nightember99

    3 weeks ago, my dog, my companion, friend, and brother of 14 years, Bandit, started suffering from congestive heart failure.. The very same thing that took my mom when I was 11. We got him to the vet in time, and got him medication, and he was improving.. but just on Saturday, he began to suffer from seizures.. between Sunday and Monday, he had a total of 11 seizures.. all lasting only 30 seconds to a minute of actual convulsions, but they were violent.. and then for the next several minutes, he would just be laying there in a daze till he finally would get up and stumble around the house in a confusion.. That would last about 30 minutes before he snapped out of it. I took him to the vet around noon yesterday after his 6th seizure, and they were going to do blood tests on him to try and figure out why.. But with his age, and the fact that the seizures just started popping up abruptly, the vet said the prognosis was not good.. I was going to bring him in today for those blood tests, and after the vet trip, he seemed to be doing fine having not had one for hours.. But at about 6:50pm, he had a violent seizure, and after all was said and done, and he was in his confused state, about 20 minutes after, he had another seizure... and after that... he didn't seem to even recognize my dad or I, and he was just wandering the house for hours, having his 9th, and 10th seizure, while wandering.. Both of them being very violent and taking longer for him to even get up.. so we made the decision to take him to the emergency vet to end his suffering... He was showing all of the symptoms of having a brain tumor, and having damage to his Thalmus and Forebrain.. He would constantly stumble and fall around the house, not stopping, not resting... and whining if we picked him up... so... at about 11:50pm he was put under with anesthesia... and then... given the final shot to end his suffering... I don't know what I would have done if he had passed during a seizure... finding his body twisted... and contorted... his face full of pain.. at least this way... he went peacefully... When we got home, I had discovered that he had had an 11th seizure before we left... in our laundry room.

    He was the most unique animal I have ever met, he honestly understood every word I said... he would memorize names of people the first time meeting them, he was highly intelligent, even using mirrors to groom himself, or use them to keep an eye on where I was during play time so he could sneak up on me, he was gentle, he was a kind and friendly dog, he loved other animals and people.. hell, he even went through a depression when he accidentally injured a wild rabbit causing us to have to put the rabbit down.. He loved to hike, he loved to walk across the beach, his favorite color was red, he had helped me through the toughest times in my life, and I have helped him through the toughest times in his life... but there was no way for him to recover from this.. At least this way, he didn't suffer... He already had a failing heart, and then the brain tumor... we could have done something to stop the seizures... but the past several days.. you could tell he was in pain... he was lethargic with his tail between his legs almost constantly..

    So Bandit... Thank you, thank you for being the best companion, and brother, a man could ever ask for, thank you for everything you've done for us, thank you for.. being you. We love you, and we will never ever forget you. I remember the day we picked you out, you were just a little thing back then, and then a month or so later when you came running up to me, so proud, and then dropped a mouse at my feet. You looked so very proud of yourself. We'll take you to the beach, for one final goodbye and spread your ashes there.. I know it was your favorite place, and I'm saddened we couldn't take you there one final time.. a beach all to yourself like out in Washington. But you're in a better place now, I love you little buddy.. It won't be the same without you. You've been my companion since I was an 8 year old child and you were a little couple month old pup.. We brought you into this family on March 3rd, 2002, and you changed it..

                                                                                                                      Rest in Peace, Bandit
                                                                                                                      We Love you, and we will never forget you.
                                                                                                                      January 13th, 2002-April 25th, 2016

So... after I got fired, I've been working on getting a certain license to begin selling life insurance with a commission of 55% starting out on a contract's yearly premium, so a person paying the average of 85 a month for life insurance, will be about $1020 a year, I'll make 55% of that right off the bat. So that's like $560 directly in my pocket within a couple days. The process for me sadly has been slow cause of sickness and then some lazyness, but today, I just got that license I am now officially licensed in the state of Virginia to sell life insurance! I've already got a couple customers, and then the leads I get are amazing, no going door to door, more like calling up people that contacted the company and gave all their information and then calling them up myself and setting up a meeting.

I sell life insurance and life insurance accessories.

So.... a few weeks ago, at my job, we were getting so backed up and moral was being lost in my department so they hired on a bunch of new temps. But here's where they got stupid, everyone in my department was kicked out into another department except for me and I was put in charge of the department and the new slow temps. The problem is, they all kept getting switched out with other temps cause they just straight up sucked, but we were still making a dent in all the stuff we had to do even though we were understaffed, and in a period of a couple days all that work went away as we got like 5 trucks worth of stuff in 2 days.. So then instead of blaming the fact that we were still quite understaffed (since their solution to making things speed up was replacing all the fast veterans of my department with brand new temps that had no idea what they were doing) and instead blaming the fact that we had stupid temps, they blamed me for everything and fired me, even knowing that atm I'm the only one bringing money into the house because my dad was laid off back in December and no one seems to wanna hire him because he's 63 ....and we're renting.. so ya know what? Screw C2 Management, if you're ever on Ebay and you see their stuff being sold on there, don't buy it, that company is a shit hole and is literally gonna fall into the ground, in the basement on load bearing walls, there are giant several inch thick cracks that pour out water whenever it rains. OSHA already knows that, not to mention, we would get a lot of confidential stuff like medical records or DoD hard drives, and I saw the records just get tossed in the trash by the idiotic assistant manager who's only the manager because he's been friends with the CEO since college, and the hard drives hardly ever got wiped.

Hell, that manager even lost a shit ton of money cause he's retarded when it comes to stuff "oh, mass storage enclosures won't be around for another year, they're worthless because of flashdrives" Oh, I didn't realize that flash drives that are only just now reaching like 200 gbs+ are gonna get rid of mass home storage hard drive enclosures. But heck, thanks to that dumbass, I bought a 120 dollar Razer Blackwidow keyboard before I got fired for 5 bucks because he didn't think keyboards could be worth any more than 10 bucks.

But yea, screw C2 Management, can't wait to see that business fall, full of management that doesn't even know how to manage, hell, the CEO once lied about something so his wife wouldn't get too pissed at him and I got blamed for it, the freakin CEO offered me a very nice chair for 10 bucks, and then a couple weeks later, got blamed for going around the floor manager's back to buy it (the floor manager had told me that the CEO had plans for them but like I said, then the CEO offered it to me for 10 bucks)

Just had to get rid of my last journal, give a bit of an update.

I quit Food Lion last year and started working at an Electronics Recycling company called C2 Management, though now I'm seeing that it's probably gonna go downhill so I'm looking at new places even thinking about joining the Coast Guard. That would CERTAINLY be much better for me.

Either way, I don't know why, but I'm usually in a good mood now, I've changed a bit since before. I've even gotten into cooking as well. I'm fairly good at it as well.

So... recently my job has been getting a LOT of drama and my hours have been getting cut for no reason so I'm on the lookout for new jobs, found plenty with a much higher pay and I applied to them today