Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 15-Nov-2015 16:40 <=-
Re: Re: still trying....
By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Fri Nov 13 2015 21:20:18
But at least it made it out... Now, it seems that my usual bbs isSeems to be working. :)
working again, so hopefully this will make it out just fine... :)
Maybe any that have gone missing weren't important anyway...? <G>
Once I'm caught up, I might do the check of what has or hasn't been
answered... ;)
They weren't terribly important. There's been plenty of
conversation popping up that's replacing it regardless. If you
feel like going back, though, don't let me stop you. Heh.
Sounds like that worked out well, then... :) Good that you'dYeah she's even offering me a potential job at the pizza place that
established enough of a relationship that she would think of letting the
kids spend the time together instead of just panicking about where he
could go... Sometimes it can be tough to find the occasional all-day
sitter for a school-age child... or prohibitively expensive... ;0
she's working at, being as things have been so off and on with the contract work lately. Only problem is I don't know if I can handle the type of work that is going on there with the volume of traffic that
goes through. I guess there's one way to find out, though.
I certainly need something that I can count on; at this point at the
end of this month my savings will be gone. :(
I was finally able to re-find my son's phone now, too. Which
definitely helps for security if he's going to be out and about.
Soon as he got it he ended up
calling his friend, they've been talking almost nonstop until I
realized that the phone was pay-per-minute. I'm gonna have to do the math on how much of that we can afford at this point, but it's good
that he's got someone to communicate with. I really need to get this place up to par for having his friend over where they can have more
space a little more often, too, but it is soooooo hard to keep this
place up properly with three people living in a one bedroom apartment.
Yup, seems to be... now, I just have to get myself caught up again...
Water under the bridge and all that... ;) We probably rehash stuff
enough as it is... <G>
Yeah, to actually try it out, assuming it comes through... ;) It probably wouldn't be any worse than that job at the airport cafe... but you wouldn't know unless you tried...
the end of this month my savings will be gone. :(Not so good...
I was finally able to re-find my son's phone now, too. WhichBut that's very good... ;)
definitely helps for security if he's going to be out and about.
Friends are a good thing... ;) Probably would save some money on the phone if they were spending more time physically together... ;) I suspect the kids wouldn't even notice if things were messy in the apartment...
Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 27-Nov-2015 09:51 <=-
Re: Re: _always trying_ (was still trying....)
By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Nov 23 2015 18:20:34
Yup, seems to be... now, I just have to get myself caught upAh, the alternating tribulation. ;)
again... <G>
Water under the bridge and all that... ;) We probably rehash stuffYeah it seems like we're getting around to the same sorts of
enough as it is... <G>
subjects pretty regularly regardless. :)
Yeah, to actually try it out, assuming it comes through... ;) ItOh for sure it couldn't be any worse than that. I mean hopefully
probably wouldn't be any worse than that job at the airport cafe...
but you wouldn't know unless you tried...
I'm not jinxing myself but that store was in a _really_ horrible state due to the reason that it was new, and the kinks hadn't been ironed out yet. Plus it was almost a half hour commute, which is too much in a vehicle that needs to be used as little as possible to keep it viable
as an emergency escape route, should that be necessary in the future.
If anything, my guess is that it would at least be somewhat better due
to the proximity of it. Got that 2nd job referral just a little bit farther away in the other direction now, too. I'm gonna try to get to
at least one of the places today to drop off my infoz.
Anyway about that emergency escape route bit... It probably sounds a little premature at this point, but my roomie is having the same sort of issues and is considering moving back to the east coast as a potential way to stay off of the street, as well. So I'm basically planning to
try to head to Arizona, if my invite is still open there, should that happen here. I really hope it doesn't come to that, and I'm going to
do everything in my power to keep it from happening, but 50% of it is kind of out of my hands at this point.
No hours in sight till December-February on the contract
work, either. As it stands right now I actually don't even have enough
to cover rent & utilities at the end of this month. Things have not
gone very well.
I was finally able to re-find my son's phone now, too. Which
definitely helps for security if he's going to be out and about.
But that's very good... ;)Yeah it should help him get out for things like basketball practice
on the days that I don't do it with him. That's really about all he
gets out for right now, there's just not enough other regular kids
around to be able to give him much of an incentive to want to roam and
do his free range thing.
Friends are a good thing... ;) Probably would save some money on theI don't think they care, but the other kid's mother has a habit of
phone if they were spending more time physically together... ;) I
suspect the kids wouldn't even notice if things were messy in the
apartment...
coming in and wanting to talk and stuff. Kind of makes me pretty
ashamed of the quarters we're living in, but what can I really do?
Three people, three _lives_ worth of stuff all packed into a 1 bedroom apartment tends to make it a bit difficult to keep up.
I've got a whirlwind planned for sometime this weekend in order to
try to make it a bit farther through some of the cleaning tasks and everything, but it needs to be when I can focus a day on that and that alone. I think one day this weekend will probably be filled with that.
Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 30-Nov-2015 20:59 <=-
Re: Re: _always trying_ (was still trying....)
By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Nov 30 2015 16:46:30
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. :)
(...)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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe she doesn't mind about it either... My house has been a real messShe said she doesn't mind, but I do, as a single parent in the
for ages now... I just tell people that if they want to see me, that's
fine, but if they are going to be fussed about the house, not to
bother.. ;) Some years ago, I was apologizing to the mother of one of
my piano students about the mess, and she, quite graciously, reminded me
that the important thing to her was that I was teaching her kids piano,
not my housekeeping... ;)
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.
try to make it a bit farther through some of the cleaning tasks and
everything, but it needs to be when I can focus a day on that and
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.
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