So what's been new, not much. I've been working every weekend and just trying to be a better employee while during the week I might jet up to the city to see some friends and spend my paycheck. I've since been putting the city on hold and picked up more hours at the job and just learned more about how the job works and since it's a fine dining establishment I'm getting more experience and think I might be able to do this when i get home. I life the fact of not getting wasted on the weekends and making money, and I take that back I get wasted but just after work and the drinks are free. The owners changed hands and it's been a process that has taken a couple weeks due to funds and things of that nature and since I was getting paid 16/hr I was happy with that. Until one of the waitresses asked me how much I made and found out she does 18 an hour. So this past friday the new owner took over and I busted my ass at work just doing great work and getting asked to work a double because someone couldn't come to work and I of course said I would and was the most knowledgeable person there so I proved myself useful. After working the double and a sunday which useually means more pay I decided to ask for more money from the new owner and made it clear that I wished to talk to the previous owner but he was never in. Told him I was just wanting my pay to be looked at from his point of view and come up with a new pay whether it was less, more, or the same and just be able to understand my pay a little bit more. I told him I didn't want him to reply until he thought about it and he did anyway and bumped me up 4 bucks and hour so now I'm 20/hr. Really happy about that one and the experience of asking for more money from a boss. And now it hold me to an higher standard so I'm looking forward to working harder at work, also with work there is soooooo many ladies that come in and just holler at me all the time. I'm just friendly you know, maybe a little flirt, but it's crazy. The new owner loves it and he thinks I bring in business hahahaha. Other than that I get people telling me that I look like Ben Harper.
Without fail it happens every weekend and then they laugh like little kids but it doesn't bother me. Hey people it's been 7 months since my journey started and I'm soooooo good it's not even funny, I wish I could see all of you but I'm so content with what I'm doing that I don't want it to stop. I think I will be bouncing around for the rest of my life but we will see what happens when i get back on my own when these guys head out in May. I started paying rent at the harrisons home now after asking Nigel what I could do and we agreed on $200 a month basically $50 a week and I'm happy with doing that hence why I needed to ask for more money hahahaha. Basketball is also going great, first game of finals for my balnarring team start next week and if we win that then we play another game for semis and then finals. In my tuesday night league we have to win out to make it and in last weeks game it was a nail biter being down 6 with 5 minutes left and ended up making a run and the score was tied 52 52 with 30 seconds left. They have the ball and were running the clock down, we switched to man to start our comeback and i was guarding the best player and just denied him the ball. Someone else shot it, by the way there's no overtime so it would've been a draw, they got the rebound and someone hit it out of his hands and it's in the air. I just snatch it and full sprint and when I get to half court someone pulls my off ball arm from behind so that's an intentional foul. 2 shots and the ball. 2 frees throws i thought, to me, shit I've had this chance before. First one was all net and I missed the second one, we got the ball back and won 53-52 so I won the game. Really happy about that one, I'll try not to make it so long but I haven't been doing much to report about, just chilling in Balnarring.
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