Hearts, Jobs, Sites, and 27’s

Last time I posted, it had been ten days since the one before. This time, it’s been over a month. I realized I need to post a seriously big update to catch up.

I suppose this counts as another entry to the Chapters series.

Part 1. ♥

It’s been almost 2 months since me and Hali started dating. I have to admit, it’s a very difficult relationship. I rarely get to see her.

When I say rarely, I meant it. I’ve seen her twice since we started dating.

But, aside from that, we’re doing amazing. We usually talk on the phone or via instant messenger. She’s the kind of person I could never get bored being around. I love this girl to death. She’s a refreshing change from my last serious relationship, which was a disaster toward the end, and left me heartbroken.

Hali, however, has repaired that. We haven’t fought once in the way me and Olivia did. I hope that never happens with us, and I refuse to let this relationship with Hali turn out the same way. I absolutely refuse. I’d protect her with everything i have. I love her. I’m able to say this way better than i ever was able to with anyone else.

I love her.

Part 2. The pursuit of a job

As I may have mentioned a while back, I left my job at Papa Johns Pizza due to a dispute between my manager and I. Since then, I’ve been hunting down any type of job I could find. Here in Rock Hill, SC, our job market is about dead. Most people who don’t work in store service work have jobs in Charlotte, NC or elsewhere. Yesterday, though, I finally found a job. It’s not the best on the planet, but it’s work.

I now work at the Dollar Tree in Rock Hill beside the Galleria Mall. I’m not sure how much I make, or what my schedule is, since I haven’t started wok yet, but I work third-shift stocker. My hours are from 11pm to 7:30am. Granted, it’s an all night job, but I should be able to work with it. I actually start that job tonight.

Along with that, I’ve been offered to go back to Papa Johns Pizza under a different location, the other one in town. It’s across town, but I can handle that. It’ll give me a chance to learn that side of town. That job should be starting next week. I’ll be working Monday-Wednesday from 10am to 4pm.

Yeah yeah, I know. I shouldn’t be working 2 jobs at this age. For some reason, though, I really want to. It’s extra money coming in, considering both jobs are part time, but I think I can handle it.

Look at it this way: Working at Papa Johns is great. I get tips along with my pay, and those tips come out to cash in my pocket every night. I didn’t have to wait until my next paycheck to buy little things. Since I left that job, I’ve missed that. The backfire to the job, though, is it wears my car out tremendously. Most of my money goes straight back into my car. And with the gas prices lately, a lot of my tip money goes straight into my gas tank.

Yes, that’s right ladies and gentleman. Most, if not all of the tip money you give the driver goes straight into his or her gas tank. If you figure it up, a typical driver may get anywhere between 30 to 60 dollars in tips average a day, but they only walk away with about half or less of it.
If I made about 40 dollars one day, and conserved my gas well, I’d walk away with about 10-20 dollars.

Granted, I delivered out in the country, and we had a huge area, with some of my deliveries being about 8 miles away. Doesn’t sound bad, but then there’s the 8 miles back. That’s 16 miles to deliver one pizza, folks. Then, take the average delivery distance. That’s about 9 miles per delivery. If I were to take 20 deliveries that day, that’s 180 miles average a day. If I get 15 miles a gallon (my car gets about 12, but we’ll go with average), that’s 12 gallons a day. The gas price around here at the moment is averaging out at $3.50/gallon. That works out to about 42 dollars in gas a day. Back when I worked there, gas was hitting 4 bucks, and my car gets 12 miles/gallon, so it worked out to a good bit more than me (about 60 bucks a day).

Then, you figure I worked 5 days a week. With the average dollar amount, that costs about 200 or more dollars a week. I didn’t even make that much a week on my paycheck. If we want to keep going, that’s 800 a month, and almost 10,000 dollars a year.

The point is, tip your drivers. Tip them well. They’re doing this on their own money most of the time, and if we ever didn’t like it, we wouldn’t do it. We bring you your food. All we ask is about 3-6 bucks a delivery.

The overall point of all that was, it’s not good to work exclusively as a delivery driver. That’s why I’m working two jobs. The other one balances out my income, and doesn’t strain my car daily.

That’s about enough of that.

Part 3. Online Status – Tristan Allen is on way too many web sites.

Lately, I’ve gotten into the bad habit of being on every site. Well, I’ve always been like that. The difference now is that I’m getting on every new and well talked about site. I’m on just about every social network. I’m on Twitter. I have Gmail. I’m on Deviantart. Hell, I’m even on Placefav. Heard of that site? Unless you keep your eyes glued to a computer screen almost 24/7, you probably haven’t. (Good idea for a site. I think it might go somewhere if the creators play their cards right.)

I’m not gonna go into a rant on this post about this like I did with Papa Johns. That’s gonna be a whole different series of blogs about the sites I’m on.

Part 4. Where’s my bookmark now?

When I left off last post, I was posting about the beginning of Chapter 26. I figure Ch. 26 was about me and my newest relationship in many years, and my challenge of learning to love again.

Now, with the relationship moving at a faster pace, a new job with another one coming, I figure
it’s about time to turn the page again. I believe I’m in Chapter 27 now. I have the feeling this chapter might not last long either.

Well, that’s pretty much it for now. Watch for my series on the websites I’m on. It’ll have a lot of new sites in it, and I only go for those that look really interesting.

later…

Chapter 25 – 26

I haven’t posted in a while, so i thought i would post something, and the only thing i thought of was my life since i posted my last blog.

Chapter 25

Since my breakup with my last girlfriend, Mary, I found myself in the mindset a lot of single people with no good looks gets into:

I’m gonna be single for a while.

Also, another piece of the stack of crap i’m in, It’s getting hard to find a job. All these places say they’re going to hire me, but when i put in an applicatiion, they say no. It’s irritating. I hate being broke, and i’m losing money i don’t have trying to get money.

With no job, no girlfriend, and nothing to do in my spare time, I found myself falling into the loser mindset big time. I thought about trying to find a new girlfriend, but i didn’t think anyone actually liked me.

Turns out i was wrong about that. Very wrong.

During my usual hang out time with my various groups of friends at Manchester Village in Rock Hill, I ended up hanging out with my friend Hali for most of the night after we decided to shoot corresponding videos.

Now, i will say this. For my age, I know a lot, socially. I can tell when a girl is interested in me. She gets excited around you easily. She laughs at small things. She carries on full conversations about nothing with you. These simple hints usually tell me when a girl likes me.
I started receiving these signals from Hali that night. We hung out a good bit that night. At one point, i was feeling really down about whether I was ever going to get a girlfriend. Then decided to turn to Hali and ask something.

Chapter 26

“Give me your honest opinion. Would you date me?”

“Yeah.”

“Cause I don’t think I’m relationship-worthy.”

“I think you are.”

“Hmm…do you like me”

O.o “Eh?… I suppose.”

“What’s that mean?”

“Well, I kind of liked you for a while, but i asked michael (best friend) about it, but he said you didn’t like his friends.”

–mutters– “Well, he was wrong.”

O.o “Wha?”

“Umm… Yeah, I actually really like you.”

“Oh wow, I didn’t know that.

“So, would you date me?”

“Is this you asking me out?”

“Maybe.”

“…..Ok.”

We talked for a few more minutes, and it was official. I am dating Hali now. I really like her and hope our relationship unfurls into something great.

Anyway, Other than all this, my life has been boring. I’m still waiting for that one thing to really  switch up the flow of my life. I feel it’s coming very soon, if it’s not already right in front of me and just hasn’t taken action.

In memorandum, pt. 2

I finally got in contact with some of my dad’s family and finally found out what happened to him.

I would seem that he was having heart problems, but blamed it on a pulled muscle in his chest and refused to go to the doctor to get it check on due to the massive cost, despite many many people recommending he did.

On April 2nd, 2008, He began suffering from a heart attack. He called his dad to the house for help.

He managed to tell him to take care of the animals (he had three bobcat/lynx cats and a couple birds), take care of his stuff, and make sure his ashes go where he wants them to.

There was one thing that got me. I was getting over it pretty well before i heard this.

“He also wanted us to find you and tell you he was sorry.”

….

Sean M. Allen
June 4, 1964 – April 2, 2008

In memorandum

Yesterday, i found out something rather upsetting. I’ll post the bulletin i posted on my myspace about it:

I noticed I’ve had some people ask me what i keep talking about with bad news and my dad and such, so i thought I’d post it again.

…but, I’ll back up a bit.

If you haven’t heard the story yet, i grew up not knowing who my real dad was, and my mom didn’t marry who i call dad until i was about 4.

Well, my mom and him have since parted ways. Here recently, my mom got a call from a dental office in Austin, TX saying my dad hadn’t paid a bill in a while, and my mom told them she had nothing to do with him anymore.

They decided to tell her then that his insurance records are showing him to be deceased.

Well, my grandmother let it slip earlier today that this phone call had happened. So, i hop on myspace, and…i realize he hasn’t logged in since i last messaged him in February.

I start searching around, calling family in Texas, asking about him (with nobody bothering to pick up the phone), and i run across this…

Austin-American Statesman Obituary Post for Sean M. Allen

Yeah, my dad died on April 2nd.

Nobody bothered to tell me.

…..

Seems i guessed the chapter wrong…

I decided to sit down and try once again to figure out what chapter of my life i am in. It seems that every time i do this, the number of chapters increases. This time is no different. i compiled the list of basic things that separate the chapters, with a handful of things left out for personal reasons, and no dates due to lack of knowing when most of the things happened. This is what I could come with:

Chapter 1: Born Tristan Michael Ferrell in Rock Hill, SC
Chapter 2: Moved out of Grandparent’s house, moved in with Sean Allen
Chapter 3: Mom married Sean Allen, Name Changed to Tristan Michael Allen
Chapter 4: Started Primary school.
Chapter 5: *left out*
Chapter 6: Moved to Leander, TX
Chapter 7: Moved to Austin, TX, apartment 1
Chapter 8: First and second relationship
Chapter 9: Moved to second Austin Apartment
Chapter 10: *left out*
Chapter 11: Moved back to Rock Hill, South Carolina to G-Grandma’s house.
Chapter 12: Started Rock Hill High, Moved into brand new house.
Chapter 13: Began dating Mary Rubin
Chapter 14: Stopped dating Mary, single for while
Chapter 15: Mom divorced Sean Allen, moved back to SC
Chapter 16: began dating Olivia Eaton, Mom married James Boatwright. name still Tristan Michael Allen
Chapter 17: Dropped out of school, still dating Olivia
Chapter 18: Received G.E.D., First job, things with Olivia start to slip
Chapter 19: Stopped dating Olivia, left Wendy’s
Chapter 20: Started at Papa Johns, Began many relationships with Olivia.
Chapter 21: Met the Kinkaids.
Chapter 22: Decided to live on my own, left home.
Chapter 23: Decided to come back home
Chapter 24: Discovered the death of Sean Allen

So basically, i’m in Chapter 24.

I have the feeling that this chapter isn’t going to last very long, though.

A new chapter so soon?

January 5th: I officially dropped out of Rock Hill High School.

June 16th: I reported to Sullivan Middle School in Rock Hill, SC to take the G.E.D. High School Equivalency Test.

July 6th: During this point in my search for a job, I went to apply at a local Wendy’s. Before I could even fill the application out, one of the managers is telling me they are short-staffed and need someone immediately. I submitted my application the next day.

July 13th: I came back to Wendy’s to check up on my application and background check as told, and was told to come in the next day for an interview at 6pm.

July 14th:
3:00 pm: During my day out with my girlfriend on our 11th Mensiversary (monthly equivalent of an anniversary) I get a call from my mom telling me that I had passed the G.E.D. test.

6:00 pm: I arrive at the intervew, walking out about 45 minutes later with a new job.

July 19th: My first day at work.
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A while back, after some extensive thought, I found that I was able to section my life into separate chapters like a book, not by age, but by events in my lifetime. At that time, I had just dropped out of high school, so i calculated that I had just entered Chapter 13.

I knew that I was soon to have my G.E.D. and a job, and I, figuring that I would have a job first, thought that those would be seperate chapters, and the G.E.D. would effectively be Chapter 15. As you can see though, I was wrong.

I suppose that I’m in Chapter 14 right now, then.

I have to admit, I was starting to wonder if my life was ever going to pick up and go anywhere. Now, I’m sure I’m at least on my way.

Welcome.

I have seen the opportunity to make a quality blog step forth, so here is a new blog. Enjoy.