So, I've been away from blogger for quite some time now, and I think it is time I spend a few minutes updating people on what is going on in my life.
As some of you may know, I was a student at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Scottsdale Arizona last year... I can never go back again. I wanted to just take some time away from the school because I had yet to find a job, and was barely able to eat 1 meal a day. Well, they told me don't come back, so I won't.
In October, I started working for SpectraSeven, a contractor for Comcast. I was by no means the best technician in training, but I got the job done, and, for the most part, enjoyed working for them. That ended in November when a gust of wind decided to push a fully extended ladder that I was lowering from a utility pole. The ladder came down... on my head. I didn't suffer any permanent injury, just a bump and headache that persisted for about 2 weeks, but that was enough to let me know that I probably wasn't meant to do that kind of work.
Getting up to the present... I am still unemployed, and this is having a toll on me. Firstly, I am unable to pay ANY bills on my own. I have THREE store credit cards that have to be paid, plus a car payment, plus a few I just can't remember right now. I was supposed to be paying back student loans to Direct Loans and MOHELA, but I am now on forbearance status with them, so I don't have to worry about making payments on EITHER of them until 2012.
I have been a smoker for a little over 2 years now, and I am hitting a wall because I can not keep asking my mother to help my buy them. If I was still working and could pay all my bills, that would be one thing... but to ask my mother to help me buy smokes, I'm just going to far there. I can't quit using the traditional methods of patches or gums, and I won't take a pill that has side effects worse than if I quit cold turkey. I've tried quitting cold turkey, and eventually, the cravings win. For now, I'm in a no win scenario on cigs... the only thing I can think of doing is when I next get a pack, try to make them last as LONG as possible... stepping down the amount I smoke until I don't need to smoke...
Onto another subject. I'm looking at going back to college. This time, to the University of Utah. I am considering applying for their computer science program and either going for a 4 year Bachelors Degree, or a 5 year Masters Degree. I need to find a job before I consider either, because I already have around 20k in Federal Student Loans, and no way to pay it back...
I'd love to rant more, but it's now 3:10 AM here for me and my mother is going to be knocking on my door to wake me up in less than 5 hours time, so it is time for me to bid thee farewell...
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