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Damn....yesterday was a pretty good day.

First, I wake up and go get my Jeep fixed. FIXED!!! That alone made me a happy camper. I ended up buying a new radiator and getting the head / head gasket fixed. That shit runs nice and smooth now. I have to go get an oil change though, cuz I think some water leaked into the motor when the head was cracked.......but yeah...fixed.

And since my car wasnt running from wednesday night till just yesterday, I didnt take any weekend serves....so no work AT ALL! Its  remembergreat to just take a break from work....not having to go and serve subpoenas or anything like that on my time.....so that was also great.

Then me, Julian, and Karina went to Chuck E. Cheese. Now that was a trip. It was so weird to be taking my kid there, when I remember it was not so long ago that I was a 7 year old running around in there. It seems a lot smaller now though...and I know that he wont remember that yesterday ever happend, or probably didnt know what was going on.....but thats ok.. we got pictures and shit...

And then yesterday I get a call from Lemoyne seeing what was up....thats always great. We ended up at David's house making noises and just talking about random topics (politics, marijuana laws, religion, music) while playing the guitar and speaking into a mic with a distortion pedal. I dont know what time I actually got to bed, but it was pretty late/early. Its always cool hanging out with thoes guys. We get into deep conversation, and we all seem to be able to flow.

So yeah, yesterday was a good day.      

So I was sitting at my desk at the office this morning....when I get to thinking about where my life is at right now.

    Yes, there is the baby momma drama...but even that is starting to not faze me as its used to. Julian is healthy, and has everything that he needs, and then some. We haven't had to buy him diapers ONCE since he was born...which was over a month ago. Everyone showered him with gifts...and he got boxes and boxes of diapers. He has such a huge family, so yeah, he's definately being spoiled.

    Then there is my socializing. I find that I am keeping busier, and hanging out with friends that I hadn't hung out with in forever more often. That makes me
happy too.

    And then theres my job. I love it. I have my desk in the office....I sit and listen to music and work (or go on myspace or bakotopia!). When I have to go out and serve subpoenas, I do. When I have medical records to duplicate, I go out and do it. Same for prepairing legal documents, pouching documents, skip-tracing, and everything else I do. Its so chill...it pays great...and while I'm out of the office, they do not keep tabs on my time AT ALL! I dont take advantage of this, but its nice to know the trust is there.
       Another cool thing about my job is that I now get to do things that I would have never seen myself doing a few years ago, or even a few months ago really. Just last Friday, I went out to a business lunch with two attorneys and a court clerk about a job at the superior court that I had that day.
    We had lunch at this place called the Bell Tower Club. Its a members only dinning club where they serve some bomb ass food. It was hillarious, cuz I felt that I was WAYYYYYY underdressed, but I think it was fine. I'm just glad they didnt offer me a jacket...that would have been embarassing. Anyways, I ordered the chicken and they had the ribeye and lamb's leg and I forget what the other lawyer dude had (it wasnt anything great, or I would have remembered). Anyways, so they bring the food out....and its on a white china plate, with little chicken slices right in the middle, with green beans on the side and lots of the white of the plate showing around the food. It was such a small dish...but it was soooooo fucking delicious and free, for me anyways.
    Its crazy. I could have never seen me doing things like this . I'm seriously considering sticking it out in the law field and getting back to school....we'll see where I am a couple of years from now.....

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so today I went into work like any other given Thursday morning. I was so glad to find that it wasn't as hectic as it was yesterday. So I picked up my stack of serves and print jobs for the day and got to working.

Anyways, about lunchtime I went and bought two cans of baby formula for 50 bucks. Shits rediculous.....so I bought those and took them to KT. Then I go around town posting OTQ or serving subpoenas and I happend to be close to my aunts house....and I remember her lending me 10 bucks for lunch or something.

So I go over there and they always trip out on the hole in my ear...lol. They are so right-winged christians! Its all good though....yin and yang, I always say.
So my cousin's come over and do the usual sticking thier finger's through my ear and then freaking out...lol.

And then my aunt started talking about her hearing that I'm getting tatted. I was confused, cuz I thought everyone had seen my ink, but I guess not...so I lift my shirt and then my aunt goes....."ewww".....she saw my nipple rings..lol

Then she started telling me how I have a deep pain within and my body mods are my self-medicating with piercings or tattoos.....and then said she was very surprised that I came across as many good jobs as I had.  She said that if she saw me coming to her door, she wouldnt think I was a legal messenger...that she would think I was a burgler.......(i know..thats family). I just laughed a little and told her that if I put a suit and tie on a random joe and stuck him in my position, he probably wouldn't know up from down.

I am the first to admit that my piercings definately make me less "employable". The thing is though, that I can overcome those self-set barriers with ease. Seriously.....

I used to work at State Farm off of Camino Media....then I worked at Chevron out on China Grade Loop. At both places, the average employee age is 35+. Now I work at ADS with 3 other direct co-workers that are all 40+. Both places are pretty conservative. Add to that my fat 11/16 ears and other visable mods, and thats a hard act to sell to an employer.

But with all that stacked against me, I still manage to impress the interviewer, whoever that might be, enough to get the job at such a place. I think it might have something to do with my personallity and the way I am able to comunicate.....along with my street and book smarts. It really helps to be well rounded like that.

Where I'm at right now, they love how I am copletely eliminating the need to print medical records and other legal documents, saving the company money, and the world trees : ) by scanning everything into a pdf / database that I set-up

People always seem to take my being hired to a company as routine "out with the old, in with the new".....but
"the times, they are a changin"

And to top the day off....my jeep is starting to crap out on me. I owed my uncle 200 bucks from a mechanic job he did for MY EX!!!, so I went and paid him, cuz it was because of me that he fronted it in the first place. Anyways, he told me he would fix it for free, but that I would have to buy the parts and help him fix it. So looks like my Saturday morning just filled up...........

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Every time I read a blog or a bulletin about someone working or going to work...its "oh no" "this sucks" "fuck work"....and i know I have a day like that every once in a while.....but for the most part, I love to work. I love working.....maybe I'm just weird...or maybe thats My Mexican half busting through....or maybe that the last couple of jobs I've had are pretty good office / desk jobs.

I often wonder how it is that I come up with good jobs......and I think its a matter of motivation. I love my job AND working..therefore I look forward to going to work in the mornings, which in turn makes the day go by a lot quicker and painlessly. I just wish it was like that for some of my peers.


To all those who hate their jobs...any job that you have, no matter what the job is what it pays...is a good living. Its decent and honest. Other people beg on the streets for change, collect welfare, sell drugs, or leech off of parents....at least you work for your money.

Kudos

damn....some good times indeed. I was the short guy that kept stage diving. anyways......peace

Anyone know of any places in town that are hiring. I have a great work ethic and great former employee references (even from state farm). Please let me know.

and on another note: im gonna be a first time father in august. w00t

ok, so on sunday me and my girlfriend had the biggest fight ever. i got so angry that i told her to leave, so she went and stayed at her mom's house. it was sooo sooo hard to go to sleep that night, because it was the first time since we moved in together that i didnt get to sleep with her by my side. then in the morning when i woke up, she wasnt there, and that was kind of hard for me too. that day sucked.

i had no idea that lack of sex affected chicks the same as guys. i dont know why, but i hadn't been "physical" with her for about 4 or 5 days. i dont know, i was kind of stressing over some stupid shit that was goin on, so maybe that had something to do with it.

but anyways, so yesterday we had our "make-up" sex. i know, it should have happend on monday night, but that really was a pretty bad fight. anyways, back to last night. it was everything i expected it to be, and more. it was awesome.  i dont even know what time we ended up goin to sleep, but it felt like i slept for 15 minutes, woke up, and the sun was up.  anyways, so this morning me and my girl were in the greatest mood.

nice.

now to get back to work.......

so yesterday i go to HR to pick up my paycheck. then they tell me to wait cuz they need to talk to me about something.  every other time ive been pulled into that office, theres always something wrong, but never bad.. like, for instance: one day i was playing sublime at a normal volume. the song was daterape i believe. this one christian chick complains that the song is too much that that it was hurting her spirit and whatnot. (she doesnt work here anymore (she was a temp also, and they just let her and some other person go one friday, almost out of nowhere)). anyways, so she complained, and they made me go up to hr and the had a chat with me. the cool thing was that they weren't at all angry or anything...they just wanted to tell me face to face that there was nothing wrong or rule-breaking about me singing and listening to music in my cube. that was fuckin awesome.

but anyways, i digress.....so they pull me into the room, and they ask me how i liked my job

yikes....cuz i really like it, but it doesnt look like good news is comming. seriously though, ive gotten my piercings and tatts while working here, streched my ears and all, and they dont trip.

but then they said to me, "we got some bad news. the last day of your assignment with ultimate staffing is on friday the 11th."

i was freaking out because im a temp, and so they could just let you go at any time. and on top of that, i streched my ears out to 1/2s beacuse they dont have a rule against that here (and everywhere else i have worked would have never let me do that), so that would make it a little harder for me to find another job

then she goes, "thats becase (name of my employer) is hiring you on as a permanant employee. that means benifits, 401k, the works....as well as a 75 cent raise.  <chash registar sound>

but yeah, so now I'm making a nice wage and dont have to worry about being fired just beacuse the staffing agency didnt need me anymore. hell yeah.

hmmmm.....but yeah, im gonna get back to work before they realize i spend a couple of hours a day on here, lol. peace

So I'm working on Friday, when i get a call from my girlfriend.

"I won tickets to Projekt Revolution on KRAB this morning" she says.
"It's tomorrow in San Bernandino. We have to go."

So I'm thinking, damn, thats not gonna be a great show, but it is free, and she did win meathead at a rock-paper-siccors game, so we might as well go.

Not too great at all. First off, the tailgating sucked, because everyone insisted on blasting MCR or Linkin Park. Very original. Then, everyone seemed to be drinking the nastiest beer on the face of the earth. Bud Light! The sun is beating down on everyone and i can tell the day isn't going to get any better soon.  So me and my girl start on our bottle of CAPTAIN MORGAN, and after about 5 shots each, we head for the line.

So we get to the top of the hill, right before they do the body pat-down and they turn us back, telling us they are not allowing backpacks or anything. I had taken my backpack that had a blanket so we could sit on and a couple other things. So we headed back down the hill and towards our car. I think it was about 12:50 pm or so.  When we got there, we decided we would finish the bottle, and thats exactly what we did. A couple of minutes later, my girl is puking out the window, and then that makes me puke. Bad times.....

Anyways, so next thing i know, my gf is nudging me, telling me to wake the fuck up. I looked at my phone and it was telling me it was 4:15. I couldn't believe i had passed out through hours of the show. So I take a pick-me-up shot and smoke a joint and we make our way up the hill again, this time minus the waiting in line. My girl had never been there, so she was pretty excited. I'm pretty phsyced too, cuz ill be seeing MSI!

Except for that MSI had already played! i was devastated. That meant that all i had to look forward to was My Chemical Romance and Linkin park. EH!

So about 5pm and 3 joints later, i get really hungry, so my girl takes off w/ my money clip to get me some pizza. I almost passed out again, and i wouldn't have minded because i think H.I.M. was up at stage, or maybe it was Taking Back Sunday.  Anyways, so I'm already slipping away, when i feel some stuff falling on my face. When i opened my eyes, there was 4 people around me, dropping candy into my mouth. The pretty one of the group tells me that i look sad and lonely, and i explain all the shit that had been going on that day. I don't know if they believed that i was actually there with someone. My girlfriend was taking forever! So they all just sit around me and we start talking and whatnot. Finally my girl emerges from the sea of tees w/ my pizza and a soda in hand. She told me it was 10 dollars and i said "FUCK!"

So then I felt in the mood for some beer. I asked some guy if he would buy it for me and he says yeah, just give me 24 dollars. I though he was joking, but no, the beer was actually 12 dollars a cup!!!!

So yeah, anyways, the highlights of the show were me passing out and MCR. I'm by no means a fan, and i actually don't know any of their stuff (except for that shit that was forced into my brain by my girl), but they put on an amazingly surprisingly good show. They had it all: the screaming fans, the awesome weather/atmosphere/venue, the pyrotechnics (YES! they had PYRO!) and some other good stuff that i don't want to spoil for anyone seeing them in SD this Wednesday.

But yeah, better than sitting at home and being drunk. Well...........