Here's to the new year

This past week has been pretty uneventful, mostly cause I've been working all week long while others take time off from work. I don't mind right now, cause it gives me 40 hours a week, and I'm almost ahead for once in 2years. I've been really thinking about getting a new laptop, since I'll have close to $600 or $700 dollars here to spend. A nice rebuilt one will work. Then I can start doing all this posting and stuff from home, and will be able to skype my family again.

Holiday Wishes

So I know I don't get to post very much now, working more each week, well a full 40 hour week even if it takes 6 days to do it. I have to get up early every morning so BooDah can get out for a good twenty minute walk around the block before I head off to catch the bus. My roomates love the dog and can let him out to pee cause he comes right back. The guy upstairs, Scott, tends to steal him away while I'm at work. I come home and have to wait til BooDah realizes I'm home and comes running down to see me. He gets so happy and excited. I wish I wasn't so tired after work and that it wasn't so dark and gloomy, cause I really need to take him out again, but we just spend the rest of the night in bed, watching tv.
The last few weeks at work have been hectic, with sales up $10,000 for last week alone. And the company still isn't happy and so we continue to cut our prep and pars down to minimise waste, only then we run out more so we spend more time every day making little batches of stuff. Its frustrating cause we can't seem to catch back up now.

Just a random update

So things are going well. as well as they can be right now I guess. My week is pretty much a routine now. Get up and dressed, then get the boy up and out for a walk before I go catch the bus to work. Work my job and do what I do, then head home by bus, where I take the boy out again, and then make dinner, watch a little tv, then pass out, ready to do it again the next day. On fridays, we sleep in, then go on outings, either to downtown to see my friends at Kingstreet, or like last week, we go walk around Green Lake, all 2.8 miles. I make it a point to let BooDah kind of lead the way, set the pace, as the walk is really more for him.
The good thing right now is that i work and sleep so much that i really have no time to do anything that costs money. Pretty lame.

OH what a week

So its been an exciting week here in seattle, between work and the dog. We take twenty minute walks every morning, and even walked around the lake on friday. I wish I had a way to get pictures and video uploaded, but until I get my own computer, guess you'll all have to wait.
Work is going well, and I'm slowly getting things settled in and getting the bills caught up and paid. Am so tired after work that I really have no energy for anything else, and that sad.

Holiday update

So I spent too much time reading everyone else's blog's that I have run out of computer time here at the library, but things are going well as me and boodah now adjust to life together and get a routine down. I've been getting up early so we can go for a walk, if just to the end of the block, every morning for potty time, and my housemates have been letting him out while i'm at work. I'm working on getting his chain and corkscrew hooked up, so boodah can be put outside and left for a while, since the yard isn't 100% fenced.
I'll write more on friday, being my first day off,

Its Almost Reunioun Day!!!

So its less than 5 days til me and my dog Boodah James will finally be together, and I can hardley wait. Its only been 2 and 1/2 months, only 5 paychecks, since I left him in Boise, but its seems like a life time ago.

I do have a cuople of responses to everyones blogs lately, so here goes.

Chris-Those people in the emergency rrom are there probably cause they have no insurance, so a normal doctor won't see them unless they pay up front, where as a hospital can not turn anyone away for any reason. When I was homeless, i was on state insurance that paid for everything. I told them I was a little crazy, and got money, food stamps and medical. But it did make me mad to see people who took advantage of the governments gross inability to monitor itself, and stayed on state insurance and assistance for years. Now they complain cause the state is broke and wants to put a 2 year cap on that program. If you can't change your life around and make positive changes to improve and better yourself, then maybe this isn't the program for you. Good luck with the employment hunt. I know how frustrating it gets, to apply for jobs you know that you are over quailified for, but then still don't get, cause they want to pay some high school kid less to do it. try and stay positive and make looking for a job your new job. Remember: If you are not employed, you are self employed, there is no unemployed!

Carisa- You crack me up with everything you are thankful for. I missed modern plumbing in all its forms when I was homeless. from Indoor bathrooms where I can sit in my boxers at 3 am, to washer and dryer on demand, hot water in the showers, I am truely thankful.

Karen- St. Nick is probably a better story about giving this holiday season than any christian BS. You should also look into why we have a christmas tree, or why we hang holly and mistletoe up, and why we put wreathes on our doors. Its all pagan beliefs that have been corrupted by those damn christians who try and put god and christ into everything, claiming it as theres.

Anyways, things are going good for me right now, kinda. Still trying to get the money to even out. All my bills are due at the first of the month, so I always seem to be broke. But I manage to get 40 hours every week, last week and this week, plus i got a bunch of OT on this last check thats paying for me to get the dog!!!! I've thought about ging back to school seeing as how there's a community college like 10 blocks from my house. We'll see.

Holiday insanity

I am so glad that I'm notone of those kinda of people that get super into the holiday's. Its just another dark, depressing time of year for me, with a pagan holiday that the christians stole and called their own cause they couldn't stop the pagans beliefs, so they incorporated them. The whole true meaning has gone commercial, its all about the $$$ and stimulating the economy.

Holiday update

So after asking and asking about the holiday schedule at work, and then being told I had a week off, things of course had to change, and now its not like that any more, and I should be ad I guess, but i've already worked out a back up plan now, I'll still get the car for a week, but now will make a cuople trips to the storage unit and try to move as much of my stuff as possible, the little stuff like clothes, pictures and such. Then I'll still drive to either Hermiston and then to Boise to get my stuff, or something like that. I'm still working things out.

Almost the weekend, again

So where does the time go? It seems like forever ago I moved up here and really its been just over two months. Same for missing my dog, its only been a couple months.
I was hoping to have a little fun money this check, or at least a little to put away and try to save, but I still owe the landlord Gil the rest of my deposit and still owe for Boodah, when he gets here, which will be whenever we can figure out who and how to get him here.
I wish I had more to report, but life is pretty boring right now, without any money or anyone to do anything with. Lame!

As the dayz blurrrrrr

So I just started another week of work, and still no true dayz off again. I did manage to get almost 9 hours of OT again last week. So that will be 2 good checks in a row, which is good cause i still owe the landlord $255 in deposit, and another $300 for BooDah. Plus all the other stupid bills that tend to eat up all our money, like phone and storage unit, though after next month, I think we are both done with it, one year exact that we've had it. I need to rent a truck and just get it moved over here so I can go through it one bag at a time, there are so many.
That's about it for my life right now.

So bored

So with no tv, or computer, or radio or any of our modern devices, my life is so isolated and boring that once again, I have given up both of my days off this week to go and work in other stores for OT. This week, I am filling in at Specialties in the Bellvue Square Mall. Never been to Bellvue before, its a whole different city on the other side of Lake washington. Its quite the commute and yet its really not, about 45 minutes on bus, but it takes three to get there. Need my dog up here sooo bad, so like today I could say no thanks to work and go run around with Boodah all day, since this is Seattle and he can go everywhere with me, cause I got papers for him, as a service/companion animal!!
The paycheck this friday will be nice, as will the first one next month, and that's the only thing keeping me going.

First Day Of Not Being Homeless

So I'm at the library using the computer, listening to the Halloween show on Drum And Bass Arena, thanks Terry and Karen for the headphones, cause I got the volume up sooo loud and nobody can hear a thing. Listening to a little old school with DJ AMC. Plus I've been catching up on everyones blogs, so please don't forget to post!!! I love Carisa'a blog with all the pictures of Weston. Can't wait til i get a computer again and can start uploading pictures to this blog. I want to show everyone all the wonderful places that make up my world here in Seattle. I was so glad to wake up this morning and walk in my boxers to the bathroom and take a shower!! Its the little things that you miss being homeless. I don't mind being cold as long as I am dry.
Work is going well, though this new 4 soup a day promotion is really making me work on tuesdays and thursdays. And there just isn't any room in our walkin fridge for all the soup I have to make now, close to 80 gallons a week. Trying to keep track of it all, inventory and product rotation and waste, is kinda tricky too. And I have to use soups up before they expire, so changng dailies and keeping the litchen lead informed, something new with working for a corporate store.
I just need my dog up here now and then I can start over again, get a routine and some kind of life.

Things move on

So while I am depressed and upset that i didn't get that place, I am thankful that I have the ability and the resources to get myself out of tent city someday and have a real place to live. My education and job skill set is far superior than most of the residence of tent city. I sometimes feel for them, as we sit around the table at night. I mean, the worse thing that is holding me back is my eviction, so I'm glad there's no felonies, sorry kevin, against me or that I have a job that is paying me pretty well, and has let me turn a part time job, into a full time one, even got 7.6 hour OT last week, so for now things are ok. I am tired of being wet. I can deal with being cold, the wind, just not being wet, with no way to dry out and get warm. It suck when everythimg gets damp, not really wet, but far from dry. There's a chill you just can't shake. I miss my dog BooDah alot, and hopefully he'll get to move up soon, cause I need him here, cause its too depressing a winter to be without him, come on now, he is a service dog.
Sorry to disappoint everyone with such a mild rant on Saturday. I just didn't have the energy to properly vent my anger, and now the moments passed. I've moved on, and hopefully this new place I'm calling on today will turn out.

Just can't win

Thought I had a place, went and looked at it, talked with the owner, told him i was very serious about it, and then he went and rented it out anyways, since the three times I called friday he didn't answer. I left two long messages. Oh, It was to good to be true. So now Iput the money back into savings and keep looking. Had my hopes crushed again!!!!

Just another day

So I actually have a day off today and hate it almost. I tried to sleep in this morning, but had to pee so bad by 7:30am that I just couldn't lay there anymore. And once I was up, well, I wished I wasn't. I had to do my security shift for the week here at Nickelsville, so I had to stick around all morning til 12 noon to do my three hour shift. Then Left to the library downtown and back to on line searching for housing! Got some responses and phone calls yesterday, late so we'll see how things go.

Still I press on

So I have picked up a dishwashing/closing shift at specialties this saturday, which is better than sitting in the camp with nothing to do, I guess. And since I have no money or my dog and no real social life as to speak of yet, I guess its good that i just keep myself busy and keep making as much money as possible, for my own place that my dog Boodah will finally join me at!!! I can't believe how fast time has actually gone by. I've been back in Seattle now, with a job for 46 days, and have been homeless for 14 days this saturday. My bosss at work pulled me aside to day after work and was very conserned that I was ok, was I doing well, was I eating, did I have money, she even offered to buy my next bus pass and I haven't paid her for the first one yet. Mary's even willing to be a reference for me, both professional and personal. And I try to joke about my situation as much as possible at work, trying to not take anything to serious and find the bright side every day. Its hard and exhausting!! I really wish my dog was here with me!!! I try and keep up a front, and by all outward appearences I seem ok, but inside I am miserable and depressed. I have really started to ask my self why am I here in Seattle. I can work anywhere, and since I've thought about going back to school, I can do that anywhere too. I don't really have anything major going for me, a small social safety net, but not really. Maybe things will get better, but i have seriously set myself a deadline for a decision, that when the camp gets ready to move on November 14th, what are my plans?? To stay, find housing and get my dog up here, or do I take all that housing money, rent a truck and move it all back to...? Why Idaho??? I really could move anywhere, right, but then I'd be in the same situation, needing housing and a job, but now with no money. So I kinda have to think on this. I mean Idaho is ok, and what i hate about it isn't that bad, but it feels too much like I failed and am returning home, instead of moving home after a good career here in Seattle. Maybe I'll stay here until Karen and Terry move with the girls, and tag along, who knows. It hurts my mind thinking of all these things.

Almost another week

So as I approach the end of my second work week while being residentially challanged, I am broke, but refuse to touch my savings account, so I'll suffer, and Idaho didn't cancel my food stamps, so guess who's saying fed this month. I've been replying to ads on craigslist for apartments around town, but most either have income restriction, ie you can't make this much or the more popular, you must make 2.5 times the rent in income. So on a $600.00 place, I'd need to make $1500 a month, which if that is what i was making a month, I wouldn't need a $600.00 a month place, right??? I don't know, and until I save up enough cash to even pay first and a deposit, both damage and pet, I can't really get my hopes to high. There are a couple good places right now that are giving free rent and $99 first months, or waive deposit for renters, so we'll see. both are at opposite ends of the city. one, the Park Hill Apartments, are located in Skyway, which is even furtheer south than southpark, but more central and a straight bus ride into town. The other is located north of the u-district, way north, like 100 blocks, but is on the bus line to the U of W, so in might not be bad, plus just today I got a line on another place, so we'll see. I know it sounds funny but I do have alot of expences even being homeless, and its hard to save up enough cash this fast. But I gotta get my dog up here, hopefully before the holidays.

So I continue looking for Housing

I haven't given up completely, seeing as how I have a month til Karen can bring my dog up, if I have a place, so maybe something will come up, sooner the better. I found a couple places that I am contacting right now, each is far from work, but were 2 bedroom units for like 850-900. Am looking now for one bedroom units in those same buildings, and with any luck, might finally have a place of my own by thanksgiving. Then comes the joy of moving everything from the katrina disaster that is my storage unit to my new place, and then going through each bag and box one at a time to seperate the junk from useable stuff, seperate out all the broken stuff, and finally seperate my stuff from Nadine's, rebox it and have her come get it, or something like that. But I gotta do something and fast cause I miss my dog so much and just want him up here with me before the holidays if at all possible. I'm on the internet every day now, so hopefully it will work out.

Housing depression

So I spent all weekend looking for housing only to slowly realize that my eviction from last December will unqualify me from almost every apartment building and managment company for the next two years. Sad is that i finally have a good job, and can easily afford to pat my own rent. So I am now back to looking at shared housing situations. My friend Mike gets $800.00 a month from the Government each month, and he needs a place too, but his record and credit isn't better than mine. It does drive me nuts, though i completely understand how many landlords and rental agencies get burned, hell- I still owe Pinnacle Property Investments from my stay and eviction from the OK Hotel. But I need my own place and I need my dog up here soon. I'm going crazy without him.

Such a Crazy Encounter

So as I was getting on the 43 bus from the u-district today, the bus driver gave me a hard look, and then as I sat down, asked me where my dog was. At first I was a bit taken back, so I told her that He was with my Mom in Boise. The bus driver then went one to ask about my girlfriend, Nadine, and even about the guinee pig, which was really kinda of weirding me out, cause that's a very specific time from my life. Turns out, she used to drive the 10 and 12 bus, that me and Nadine, with the dog and the pig, we all rode to the methadone clinic and home, 6 days a week for a year and a half. Crazy kind of world huh.

I also went and did a little value village shopping yesterday, and got alot of stuff for my urban camping adventure, aka my second tour of duty. Got some dishes, pot and pan, plus a new hoodie and a nice heavy coat all for $38. Plus a plastic tote to put everything in. Nice and neat.

Week One Completed!

So I have sucessfully survived my first week back being homeless, and without to much effort I might add, though my amount of medical grade marijuana has almost tripled, which is to be expected during decompression as I ease back into my second tour of duty, return to the streets, as it were and get my life somewhat evened out.

This second time around is so different than the first time. Its just me, with no dog or fiance to worry about, and that takes almost all of the stress off me. I do miss BooDah so much, and ironically this is probably the worse time for me to be without him, seeing as how he is my service dog for anxiety, panic attacks and depression, so for now, I've gone back to the anti-depressants, but don't like them cause the what i can afford to buy doesn't really help, its not enough. I'll get things worked out later, but I am struggling day to day.

Work is kinda of....well lets just say that i go in high, stay a good little robot and do my job, do it very well, and then go home. When the question of wether or not to return to idaho, i had to consider the facts, that I do have a job here, something that I don't have in Idaho, and my stuff is all here, which would cost more to move to Idaho than an apartment here. Plus, the weed is much better here and cheaper, and was one of the three original reasons I moved up here with the morons in 2002.

I'm trying to stay connected and up to date, using the library alot to check my mail, do posts and blogs, which is definately easoer without my dog, so I guess its good hese's still at my mom's for now.

My Update

So as of Saturday, october 9, 2010 I am once again homeless in seattle, having just paid 500 bucks to a lady in southpark for a room for rent, I find myself now broke, with out my laptop or web camera or wireless router stuff, since she kept them all. So I am now doing my second tour of duty in the tent city, and am still working, now saving up for my own place. It's all about the dog now, how fast he can come and be with me again, we'll see

My Rant

WARNING!!! THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND SERIOUS RAGE. INTENDED FOR MATURE PAGAN AUDIENCES ONLY.
 
Ok, so what the fucking hell!!!Why does fucking life seem to shit on me know matter what the fucking hell I do. I thought I had stuff finally fucking figured out and just like that, I have no place to fucking live now, my fucking laptop and my new fucking web camera are now fucking gone and so are my new wireless routers from clearwire, who already fucking replaced them once for me. Fuck. If I had just gone and fucking stayed at tent city, aka Nickelsville from the start, I'd be that much fucking closer to my own place. That fucking bitch from southpark really tried to fuck me over, and I'll get her back, but fuck that bitch, its all about my fucking dog right now, and how much i miss him and need him right fucking now, though it will fucking be a whole fucking month till he can get a ride up here, THANK YOU KAREN. I hope to have my own place by then, if I can fucking catch a break.

such a lazy day

Got to sleep in a whole two hours extra today as its my Saturday today. I do need to go get a load from my storage unit, but it was so cold and overcast early so I'm getting a late start to my day. And I had a meltdown earlier, my computer froze up then crashed, which just set me into a panic. But after giving my laptop a timeout in the corner by itself, it has decided it wants to work and thus life is normal, as it can get.

Friday on a Thursday

So I don't work again until Sunday, so i guess this is my weekend. I hope my roommate will help me bring a truck load of stuff from the storage unit, think post Katrina plus 9-11 all stuffed into a 12X16 foot unit. Everything is in garbage bags, thanks to our eviction last December and a part of me is slow to go through it all, cause it is splitting up my life from Nadine's after 2 and a half years together. Its all mixed together and has to be gone through one bag at a time, separated and repacked. If i can do maybe a truck load every two weeks, I'll have it done in time for Nadine's wedding in December. Crazy times, cause I hope to move into my own place by December, and will have my dog BooDah finally here with me in Seattle sometime in November, thank you Karen!!!! Lets hope the weather isn't to bad and makes a trip over the pass out of the question til spring.

back online

Yeah, i'm back on line with my own wireless now, so i'll be able to blog more, like every day and hopefully will be able to upload some video and pictures so everyone will know that though i am miserable living here in southpark, its not forever, just like six months until i can afford my own place closer to the city. My days are kind of a blur now, i get up at 6 to be on the bus at 6:15, so i can travel via 3 busses to the u village and be to work by 7:30am. I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The job itself is kinda lame, as i just sit in the back of this bakery and make soup, in large 6-12 gallon batches at a time. Its not what i want to do, I am very serious about opening this sub zero frozen ice cream shoppe. There is nothing like it here in Seattle. And I'll blog more about my new co-pilot, and the lose of the love of my life Nadine who is very happily engaged to get married the december. I feel absolutely crushed, having spent so much of my life, like the last eight years with her. Here's to another chance at life.. 

Lazy Weekend

So usually every restaurant job i've ever had always made me work weekend nights, so with this new job not only give me my nights back, since i work 7-3 monday thru thursday, but for now i have three day weekends. To bad i'm to poor and broke to do anything. Been sitting on the couch watching football all day today, waiting for that alarm clock to go off at 5:30am, starting yet another week of work. My first check wasn't what i had hoped, but it was only 1 week of training, and last week i had almost double that in one week, so this next check should finally fat enough to get me caught up and then I need to save and get ahead.
I know that its crazy, but i had an inspiration for a franchise idea. I've been starting to look into opening a Sub Zero Ice Cream store here in Seattle. There is nothing like it anywhere up here. Its going to be some time, but i hope to locate funding, and investors to finance the capital i need to start one store, though I know that 3 or 4 stores could profit in this market. It would finally be me in charge, something I've wanted with every job i've had.
I hope to have some video or at least some pictures posted of where i work and live. i should have shot some video yesterday, it was Mexico's independence day celebration, and i do live in little mexico here in southpark. i had to listen to oohmm-paa-paa music all day long. Then the weather turned and ended up raining all night long, bummer too cause I had thought about working the streets with a sign on the weekends to make a little money. A nice sign saying" Fiance Broke My HEART, Need Money For TRANSPLANT."  Go work the rich clubs in Belltown. Would make a killing, oh well. Tomorrow;s another day.

First Post Ever

So i finally made a blog that will let me keep my family up to date with my life so they'll quit worrying about me. I hope to post video too of Seattle, so you will all finally see the great city of Seattle like I do every day.
As for now, I am doing ok, have a roof over my head, a great roommate thats really helping me out since i moved back to Seattle on Sept. 5th. Work is going well, had a rather rough day last Thursday, but it was a learning experience for sure. I need to find a second job soon, as I'm trying to save money up so i can move into my own place, as soon as possible, so my best friend BooDah James can finally move up here with me. I miss him so much.
And thats about it right now. As i figure more out, the better this blog will get.