Hey folks, you few who read my blog. I know I promised a lot of blogging after my last long-winded post, but circumstances in my life pretty much killed my drive to write. Holiday season is upon us, and my financial situation was putting enough stress on me to derail my plans to produce anything, which is funny, because in that time I had more time to write than ever. Go figure.

So, as of now, I’m currently employed at That’s Entertainment and Best Buy, the first day of the former being tomorrow morning. This is not the most ideal situation, as both places require me to work random shift times and thus I have to somehow co-ordinate the two. I’m sure I’ll manage somehow. The upside to these jobs is that at That’s I get to work with Becky, which will be nothing short of awesome, and at Best Buy I can drop in on Aaron when our shifts coincide. Best Buy is really fast-paced at this time of year, of course, so the shifts fly by. I basically just walk around for 5 hours, direct people to their gift of choice, and tell them that, no, we don’t have any Wiis or Wii Fit in stock, and all their children’s dreams of a Merry Christmas have withered on the holly branch. I feel bad for some of these clueless parents. They really try hard to get the hot Christmas gifts that all their kids want and look so frustrated and crushed when I tell them that Nintendo won’t be meeting the demand for their consoles, and the constant shortage of systems is part of their plot to keep people in a frenzy over their products. Worse is that once they get the key titles for the Wii (which I can count on two hands, pretty sad for a system that’s been out out for two years), there’s not much else to do with it, so it’s all a lot of effort for naught.

Anyhow, hopefully I can get paid enough to get my family and friends presents for the holidays, though I’m sure a homemade component will be added so my gifts won’t seem too paltry. I rocked out some baking for Luke and Kelly’s birthday presents yesterday and it turned out pretty well, methinks. Only 17 days left…

So last time I posted I mentioned something of a romantic spin on my life. That’s over now. There’s not much to say about it otherwise.

I still feel like I’m spinning my wheels at the moment, but hopefully that feeling will subside a little bit once I start getting paid consistently and can focus on something other than my credit card payments. I’m slogging through Mrs. Dalloway and deciding which video game I’m going to take on next (probably the new Price of Persia, I watched my brother play it and it looks sah-weet). The problem is that every time I pick up a book or a video game, I feel like I’m distracting myself. These are hobbies that I love, and now they just make me anxious. And my music-listening has taken a plunge too. Still so many albums backlogged that I just can’t bring myself to listen to yet. I keep returning to the familiar favourites so I don’t have to think as much.

Three hours and twenty minutes until my alarm goes off. Until next time, gentle readers.