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5 years ago
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for the following announcement... Please spread the word guys. I am going to be without a car in about two weeks.
Ok I know that it's been a while since I last posted updates on how things have been going for me, my depression and (not so) secret new years resolutions.
First...
As of 1/22/21 I am no longer homeless, I got on a program called HUD Vash which is designed to help veterans who are homeless get a home. I got my housing voucher back in October and after months of looking, I finally got a place of my own to call home. It's an efficiency loft apartment and quite nice and comfortable. Sadly , or should I say happily, I am forced to to massively downsize my possessions. It's not going to easy, far from it as I have to fight myself about what to get rid of and what to keep in storage, though I did manage to get most of what I needed for the new apartment out of the storage shed. But there are a few things I need that I don't have, a computer desk, area rugs (the ground floor is hardwood) and decent cookware.
Speaking of the shed, I am pissed off at what I discovered when I opened my shed for the first time in 10 months. Mouse shit all over the floor, dead, mummified mice, mice that were close to death, boxes chewed through, some toys chewed up, and some clothes turned into nests. I went to the facility management and they said that someone defaulted on their shed payments 3-4 months prior to me getting into my shed and when management opened the shed (a 15' x 20' unit), they discovered that the people who rented the unit, stuffed it full of food, which mice found and made that nit their new home and breeding grounds. The mice got into a good 15 units damaging and destroying property stored in the sheds. It is suspected that the retards (best name for them) opened their shed only to discover it overrun with mice, paid a month or two in advance and skipped, not bothering to alert management, clean out the food and hire someone to exterminate the mice.
Secondly, I have to get me a new car, my old POS a 2015 Sonic died late October of last year and due to both my eviction and repo, no auto dealer would consider selling me a vehicle without a 45%-65% down payment. Since the death of the Sonic, I have been renting a medium size sedan at $1200+ a month which has quickly eaten up all my savings. So I have reluctantly decided to start on last GoFundMe campaign to raise only enough for a down payment AND a 6 month full coverage policy for the car in question. This GoFundMe is not one I started lightly, I thought about this for the past month as I was waiting for the word that I was approved for my new apartment.
Now on to my depression, it still is present but nowhere as bad as it was when I got evicted and my car repoed, however, my depression still taunts me when it thinks I am vulnerable to attacks or I miss a dose of my meds. Speaking of meds, I am waiting to see my doctor to adjusts either my depression meds, my blood pressure meds or both.
As for pics of my apartment, I will post some once I have the apartment fully setup or close to being finished getting set up.
Now for my (not so secret) New Years resolutions...
1. Get a new new job (this was primary for 2020, but I had already subconsciously added it to my 2021 resolutions. This one was completed in Nov 2020 with me quitting Dominos within a month of me starting my new job (something that I had stated I should have done years ago)
2. Get me a new home by tax season - completed
3. Get a new car - in progress see GoFundMe
4. lose 3-5 pounds a week, 12-20 pounds a month with a goal of dropping 120-140 pounds by my birthday. *in progress* now, this how I am working on that goal: I am only eating two small meals a day (no more than 800 calories per meal) and burning roughly 5000 calories a day by walking about 5-10 miles daily. It's not going to be easy-peasy getting the weight off despite how easy it is to put on. I have been told at work not to walk so much as I walk around 4-6 miles a night (21,000 to 31,000 steps). I have a route planned to walk on the days I don't work or for after I get off. Currently I am at 260lbs, down from 270lbs on the 1st.
Also, I just love my family, my parents especially. Why? Well at least once a month, my mother calls to tell me that I need to change everything on Facebook, Hotmail, twitter and anyplace where I post my profile to something mo 'normal' as *GASP!* my dad has lost friends because his so-called friends pull up my Facebook page instead of his. I told my mother that I am not a child anymore and that she is being extremely hypocritical by telling me be normal like everyone else, knowing that her son marches to the beat of a different drummer. I also mentioned that Facebook won't let me me have a second account as I have tried that a few times and was denied. Well, she did say forget it and hung up on me. I know that she'll call again when she is wanting something from me as 90% of the calls I get from her are about her wanting me to do something or her or to get her something.
Ok I know that it's been a while since I last posted updates on how things have been going for me, my depression and (not so) secret new years resolutions.
First...
As of 1/22/21 I am no longer homeless, I got on a program called HUD Vash which is designed to help veterans who are homeless get a home. I got my housing voucher back in October and after months of looking, I finally got a place of my own to call home. It's an efficiency loft apartment and quite nice and comfortable. Sadly , or should I say happily, I am forced to to massively downsize my possessions. It's not going to easy, far from it as I have to fight myself about what to get rid of and what to keep in storage, though I did manage to get most of what I needed for the new apartment out of the storage shed. But there are a few things I need that I don't have, a computer desk, area rugs (the ground floor is hardwood) and decent cookware.
Speaking of the shed, I am pissed off at what I discovered when I opened my shed for the first time in 10 months. Mouse shit all over the floor, dead, mummified mice, mice that were close to death, boxes chewed through, some toys chewed up, and some clothes turned into nests. I went to the facility management and they said that someone defaulted on their shed payments 3-4 months prior to me getting into my shed and when management opened the shed (a 15' x 20' unit), they discovered that the people who rented the unit, stuffed it full of food, which mice found and made that nit their new home and breeding grounds. The mice got into a good 15 units damaging and destroying property stored in the sheds. It is suspected that the retards (best name for them) opened their shed only to discover it overrun with mice, paid a month or two in advance and skipped, not bothering to alert management, clean out the food and hire someone to exterminate the mice.
Secondly, I have to get me a new car, my old POS a 2015 Sonic died late October of last year and due to both my eviction and repo, no auto dealer would consider selling me a vehicle without a 45%-65% down payment. Since the death of the Sonic, I have been renting a medium size sedan at $1200+ a month which has quickly eaten up all my savings. So I have reluctantly decided to start on last GoFundMe campaign to raise only enough for a down payment AND a 6 month full coverage policy for the car in question. This GoFundMe is not one I started lightly, I thought about this for the past month as I was waiting for the word that I was approved for my new apartment.
Now on to my depression, it still is present but nowhere as bad as it was when I got evicted and my car repoed, however, my depression still taunts me when it thinks I am vulnerable to attacks or I miss a dose of my meds. Speaking of meds, I am waiting to see my doctor to adjusts either my depression meds, my blood pressure meds or both.
As for pics of my apartment, I will post some once I have the apartment fully setup or close to being finished getting set up.
Now for my (not so secret) New Years resolutions...
1. Get a new new job (this was primary for 2020, but I had already subconsciously added it to my 2021 resolutions. This one was completed in Nov 2020 with me quitting Dominos within a month of me starting my new job (something that I had stated I should have done years ago)
2. Get me a new home by tax season - completed
3. Get a new car - in progress see GoFundMe
4. lose 3-5 pounds a week, 12-20 pounds a month with a goal of dropping 120-140 pounds by my birthday. *in progress* now, this how I am working on that goal: I am only eating two small meals a day (no more than 800 calories per meal) and burning roughly 5000 calories a day by walking about 5-10 miles daily. It's not going to be easy-peasy getting the weight off despite how easy it is to put on. I have been told at work not to walk so much as I walk around 4-6 miles a night (21,000 to 31,000 steps). I have a route planned to walk on the days I don't work or for after I get off. Currently I am at 260lbs, down from 270lbs on the 1st.
Also, I just love my family, my parents especially. Why? Well at least once a month, my mother calls to tell me that I need to change everything on Facebook, Hotmail, twitter and anyplace where I post my profile to something mo 'normal' as *GASP!* my dad has lost friends because his so-called friends pull up my Facebook page instead of his. I told my mother that I am not a child anymore and that she is being extremely hypocritical by telling me be normal like everyone else, knowing that her son marches to the beat of a different drummer. I also mentioned that Facebook won't let me me have a second account as I have tried that a few times and was denied. Well, she did say forget it and hung up on me. I know that she'll call again when she is wanting something from me as 90% of the calls I get from her are about her wanting me to do something or her or to get her something.
