Have to be quick tonight. I have been at the fizzy beer and am now doing some damage to the internal consistency of a bottle of Teacher’s. I am in celebration mode and will soon be as urinary as a gaseous rectal emission.
About 4 pm today I phoned up about the Local Shop cleaner job. They were interviewing at 6 pm. I was there. At 7 pm I had a phone call and was offered the job. I have moved from The Unemployed Waster to The Cleaner, all in three hours. That’s the benefit of Local Shop. They don’t have to call head office to get permission. Decisions are made right now.
So, as of Saturday, I am in enough work to just cover the monthly bills, anything I make above that is mine for whisky and general nefarious purposes. One year from now… clean the planet. HAAAAhahahaha. Whoops, did I type that out loud?
The ebaying will continue but a larger-than-previously amount will go back into buying OO gauge stuff.
Right. Why am I here? Oh yes. I have begun collecting the suggested smoky signs on a page on the blog where we can examine and comment on them. If anyone wants to take one and make T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers etc, you’ll have to talk to the originator of the image. All are copyright of the original thingummy.
I will now return you to your real lives while I continue the obliteration of mine. I have until Saturday to regain sobriety, which should be just about possible. Clean? With the amount of drinking I have planned, my insides will be sterilised.
I think I’ll be happy in Local Shop.
My kind of place.
Excellent news, LI. I’ve been in your position in the past and I salute your resolution of the money situation.
I imagine a day when parents tell their children ‘If you make a mess, the Cleaner will come.’
I could be the new Bogeyman. ‘It’s all very… dirty.’
Hope you don’t mind, but your latest blog reminded me of this. Great song, love the lyrics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w4mVycaC_o
Perfect, LI! “Income 19 shilling, expenditure 19 shillings and sixpence – misery. Income 19 shillings and sixpence, expenditure 19 shillings – happiness”
Leg, if you find your new job boring but would like something related to it, try watching the movie “Curdled.” Here’s the beginning of the plot summary from Wikipedia, but I’d advise against going to the site to read it because it basically describes the entire movie in detail and spoils it.
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Gabriela (Angela Jones) is a Colombian immigrant living in Miami who has been fascinated with violent death ever since she saw a falling corpse pass by her mother’s bakery window as a child. With many television shows and films feeding her obsession, she believes that after someone is decapitated, they still talk for a short while afterwards.
Having quit her job at a bakery, she begins work for a cleaning service, headed by a man named Lodger (Barry Corbin), that specializes in mopping up what is left behind at crime scenes after she sees a television commercial advertising it. She goes to the office, inquires about a job and later is (to the dismay of Elena (Mel Gorham), her cleaning partner) offered the opportunity to clean up after an execution by her favorite at-large serial murderer, The Blue Blood Killer (William Baldwin) (so named because his victims are all wealthy women).
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The movie didn’t get great ratings, but *I* thought it was pretty neat! I think you’d enjoy it in your own wonderfully twisted way…
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MJM
Well done, it will leave plenty of time for your odd ball imagination to get to work and your employer will get the benefit of someone who knows what cleanliness is, make sure you leave that Teacher’s bottle spotless!
Best of luck with the new job. Your clip of Kevin Eldon yesterday reminded how funny the series was. Dug out my old DVDs of it.
‘Northwest ceiling, cobweb with several dead Arachnids …. and beans’