Saturday, June 30, 2012

Cleaning Out my Music

Recently I've been on a bit of a clearing out spree. I went through all of my CD's and burned them to my computer & I'll be selling my CD's on eBay soon. If I haven't mentioned it before I worked at a record store in downtown Toronto for about four & a half years. The store is pretty famous in Toronto, well was as it's no longer there, it was called Sam The Record Man & that store was a post of it's own! While I worked there I not only bought a lot of CD's I also got a lot of free CD's(if you work at a record store become friends with the buyer, trust me). So now I have tonnes and tonnes of CD's clogging up my closest and other area's in my room. I noticed a few things as I burned them, my obsession with the Backstreet Boys at the time was very expensive, I have multiple versions of the same damn CD! Also that my taste has changed a lot since then. And I have a very very diverse love of music. I know a lot of people say that they like all kinds of different music, but it's just a cross section of what's popular, or in some cases it's still just different kinds of one genre. Like I said I have Backstreet Boys in my iTunes now, as well as Lady Gaga(I know not that far apart, wait for it), Johnny Cash, Muppets, Disney, & a collection of Benedictine Monks CD's. So I burned all these CD's & they're in my iTunes now & I'm going through them getting rid of the stuff that I don't like and some stuff that is utter crap. It's an interesting journey though. Going through stuff that I know I used to love, but now I just find corny or songs that I had completely forgotten, it's fun.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

I wish I had something more exciting to post

I know it's been over a month since I last posted anything & I was really trying to be good & write a lot, & actually go out and do stuff. I really do wish I was off for something exciting, but really nothing much was going on except trying to get government funding for school in Sept. I'm glad to say I did get the funding I needed, not as much as I would like but that's not too surprising. I'm going to be going back to college in Sept for International Business Management, it's a year course with an intern-ship at the end. I'm getting funding through a program called Second Career through the Ontario government, it covers your tuition, book, transportation, and some living expenses, which is nice. However qualifying for it can be such a pain, especially if the worker who's supposed to be helping you isn't really. My worker was going through being supportive & then suddenly coming up with new stuff I needed to do. Super stressful. Now I just have to get a part-time job so I can afford to actually do stuff while I'm at college, this is a new stressful. I can only work 20 hrs a week, and I did retail for 10 years & my back and feet suffered from it & my sainty suffer too so I'm trying to keep at least my sanity in tact. I'm not sure how to find an office job for nights & weekends & most of the call centre jobs are mostly about selling & I suck at that! So that's what I'll be doing for the most part in July.