Friday, December 19, 2014

*Relaxing work...

       Now that I was out of **bread there really wasn't much else to do but go out and make a living. One thing that I like to do, surprisingly, is manual labor. Not real extreme labor but stuff like raking leaves, shoveling snow, and cleaning gutters. So that's what I did for a day, or tried to. Not many people want their precious work to be done for them so it was kind of hard for me to find a place where they would accept my services. I tried to target places where I knew the elderly lived, I charged a more than fair price for them and usually got hired. I raked about 6 medium sized lawns and cleaned gutters from 3 houses. All in all it was good, and now I know that I live near some pretty great characters. Sadly though I didn't earn much, especially after buying everyone pizza because I thought I was Mr.HotShot rolling in the mula.

                     
   
       I think what makes me happy is how mechanical all this work is, there's a rhythm to it and being all alone, just me and my music, makes it all a bit better. Despite it being cold out, even though I bundled up, I still liked being out there doing a service to the community, although I did feel a bit bad when I charged them because I hate accepting money for simple tasks like raking leaves, but since they insisted... I think this is one thing that I'm going to continue to do, it helps me with the money, although small, and it serves as a relief of all the bad energy that I have built up.

*Oxymoron?
**Synecdoche

2 comments:

  1. Krusty Krab Pizza, Is the Pizza, FOR YOU AND ME

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  2. Ha. That absolutely is an oxymoron, but I agree - mild manual labor really clears my head. I plant the flowers at my mom's every year and am always asked why I do it - it's satisfying, that's why. Exercise (nothing extreme) works too. Both vocab words are right.

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