Good news dilemmas

[deathpixie]

I find myself in something of a dilemma. I've gotten some good financial news, but the thing is, a lot of the people I chat to regularly are in the shit that way themselves, and I always feel like I'm rubbing their noses in it or something, especially when their reactions are to say how badly they're doing. However, certain people would tell me it's not my responsibility how other people react to my news, so I'll just out and say it. The backpay for our payrise finally came through, and I have officially paid off my credit card as of this afternoon. With quite a bit to spare, which means my remaining debt will also be going soon. Probably next pay day. First time I've been debt-free since I started flying over to Canada every year. *wry*

I also got an extension on the credit card - well, an upgrade to Gold Card, actually. $7000 limit and free travel insurance when I buy overseas flights on it. Which will come in handy given it takes a few months to get all the social security/medicare stuff organised in Canada.

So yeah. Financially solvent. Makes all the scrimping worth it.

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In other news... they're filming a documentary here at the Coroner's Court next week, which means I'll possibly be on TV at some point. *grins* Better hope I have decent hair days for those.

Four days off starting tomorrow, which is good. I'm exhausted. We've been frantically busy, even today, and there's been messy cases galore. And I'm losing my edge a tad - I nearly started crying myself whilst dealing with the family of a car crash victim today - 24 year old motorcyclist travelling at approximately 200km/h who killed not only himself but the driver of the car he hit. His dad and his girlfriend came in to ID him and they were just shattered. *sighs*

Just not a good week work-wise generally. *answers the pager yet again* Definitely looking forward to time off. I hope I can just drag my butt out of bed tomorrow to go climbing with Phil in Altona. Which is very far away. :P Miss my old gym, I do. Stupid fire.

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[deathpixie]

Considering it's been a year, yeah, it is good. :) Scary amounts of tax got taken out, but that's okay since I won't be working a full financial year this next year and I'll get much back.

Which reminds me. Need to get the tax return in. *sighs* Bloody paperwork.

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

But the paperwork, it misses you. Can't you see it's little papery fingers waving in delight when you come near it. Cruel woman, denying it your presence so. And if you think this comment is strange, I'm currently writing a short story with a suicide victim singing the Gabriel song while thinking about why the Angels aren't talking to her anymore. You know, if watching the Constantine movie does strange things to my writing, I'd hate to think what reading the actual comics would do.

[deathpixie]

The paperwork gets me all day at work. It can't be missing me!

*beats you with a printed-out version of "Suffer the Children"* You bite your tongue! The only resemblance that movie has with the comics is that they both feature a man called John Constantine. Read the books and you will see.

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

*grins* You never know, I might read it one day.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

They're very good. I'd reccomend reading them. in the morning. Not at night (Since, y'know, they freaked me out a little.)

hey!

[msss.livejournal.com]

No bashing up nice innocents now... :P

I saw Constantine on the plane, since I didn't want to waste real money on it (and besides, we've spent 45 hours on planes in the last two weeks). It struck me as emotionally contentless, despite the obvious emotion-threads that they tried to tweak. Not that I know the real John Constantine or anything, having only briefly brushed up against him in Suffer the Children and then in Preludes and Noctures. But that wasn't him.

Re: hey!

[deathpixie]

But she blasphemed! *pouts*

And yes, that's exactly my point - movie Constantine is not Hellblazer. And that's all there is to it. bad, bad movie from most accounts.

How was... Europe, wasn't it? Place you flew overseas to?