Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

It's pretty much solely in the interest of keeping up a more regular blogging schedule that I'm writing today, as there isn't much to report, I'm afraid. Work has gotten no more stable, as a matter of fact I applied for Employment Insurance benefits today. Apparently I can get decent paycheck supplementation unless/until I work over 35 hours in a week, which I haven't done in what feels like forever. However, I won't receive any benefits for about 6 weeks, so I have to hang on by my fingernails for a little while longer. And try as I might, despite giving myself minimal spending money since last summer and budgeting like mad, I seem to be somehow unable to make any serious progress in clearing my debt. It's the 20 ton gorilla on my back.

In other news, the band has just finalized booking a pile of dates, so I'll be busy enough in March to hopefully distract myself from the passing of another birthday. I suppose it's indicative of this generation to feel old at 26 when there's 12 year old Disneyfied millionaires out there and most big new artists seem to be balancing writing their first masterpieces with finishing high school exams. Anyway, after the March dates we're heading to the east coast and back for two weeks, and then spending the whole summer writing like mad, just like last year. I'm looking forward to it.

At this point the band and Candice are the only things keeping me going. Have I mentioned I hate winter? It can't end soon enough.