Roamin Gnome

What a difference a week makes... stress levels are reducing as I've taken care of few of the home and business issues... for those who care and so I can vent.. let me recap the issue and what has happened.

Business

Work

much there but just checking to make sure I'm not missing something.  Finished last night and could of turned in the keys but one ot make sure I caught everything.  Sadly when I removed the mirror from the wall that my former office person Leslie put up discovered she had used some kind of glue and it took a portion of the stucko/plaster stuff with it.  Oh well, can't do anything about it now.  Garrick Le evil Supervillian is saying I still owe him a hundred bucks, not sure where he's getting his figures.. but he is off all the time.

2) New Office - Start tommorrow,, we move some of my office stuff over there. have a client at 1pm.. need to book the rest of the massages maybe tommmorrow.

3) Sabrina Issue - Some of my friends think I was stupid but I paid Sabrina 39 dollars to shut her up and get her out of my hair.  How'd this come to be.. first 9 bucks was for each day before Thursday she was out and she left Tuesday.. plus she did what I thought she would do orginally and asked for some kind of recompsense for not letting her know 30 days before .. so I just refunded her 10 days since that was how far along I told her.  I figured it was a small thing to get her out of my life.  I lost some of my massag magazines, and she swipped a floor lamp and a face cradle cover that wasn't hers but it's not worth it to hunt her down to get them back..  She is my lesson for all future business dealings.

4) Will be going back to working th eairport next week 

Home life - Somewhat chaotic, house is filled with boxes from the office until I rearrange my bedroom and get it all in there.  Also last night I called my landlords and let them know that my upstair neighbors were just being too loud.  I let it slide once in awhile and one weekends I give more slack but  When I hear kids screaming and stomping on my ceiling from 6am to 4 am at times and sometimes it's so loud I can't hear my TV and stuff is falling off the wall that's too loud.  Me and my roommate have talked to them at least twice so it's not like I haven't tried to polite and deal with ithem.. oh well.. I just hate confrationt so by the time I react it's gone to far.  I also have this hot water leak in the bathroom, it's just a washer in the battub but it's constantly dripping and it's the hot water valve so it's costing some money.

Romance - Nothing really here.. learned don't fool around when you just got over a flu, as you don't have the endurance and it burns you out longer than you want.  I was down for half a week drained.

Family - My nieces are scaring me. one has been mentionoing the "I can't live without you" "I love you" comments when it comes to their current boyfriends, and she's only 13 and their mom isn't really being the adult there.  Love them dearly as if they were my own kids but can only do so much with them not being with me.

Faire - New idea came to me the other day and it's kind of simple.. we film a recruitment video.. several in fact.  Some to be serious, and some just to poke fun at ourselves.  Hell why we're doing that we should film a promo video to send to faires and event coordinarors..   Also have a new T0shirt design.. "Red Hand of the O'Niell says "Slap!", "Red fist of the McKai says Punch." and "Squiggly bit of the Bruhanyah says.. NAg!"  It's a part of a whole line of t0shirts I want to make with things liek "The Irish Mob", Tooth N' Nails" Those Daman Irish"  "Dorn Asal for Life" etc.

Metting is this weekend...

Beyond that I want to reward myself butdon't have a ton of money... oh well I'll think of something.

Okay a real blog and a rant to boot.
Let me start with he easy stuff.. if you the reader want to avoid my bitching part of this blog.. I will in all caps post DORN ASAL.. a gaelic phrase that has high meaning to my guild

Rant part 1
Office; I am a massage therapist, I been maintaining my current office for over two and a half years after taking it over from the woman I was renting it from. My landlord is Garrick Le Supervillian (His name just sounds like one) is a a absentee landlord who refuses to pay for any repairs and makes me pay for the water and garbage even though the sprinkler system is on my water bill. Anyway I shell out almost 700 bucks a month on rent and bills. and will I have a renter, she conned her way into paying 90 bucks a month. I've tried to get other renters but to no avail. Now to the current story on this
1) I realized earlier this month that after draining my resources all summer since I loss Leslie my only real full paying MT, and dealing with Sabrina (the 90buck) constantly wanting kickbacks, that I really couldn't afford the rent. It just was too much. When at the end of my day I have no profit and am constantly am waiting on the final 24 hour notice on PG and E before I pay it. That I can't keep this office up. My client list is shrunk a little and so I needed to find a cheaper place. You add I was sick a week at the beginning of the month I wasn't even going to be able to pay my current cutoff notice. So sadly I am closing that office and finding a cheaper place that I alone can afford minus any other renter. The annoying part for me is that I have to be a bit dishonest and take the road my landlord always takes. I sending him a letter basically telling him I'm out at the end of the month and to keep my deposit. Including the water deposit I had to pay. I can justify it, with expense I didn't get reimbursed over repairs and the sprinkler system, but I have to live with me and I always like to do what makes me feel good. Doing this feels wrong, and sadly I have no choice.. as I spent my rent monies on the bills to keep the office running till the end of the month. I think i will pay 80 bucks and get the water bill current that way he'll get the full or most of the 150 dollar deposit I had to pay on the water.

2) Sabrina my last renter.. my only guilt feeling here is that I couldn't give her a full 30 day notice. But she's a annoying trifling cheapskate who money grubs with the best of them. Amy I being harsh.. not really. She now has the gall to say I owe her 250 dollars saying that it was a a 1st and last month payment she paid Little over a year ago. Why do I not owe her the money, it's not because of her being annoying it's because when she joined my office she was suppose to pay 200, first and last. She never paid the last because she talked me into investing in some office furniture that would make the office look nice. Since I was broke at the time I said sure.. go ahead and use your last on my behalf and get what you can. She never got the furniture and never paid me. Now I did ask her a few times but I'm not one for confrontation over stuff like this. A few months or so later she asked for a discount on her rent claiming she only be in the office once a week.. This is where I made a mistake, I should of never did it but I thought she was going to bail completely and at the time my roommate had left so I was in a lurch anyway. So I agreed to drop her 200 to 75. About that time I just dropped the idea of getting the last period. But it was a source of annoyance on my part with her. I later raised the rent to 90 but I was still annoyed with her. She rarely was on time with her rent sometimes going to the end of the month before she'd pay, and bouncing checks twice. Yes I should of booted her then, but I was trying to keep the office going and figured once I got some new renters I'd give her a ultimatum on the rent. Pay full of none, something I should of done to begin with as my landlord doesn't cut me a break on rent if I'm in the once a month or 24 hours a day, so why should she get that discount plus 200 is way cheap for rent and utilities included. Where did she get the 250.. well I recently raised my rent request for new renters trying to make the office pay for itself.. 3 renters at 250 a piece would completely pay for the office. Never happened so she remembered that i had asked originally for a 1st and last, forgetting to remember that she never paid the last.. she went by what I asking for now.

So you can see what I needed to vent..the annoying thing is I am kind of wussy in that I don't want folks to dislike me and I now know at least two people will not like me. Sure I'm fine when I don't like them, but Sabrina is the kind of person who has a little influence at a school I wanted to teach at, and now she is going to sully the waters there.. I'm not sure how long she'll last, as she's one of those folks who never hold a job for long because she can sell herself and she looks good on paper but she lacks the moral fiber to actually work and earn her on hype.

Personal Rant;
Relationship wise.. I'm in a kind of limbo, after having a failed relationship with a coworker who went back to her ex boyfriend.. We're still really good friends, she just still had feelings for her ex. I seem to be doomed as of late when it comes to romance. I have two women I'm pseudo involved with. One we haven't done anything and she's a friend, but I can see she's not happy with her boyfriend but for whatever reason kids herself. We gel well but I'm holding back anything more than friendship as I still hurt from the last one and I don't want to be the reason for them breaking up. The other woman who is more a booty call. We are former classmates from Massage school, I seem to be who she goes to when she's not dating someone else, however it will never go anywhere. She never commits more than the physical. Over the summer I had a scare of a possible baby, it ended up not being mine.. the coworker I was talking about we fooled around for about a month or two, before she went back to her ex. I blame myself a little in that I held back because I could tell she was holding back a little.. it meant I held back too. Anyway she called me a few months later saying she was pregnant.. and paused before she told me it wasn't mine, as she was 4 weeks pregnant. I was scared for a moment.. not because I was afraid of having kids I want them, nor because I don't having feelings for the woman, I just was shocked because once a relationship is kind of over you really don't want to hear those words. One thing I've tried to do with my relationships is to not get a girl pregnant.. mainly because I know me, and I will want to be involved and regardless how a relationship works or doesn't you are not only going to have a kid but a permanent relationship with the mother regardless of whether you're together or not.
Anyway I'm just looking for someone to share myself with. I'm just gawd awful of talking to women I'm attracted to.. I'll think of everything I shouldn't say.. and guess what blurts out of my mouth.. Or I'll freeze like a deer in headlights.

DORN ASAL
Enough with the whineing and being all sensitive and stuff..let's move onto the upcoming faire season. Stuff I want to get done before it starts.. things I want to do more of etc.
My costume is need in of repairs and my trews need to be completely be redone, and redone so they'll actually stay on my ass.. I have some embarrassing stories of walking into a 7 eleven and having my trews fall down next to the ice.. and me trying to walk to the counter and pull my trews back up.. probably looked like a perv and bet they checked the ice to make sure it wasn't yellowed. My liene needs redyed and fixed as it's falling off my shoulders too the point I'm showing man chest. I want a new hat.. I have this felt thing that is period but is a bit small and makes me look goofy.. I don't want the kind that look like pirates or musketeers but something that fits my big head. I also want a completely period phrygian cap.. sure keep it red.. and the gnome comments will continue but my current one is entirely pointy. My new leather Ionar is more or less done I just need to get it finished up, and I want to get my leather shoes souled so I have better traction.
Big purchase this season will be gauntlets.. metal ones, with my profession I can't afford to fight otherwise. Especially our competitions I am petitioning beginning next month a chain mail mantle as it will be the last piece of armor I get to have other than gauntlets.
I do want weapon wise to get a set of throwing axes (should be easy tomahawks fit the bill) and more throwing spears for faire. I am getting a shillelagh so hopefully it is big enough for what I want. I plan on making a bunch of none blackthorn ones for my guild mates for a our shennanigans gigs.. Beyond that.. I want a waister collection and look to petition New Stirling Arms to make more skiens and design batas (Fighting sticks) for us. I have some dussacks (sure their German but their fun to fight with). Beyond that a matchlock rifle and a trick crossbow.. but those are long off wish list type things.
Gig wise.. more personality quirk games, more gigging, improve my fighting, get everyone on the same page for brawls, and stealing (Writing handbooks on both). I have a number of projects in the works involving Irish songbooks that are in Gaelic and phonetically set up for those who can't read it. I plan on improving my understanding of the Irish language. I would love to get all the Irish at faire on the same page. at least make available all the resources so they have the chance to be the on the same page. I want to push more out of faire interaction.. So we can be better friends and even put together more events at a faire.
Non fair wise.. I'd like to get a new apartment before summer..something with an air conditioner and dishwasher. Maybe even a little cheaper. Still want it in Tower though. Also the big one is to save the money so I can make a second trip to Ireland. I want to go every year. This time to Northern Ireland.. since that is where my guild "character lands are" Since we play the O'Neil
All this sounds like a new years resolution but I try to not look at them like that. Folks make resolutions and then are depressed when they don't accomplish them.. me I'm just making a list of things I want to do. Some will happen, some won't.. I'll just keep striving to do what I can.

Anyone who reads this.. wants to know what I'm bsing about contact me.. I've no problem expounding endlessly about stuff.