new term

i always feel in September that it's time to go back to school/college or that it's a new year. like new years day just doesn't have any resonance with me cause in my head my year goes from September to August. even though i left college 4 years ago. weird.

work is still "open all hours". every time i say that i kinda wish Ronnie Corbett or David Jason would just show up and say something. at the start of august we got a memo from the centre telling us the Christmas opening times!!! CHRISTMAS OPENING TIMES IN AUGUST!!! i hate retail for that reason, back to school 29 seconds after leaving cert results come out, christmas is getting earlier and earlier! anytime between august and Halloween, then from Halloween onwards it's christmas and then summer time middle of February!

i'm getting used to being paid monthly (after a year!) spend about four weeks looking forward to pay day and then start the same cycle the day after. pretty much have my wages gone in about 20 minutes(rent, bills, credit card!) i want to save some money so i have given myself a subconcious limit on my credit card. this is month one. see how i get on.

the prestige has gotten two songs done, delighted. good to be playing in a band again. just have to get over the 3rd song block. seem to always have a problem with 3rd songs, probably stems back to deadletteroffice. after three of our own songs, we gigged and then lost a band member and kept the three songs to a point and the process repeated. it was like an unwritten benchmark. which was pushed to five in born a ghost and then there never was a solid 3rd song in a name to kill for. i think we had 5 third songs!

as i was saying about being open all hours, i'm waiting to start my shift, 1 - 10. it's a bit annoying waiting to start. but i do try to use the time, i have had breakfast, coffee, cigarettes, mowed the lawn, watched smallville and typed this. so i'll walk down to work, get another coffee and have another cigarette.

i have been real bad at updating this. partly because i don't think anything interesting enough really happens to write down and anything that is interesting, i get lazy and don't write it down. so it's a new year, lets try harder!!!