win, lose, win, lose

Well, I have been horrendously neglectful of my blog, but I have also been incredibly busy and living some very extreme ups and downs. I've had some victories and some defeats and I've come out a little battered, but still here. Firstly, in terms of my design-life, I have a win with my playboy skirt and I've grown very attached to the finished product. I'll hopefully get it up on Etsy soon, but I have no camera (frig) so I have to wait for a friend to come over to my house with a camera and take photos for me. Sigh. Also in design news, I have started making corset pillow-cases for a stack of throw pillows that are sitting in my living room. My plan is to make a variety of pillows all with some kind of corseting on them. I've made 2 so far and they are HOT. The problem with making really cool interior decorations is that I desperately want to keep them. I have enough pillows already, though.In acting news, "Mental Floss" was performed February 10th to the 14th and I had a FREAKING BLAST!!! Oh my god I love acting, I love theatre, and I really love that play. It's dark and creepy, but with comedy and silliness too. I got very close with the cast, the directors, the techies, and the script. You could see a major growth in the performances from night to night and after every show I was bouncing off of the ceiling from all the energy it gave me. Now I am desperately trying to find another theatre project to be a part of, because I need to get my next performance fix.

In work news, and here's the big "lose" part of this entry's title, I have been going on a job roller coaster. And not the good kind of roller coaster where you get an adrenaline rush and feel like punching the sun, but the old, rickety kind where you get jostled around until all your muscles are sore and you're at the brink of vomiting. My full time job working at Latina, an "Épicerie Fine" in the Mile-End, was paying me minimum wage and it didn't equal enough to keep me afloat, so I had been looking for other work. I found another job at a pub, so I finished my two weeks at Latina whilst also training for my new job and also, also rehearsing for Mental Floss. It was an insane two weeks. Then I did about a week of full time at the pub, after which they fired me for the oh-so vague reason of it "not being the right fit". Yeehaw. So now having thouroughly burned the Latina bridge I was without any kind of job at all, already in major debt and sinking fast. Since then, after an insanely depressive two weeks I've finally (FINALLY) found another job at a Sports bar this time. I'm not a sportsy type (yes I made up a word, live with it), but I'll do anything short of prostitution for money right now. Unfortunately this job is only part time and the bar has an unusual lack of customers, so it's not nearly enough to cover my expenses. Now when I'm not working there I'm busting my butt trying to find another other job so that I can hopefully buy a flashlight to shine on the map that shows the way to tunnel that leads to the well that connects to the rope where I might some day pull myself out of debt. Here's hoping.

On a less depressing note I like kittens. It's not relevant, but this post was bumming me out.