well as hum all the guitar parts. Anyways, I don't know why I just decided to, like, advertise my favorite album like that, but whatever. I shall however, end this post with what I consider some of the greatest lyrics ever. It's from their song Chapter Four (chapter four being the fourth chapter in Genesis):

"(give me your hand,
blood is spilt and man will follow
infernal man, punishment too great to bear)
Conceived and born was one of light
Rain and dark, the other born black night.

Raise your head and taste the courage
(the one of light)
Fall from grace, unholy night
I've come here to kill you,
won't leave until you've died
Murder born of vengeance,
I closed my brothers eyes tonight...

(give me your hand,
blood is spilt and man will follow
infernal man, punishment too great to bear)
Conceived and born was one of light
Rain and dark, the other born black night.

Raise your head and taste the courage
(the one of light)
Fall from grace, unholy night
I've come here to kill you,
won't leave until you've died
Murder born of vengeance,
I closed my brothers eyes tonight...

Its cold tonight as the clouds turn grey
and from my hands to my brothers grave
You took his side, you took his gift,
feel the power of a fallen man, crestfallen man...

Far away in this land I must go,
out of the sight of the One.
A punishment sent from his hands
a hardship that no one should know
Now go out of the site of the One,
away in this land you must go.

Where has he gone? What have you done?

A voice commands from high above this earth.
From the soil his blood cries out to me,
Murder, liar, vengeance, deceit.

Far away in this land I must go,
out of the sight of the One.
A punishment sent from his hands
a hardship that no one should know
Now go out of the site of the One,
away in this land you must go."

Currently Listening As Daylight Dies By Killswitch Engage see related

Whoa okay I just read my last post over and I think I was just a wee bit emotional that day. Things actually calmed down a lot after Wednesday. I think a lot of it had to do with my friends praying for me. It definitely worked as one of my temp companies definitely has a job I can do starting right after my last day at BMW and the other company is trying to find me a better job. So basically I have two temp companies fighting over who can give me a better job... this can only work out great for me. So seriously, thank you all who prayed for me.

I still HATE the fact that I have to stop working at BMW though. You know the phrase, "You never know what you have till it's gone?" Well, I had no idea how much I really liked my job until I was told it was going to end at the end of the month. I mean, yes, it is accounting, which in of itself is boring as crap, but the job is still great. It is easy, I am heavily praised for work that I don't really have to work too hard to get done, my boss never cares if I surf the Internet every once in awhile, my coworkers were patient in their training of me and are incredibly nice, the cafeteria is fricken awesome and cheap, and it paid pretty well. Oh, and my work was named one of the five best places to work in Columbus, OH. So, yeah, leaving this job sucks big time. I can only hope that God leads me to a place that has all those great things plus work that I actually enjoy doing hehe.

My boss and coworkers took me out to lunch today. We went to Bravo (a really nice Italian restaurant) and I got a huge lasagna. And it was all paid for .

For some reason it seems everyone in my office is taking me leaving harder than I am. Suddenly every girl in the office is being super nice to me and giving me the "I feel so bad for you" smile whenever they see me. My boss is taking it the hardest... at lunch he really seemed genuinely upset. He barely talked at all. The two girls who I've worked with closely over the past 4 months are especially upset because they pretty much told me that I am amazing at my job and they're going to miss my help. I guess if I can take one positive thing out of this it's that I know I left a really good impression on my boss and coworkers. That will definitely help when future possible employers are calling them for references...

Yay for just figuring out one of the few gifts God has given me: I make really good impacts on the people I work with. For example, my first job, Schlotzsky's Deli, over 2 years I became really good friends with almost the entire work force, and the only person I did not like at all told me one day many months after I left that she really missed working with me. Another example: last summer I worked a temp job for only 3 months, but on my last day all the ladies in the office went out and bought me a cake and threw me a "last day" celebration. I had only worked there 3 months! And then now at BMW my coworkers and bosses keep telling me how great I was doing and how sad they are that I am leaving. Then they're buying me expensive lunches and telling me that if any position opens up in the future at BMW, they will not hesitate in hiring me back.

So yay for me being good at something in life that makes a difference... not just being good at computer games haha.

Sigh... I'm gonna miss my job...

Currently Listening Dressed Up As Life By Sick Puppies see related

Sigh.

My how life continues to kick my ass. The amazing thing is, it always, ALWAYS happens to me after something great happens. It's almost as if my life mimics the life cycle of the economy. Whenever I experience a boom, a recession eventually follows. The bigger the boom, the bigger the recession.

What am I babbling about?

I lost my job.

Yeah.

I'm f***ed.

Currently Listening Revelations By Audioslave see related

For once a Monday that wasn't crappy. Well, ok, I did have some sort of weird nightmare that I can't really remember which caused me to wake up at 5:45 am and not be able to fall back asleep. So I guess this Monday didn't get off to a great start. But an hour into work it got a lot better...

I was sitting at my desk doing my usual thing when a lady approached me and asked me if I was comfortable sitting on motorcycles. I said I was and asked why. She told me that since BMW Financial Services had finished first in four categories in some ranking by JD Power and Associates they wanted to take pictures of employees in the main lobbies where we have two motorcycles and one big SUV sitting. So they ended up taking pictures of me sitting on a massive BMW motorcycle... and I mean massive. I felt like I could take out a small car in an accident if I was driving it. Anyways, afterwards I asked where the pictures would end up and I was told they are going to be used in a business presentation at an international conference with other car companies who won awards. I was also told that the pictures might be posted "elsewhere." I'm pretty sure elsewhere means the Internet and maybe even a magazine. I'm gonna be famous! Haha.

So I almost wish I was still living with my parents right now since this year my parents have gone nuts with getting pets and the amount of animals at their house has increased exponentially. They now have... 1 dog, 2 cats, 4 finches, 8 geese, 9 ducks, 15 or so chickens, and a rabbit. One of the cats, 4 of the geese, 6 of the ducks, half of the chickens, and the rabbit were all added this year. I love going over every Sunday because I spend hours there just playing around with all the pets. I scold my 11 year-old cat for being a grumpy old cat, I play with the new kitten, I largely ignore the dog because she mostly annoys me, I chase the ducks and geese around and catch them, and I try to sneak up on the bunny, but he always gets away. I did get close enough to take some pictures of him thought. I love his story... apparently he spent the first 2 years of his life living in a cage and completely ignored by his owners. My mom took him away from them, put him on the ground near our barn, and told him "you're free!" Now he spends his life happily hopping around the upper 2 acres of our land and he has a hole under the barn he hides in when predators are around. He gets along very well with all the ducks, geese, and chickens. So yeah, I absolutely love pets and that's one thing I don't like about living in an apartment. Oh well... some day I am definitely moving into a house with land and I'm going to have lots of pets of all kinds... cats, ducks, geese, birds, guinea pigs, rabbits, and maybe even a dog. I'd really, really like to own an eagle or a hawk, one that's trained to land on your arm. They're such magnificent creatures. Ok well actually I think the animal I want to own more than anything else is an otter. Or an emperor penguin. I think an otter is more realistic though...

It's past my bedtime. Goodnight.