Re: Re: _always trying_ (was  still trying....)
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Nov 30 2015 16:46:30

 NB> After all, life tends to be somewhat repetitious, or at least cyclic... ;)

  That it does.  The unending lifecycles, bound to the meatsingularity to
dominate biological existance for all of time.  :)
 
 NB> Yeah, that was a bad scene all around...

  It was.  I don't think other stressors at the job would get me nearly as bad
when I don't have to travel so unbelievably far each way only to get to an
environment where the schedule is wrong and I came in for nothing 50% of the
time anyway.  These other businesses are established, at the very least, so
those kind of kinks should have been worked out quite awhile ago.  Plus my
son's friend's mom is BOH management there, too, so it sounds like a pretty
decent environment from what I've heard so far.
 
 NB> Proximity would certainly make things easier, for sure..  :)  Anything
 NB> come of those yet...?

  Not yet.  Scheduling conflicts kept me from getting in to both places today,
but I did manage to get a couple of applications for different positions in at
a gas station right across from the convenience store that I'd hoped to work
for.  So it was not all for naught.

 NB> Hopefully things can work out at your end, and you won't need to make
 NB> the emergency escape... 

  That emergency escape is gone now.  The invitation closed and I wasn't
notified though it hadn't been available for weeks until I asked directly about
it.  It sucks that some people have problems communicating the things that so
desperately need to be articulated as soon as possible to save trouble for all
involved.  Another experience to learn from.
  I'm here, sink or swim.  I'm going to start getting familiar with the
homeless resources here a lot better just in case.  We've finally made rent for
this next month, so we're saved there, but there's still a utility shut off
notice coming and a rent increase.  If we don't make it to another place and
we're not both employed, those resources might end up saving my keister.

 DAG>> work, either. As it stands right now I actually don't even have
 DAG>> enough to cover rent & utilities at the end of this month.  Things
 DAG>> have not gone very well. 
 NB> Ouch.

  Barely scraped by on the stuff due tomorrow.  Leaves me at 0 for the next
month, so something is going to have to change and real quick like here.

 NB> At least he has a friend now... :)

  Oh for sure.  :)  He seemed to be getting along pretty well with the kids at
practice, too.  I think the team building is going to be very good for him.  He
did ask me about getting out of practice the other day when we went to go do
his drills at the playground, though.  His fingers were getting cold and he was
cranky about having to have his hands out for the dribbling practice drills, so
I understand that, but...  a part of me can't help but wish my parents had
supported me in some of the things I wanted to try.  And given that extra push
so that I could have developed some qualities for skills that take a long time
and a lot of practice to develop.  Anyway, I paid for it and we're hurting so
bad for cash right now, there's no way he's wasting the money that I put down
on that.  ;)  I know he'll enjoy the main practices with his friends, anyway. 
He's just cranky about having 'homework', even of a physical variety; at least
as long as the weather is this crappy.

 NB> Maybe she doesn't mind about it either...  My house has been a real mess
 NB> for ages now... I just tell people that if they want to see me, that's
 NB> fine, but if they are going to be fussed about the house, not to
 NB> bother.. ;)   Some years ago, I was apologizing to the mother of one of
 NB> my piano students about the mess, and she, quite graciously, reminded me
 NB> that the important thing to her was that I was teaching her kids piano,
 NB> not my housekeeping...  ;)

  She said she doesn't mind, but I do, as a single parent in the situation that
I'm in.  I get afraid of people wanting to call child welfare or something of
the sort that would make my situation so much worse.  I mean this place isn't
that bad, I doubt even the most conservative folks would consider calling in a
place just for having a bit of disarray around, but he's my only little man and
I don't know what I'd do without him.  I like to try to minimize those risks as
much as possible.  Keeping a clean and orderly life makes me feel a lot better
about that, but I just can't get it implemented here until we're in a bigger
place, farther out where the rent is reasonable. 

 DAG>> try to make it a bit farther through some of the cleaning tasks and
 DAG>> everything, but it needs to be when I can focus a day on that and
 NB> And, did it accomplish...?   ;)

  I got bunches done.  :)  There's a nice big free spot now, and some other
areas are getting cleaned up because my roommate is selling his superfluous
stuff trying to make sure that we can make ends meet for rent and potentially
to move to a much better rental zone.  Things are actually coming along pretty
nicely on the home front.  Just needs a couple of more good days of work in
here and it won't be bad, though the crap density will still be far too high.

  -D
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