Overrated.

Me - "Winter"
EVERYONE ELSE - "Don't say that word" or "Shut up" or "That's a bad word" etc etc etc.
Me - "Fuck off"

So a friend was just over to play some Beatles Rockband, and sent shivers down my back while she was singing. I didn't know she could sing! It was pretty awesome.

So if any of you consider yourself close enough of a friend to want to buy something for me for Christmas, first of all, Don't Feel Like You Need To. That's not the point of this post. If you're a friend of mine, and vice versa, I don't really expect anything.

Should you want to buy something for me though, here are a few suggestions, ranging in various prices, in no particular order.

1. Size 1/2 inch plugs. Try here (not 00 as previously stated.)
2. Poster(s). Try here, here, here or here
3. Size small (at least 28 inches long) t-shirt(s), or size medium hoodie(s). Try here, here, here, here, here
4. Stickers, or pins. Try here, or here.
5. Book(s), anything interesting.
6. CD(s), I lean towards punk, and indie, but anything good really.
7. Coffee mugs. Anything fun, or interesting.
8. Anything basically from here.

Let me know if there's anything in particular you want!
Either way, later.

So it's that time again! I just randomly thought I would make it Ask Matt Anything Day. So for the next 24 hours ask me anything, and I will respond truthfully one way or the other.

Annnnd GO!

So lately I feel like livejournal has been taking a back seat to twitter and facebook. I've been neglecting it, not posting, and when I do it's to bitch about a girl. I had a few posts on my vacation, but since then just a few random little posts.

Anyway, my life is pretty well the same as it's always been. I got my pay fucked up for some reason last week, but it should be fixed now. Which means I should have a pretty good pay this coming Friday, even if it means my last pay sucked. It's the second time my pay was messed up since the new District Manager started taking over. I'm getting pretty pissed off at the store lately. Nothing gets done, and the store looks like crap. I am going to push to get a raise as well. Otherwise I'm going to need to find another job for the next year to save up for school.

Also, I don't think I've mentioned it on Livejournal, but I've pretty well decided to apply to Dalhousie University, and move to Halifax next year. STU offers the same courses I want to take there, but I think by then it will be time for a change of scenery. I think Fredericton is a nice city, and a place where I can see myself ending up when I want to settle down. But for now, I think it's pretty well done. I dunno how long I'll be in Halifax, a year, all four for University, I have no plans that far ahead yet. Which is exciting, and scary, even though it shouldn't be.

Anyway, maybe Halifax will expand what I want to do with my life, and give me a chance to grow even more myself. I don't know who I'm going to live with yet, but I have a few people in mind that might be interested in moving to the city with me. It would be cool if someone from Fredericton went with me, then I wouldn't feel like I was alone at all. I know I have friends there already, but I haven't seen them in a lon time, and I know we've all changed, so I'm worried about that.

Anyway. Given my current financial situation, I should be out of debt (aside from student loans) by November. And in January I'm starting right away to save for University. I have a few different things I want to buy while I'm getting things paid off, but I have it pretty well planned out. I need a new mp3 player.

Mine died yesterday for some reason. It was almost two years old, which I don't think is that old for an mp3 player, considering the first one I owned still works, so long as it has batteries. But now I think I'm going to buy an iPod. I've been thinking about it for a while, and I'm giving up my anti-apple products stance, and buying an iPod nano. I've taken a shine to them. Perhaps I'll review it when I get one.

Anyway, I'm becoming distracted, so I'll stop writing for now.
Either way, later.

So I've actually been drawing comics lately. Not overly funny, but I think the fact sunk in that not every single comic has to be side splitting, and just to write, and draw what comes to mind. It's easy actually. Since I've realized this I've gotten three weeks worth of comics done (based on a regular updating schedule).

The problem is that I can't colour them. John's scanner is on the fritz for some reason, so I can't pull them into photoshop to trace and colour. Another idea I was mulling over was using coloured pencils to colour them. I searched for the set I had, only to discover that the leads were all cracked on the inside, and sharpening them was futile.

So, I do have comics. They are not coloured. And I don't have webspace to post them to, since sadrx.net has been suspended again.

Either way, later.

Myspace angles or not, I look pretty fuckin' hardcore.

How disenchanted in life must the driver of the short bus be?
"Where are we going today magical short bus driver?"
"You're going the hell home. Shut the hell up!"

Ever have one of those moments where everything seems perfect? Everything fits together, and it's just good.

It happened to me on the airplane.

Listen to this song while looking at the picture below,

Yeah, well, fuck.

1. Awesome T-shirt of some sort.
2. Something to do with Winnipeg
3. Cheap hoodie.
4. A tam. Ordered online.
5. New belt.

Shut up.

So, I got my last ticket, thanks to John and his generosity. And here are my final plans.

29th - Work until 5:30. Hang out with Kelly?
30th - Hitchhike to Moncton. Couchsurf the night there.
31rst - Find my way to the Moncton Airport, and board my first flight EVER! Land in Toronto, find my way to a hosts place, possibly find the Ampitheater and scalp a Rancid Ticket.
1rst - Take in some of Toronto, while making my way to the airport. Board my plane and bail to Winnipeg. I get in late that night.
2nd - Land in Winnipeg, and see my oldest brother Darrell for the first time in five years. Hang out with him until it's time for sleep, then surf his couch for until the 8th, then bail in the midmorning back to Toronto, on to Montreal for a layover, then straight to Fredericton. Then sleep my broke ass in every morning until Friday when I'll likely have to open the store my first day back.

Two weeks of sweet, you're only a week away.
Either way, later.

So I think I'm going to take this job. I deserve it. Living alone in New Glasgow will be rough... but I'll be close to home. I'm going to tell head office I want the job this week. Whenever I get a chance to talk to Jimmy. I'll ask if he would still consider me for the position, and when I could start training. Perhaps I'll ask for a raise if I can start helping with the manager stuff.

Life is going good. Job offer, good health, family, friends, and an extrodinary lady who came out of nowhere.

I'm so stressed out right now.

So first of all check out The Serious Business, www.theseriousbusiness.ca Good website. Follow us on Twitter at TSBUpdates.

Second, a funny conversation between myself and the new district manager, who used to also live in New Glasgow for a while. We were talking about local things that we'd notice around town, and wondered if anyone else had noticed as well. Mine was fairly noticable, the guy who would sit outside town hall with a guitar and play for hours. His was more close to home.

Him - "Remember that guy who used to drive around with fiddle music blaring? You could hear him coming down Provost Street from the other end."
Me - "That might have been my father..."
Him - "Haha, he used to drive a red truck, and blare the fiddle music."
Me - "Yeah... that's my Dad..."
Him - "Hahahaha."

Either way, later.

So for today, starting nowish:
Working until 5:30
Home to relax/shower/whatever.
Walking downtown.
Liz's birthday at McGuiness.
Casablanca at the barraks with Kelly.

Not to shabby for a Sunday.

I'm very happy with Life right now. I keep having times, usually anywhere from an hour to a day or two, where I'm so worried about things like, what I'm going to do, where am I going, Money. Then I realize that I've already got it handled, and I didn't even know. I'm almost out of debt, I make a decent amount of money, it just seems like too little because I don't watch it as well as I should. I keep thinking now and then, Shit, I have no money. Then I say to myself "It's because you bought a damn plane ticket to Winnipeg and back, you dick. Stop complaining." And it shuts me up.

The only thing I don;t really have money for (aside from some smaller bills, which I intend on paying from the upcoming cheque) is fun. I would love to go out for wings every Tuesday, and ice cream on Sundays, I just can't really afford it right now.

I've been thinking a lot lately about taking this job offer in Pictou County. It'd be horribly boring, but I know I have at least one friend there, and with the amount of money I'd be making, plus the experience to put on my resume, I'd be pretty good. Then it'd be off to far off countries like Australia!

Like my last post said, I met a lady. We met about a month ago, and went out for coffee. She seemed really nice and likes a lot of the same things I do. We've been hanging out as often as we can find time lately.

Life is pretty ok, and I'm good with that.
Either way, later.

HEY! HEEEEY! I met a lady and I''m yelling about it! Perhaps more on this in a later post, cause I don't really want to write much here tonight.

HEY!

The 50's. Then I could get a T-birds leather jacket and get into rumbles with The Scorpions while listening to Doo-whop.

I'm completely serious, that would be amazing.

So, I've been thinking about visiting my brother for a long time now. It was always a maybe when I get the money, I might go out. But now I've decided that I'm definitely going out this summer. The first week of August I'll be off to Winnipeg to visit my eldest brother who I haven't seen in five years.

It's going to be weird. We've both changed a lot since we last saw each other. It'll be like meeting a brand new person I happen to be related to. I'm pretty stoked to see him again though. I'll only be there for four full days, but that's better than nothing. Frig.

I have two weeks off for vacation. Hopefully anyway. The first week, as stated, will be spent in Manitoba, while the second... not sure. I might make my way to Halifax for a few days. The last time I was in Hali my time was pretty well booked solid with Cheerleading. Which was all well and good, but I didn't get any visiting done, and I haven't seen the folks that live there in a long time.

I like travelling with company though. I doubt I'll find someone to go to Winnipeg with me, but perhaps to Halifax? Or maybe I'll go it alone as well. Either way, travel is imanant.

First Manitoba. After that, no matter how long it takes me, one way or another, I am going to Melbourne. To visit or live. Or both.

Either way, later.

It's bad enough that they killed off Jazz in the first one, but now they're putting in Sideswipe WITHOUT Sunstreaker!

The Hell Micheal Bay? The Hell?