Shayde on 14/11/2007 at 05:50
Good - love my husband, we have great fun together, we're planning a hiking tour along the east coast of SA in December and another through the Kalahari in March. I kick ass at my job, really I am fabulous and they are damn lucky to have me. Gotten into reading Neil Gaiman and am loving every bit of his work. And finally we are in the process of applying for our Canadian Visa - we are going to immigrate.
Bad -Summer's here and 40 degree heat in my little car that lacks air conditioning for 2 hours a day sucks donkey balls. Crime has gotten quite hectic, 2 friends were beaten and had guns cocked to their heads last month and last weekend a friends bachelors party was crashed, shots fired into the crowd and a security guard died while my husband was giving cpr. And finally we are in the process of applying for our Canadian Visa - we are going to immigrate.
PigLick on 14/11/2007 at 06:08
I think Shaydes bad wins.
Vasquez on 14/11/2007 at 06:37
Good: Being with morbusg is still good, happy and fun after 6 years. Working as a freelancer is really the right thing for me, I love it! I have great friends, and I see my brother and elderly parents regularly. And of course, I try to be grateful for having a home, clean water, plenty of food (too much, rather :rolleyes:), I live in a relatively safe country and basically, have everything I need for a good life. Not too little, not too much - just the right amount of goodness :)
Super bonus today: There is snow, and Christmas is coming :D
AND I'm eagerly waiting for trip to Japan, it's great fun to plan it!
Bad: My novel-writing hasn't been going quite as smoothly as I'd like. And I have a slight hangover. And the sad thing about snowing is that it reminds me of my dog Zeta, who died last summer. She loved snow :(
Shadow Creepr on 14/11/2007 at 08:19
Good - I have a loving husband whom I adore. I have settled well into living in my new culture. This year I managed to obtain my British Driver's License, a process that took from April to July because of the way the two testing appointments were spread out (shifting with the left hand still feels weird sometimes though). I also secured my permanent, right-to-abode settlement visa and passed my UK Citizenship test. I feel at peace despite the bad things.
Bad - I haven't worked since the end of September when my seasonal job ran out. I apply for jobs everyday but no joy yet. I still have to wait until next year to apply for UK citizenship and the rules keep changing. Because I am married to a Brit, I only have to wait three years instead of five to apply but the application states I have to have a professional referee as one of my two references and that I have to have known them for three years. What that means is I will now have to delay my application to August. Plus, Liam Byrne saw fit to double the cost to apply.
Lhet on 14/11/2007 at 08:45
Good: I'm a Computer Science student, and it's nice to have meaningful and interesting projects. Also, I have a fair amount of free time and I can do many fun things.
Bad: My job (weekends at car wash) sucks, and I haven't even worked the last two weekends and thus have no income 'til about a month from now. Also, I have a lot of schoolwork.
kidmystik101 on 14/11/2007 at 09:18
good - yearly examinations ended yesterday, got the day off today, and life is pretty good in general
bad - it's hot like a fucking sauna, i still have 3 more weeks of meaningless shool work ahead, next to no money, computer in dire need of an upgrade and hammer just shat itself:grr:
Vasquez on 14/11/2007 at 10:18
One more Good: It's nice to read about other peoples' good stuff :)
Briareos H on 14/11/2007 at 15:11
The good : I'm profoundly in love and able to change the whole earth for her. My life is always moving, I am free to go and free to learn everything I want, and I know I can. I feel everything around and those feelings are everything I hold dear.
The bad : I'm profoundly in love and able to change the whole earth for her. My life is always moving, I am free to go and free to learn everything I want, and I know I can. I feel everything around and those feelings are everything I hold dear.
Medlar on 14/11/2007 at 17:04
The good; Dear wife still loves me and I her. My Dad, a long way away but still close. Council work is interesting and keeping me busy. Researching our retirement is fascinating and exciting. My dogs are a joy. Cornwall is still a great place to live. The internet and the friends I have made through it. Computers. Cooking. Rum.
The bad; Constant medication is a bind and I am trying to reduce it which is very difficult. Some people I meet through Council work are self serving, mean, bigoted, racist arsholes.
Dia on 14/11/2007 at 17:05
Bad: I still love and miss my late husband and am thoroughly sick and tired of 'well-meaning' people saying things like, 'Honey, it's been over a year now; time to get back in the mainstream', or 'He would have wanted you to (insert inane suggestion here)' (yeah, like they know what he would have wanted), or 'So why aren't you dating yet?', or 'I see you're still wearing your wedding ring; do you think maybe you're suffering from clinical depression?', and so on. It's not like I've built a shrine to him, or talk of nothing else when conversing with other people (actually, I very rarely mention him), or openly, obviously mourn and grieve over his death in a drama-queen manner. Once you love someone so deeply, it doesn't go away in a short period of time just because they died. But most people haven't had the traumatic experience of suddenly losing a beloved spouse and therefore don't know what they're talking about; so I end up pasting a smile on my face and uttering thank-you-for-your-concern-but-it-really-isn't-a-concern-of-yours as nicely as I possible can. Yep; pretty much tired of friends and family trying to hook me up with friends of friends, distant relatives, or some guy they work with who saw a 10 yr. old picture of me and wants to meet me. I swear; if one more person tells me I really should start dating again because, 'Face it, dear; you're not getting any younger', I'm gonna pop 'em one right in the head.
Very bad: love him though I may, it doesn't change the fact that he left me seriously in debt; he'd let our life ins. policies lapse & according to our ins. agent Bart had made arrangements to come in & have them reinstated the Fri. before he died, but for some inexplicable reason, never got around to it. Frackin' great. Just another one of those 'little things' he never told me. I do acctg. for a living (at least I do when I've got a job) & didn't feel like doing more number crunching during my off hours, and he wanted to take charge of the finances so it was mutually agreed that he handle that aspect our marriage. Short version of a long story: my beloved ended up leaving me in debt to the tune of $200K plus after he died. I was only aware of $100K of it, ie: our first mortgage. I'm still kicking myself for not having paid more attention to what he was doing with our finances. Never had a reason to doubt his ability to handle it til after he died. Yeah; I should have paid more attention. Unfortunate that hindsight doesn't pay the bills, isn't it?
Lost my job last spring (due to downsizing) and foolishly decided to take some 'me' time off (also had 3 immediate family members in 3 different hospitals with 3 different life-threatening diseases/illnesses at the time), have now been job searching since early July and the jobs just aren't out there. Had a couple jobs over the past 3 months, but it turned out that each co. only needed me for a short while & didn't want to pay an employment agency for a temp, so hired me under what I deem false pretenses. I am now completely broke. Never been there before. Don't like it in the least. Have resorted to signing up with five different employment agencies & the only one that has come up with anything remotely feasible (ie: within a 100 mi. radius of home) is a temp agency that offers sporadic temp jobs at best. Oh well; at this point it's better than nothing.
House is falling apart; we'd planned to do some major repairs and remodelling, first with the money from the loan he'd taken out (told me it was for home improvement, but it turned out to be a 2nd mortgage and damn my eyes for trusting him & not reading the fine print for myself!), but he advised me it was all gone within a month after he received the check (turns out he'd spent a lot of it buying and then customizing his beloved R1; yeah, the same one he was riding when he had his fatal accident), so then we planned on using the inheritance from his late step-dad's estate which Bart was to be receiving that fall (2006) to do the repairs. Bart died before he could receive said inheritance. Since he died intestate and no provisions for the event of Bart's possible death were made in his step-dad's will, his part of the inheritance ended up being divided between his four (step)sibs, his daughter, and myself. Oh yeah, and part of that went to the estate lawyer. I think I ended up with about $1.98 when all was said and done. A realtor came over last week at my request and calmly informed me that there was No Way I could sell my house as is, since it needed a new roof (it's starting to show signs of leaking on some of the ceilings), a new basement wall (it's cracking & trying to cave in; was told it was 'shoddy workmanship by the contractor'), new windows (a lot of them turned out to be faulty and are now nearly opaque with cloudy, dried condensation - mfgr. went out of business a year after the house was built 28 yrs. ago), and the list goes on. Total estimated cost of repairs: $60K to $80K. Yeah, right. Lemme just pull that outta my ass.
Good: my family is doing well and fine; mom beat her cancer, dad beat his 2 bouts with severe pneumonia (took the docs nearly three months to get rid of it), and my brother beat his severe pancreatitis attacks (that nearly killed him 3 times; he was hospitalized for four mos.). Okay, so my 81 yr. old dad is becoming more than a tad senile, but at least he's happy and smiles a lot. Oh yeah, almost forgot #2: I'm alive.
