And so this is Christmas...

-

 ...and what have you done? Another year over and new one just begun...

It's been another quiet holiday season in my house. Which is fairly normal for us anyway, but this year I haven't even felt up to a whole lot. I'd hoped to get the turkey breast baked today but I really just wasn't up to it for some reason. I'll bake it tomorrow instead, and have all the fixings for dinner.

In the meantime, the kid and I have been making progress on cleaning our bedrooms so we can switch. I've already pulled out four bags of crap - clothes I don't wear, things I don't need, things I haven't used in over a year, and a lot of crumpled up paper. Not to mention the collection of pop cans I've somehow managed to build up. I still have at least four more bags worth of crap to pull out of that room. I already know that it may require me to rent a U-Haul pickup truck or van to get all the bags and other assorted crap out of here, especially with the city wanting to crack down on how many bags folks put out each week. I can understand why they want to do that, but it doesn't stop it from sucking any less when I'm going to have piles of bags to toss. Oh well, such is life sometimes.

At this point I'm basically working on being able to get the kid into their new room and then I'll worry about my own stuff as I am able to. Basically, I'll be putting in the items that I absolutely must have and then decide from there what else I might wish to keep in my bedroom, put elsewhere, or just simply toss out. For some reason I can see my bedroom becoming my little corner of sanity once again due to the mess and clutter that is taking over my living room yet again.

I already know that the new year will bring some more time off work, due in a large part to how quiet the hotel will be. There are three of us that have to split the front desk hours and we no longer have an overnight shift because we are so quiet.

I also know that the café area of the spa portion of the site is going to be converted into a hair salon. This makes me very glad that I chose to be trained for the front desk as well because that would have meant no job for me...just like it did for the f/t café person. I think it was going to close down anyway because it had been losing money for quite some time, and it just wasn't worth it to keep it running.

I'm glad that for now I've got the CRB payments to supplement my pay, but I don't know what is going to happen when that comes to an end. Perhaps it's a good thing that we're getting everything we need now while we actually have some money coming in because once the CRB ends if I don't pick up f/t hours again we're going to be living extremely frugally. At least now I know how to do this, unlike when we were trying to make my student loan stretch to cover just the necessities!

But what have I accomplished this year? I regained a good friend, and I've realized what is truly important in life. I've also learned to take more time for myself and to always make time for when my kid wants to talk to me, even if it's about something I have no understanding of.

In the meantime, I need to go clear off my bed and look at going to sleep for the night. Maybe. I might just clean up some more of my room instead.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

-
So, I've been verbally given a three month eviction notice due to my landlord wanting to renovate the apartment I've been living in for almost 12 years. And he's made it clear that he will not entertain the idea of me coming back once the renovations are done. Yes, the place needs some work - I've been here for 12 years so wear and tear are only natural. Of course, the day he needed into the apartment was a day where the place was a state. I'd just worked my last day of a string of five days in a row and housework needed to be done. Five days worth of dishes in the sink, garbage that was in the process of being collected to put out on garbage day, and laundry that was in the process of being washed, dried, folded, and put away. Plus stuff on the floor because I'd been going through my collection of doom bags and boxes so I could get rid of more things I don't need or have room for. It clearly wasn't putting the best look out there for my landlord to see,...
Read more
-
So, I didn't get everything out of the basement common area by the end of October. I got a LOT of it out, but there still remains some items that desperately need to go. I just haven't had the spoons to do it yet. Such is life when your health, mental and physical, decide to have other ideas. Obviously, I'm still working away at it all, and making progress too! A week ago, during my last two days off from work, I finally put together the free shelving thingy I got from Temu and started putting things on it. Talk about a huge difference from having things all over the counter! Organization of my kettle, various water bottles and travel mugs, spices, cereal, and other things have been accomplished and I have actual working space on the counter now. Given the space and time (and another shelving thingy at some point) I'll hopefully be able to turn the top of my mini-fridge into a coffee station and get rid of the two milk-crates I'm currently using to hold canned goods...
Read more

Ex got his ass fired on Valentine's Day...what a loser

-
The ex no longer has a job - he was termed on Valentine's Day. I can only wonder exactly what goes through a person's head to continue to do the same stupid thing repeatedly. Clearly he's not all that bright if it means that he has yet to learn a lesson out of all of this. But I also think he tends to think he'll always get bailed out whenever he screws up like he apparently always does. When he told me that he always loses his jobs the same way, I thought maybe he felt guilty about it all and wanted to make a change. Obviously not. Whenever I eat in the food court at the mall I work in I keep expecting his mother to approach me to ask what happened. Or to give me shit for not making her son a priority. Frankly, I'd love her to try giving me shit because I'd tell her - mother to mother - that she raised a selfish idiot who refuses to learn from his mistakes or is just too stupid to figure out that how he chooses to go on is no way to live. What is he goi...
Read more