So yeah, the reason I haven't been active at all on any of my favorite sites, including this one, is because I have a crazy-ass new job with an even crazier boss that has me working all the time. I started back on June 18th and it's been non-stop ever since. Even making me come in to work on some of my days off, and giving me grief sometimes when I tell him, "Hey, you gave me these days off about a week ago and I made plans already, what am I supposed to tell my friends/family?" And he acts offended when "I got the nerve" to actually take the days off he's given me. Wow.

The money's okay, when he gives it to me. He procrastinates a lot, puts things off to the last minute, and blames many things and events on me that are beyond my control. Like traffic and the costs of certain items. My stress levels are through the roof too, and he complains to me all the time that I'm the one that's making him stress out. He also drinks soda by the goddamn bucket, which is a little disconcerting, and doesn't eat a lot of healthy foods either. One day, there was one 2L. bottle of Coke in the kitchen counter to be recycled, I have one day off, and the next day I go back to work, he has 5 empty bottles on the counter. He lets me take home the empty coke bottles to recycle, so that's a little added bonus I guess.

So anyways, we're finally out of storage and moving hell, so things should be less crazy, I hope. I'm not making a career out of being an assistant, so here's the long-term plan: I want to work to earn money to pay off some of my debts I accumulated during unemployment, earn money to take some more advanced cake decorating classes (making wedding cakes, airbrushing, working with fondant/gumpaste/marzipan), apply for an pastry assistant/apprentice to a pastry chef position and go from there. It's been a goal of mine to be a master cake decorator, and I hope I can make that dream a reality someday. Until then, back to the grind I guess.