WordPress or Tumblr?
Before I get into that discussion, I’ve finally moved back to eastern Ontario where I grew up. I’m actively searching for work right now in Montréal so that I can get out of here as quickly as possible. I like being home and all, but the country life gets to me easily when I’ve been so used to living in the city on my own for so many years. I think this has been the longest time I’ve been at home since I was in high school at 17. Scary to think that I’ve been living on my own for close to six years now.
I’m very anxious to be moving to Montréal soon enough. I’ve looked at a few apartments downtown. Some were very sketchy, small, in a rough hood, but some of them were very classy with the old exterior look. Either way, I had to pass on all of them because I’ve already made that one mistake in the past where I signed on a one-year lease and wasn’t even working at the time. I found a nice apartment in downtown Ottawa a couple years back before I moved to Vancouver to get away from the Nepean area (where I went to school at the time). It was right in the middle of downtown so everything was just in walking distance, except for work. I had to take a one-hour bus from downtown Ottawa to Kanata and then an hour (if not more) back home. That was exhausting.
I didn’t start working right away when I got the apartment so I was really just sitting there with all of my things in place and just applying job after job for at least 4 months until I heard something back. I was really glad too because I was running short on funds at the time, so that would’ve really sucked getting evicted that I couldn’t pay for my rent in my nice downtown apartment. It worked out in the end that time, but I wouldn’t want to go through with it again if I had the chance to (even though I really want to move to Montréal right now).
Even though I’ve been away from Vancouver for a few weeks now, I do miss it quite a bit. I miss the scenery I would see every day on my way to work (ie. the mountains, friendly people communicating, the forestry, etc.), and I would like to return there someday, but the only way I would like to go back is if I brought a few friends with me. They don’t realize what they’re missing on the west coast. Amazing employment opportunities, lots of things to do on our spare time, the different atmosphere and people – it’s all around a nice place to live; I just couldn’t stand living there on my own, even with the new friends I made out there.
So, after all that splurging, I’ve been debating whether I should continue with this WordPress-styled blog or whether I should move my domain strictly to my Tumblr blog. I’ve recently signed up for an account there and have been reblogging and liking articles everyday, whereas I’ve really only been going back to my WordPress blog maybe once every few weeks. I feel like I’ve abandoned it quite a bit, as much as I wanted to update it more frequently. It’s just finding the motivation to write about something that is the most difficult part. I’ll try and keep up with the WordPress theme for a little while longer, but I’m afraid if I just go back to barely relying on it, I’ll move my domain to something that I update frequently everyday rather than just bi-weekly or monthly.
Hopefully the next time I’ll write again, I’ll be out of the country-life and in Montréal working. I can’t tell you how useless I feel right now from being unemployed for more than two weeks.
So long, West coast!
So, the time has finally come. This will, in fact, be my last week here in Vancouver.
Why you may ask? Well, sit down my little Internets, I’ll tell you why…
When I initially moved out here from Ottawa back in September, I wanted to escape the madness that was happening both at work and in my life. I needed a break. I needed to escape. That is exactly what I’ve done.
I was originally going to head back to school this Fall, however due to the shortage of funds I have in my piggy bank and the fact that I can not have financial assistance through the bank or tack on to my existing student loan, I have decided to move back East.
When my current work contract was due for review and renewal, the offer was handed out to me to stay with the company that I’m currently working for right now. It is, by far, the best place I have ever worked at to-date. Not only have I never been stressed out the slightest, but also they treat their employees (and contractors like myself) with dignity and respect. You might be laughing at that since you’d think every workplace should have those rights, unfortunately that is not the case back when I was living in Ottawa for those five-or-so years I worked and went to school there.
So, if you hate Ottawa so much, why are you moving back East?
Slow down my gentle Internets, I’m not finished with this story yet…
So, where back East will I be heading next in my journey of life? I have decided that I will be moving to Montréal.
Before I was going to move out of Ottawa, I was deciding where I wanted to move to. I’ve always fascinated myself living in Montréal, but I always wanted to get out of the Eastern portions of Canada. If I decided to move out West, no one would know it and me would give me the boost I needed to start a fresh new life. Meet new people, and enjoy those tasty lemons that life was going to hand over to me. I really had my hopes set on Montréal at the time, but the only timeframe I would’ve had to move there would have been at the end of the year, whereas I needed to get out of Ottawa then, so it gave me the option to move out and try out something new.
I’ve now been living in Vancouver for close to ten months now. I’ve experienced everything that I wanted to and met the new people I wanted to see, but when I had the option to not renew my contract, I felt that the timing was right and that it was okay for me to head back East to spend this summer with my close friends and family.
Vancouver has treated me very well during my short stay, but there are many things that I’m looking forward to when I move to Montréal.
Firstly, the music scene is much better out there now then it will ever be in Vancouver. I could not find any good indie band joints to chill out to and watch new bands inspire us with their music. None.
Secondly, Vancouver is too quiet of a city on the weekends. No loud thumping dubstep bass noises that you can hear from across the city for each club and strip club. Actually, come to think about it – are there even any strip clubs in Vancouver? Anyway, that’s not important.
I’ll miss Vancouver more than you can ever imagine, but it’s time for me to head back East and have a few drinks with some old friends again. Sad to say this will be my final post living on the West coast. So, until next time… see you on the East side.
Darkness Embraces
I decided to make you all a little song to brighten up your weekend. It’s short and sweet, but gets down to the point.
Hope you all have a great weekend!
Drunken Musicals
So after I came back home from a night of drinking Friday night, I was listening to some old school Hella and Cloudkicker on the walk home which motivated me to make a song for whatever reason.
When I woke up Saturday morning, I had the file sitting on my Desktop and played it back in a sober state of mind.
Who would’ve thought I was able to do double-bass and play the piano at 1 am while half-in-the-bag?
Anyways, let me know what you think of it and if you’d like to hear more of my drunken lullabies: http://db.tt/gSAg2ps
All percussion, guitar, bass & piano/keyboard was done by me.
Bad Luck
This past couples of weeks have just been brutal for me. I don’t know why, but whatever could’ve possibly gone wrong, went horrible wrong. I don’t know if I’ve just been cursed with bad luck, but it’s really starting to get on my nerves. It’s changed my attitude, and I’m always worrying what else is going to happen.
I’ve been sick with bronchitis for over a week now (coming close to two now come Monday if things don’t shape up), I’m getting irritated by my family (yeah I know family is all we have and blah-blah-blah…), and I’m just tempted to just go offline until things shape up. No phone, no computer (except at work of course), and just go completely Amish. I feel like technology itself is just taking a turn for its worse on me. I’m never alone without someone bugging me by text messages, phone calls, or e-mails. It’s nice that the Internet has enabled us in many ways to communicate with family and friends much easier, but it really does come with a price, and that is the loss of all privacy.
I think this all has to do with me living on the west coast. People must feel that since I now live so far away, they have to communicate with me all the time to see if I’m okay. I’m okay and have never been better in my entire life. I’ve explained this many of times, yet its their non-stop concern that is bugging me. It’s as almost as if I’m living back at home again, growing up. My family needs to realize that I’m no longer a teenager anymore. I’ve been living on my own since I was 17. I’ll be turning 23 later this year and I have many years of experience being independent now.
I now I must sound bitter in this blog post and I do apologize. This is really the only method I’ve resulted into releasing what’s been building up in me the past few weeks. I’ve made the commitment on leaving everything and everyone behind back East and starting a new life. Now that I’ve been settled here on the West coast for almost nine months now, I think they need to know that I’m okay and that I don’t plan on returning anytime in the near future. I’ve made up my mind that this is where I want to be in life.
They decided to renew my contract at work for a few more months which is a sigh of relief since now I know I’ll be employed and making money until I return to school. I’ve fully decided to go along with starting a new career. Sure, school is twice as expensive out here than it is back East, but I don’t want to go back there. It’s weird because money has never bothered me in the past; yet, since I moved out here, that’s all I worry about is money, money, money. After a long discussion with my sister, she really did point out a reasonable fact that is, even if I decided to go with a student line of credit through my bank, it’s at least going to a good reason and that is to further my education. It could’ve been for a down payment on a car, a mortgage for a house, but considering I won’t be getting either of those two at least for another 10-20 years, this is a justifiable reason to, in a way, tack on some more debt to what I already currently owe now in student loans. I’ve already been accepted, I’m already on the waiting list to move into the student residential building on campus, why would I want or need to back out now? It’s a win-win situation and nothing but good things will come out of it, and for what? To add on another $10,000 bones on my existing student loan? Bah. I worry too much. This is going to be great!
Also, I started a Tumblr blog since it seems to be something that everyone has nowadays, so if you like to see funny things I’ve found on the Internet (mostly through other Tumblr blogs and Reddit of course), feel free to visit it at http://michaelnugent.tumblr.com, and make sure to follow me as I’ll shoot you a follow request right back!
