2013 was basically a blur. It consisted mostly of working and sleeping, with occasional instances of movie watching and hanging out with my girlfriend/ex.
I managed to work a day shift most of the year, and it proved to be a failure. I went over how day shifts are hypothetically supposed to be in my previous entry. Since shows factor into that, I'll mention that I think I went to see three non-local bands all year, The Who, Soundgarden, and D.O.A.. The Soundgarden show was great, even better than I expected, but was it really worth $74 ($59.50 + $14.50 Ticketbastard charge)? I don't know. $60 is a lot to charge just to see one band. Now, if it had been Soundgarden AND Alice In Chains, then it would've definitely been worth it.
One thing about day shift that I realized I hate is how I typically tend to get up at 4:30 in the morning on my work days, but on some days off, especially Saturdays, I don't even go to bed until around 4 in the morning! Then I get up anytime between 9:00am and 1:00 or even 2:00pm. How late I stay up on Sunday nights depends on if a new episode of The Walking Dead is on or not. If it's on, I'll stay up until 10 or 11:00. If not, then I'll go to bed around 9:00. A Sunday was virtually wasted. Then I'll have to get up at 4:30 or so the next morning. Hell, I figure that if I must have no life during the work week, then I might as well go back to working nights.
I don't really like New Year's Resolutions, but the main thing I hope to do in 2014 is spend less and save more, so I can get the hell out of my mom and dad's house. After my post-birthday shopping binge, I really had no desire to do any spending after that, even for Christmas, but then I heard that the FYE in Mall St. Matthews was closing due to being outbid for the space. Going out of business means discounts, and I have a hard time turning down going-out-of-business sales. I think I'm pretty much done with binge-spending, especially since I have nowhere left to put this shit.
Back in March, I mentioned that 93.1 The Fox went from Modern Rock to Active Rock. That definitely made the year less fun than it could have been. Of the bands they play now that they didn't play during their Modern Rock years, the only band that I even halfway like is Volbeat. Thank gods that Louisville still has 91.9 WFPK, pretty much the only station that keeps me in the Louisville area.
One of the few good things to come out of 2013 was my new cat, who I've named Rascal. I might upload some pictures of him in the future. He just showed up in my dad's garage one day. At first, we kind of hoped he would just move on to somewhere else. Then we decided to keep him as a garage cat. Eventually, he would make his way into the house. When it started getting colder, and my mom and dad made fewer trips to the garage, I convinced them to let him stay in the house. He's so freakin' cute and silly that I can't help but giggle whenever I see him. By the way, most of this paragraph was typed with one hand since he was sitting on my shoulder.
2014 has so far been a disaster. The actual celebrating of the New Year was okay, but the rest of the first day of the year sucked because I didn't have a drop of alcohol, and still managed to feel like shit in the morning! Probably had to do with having to get up at 3:30 in the morning on New Year's Eve, and not getting to bed until 3-ish in the morning on New Year's Day, then getting up around 10:00 that morning. (Note: Most of the first few paragraphs of this entry were written on New Year's Day, and the third paragraph was inspired by my "hangover.") New Year's Day fell on a Wednesday, which is a normal day off for my shift. They let the other two shifts, who normally do work Wednesdays, have New Year's Day off. I was hoping they would give my shift New Year's Eve off since we're normally off on Wednesdays, and so my seven-day vacation could turn into a nine-day one, but they made us come in. They let us all leave early, but my shift got the shaft since the other two shifts got to have four days off in a row.
I put in for a transfer to night shift. I didn't get it because they said they had enough people. They don't have near as many people on night shift as on day shift, how the hell could adding one more person hurt? What the fuck? Guess I'll have to put up with day shift for at least a few more months.
I was over Winter well before it even began, namely, when we had a cold snap in mid-November around the time of my birthday. This has been the most miserable Winter for me since 2004, my first Winter in Kentucky after moving back here from Austin.
