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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