Picking up The Pieces…

After the debacle which was the Melbourne Saga…

I’m back home in Perth, eating Pasta, and recovering from a toe injury I sustained in Melbourne (another fun part of the Melbourne shit I put myself into).

Now the question is ‘what’s next?’. Not in the negative sense…in the what do I do now sense. I still have this 2011 trip on the agenda, i’ve got too many ideas about that trip to make sure this will be a reality. I wanna write a book about my failures and the trip of a lifetime in 2011. I think the failure book would sell well (or be the opening part of the trip book). People love a car wreck…my life tends to resemble one, in fact I’ve been in a serious car wreck in 2003. Lived to tell the tale. So i’ve been through MUCH worse than my abortion of my Melbourne stay. Thus me being upbeat about my current situation.

The best part is, that this has taught me a lesson but hasn’t changed me. I’m still the ambitious, free spirit I was before the Melbourne failure. But even more so now, I’m even MORE determined to go around Oz in 2011. When will I learn?

Although a very close friend of mine (and she’s an ex too), told me “this should be a lesson and you should straighten out your life“.In other words….“Gav, you’re a miserbale failure and to be honest with you… women won’t date you because you’re a loser with no master plan and no real goals”.

That’s how I read it anyway. Women tend to say thing a lot nicer than what they REALLY  mean….in my short experience on this planet. This is from one of the few people who I actually admire and like and would consider “loving’ them, IF I didn’t have such an issue with the concept of love.

But she was right on something else and this was much more forthright…. ‘you’re selfish“.

I very well know i’m selfish, especially in a situation like Melbourne….when the chips are down, i’m very much “every man for himself”. I don’t ask for help either….which is a pride issue.

Either way, here is my plan for 2009/10….to get me 2011 and that trip of a lifetime.

JOB

APARTMENT (rental)

CAR

I would like to be a concierge. I think I would make a great concierge. I may not seem like a people person…but I can be the most warm and inviting person you’ve ever met (when I can be fucked doing so). So that’s the aim…become a porter/concierge for 2 years. Do my trip and come back to the job I was doing before. You can make a good career in hotels… a duty managers make some decent cash so “why not” I say.

The plan begins today with a job interview…here I go.