Weekend Off

I know that usually all I do it seems is complain about work, about working 6 days a week and getting burned out, but it did give me 40 hours a week, which I didn't get this week, but actually have two days off, in a row, and its the weekend, and I got paid. So why do I feel so bored and lazy cause I have done nothing? There are bags of stuff that need to be gone through, sorted and discarded. But I just lack motivation sometimes it seems.

New Years start

So I just read Karen's blog and I like how she broke down the year by months, though it seems for mine, each month contains a years worth of events. Just this time last year, i was homeless, living in an 8X8 dome tent with Nadine and BooDah plus several suitcases and bags of stuff. We had been homeless for 2 weeks and it already seemed a lifetime had gone by. We would sit by the fire in camp and just watch people at first, it was like a real life comedy show, making us wonder what exactly we we're getting into. This month last year was when i was kicked off the program and had to kick the last 30mg in said tent, with said occupants, which meant long nights of tossing and turning, clostraphobia and anxiety uncontrolled. I wish that hell on nobody! In February we all moved to our new campsite, where 10 days later, I had to leave cause of the dog, and due to politics and one mans nepolian complex, couldn't return even after i appealed, won and was voted back by the campers. So I had to urban camp in a $1.5 million dollar commercial vacant lot, in a $10 tent. Fortunately, it was a warm and mild winter, and with the dog, we managed ok. I also started panhandeling about this time too, since I couldn't sit around and do nothing all day. And once I started doing it, and realized its just like fishing, it was fun. Coming up with new signs, learning new peices of worthless info to tell tourists for tips. Oh the things I learned about Pike's Market. Funny thing is, that I was only on that corner for 3 months, and made the news twice, met movie stars and pro athlets. We both had "fans" per say, though BooDah always got more attention than I did. And thats pretty much how March and April went. In May, Nadine went with her Mom to finally try and detox medically, while my sister drove up and got me, the dog and as much stuff as I could fit into her SUV, and took us back to my Mom's. I didn't really know what I was going to do, and just needed some time to decompress. For the first time in 2 years, I didn't have to worry about the needs or welfare of anybody. Was kinda nice. But the vacation was short lived. Once Nadine left me, I knew I had to get back, and get my life going again. Within a month, I was not only employed with a decent job paying me a fair liveable wage, but i had a place to live, though in October that changed for the better, and worse. I really had second thoughts at this point. What was I doing?? Within  a month, I was homeless again. Back in the same damn tent city that I had been kicked out of only 8 months before. Believe it or not, but there were less than 7 people left from the original ones the first time I was there. But I didn't lose all hope, seeing as how I had a job, I had money coming in, so I just stayed low, saved up my money, and just before the tent city had to pack up and move, I left for a room for rent. For the next two months, the rest of the year, the routine just doesn't change. I did rent a car in november, goto thanksgiving at my grandparents where I picked up my stuff from Idaho, and got my son BooDah, so he's with me in Seattle again. And now its a new year, though it seems longer.

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,