Wrap up and such...

[kseenaa]

Since I am currently stuck in front of the computer roleplaying... (and having a blast doing so) I figured I could do a wrap up off what's been going on a bit since last... Since LJ has been down thanx to that attack from russian hackers... 0

Work

I am currently unemployed. Again. Well, part-time unemployed anyway. I did my last day at work last of July. I'll miss that library. I really liked it there and I had some awesome workmates. No really, they were brilliant. :-) I learned a lot to that I'll most likely use in my future adventures as a librarian.

So I am fucked, right? No more work? I think not. I already have a few hours here and there and apparently my reputation is spreading, since a library I haven't worked at yet called the other day asking if I could do a few hours there as well. It IS looking pretty good, guys! :-D

Of course I had to wrestle with bureaucracy when it comes to the unemployment fund, but eh.... It is a pain, but not impossible. (So much paper that needs to be sent in, GAH!)

Next week I'll be snatching the car and go on a trip to visit all libraries around here and see if I could get a few more hours here and there... I mean, it can't hurt... and next week all head librarians should be back from their vacations, meaning it's better to do it next week.

So I have a plan, and it is looking pretty good. :-)

Family

Had a bit of a drama in the family last week to. Now, that doesn't happen often mind... At least not in my family. We are very supportive of one another.

Lately though I (and hubby peting73) have started to get quite annoyed at the fact that everyone wants us to go visit my family, but as soon as we want anyone to come here and visit it is such a bother, and such a pain because it is such a long way to go, and we live in an apartemtn, not in a house and oh dear me, what a pain it is... *sigh* And in the next breath they can ask us, so... when are you two coming here to visit? Since it is so much easier for us to travel there... Never mind it takes the same amount of time and is the same journey no matter who does the traveling. *sigh* So, yeah. A bit annoying.

Then Sunday (31th) we were supposed to go to Gothenburg and Liseberg. Me, peting73, mom and my brother and his family. Three days before the trip, my brother called and asked if it was cool if we canceled it and instead we could come over there and we could go on another amusement park (Sommarland), since it was much more convenient since me and peting73 has no kids... Now I had looked forward to this trip for a long time, since we'd talked about it for quite some time, so to say I was disappointed would be an understatement... and again with the 'please drive here, it is so much easier if you do the long drive...' Yeah, I was sad, pissed, and very disappointed. :-/

Talked to mom about it, and she was very understanding saying we could do something else another time. Brother, who reacts to almost anything with anger, got a bit pissed... And yeah, I do understand him. They got two small kids, 4 and 2 years old. Plus he drives around all the time helping other members of our huge family, since he is the skilled, most practical, in the family right now since Dad died... So I understand if they didn't want to make a long trip. But still! We'd talked about this for weeks!

peting73 helped partly solve the situation, giving us a compromise that everyone was pleased with. We had a barbeque at moms instead. Mom got to meet all off us including her grandkids, my brother didn't have to drive that far and didn't have to drive in a big city (he don't like that), and I got to hang out with my beloved family... It still meant we had to do the long drive, but dammit... it was the best option there was.

At least my brother managed to come visit me on my birthday... He didn't last year, so he hadn't been here in two years... *sigh*

Mom don't mind coming here though, and next week both she and my aunt is coming over since then one of their favorite bands, Smokie, are going to play live on a free concert downtown! So they'll come over here to us, peting73 has promised to cook us something delicious and then we'll go downtown watching free music. :-) I think it is going to be great! Talked to both mom and aunt, and so far, no change of plans. They are still both game for this. :-D YAY!

Fandoms

I am contemplating posting my PotC/TH crossover ficlet to THFiction... and th_fanfic. I am scared as fuck to do it! And I need a beta to look it over... Since it has mayor character death in it... and isn't exactly a happy piece... I am quite pleased with it, though... :-P It just needs a beta, since I know I suck donkey balls at grammar...

Talking off fandoms and writers... My favorite writer in the THfandom is leaving said fandom, leaving behind a few WIPs and some of the best done writing I have EVER read! I've had tears streaming down my face reading her stories, and trust me when I say I don't cry easily... I can understand if people wanna leave fandoms, new interests, growing apart from it and all that... But this girl was more or less hunted away from the fandom by idiotic teens and drama-queens stealing her ideas, her identity and just plain being assholes. And that just makes me sad. Damn sad. Fandoms are supposed to be fun, a place to play around... for everyone. Ah well. She is going to rework some of her stuff, and have it published... Just like DJ Redhawk did (from the Xena-fandom... I still buy her books...) and shapinglight is still doing (from the Buffy-fandom... buying her books to...). Seems I'll have another fanfic writer turned professional in my bookshelf soon, because dammit! I'll buy her books to!

LARP

The vampire-LARP is going damn well, I must say! :-D At least for my character, the servant/ghoul Frida Wagner. Well, more or less.... At least she hasn't died yet. *lol* She tried to help her mistress in a fight not that long ago, and managed to actually fight off a vampire much stronger then her (Go Frida!), but in the end she was thrown in a transport container for a few hours to calm the fuck down! X-D It was awesome! She even dented it... *lol* She is seriously a kick ass woman. That is currently living with four grown up English Mastiff dogs, 16 puppies of the same and her vampiric mistress in a trailer.... Complicated life is complicated? *lol*

It's LARP-night tomorrow, so we'll see what happens then. :-)

And... tonight...

I am going to a party at a LARP-friends... It'll be great fun, I think. :-) All my young friends, more or less, from the LARP is going to be there, and they asked me to get my old student-overall on and be wicked and mean like I used to be to other students at the Student Union Pub... X-D I promised I would... I am not sure they are aware of what they ask for... *wicked grin* To be reported at a later date then....

Comments

[livindeadgirl.livejournal.com]

I know you will find something else soon, still sucks though and I'm sorry for that. I know here getting unemployment is a pain in the big ol' butt. Hopefully you can get it going without to much stress.

Glad you got to spend time with the family at least even if it didn't go as planned.
Are you going to the concert? Sounds like fun.

Have a fantastic time at the party. :)

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

I did have a blast on that party, even if I was... as predicted... about 10 years older or more then the rest of the people there. *lol*

Getting my papers together for the unemployment fund is a pain in the ass, yes... But not impossible, as long as you take it one step at a time. :-P

[astroflammante.livejournal.com]

I'm certain you'll find a good job soon! *hugs*

And I pity your LARP-friends, they have no idea what they have brought on themselves... *grins* Although I'm sure they'll enjoy it once the shock wears off. ;-P

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Working on getting a job, indeed! :-D I am positive... I don't think it is impossible now. My reputation has started to move around here... Which must be good. ;-)

And my young LARP-friends did survive, I believe... and wants a repeat performance again in the future... I must have done something wrong. X-D

[ruchirahni.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear your positive attitude about the libraries <3. It's a big change from the way it used to seem, and I'm glad your reputation is preceding you: you deserve it. You've worked so hard at ever y single library the past couple years!

I'm sorry about the family drama. I know kids are stressful, but I hear my more grown up friends complain about that all the time: that just because they have kids, they feel entitled to not do anything and have everyone go there and see them. Of COURSE kids are stressful- but relationships and family take work on everyone's part. And you shouldn't have to ask people to put in that work. Of course they want to, but I don't really feel like you were asking that much....

But I'm glad everyone went there this year to your place, since I knowww how much that meant to you.

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. :-) Well, the last time I was unemployed, no one around here knew about me and I had no experience... Now though I have experience from a school and school-library filled with troubled kids.... Important experience that. And I have worked with the 'right' people, you know? Plus me being a bit of a goth-librarian reading fantasy and science fiction has also spread as a positive thing (surprisingly!).

It is damn annoying about the family drama really. :-/ And there seems to be nothing we can do about it. *sigh* We are the ones living far off, not my family. :-P There I go for moving away from were I grew up... and the rest of my relatives staying. It is slightly annoying. But when I do get visits though, they mean so, so much more though...

[ruchirahni.livejournal.com]

it's just such a common bias, too. "I have kids, and you don't, and you can't possibly understand how difficult it is for me, so you do all the work." not saying it's that bad with your brother, obviously, but that's an annoyingly common mentality.

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

No, he isn't always like that. It's just that not only do they have two kids (two wonderful kids, I might add) they also are very, very active socially. My SIL is always visiting people all over the place, her side of the family and friends and she is active in a lot of things... and my brother is helping my Uncle A LOT with his farm (like he is there nearly every day after work) and he is helping a lot of other people to, relatives and friends since he is so very, very good at handiman stuff, fixing things working things out, building things... Stuff like that. My father was like that to, and when he died that 'job' fell on my brothers shoulders. It is tough to see, and I just hope that my brother and my SIL get SOME time to themselves to... *sigh* I am such a worry-wart...

[ruchirahni.livejournal.com]

just means you're loving. M3

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Awww... Thanx! *hugs*