First, I worked out a deal with my insurance company so that I could pay rent. I’m paying insurance on my first full check. After that, I paid rent, but am still going cutting it super close — if I don’t have a full week’s worth of rent paid by 9/6, I’m going to have to leave the shelter (GoFundMe here – just in case). I do have a few options (charities) and will be checking on them this week. I hate asking people for help — it should be me who’s helping others. I’ve always been that way. But as of right now, everything is squared up, and I am okay.
Second, I start work tomorrow, and am so heckin’ excited! It’s not just a job, it’s a possible career path, and it’s my first real job in ten years. And it’s one that I get to do for myself, not to pad someone else’s pockets for them to spend at a casino or whatever they do. I’m so lucky to have snagged a good one so close to the shelter that I can walk to it. It’s a half a mile to and from, and there’s a paved sidewalk on most of the trip from here to there as well. I feel like I predicted this walking business when I mentioned RT Kendall’s words about pushing a peanut with your nose and not complaining about it. I’ll be fine, I miss walking as it is, and I used to walk a LOT before I moved here.
I missed the meeting tonight, but the gift from that was that my neighbor down the hall here made spaghetti and garlic bread with a side salad — first home-cooked meal I had since she made that carne guisada the night that I moved in.
I spoke with my new sponsor today. It was just a check in call, but was pleasant, nonetheless.
Finally, I don’t want to talk details since this is personal, but I got a letter from an old friend via Facebook, and I think I might be on cloud 9 about it. I hope we get to reconnect soon. I really do. I’ve missed this person like nobody’s business.
I also wrote quite a bit more in my memoir outline. Got caught up to when I moved out on the 13th. So many damned details, but not all of them will make the first draft.
I guess that’s everything. I am trying to get tired so I can sleep before tomorrow — it’s going to be an amazing day!