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Okay, so welcome everyone to the new year (and the new decade =P). I've been pretty dead on here due to a number of reasons, but in the next few days I hope to turn that around and bring a great many new pieces to my account (as soon as I find my usb to firewire cable >.< so I can transfer all my pics to my computer and upload them). So to let my loyal followers know why I was gone for so long I give you...

   A "quick" synopsis of my life thus far since graduating high school:

       My family was having a foreclosure on our house, and I left the day of graduation to go live at my brother's in Orange County working two full time jobs at Vons and Babies'R'Us in the hopes of going to a tech school out in Tempe, AZ (just east of Phoenix). Went to that school for about a year; racked up $30,000 in school debt only to realize the following: the school was basically a scam, I love Arizona a lot better than California, and student debt can haunt you and ruin your credit until your dead if you fail to pay it on time. Over the time I since I graduated to the time I made it out to Arizona I had to deal with three psychotic women that I had become "romantically involved" with -- which left me very drained and beaten. I was working at Fry's Electronics; first as a cashier, than as a software salesman -- both of which sucked =/. Although I had given up on meeting a girl that actually had a brain and didn't play mind games, I met my fiancee while going to that tech school (we are still together and it's been nearly two years -- or at least it will be on the 23rd of this upcoming March =P ).

I ended up losing my job at Fry's Electronics over an issue with my department manager (long story but it wasn't related to anything I did wrong, she was just evil). At the time I was supporting myself and my fiancee (since her mother kicked her out of her house). I worked a temp job at a mineral/rock shop for hippies at Mill's Mall for a few months to make ends meet. I moved into an apartment after dropping out of the school I was in, and got a better paying job at a call center for Sprint, which then became too stressful for me to even function when I wasn't even at work. I'd have night terror and other things about work. So out of the blue one day I just up and quit it. I then took my fiancee, our cat, and I out to live with my brother in California (who was going through a divorce at the time and told me that it would be a win-win situation since there were a lot of jobs out there and he could use help with rent). End up finding out my big brother who I used to really look up to was actually a loser with a lot of anger issues and was a liar and a cheat. There were NO jobs in California and the whole experience reminded me why I hated California. It took two-and-a-half months to find a job at Wal-Mart doing maintenance... it was one of the most humbling experiences of my life (as I would consider that job to be a hundred times worse then my job at Del-Taco when I lived in Moreno Valley). I worked sixteen hour days, six days of the week, just to scrounge enough money to get back to Arizona (which is another story that is lengthy, so I'll save you that one).

I got back here to live in the living room of my old apartment because we had other people in the room we used to be in. Then Yader (I'm sure you remember him), who had been our roommate the entire time in Arizona, turned his back on me -- which was a really bad idea for him to do. I up and left one day even though I was helping with rent and utilities and moved into a town house with a friend I sort of knew and some of his friends. Since my time there I have had to deal with one of the roommates letting his mom live on our couch in the living room without him or her doing anything for that priviledge until we all kicked her out two-and-a-half months later, and we've had to take our homosexual black roommate to the ER twice over attempted suicide via OD'ing on medicine. But in any case, I happened to land another call center job; this time being inbound (taking calls only) for a sales position for Charter Communications (cable, internet, and telephone services for residential locations).

I've been working there ever since and it pays decent enough to support my fiancee and I. We've just recently moved into a new house out in Mesa, AZ with her mother (who is not as crazy now and is actually a really good roommate to have). My fiancee has so far been in and out of the ER so many times that I can navigate two hospitals blind folded and can tell set an IV and monitor vitals on nearly all current machines in use. She first was misdiagnosed in California with severe side pain as for it being "gas" -- which later in the year out here in Arizona it was again misdiagnosed as a fluke, and then two days after a return visit, found to be atypical appendicitus. After her surgery she has had heart complications of sinus tachycardia (fast heart rate from the hearts natural pace-maker) going up to a sustained 180bpm over 2+ hours while laying down in a hospital bed, as well as heart arrhythmia (abnormal heart beats). She still has lots of issues with her heart and is seeing a cardiologist while remaining on beta-blockers. She also suffers from a whole host of pre-existing conditions which I wont mention here so as to not embarrass her.

So needless to say, things have been stressful and busy for me. There's also a lot more to the story, but I'll save you the details and lengthy inner dialogs of growing up (I'm sure you've done that before too lol).



But in any case, sorry for taking up your time with my lengthy story here. I'm glad to have added a new journal entry now, and am looking forward to 2010 with the rest of you =P.
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Well, after a long (and rather unsuccessful) stint out in California I find myself back in good old AZ. I missed it quite a bit, and oddly enough it seems that after my first day here I am starting to get back into the swing of things. The only thing really difficult to try to cope with is not having Laura around... v.v;

I'm a little tired just now, and I've been trying to get used to typing with a Dvorak keyboard, so good-night for now all.
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I got a job!

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Ha ha, everytime I say that, I just think of this one comedian talking about when he got his first job at McDonalds. He was so excited he ran home to his mother and said, "I GOT A JOB! I GOT A JOB!! GONNA BE A MANAGER SOME DAY!!!" Ah, I don't know why, it cracks me up every time.

But enough about that, let me go on to details. I got a job at Wal-Mart (of all places, I know...lol). I got hired on for $8/hr working in Maintenance; bascially cleaning up the bathrooms and other areas (so it's more of a custodial thing than anything, which I don't mind). I am actually pretty excited about working. It's been since December, although I like to think January, since I've had a job; and the stress and depression is just killing me (and if not that, the bills >.<).

In any case, I'm really happy that I got a job, and I can only hope I find a better one in the future. For now though, I'm happy with this $8/hr beating $0/hr. Which reminds me...

My friend Monica, from a previous job where we worked together, called me up out of the blue today too. I was pretty happy to talk to her (although my girlfriend got a little jealous, which I find cute lol. Not that I mean to make her that way, or torture her with it mind you XP). She's still looking for a job, and I'm sure she's having as difficult, if not more of a difficult time than I'm having with the whole job hunting thing -- on account of her having a kid too and all. I tried giving her a few tips on finding a job, which I'm sure will at least help even a tiny bit (even if it makes her 2% more likely of having a chance on getting hired, it is STILL %2 more of a chance you know?). I also told her to try Fry's Electronics (my other previous job, that I miss a lot actually), and I think that'll work out for her.

I made myself some double spice chai tea because I was tired of drinking soda DX, and pretty soon I'll begin starting over on this book I'm writing. I'm sure once I'm done I'll post it up on here for everyone to see. It's going to be kind of graphic and distrubing, but also have it's moments of comic relief. I don't plan on making it too serious, as it'll be my first go at a book, but we'll see :P.

Thanks goes out for all of those who supported me and wished me luck! And Laura, baby, I love you!!! Thanks for being the biggest supporter of them all, and if you are reading this, just know you don't have to be too too jealous because I'm yours ^_^' lol ~<3
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Well, I've been unemployed since December, and here I am still trying to find work... I've been talking back and forth with my old store manager at Vons (Safeway), Jeff, and he's been just dicking me around to have me keep calling him back every couple of days with very little progress towards getting me back in to work. He gives me hope by telling me that he's going to be making a position for me even though they are not really suppose to be hiring, and then he tells me there's no news yet, "Call me... [this day]". I know not to wait on just one place, and put all my eggs in the same basket, but everywhere else I've been has refused to even hire anyone. I go to places I would only go because no where else would take someone in at this time in the economy, and even they don't give much hope.

Here I've been in a strange city, a strange state, and even though I grew up close to here, I do not know it for the life of me. It's inhospitable, it's unforgiving, and it's utterly depressing. Here I am on my anniversary with Laura, and what do I have to show for it? Nothing. I have no money, I have no job, and I am quickly dieing inside of the will to continue to move and get up each morning. I am going to keep trying though, and keep pushing. Not only for my sake, but for her's as well.

I'm at least glad that Jeff hasn't told me no yet, and I'm at least glad that I can always look forward to tomorrow bringing better things. So tomorrow I shall hit the streets again, and attempt to get me a job. Wish me luck everyone. I think I'm really going to need it.
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Well, I thought I would get some of my thoughts out into writing.

Lately I've been busy with trying to find a job, making sure my girlfriend is doing ok (both in our relationship and physically via her medical conditions), and trying to feel like I belong in a place I feel very unfamiliar with.

A big shock came up when two days ago my girlfriend was doing so bad that I had to get her over to the emergency room. We first went to urgent care since we don't have health insurance, and the guy there just got frustrated and said there was nothing he could do and further recommended us to go to the emergency room. I felt so bad because it brought Laura to tears. I knew I had to help her though, and even though going to the ER without health insurance is kind of like deciding to go to Vegas with nothing by your life savings, I realized it's either I get her help now or there might not be another chance. I was so worried for her safety at that point that I didn't really think about it, I was GOING to take her.

When we got to the ER there was a guy, Jeffrey, (same name as me lol) who asked us some questions at first and got us over to a room. This dyke-ass nurse came in and was just really funky. She gave Laura and IV in her right arm inside the groove of her inner-elbow. Laura ended up downing a full 1-liter of saline (0.9% sodium chloride solution). And then her blood backed up into the IV, which was kind of scary at first, but I grabbed a guy who came over and fixed it.

After all that, finally a "doctor" showed up; this 'I think I am soooo fucking hot because I am a woman in a lab coat' kind of a bitch. She walked through some questions as if she were making a checklist in her head of what she was trying to remember as the basic questions to ask. She said they were doing some blood tests and to just go ahead and wait. We were there already about an hour and we ended up waiting another two and a half...

Finally she gets back and says, "well, your [this] and [that] all look fine, so I'm going to discharge you now." Both Laura and I were thinking, "wait..what?" By now, Laura was feeling even worse so I was like seriously wtf? The dyke nurse ended up coming back and was all smiles like, "ok guys, you can go now, isn't that awesome!!!!" I told her, well I think she's doing worse, is there any way that we can speak to someone else?" Then she got all pissed and was like, "YOU WANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE ELSE????!!!!" So I told her dumbass, "YES."

Eventually we got to speak to that same annoying prissy bitch that was giving us the boot to begin with. She told us, "well, I don't know what you guys want. The blood tests came back, and you are fine." We told her, "you didn't even look though. Could we maybe get an x-ray or something at least to be sure?" That's when she gave us a crazy bitchy attitude and told us, "listen, I am 100 percent, well, 99.9% sure they are not going to find *ANYTHING*, but if you *really* want it, fine, I can order imaging if you want it." By now Laura was scared and nervous/anxious, so I had to tell the lady, "yes, we would like that." So then that bitch "slammed" the curtain on us and huffed off.

Some other, much nicer, old lady came in and got Laura another IV (because they had already taken the other one out by now). Then they wheeled her off to imaging while I waited. Results came back and she had a small 1.8cm ovarian cyst on her right side, a few other things, and some free fluid. Good news is, what we feared the most in this case came out to be a negative. But it was good that we found those potentially dangerous other things and to also have peace of mind that Laura isn't going to die from something they just wanted to give us the boot over. The sweet justice in all of this, is that the prissy bitch had to give us our imaging results back. Haha, the dumb cunt said to us, "you have an ovarian cyst on your right side, you should see your OB GYN." and huffed off again.

All in all, we left that place feeling a lot better than when we entered, and it was good to know Laura was going to be okay. I've tried getting a hold of someone to complain about that bitch in the hospital. If you live in the orange county area, never let a woman by the name of Melissa Calliham touch you! I mean, I know that without health insurance they really don't care about you, but honestly, this is someone's life, not just a paycheck.

But that was our fun E.R. adventure.

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Other news, I may have a job working at Vons again (grocery store) because a manager friend of mine is going to help me out. We may need to move again because my brother's house is back up on the market and the guy he's renting from is trying to sell it (don't think it will happen though). And I have been happy to meet new people on here and to be getting back into more of my chain maille stuff.
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