I got the lamp. Yay. 
My day was great until a couple of minutes ago.
I was turned down for the job I applied for in June, which made me feel down in the morning already. Then I went to have a haircut which usually brightens me up. And it did. Then I did my weekly shopping and collected my lamp on the way.
While I was at the hairdresser's, a friend called and asked me out for tonight. We had a great evening. First we went shopping. I usually don't like shopping, but now that I can finally buy clothes and stuff for me that don't look like... *YUK* ... I start to enjoy it. After our shopping spree we went to have dinner and I had a yummy salad. Actually my mind was set for pizza, but they didn't have small ones, so I went for the salad instead.
I came home and went online. I checked my e-mail and there it was: I was turned down for the other job I was hoping to get as well. And it was all the fault of the people from the first job!
See, the second job vacancy was from the same company, only some other department. They told me that they'd not interfere with each other, so they would only consider to take me on if I wouldn't get the first job I applied for. Well... that was WEEKS ago, remember? So now that I was FINALLY turned down, I contacted the people from the other job opening.
In the mail I received they said that they had already found what they were looking for and that the person would sign the contract within the next few days.
GREAT, because those people from the first vacancy couldn't make their minds up and wasted so many days, I don't even get the chance for a job interview for the second vacancy.
I'm really down at the moment. All my hopes have come, yet again, to an end. There's nothing I have in store to look forward to. Nothing. Everybody keeps telling me to "hang in there", that "the right job will come along". But I just can't believe in it anymore. I've been waiting for "THE JOB" now for roughly eight years.
Sometimes it's just not worth anymore to hang on to a lost cause... | 
