-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 30-Nov-2015 20:59 <=-
 DAG> Re: Re: _always trying_ (was  still trying....)
 DAG> 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...
 DAG> That it does.  The unending lifecycles, bound to the meatsingularity
 DAG> to dominate biological existance for all of time.  

Yeah... something like that... <G>
 
 NB>> Yeah, that was a bad scene all around...
 DAG> It was.  I don't think other stressors at the job would get me
 DAG> nearly as bad when I don't have to travel so unbelievably far each way
 DAG> only to get to an environment where the schedule is wrong and I came in
 DAG> for nothing 50% of the time anyway.  These other businesses are
 DAG> established, at the very least, so those kind of kinks should have been
 DAG> worked out quite awhile ago.  Plus my son's friend's mom is BOH
 DAG> management there, too, so it sounds like a pretty decent environment
 DAG> from what I've heard so far. 
  (...)
 DAG> Not yet.  Scheduling conflicts kept me from getting in to both
 DAG> places today, but I did manage to get a couple of applications for
 DAG> different positions in at a gas station right across from the
 DAG> convenience store that I'd hoped to work for.  So it was not all for
 DAG> naught. 

Anything come of any of those applications yet...?

 DAG> Another experience to learn from. I'm here, sink or swim.  I'm going
 DAG> to start getting familiar with the homeless resources here a lot
 DAG> better just in case. 

Probably a wise thing... 

 DAG> We've finally made rent for this next month, so we're saved there, but
 DAG> there's still a utility shut off notice coming and a rent increase.  If
 DAG> we don't make it to another place and we're not both employed, those
 DAG> resources might end up saving my keister. 

Yup.  Hope things work out nicely, somehow or other...

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

Any good news on that front, yet...?

 NB>> At least he has a friend now... 
 DAG> Oh for sure.    He seemed to be getting along pretty well with the
 DAG> kids at practice, too.  I think the team building is going to be very
 DAG> good for him.  He did ask me about getting out of practice the other
 DAG> day when we went to go do his drills at the playground, though.  His
 DAG> fingers were getting cold and he was cranky about having to have his
 DAG> hands out for the dribbling practice drills, so I understand that,
 DAG> but...  a part of me can't help but wish my parents had supported me in
 DAG> some of the things I wanted to try.  And given that extra push so that
 DAG> I could have developed some qualities for skills that take a long time
 DAG> and a lot of practice to develop.

Sometimes we learn from our parents' mistakes...   But it's good that
he's making friends with the kids on the team, too... 

 DAG> Anyway, I paid for it and we're hurting so bad for cash right now,
 DAG> there's no way he's wasting the money that I put down on that.   
 DAG> I know he'll enjoy the main practices with his friends, anyway. He's
 DAG> just cranky about having 'homework', even of a physical variety; at
 DAG> least as long as the weather is this crappy. 

Can't really blame him for being a bit cranky about the weather... I
know I'm less willing to be out in the less than ideal stuff myself,
after all... 

 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...  
 DAG> She said she doesn't mind, but I do, as a single parent in the
 DAG> situation that I'm in.  I get afraid of people wanting to call child
 DAG> welfare or something of the sort that would make my situation so much
 DAG> worse.  I mean this place isn't that bad, I doubt even the most
 DAG> conservative folks would consider calling in a place just for having a
 DAG> bit of disarray around, but he's my only little man and I don't know
 DAG> what I'd do without him.  I like to try to minimize those risks as much
 DAG> as possible. 

I hear you... but you don't need to get paranoid about it, ya know... 
Especially with people that really don't mind...  

 DAG> Keeping a clean and orderly life makes me feel a lot
 DAG> better about that, but I just can't get it implemented here until we're
 DAG> in a bigger place, farther out where the rent is reasonable.

Lots of reasons to get a better place... 

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

Sounds promising... 

ttyl     neb

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