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The Offical Update So, due to the long absence of any new material around this place, this is the official all around update of Perry's life since the last update. This is being written downstairs on my sister's laptop due to how ungodly hot it is upstairs in my room right now so you'll have forgive me if I overlap or miss some things since the last time I've written. Let's begin... For starters, there's David's new job. Guy got a job at DirectCash which installs and service ATM machines. A lot of his days is filled with driving to some of the most hick towns you can possibly imagine and fixing or cash loading one or two of their ATM's and then driving all the way back to good old TO. I went with him on one of his trips once. Like one and half hours to two hours spent driving, about an hour on repairs then same time getting back. I went with him cause the guy asked for company and who am I to say no right? XD So you have this guy David. He's 22 years old. He didn't end up actually graduating from high school and when he entered George Brown for Culinary Management, he did that for two years, was highly praised by his teachers and then suddenly lost interest and dropped it. So he's a high school dropout, he's a college dropout...and yet, he's got a full time job, is pulling in $40,000 a year, he just bought himself his own car, no help from his parents or anything, a fully loaded Mazda3 and has a VERY good chance of picking up a job as a salesman in his company come around September which will boost his salary to the mad realm of 6 figures. Compare that to me...good marks graduating high school, doing okay in university, racking up a huge debt to the government to pay for this thrice-damned education...to what end? From the looks of it, he seems to have a huge head start on life over me... When we go out, he's gotten back into the habit of pretty much always paying my way in whatever we end up doing be it, dinner of a movie or pool or whatever. This makes me feel like shit...to the point where I'm beginning to think that it would be wiser to just stay at home. I don't LIKE having him always paying for me, despite the fact that he makes more than my mom or even more than my dad ever made...it feels weird, like I'm mooching off of him. But when I try to pay my share, he sorta gets slightly pissy and brushes me off, telling me that I don't have the money to waste like he does...and he's right. I don't have nearly the same amount of money to spend that he does...but that doesn't stop me from wanting to pay for at least myself, for the both of us on the rare occasion that I can get away with it. If this continues for too long, I think that there's a very real possibility that I'll start making up shit to not go out and around with him...cept even that's hard to pull off cause he tends to spend the weekends here. There's a dilemma there. I've kind of solidified my desires on what I'll shoot for with my much vaunted education. Though a lot of family and friends continuously tell me every chance they get that they can very clearly see me as a university english professor, I'm scared to shoot for that. You know what they say...fly too high and you'll be burned by the sun and end up falling down to the earth with frayed wings with a loud crash. I'm tentatively setting my sights on being an editor at a publishing company...I think that's a nice and realistic goal that doesn't have an abysmal chance of success. I'm in a bit of a pessimistic mood at the moment, can you tell? My little cousins, Han-Jin and Han-Na came down from Welland (near Niagra) to my other cousins house to spend a week. Before that week was up, the other cousins basically called my uncle and asked if he could come pick up his kids a few days early...the reason being that her brother was having a party with some friends at the house on the Friday and they didn't really want the kids around for that. Apparently, my sister was notified of this by my uncle and got piqued. She picked em up and we brought them over to our play to spend about a week. My mom and my sister both work pretty much all day, so first off, it was me that was in charge of taking care of them and making them food. The girl's 11 and the guy's 14. I'm hardly the best chef in the world so that was just barely a success if that. The girl, Han-Na attached herself to the tv and dvd player downstairs and spent the past five or so days watching movies...constantly. Han-Jin has attached himself to my computer in my room and has started playing ConquerOnline. Now as it were, I can't very well go out and leave them at my home alone to fend for themselves...so I pretty much stayed with them or only went out if I could drag them along too. While they occupy themselves with my things, I make myself busy in other ways. I occasionally play a bit of PS2, I read or I drag out my sister's laptop and attempt some writing that invariably ends up getting deleted. Here's where the problem comes in. Both of them creep me out. When I kick the girl off the tv so that I can continue watching the Samurai7 anime series that David brought over one day in dvd form, what do you think she does? She gets up off the couch, goes about halfway up the stairs and just sits there, staring at me and the tv through the railing. She doesn't say anything, just sits there staring...this creeps me out like you would not believe. Usually, I'll watch for like 10-15 minutes before being SO unnerved that I just turn everything off and go back upstairs...which is usually when she'll flounce back down onto the couch and continue watching whatever. Same goes for Han-Jin. He's very solicitous, asks me like once every 15-20 minutes or so if I wanted to go on the computer. If I say yes and replace him at my desk...what do you think he does? Does he play the easily accessible PS2 that's right there? Does he read from The Davinci Code which he brought with him? Does he go downstairs to play Gamecube or watch movies with his sister? No, no, no and no. He sits on my bed and watches me. If I log onto Conquer, he watches every move I make without a word. He reads everything I type and everything that's typed to me. Just in case you haven't realized this by now, this CREEPS ME THE FUCK OUT. As with his sister's case, I usually just make a show of browsing a forum or two before handing the computer back to him, telling him that that was all that I wanted to do. I can't even begin to describe how much these two kids creep me out. I think that at least SOME of it stems from the fact that I'm too used to being alone when I'm at home and suddenly being deluged by company weirds me out slightly...but now, I'm leaning more towards the opinion that they're just a pair of bloody creepy kids. I was talking to Helen the other day and how she had like 8 guests staying at her house or something and how it was so hectic...but I still think I have it worse. Having a houseful of screaming but normal kids would be a lot more preferable to these two creepy statue replacement kids man...it seriously fucking scares me and soon it'll start pissing me off and I'll just order them both to the basement and to stay there till I want em to come back up XD. They've just left a few hours ago...but apparently, come Friday, Han-Jin will be back again, most likely to stay for the rest of the summer... Oh happy days... -.- Continuing with the Official Update of my life, the little weekend group of me, David (weekend brother) and my sister has been expanded to a foursome...the inclusion of a gril from where my sister works named Bona who has kind of become my weekend sister. The house fairly bustles on the weekend with two extra people who are freaking NORMAL and damned fun sleeping over for the past few weeks. My sister found a new boyfriend, dude named Sam who seems like a nice guy and all...he tends to come by at LEAST every other evening and stays till around 2 in the morning on average. David and Bona started dating recently...now can you guess how that ends up making me feel when all five of us are together? >.> If you said third or fifth wheel, you got it right! You win a prize. So...in a nutshell, that covers it all... There's a lot going on the in girl department...but to be quite honest, I have no idea how to write about it so...I just won't XD. All you suckas get to be kept in suspense :P. Alright...have I forgotten anything? Am I missing anything...? I don't think so...and if I did, I just don't feel like combing my mind to try and remember it. I'll end it here. |