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Hallo! :-D
So, in addition to the offer on the house -- apparently the buyer *is* pre-approved for a mortgage, so chances are this'll be just fine (YAY!!!!) -- I also have a job-interview.
For that secretarial position at INAC.
which is NOT a pool. :-D
It's on monday morning between 9am and 10am.
It would be SO good if I got this. I know that it's not HUGELY likely, given that it's government and, therefore, chances are good that they've got someone else already ligned up for it, BUT: I wish for me to get that secretatial job anyway.
Because it would be such a load off my mind if I knew that I was NEVER going to be out of a job, or Not Working for a week/month/whatever (I don't even wanna *think* about being out of work for a year at this point. Eugh... <*shudder*>).
Plus, y'know, dental benefits and paid vacations, and a salary that isn't being cut in half by the agency...
I see these as majorly good things, y'know?
<*sigh*>
Right now I'm making (assuming I continue to be gainfully employed by the agency) somewhere between $14K & $15K a year (take-home).
Which is enough to get by on - in a one-bedroom appartment with all the utilities included and a careful sense of budgetting when it comes to social activities.
If I get this particular job I would be making double that.
Roughly.
Hell, even if I was making, like, one-and-a-third that, it'd still be an extra five grand in the bank every year, which would be AWESOME.
So, yes. In addition to good house-sale vibes and good appartment-finding vibes, please send me good job-getting vibes.
Your vibes: I wants them, precious, I does.
:-D
(Seems to be working so far, anyway. ;-)
With all this in mind. I have been thinking.
Specifically, I've been thinking about something that (I think) my former therapy-person, Bernadette, said to me one time. (Though it may have been someone else, and/or I may have read it in a book somewhere. Or it came out of my own head. I'm not sure. Bear with me, people).
The Thing That Was Said (by somebody, somewhere) was this:
When there is something you Need To Do in your life, and you're not doing it, everything else will grind to a stand-still until you get That Thing dealt with.
Given this, I'm wondering if, perhaps, the Thing I Needed To Do was to end my marriage. Because Things are moving again.
And that's sometimes scary, because - hello - it's been a while since I felt like that, and I kinda forget how to surf. You know what I mean? How to keep my balance when everything underneath you is moving again.
Wah!
Anyway. So I'm feeling hopeful, and like Things Are Going Somewhere, and the Somewhere is GOOD.
Which, I have to say, is a really good state of mind to be in, even if I *am* tired all the time.
In other news, I've been day-dreaming again. This time about the back-burner idea of a Fancy vegetarian restaurant in Ottawa.
This would be the kind of place where you don't have to bus your own tables or get your food at a buffet (and then pay for it by weight). This would be the place where you and your sweetie/social-group/etc make a reservation, turn up at the appointed time, leave your coats in the cloak room, and sit down for the rest of the evening.
There would be waitstaff. (With decent wages).
There would be an organic fruits-and-veggies garden on half of the roof.
The other half of the roof would be all sky-light (if possible -- maybe a geodesic dome?) and would give sunlight to the restaurant and to the small cluster of fig trees growing *inside* the restaurant.
There would be mosaic tile floors. Possibly made of recycled glass, possibly made of recycled ceramics. I'm not sure. (Although a restaurant floor made of mosaic-tiled broken plates would be kind of cool... if they were flat enough...)
The tables would actually be big enough to hold everybody's food.
The ingredients would be local and/or fair trade and organic.
The menu sellections would be seasonal, and include stuff that is vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free, as well as stuff that has all-of-the-above in it.
The end-of-day left-overs (if there are any - reasonably good chance of it) would go to food not bombs.
There would be live entertainment by local musicians and writers, and paintings/photographs by local artists for sale on the walls. (At least that's the plan -- although I'd be worried about grease and stuff getting on the art-work... Hm... Perhaps I'd have to do art-clusters around the place, or something...)
Anyway. This restaurant idea is nothing like the eco-house idea. As in: I WILL build the eco-house. The restaurant idea is totally just a dream.
For now, anyway.
That said, once the eco-house is built, I may have a career ahead of me as a restaurant manager.
Or, conversely, I will rope my *sister* (and her commerce degree) into managing the restaurant, and I will merely own the thing and hire people to do everything else.
Which takes a hell of a lot of money.
Which I don't yet have. (But, hey, if I get the INAC job, I can start saving for the eco-house, and the eco-house will be so efficient and land-based that It'll pay for itself - after a bit - and I can save up for Project Restaurant. :-)
Whee! :-)
It all just cascades together, doesn't it? :-)
In other news: I was looking up stuff on the Internet today:
Consensus Decision Making:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
Food Not Lawns:
http://www.foodnotlawns.com/
Guerilla Gardening
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/index.html
The plan for this evening, before going home, is to wander down Sommerset Street West (towards the canal) and see if that appartment is still for rent (it's in a low-rise, it has french doors onto the veranda. There is garden space out front (which, I confess, I'm totally hoping to co-opt).
The questions are:
1) Is the flat for rent?
2) Is it a one-bedroom?
3) How much?
4) What's included?
If these all meet with my approval, the next questions are:
1) Is it available for September first?
2) Can the landlord deal with a post-dated cheque for the Last Month's Rent?
3) What are the dimensions of each of the rooms?
5) What appliances are included?
6) Is there laundry in the building? (Unlikely by the looks of it, but (A) I hope I'm wrong, and/or (B) I hope there's a laundry/dryer hook-up in the apartment 'cause used!Ottawa washers and dryers aren't always that expensive, and if I'm going to rent a u-haul anyway...)
If these answers meet with my approval, the next questions are:
1) When can I see it?
Then:
1) Do all the windows and doors work without problems?
2) Is it drafty?
3) Is it clean?
4) Does it actually *look* like all of my stuff will fit in the place?
5) Can I paint?
6) Can I garden in the yard?
Lastly:
1) I'll take it.
2) Application Please.
3) Do I get a discount in the rent for doing said gardening? :-D
I can hope.
The place is one or two doors down from The Elizabeth.
Or it's a halucination.
Hopefully the former.
Anyway, I think that's it for me.
My sister gets into town tomorrow night. Appartment hunting away! :-)
So, in addition to the offer on the house -- apparently the buyer *is* pre-approved for a mortgage, so chances are this'll be just fine (YAY!!!!) -- I also have a job-interview.
For that secretarial position at INAC.
which is NOT a pool. :-D
It's on monday morning between 9am and 10am.
It would be SO good if I got this. I know that it's not HUGELY likely, given that it's government and, therefore, chances are good that they've got someone else already ligned up for it, BUT: I wish for me to get that secretatial job anyway.
Because it would be such a load off my mind if I knew that I was NEVER going to be out of a job, or Not Working for a week/month/whatever (I don't even wanna *think* about being out of work for a year at this point. Eugh... <*shudder*>).
Plus, y'know, dental benefits and paid vacations, and a salary that isn't being cut in half by the agency...
I see these as majorly good things, y'know?
<*sigh*>
Right now I'm making (assuming I continue to be gainfully employed by the agency) somewhere between $14K & $15K a year (take-home).
Which is enough to get by on - in a one-bedroom appartment with all the utilities included and a careful sense of budgetting when it comes to social activities.
If I get this particular job I would be making double that.
Roughly.
Hell, even if I was making, like, one-and-a-third that, it'd still be an extra five grand in the bank every year, which would be AWESOME.
So, yes. In addition to good house-sale vibes and good appartment-finding vibes, please send me good job-getting vibes.
Your vibes: I wants them, precious, I does.
:-D
(Seems to be working so far, anyway. ;-)
With all this in mind. I have been thinking.
Specifically, I've been thinking about something that (I think) my former therapy-person, Bernadette, said to me one time. (Though it may have been someone else, and/or I may have read it in a book somewhere. Or it came out of my own head. I'm not sure. Bear with me, people).
The Thing That Was Said (by somebody, somewhere) was this:
When there is something you Need To Do in your life, and you're not doing it, everything else will grind to a stand-still until you get That Thing dealt with.
Given this, I'm wondering if, perhaps, the Thing I Needed To Do was to end my marriage. Because Things are moving again.
And that's sometimes scary, because - hello - it's been a while since I felt like that, and I kinda forget how to surf. You know what I mean? How to keep my balance when everything underneath you is moving again.
Wah!
Anyway. So I'm feeling hopeful, and like Things Are Going Somewhere, and the Somewhere is GOOD.
Which, I have to say, is a really good state of mind to be in, even if I *am* tired all the time.
In other news, I've been day-dreaming again. This time about the back-burner idea of a Fancy vegetarian restaurant in Ottawa.
This would be the kind of place where you don't have to bus your own tables or get your food at a buffet (and then pay for it by weight). This would be the place where you and your sweetie/social-group/etc make a reservation, turn up at the appointed time, leave your coats in the cloak room, and sit down for the rest of the evening.
There would be waitstaff. (With decent wages).
There would be an organic fruits-and-veggies garden on half of the roof.
The other half of the roof would be all sky-light (if possible -- maybe a geodesic dome?) and would give sunlight to the restaurant and to the small cluster of fig trees growing *inside* the restaurant.
There would be mosaic tile floors. Possibly made of recycled glass, possibly made of recycled ceramics. I'm not sure. (Although a restaurant floor made of mosaic-tiled broken plates would be kind of cool... if they were flat enough...)
The tables would actually be big enough to hold everybody's food.
The ingredients would be local and/or fair trade and organic.
The menu sellections would be seasonal, and include stuff that is vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free, as well as stuff that has all-of-the-above in it.
The end-of-day left-overs (if there are any - reasonably good chance of it) would go to food not bombs.
There would be live entertainment by local musicians and writers, and paintings/photographs by local artists for sale on the walls. (At least that's the plan -- although I'd be worried about grease and stuff getting on the art-work... Hm... Perhaps I'd have to do art-clusters around the place, or something...)
Anyway. This restaurant idea is nothing like the eco-house idea. As in: I WILL build the eco-house. The restaurant idea is totally just a dream.
For now, anyway.
That said, once the eco-house is built, I may have a career ahead of me as a restaurant manager.
Or, conversely, I will rope my *sister* (and her commerce degree) into managing the restaurant, and I will merely own the thing and hire people to do everything else.
Which takes a hell of a lot of money.
Which I don't yet have. (But, hey, if I get the INAC job, I can start saving for the eco-house, and the eco-house will be so efficient and land-based that It'll pay for itself - after a bit - and I can save up for Project Restaurant. :-)
Whee! :-)
It all just cascades together, doesn't it? :-)
In other news: I was looking up stuff on the Internet today:
Consensus Decision Making:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
Food Not Lawns:
http://www.foodnotlawns.com/
Guerilla Gardening
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/index.html
The plan for this evening, before going home, is to wander down Sommerset Street West (towards the canal) and see if that appartment is still for rent (it's in a low-rise, it has french doors onto the veranda. There is garden space out front (which, I confess, I'm totally hoping to co-opt).
The questions are:
1) Is the flat for rent?
2) Is it a one-bedroom?
3) How much?
4) What's included?
If these all meet with my approval, the next questions are:
1) Is it available for September first?
2) Can the landlord deal with a post-dated cheque for the Last Month's Rent?
3) What are the dimensions of each of the rooms?
5) What appliances are included?
6) Is there laundry in the building? (Unlikely by the looks of it, but (A) I hope I'm wrong, and/or (B) I hope there's a laundry/dryer hook-up in the apartment 'cause used!Ottawa washers and dryers aren't always that expensive, and if I'm going to rent a u-haul anyway...)
If these answers meet with my approval, the next questions are:
1) When can I see it?
Then:
1) Do all the windows and doors work without problems?
2) Is it drafty?
3) Is it clean?
4) Does it actually *look* like all of my stuff will fit in the place?
5) Can I paint?
6) Can I garden in the yard?
Lastly:
1) I'll take it.
2) Application Please.
3) Do I get a discount in the rent for doing said gardening? :-D
I can hope.
The place is one or two doors down from The Elizabeth.
Or it's a halucination.
Hopefully the former.
Anyway, I think that's it for me.
My sister gets into town tomorrow night. Appartment hunting away! :-)
