A decade in review

A friend (and countless lists) have inspired me to blog. Since I haven't blogged in a while, (being busy with doing two TAFE courses) there is a lot to blog about, or you'd think there would be? Anyways, here is my look back at the year, and decade that was.

Living out of home can suck

Due to circumstances outside my control I found myself being a transient in this great city, moving from suburb to suburb (at least once a year on average) during the majority of the decade. Living with various strange individuals, cooking spag bol with spam (it tasted awful) and having people fuck in your room (other than you) can be rather unsettling. On the other hand, when I was living by myself I had some great times. But then I lost my job. And then I moved back home.

Living at home can suck too

So yes, I lose my job, have bugger all money, move back home. Did I hear the sound of a million women's legs closing? I thought I did. There is nothing worse than living at home, no job and no car. Or quoting Young MC "Got no money and you got no car. Then you've got no woman and there you are".

Women

I wonder why I bothered to put this paragraph in, but yes, this decade did have a bit more action in that department than the decades preceeding it. But still, in the end I am no better off than I am when I started the noughties, so that makes this a dead rubber! So, why am I in this situation where I have no lady friend to speak of? One theory for me (coming from the 40 year old virgin) is that I have to stop putting the pussy on a pedestal. I treat these ladies with too much respect, too much planning, etc and that I need to just take risks.

Being selfish

Wow, these are kinda falling into each other these things. My mentor has recently told me to be more selfish (and take risks). This decade I spent the majority of it helping family in one way or another (either me being a live in maid, or someone living in my flat) and due to being unselfish, I have lost opportunities that could have benefitted me somehow. Or as one teacher said this year, "Opportunity cost".

To dream the impossible dream

So, this time 10 years ago my dream was to be on radio as a DJ. Nothing much has changed. The other day though, when trying to do a demo for radio, I was doing a demo as a "time and temp" announcer. My radio teacher told me that perhaps being a DJ wasn't for me. I spoke to a mate and she said that she had never imagined me to be a time and temp DJ. Neither had I. So, maybe my demo should be different to being Mr Jukebox. I had always imagined myself as someone who would be able to use satire and comedy to entertain. Someone like Vic Davies, Shaun Micallef or David Mitchell.

Happiness

Over the ten years I'd been looking for happiness, but first I had to define what happiness was. What makes me happy? Well, the last time I was happy this year was when I went overseas and spent a few weeks with my (ex) lady friend across the sea. Upon returning back I thought that that was a place where I could be happy. But, instead, I have been told not to come back. Here I was thinking that NZ was a nice place where you're not judged and people are even nicer than Australia, but I guess I was wrong. So, the search for happiness continues it seems.

What to do?

So, with all that happening, what do I do? I have some ideas I might develop, I've got stuff to do before I start my Business degree in March, so I will be giving it a red hot go.

New Thing Of The Week: Unclutter my environment

[a re-enactment, not an actual photo hehe]

I've been living back at Mum's for some time now... at least six months.. and my room is still in a state of transition.

Stuff is still sitting in boxes throughout the house and is unorganised.

So, this weekend amongst going to TAFE and driving I will be tidying up my room and making it from something temporary to something short to medium term.

They say that having an uncluttered environment means an uncluttered mind.

That sounds alright by me!

Hopping from bed to bed

[The above image is for illustration purposes only.]

What's a bloke to do? He's had the same bed for 6 years and he's had enough.

Get a new bed? Well, I've stuck with my job all this time despite
having shit, so I'm sure you know I'm not one to change oh so quickly.
The truth is, I've had good times and bad times on my bed.
Unfortunately - so has my sister and her ex-husband... when it was
their bed.

So this bed is like an Earthquakian family symbol of love and hate and everything inbetween.

But it creaks. It hogs up my tiny cell.. I mean bedroom and I do need more room.

How can we dance while the Earth is turning? How can we sleep while our beds are burning?

So there I was at Harvey Norman the other day looking at computers with EelBoy, and I thought to myself

what a wonderful world...

No, not that. I thought that I have been wanting a bed and a sofa bed
for years. I found one quite similar to the pic on sale for $149.

So I've put down a $49 deposit since I have no way of transport to get
it home from Auburn (other than drag it up Parramatta Road), so now I'm
picking it up tomorrow.

Trouble is - doubts have crept into my mind... like why I do need this
I could spend the money on something else like a Voltron toy or an
Optimus Prime transformer or building a wrestling ring.

At the moment I'm leaning towards getting it - but lord knows I could
be leaning the other way about it tomorrow. Either way, Glen Lazarus
will be there tomorrow so maybe he can help me load it into Mum's van.
I'm sure he'd be stronger than me.

Money money money. It must be funny in a rich man's world.

This week (with 4 days off from work -

Thanks to Big Brother's big fat beefy wallet. Yippee!

back on Friday) I will look at getting this bloody business going.
Hopefully things will go well cause if they're not I shan't be happy.
And I don't say shan't regularly either....... Shan't!

By the way Meatballs 4 was a good movie. Corey Feldman was old though.
Well not old old like I don't know.. John Howard, but older than what I
remembered him. Though this movie was made in the mid-90's past his
teenage days, but it was a bit strange. Good T&A move and that's
what every man needs!