General Life Updates

I've had several false starts on getting another post updated here over the past few days. So, rather than dwell on anything in particular, I decided to just touch on a few of the things that have been on my mind lately.

Kate leaves with her family for their Christmas vacation in Maui on the 22nd. I'm going to miss her like crazy, but thankfully, I've got several shiny distractions to surround myself with while she's gone to keep the loneliness at bay. My newly-purchased Nintendo Wii, for one. Actually, that might just enhance my feelings of loneliness. Heh. Oh well. She'll only be gone for 2 1/2 weeks, and in that time, I've got Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and No More Heroes to keep my company. Oh yeah, and my sister is coming home too. So, I guess I've got family to spend time with too. Maybe.

I'm keeping my fingers tightly crossed that everything will turn out fine and that I'll be able to move into my new apartment on Jan. 1st. Everything seems to be in order, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high, in case anything unforeseen should happen to fuck it all up. There seems to be a lot of vacancies in the building I'm moving into, as the rent is due on a month-to-month basis, but I'm completely enthralled with the apartment I'm about to rent and would have to hate to take something else instead.

Speaking of fucking things up: never ever live with "old friends." If you had a falling out in the past, there was probably a reason why. Recently, I've had to learn this the hard way. After moving back to Regina last January, I reconnected with such an "old friend" and we started hanging out again. Around August of this year, my friend and his girlfriend had split up, and he needed a roommate to help split the cost of the rent. I was looking for a place to live, and decided to help him out by moving in. A mutually beneficial arrangement, I figured. Move in with an old pal of mine who needed help out of a bind: what could go wrong?

Well, that roommate quickly turned from friend to passive-aggressive piece of shit who bought a dog without ever seriously sitting down to discuss it with me. A fact made even more irritating because I am not a dog person, nor am I the kind of person who is willing to take care of someone else's neglected animal while they go out and leave the poor thing locked up in it's cage all day. Anyways, all that is mostly water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned, because I moved out at the end of November and couldn't be happier. The only thing remaining from that whole debacle, is the return of my damage deposit.

I recently emailed my ex-roommate in regards to the status of that lingering deposit return. To which he replied that apparently some things of his "went missing" when I moved out, which is just totally fucking ridiculous! Not that you anonymous readers in Internet Land care, but of the many things I am, I am not a thief. Personally, I think this is a ploy and the piece of shit is just stalling because he's lacking in funds or something, but holy shit, NEVER AGAIN will I move in with an "old friend" I've previously broken off ties with.

Anyways, that's enough life stuff for now. More soon!