Monthly Archive: November 2012

Hope this isn’t in TMI Land.

I’m totally out of money, but have my SSDI check coming Monday. I checked on food banks in the area, and so far haven’t found one, but got a $30 voucher from Douglas Cherokee and today got some food and other supplies from Grainger County Baptist Association. Everyone is running out of money, GCBA said they can’t even stock a food pantry right now.

My Food Stamp card (now called SNAP, don’t know why they changed it from EBT) should have been ordered Wednesday, and they say it takes 7-10 days to get here. Should have $25 on it when it does, and another $45 on the 17th of December.

I still haven’t called for housing help, don’t know why I haven’t. Need to do that.

Hugs,

Me

I’m making bad decisions again. Buying things on credit that, yeah they would be nice but, I don’t need. Maybe even helpful in putting my life together, but the debt involved will get in the way of that. And I know that all the while I place that Fingerbutt order, I’m thinking about it, and can’t stop myself.

I have tried to show Sunshine that I love and support her efforts to keep going and get her life together. Today it was clear that she can’t hear me say supportive things IN PRINT without reading hurtful things into it. If anything could depress me more, that would be it.

I’m really OK. So long as I don’t think about or try to talk to Sunshine. That’s most of the time. But a lot of her stuff is still here, so future interaction is required.

Oh well. I dug the hole, after almost a year of digging out I dug it deeper. I know how to do both. Depressives should have holds put on their credit. Hey, I even asked Fingerbutt to do that, they said they don’t do things like that.

In the meantime, I’m enjoying my new TV (really needed that), and hope to get some enjoyment from my vacuum cleaner (the old one didn’t suck, if you know what I mean) and whatever else I got. I need a job; with even a 20-hour job at Taco Bell, I could pay all this stuff off.

I did get some good news in the credit department, the amount of money I’m paying on the gas card IS making a dent in my debt to them. Even with the trip to North Carolina for the Pagan Prison Ministry project, I spent under $150 in gas last month and my payment was $200. With my next payment, I will be under half the credit limit on that card.

And in case you’re wondering, those are the only two credit-things I have. I should have destroyed Fingerbutt but oh well.

I did some work on a new website for my Spiritual Family yesterday. Oddly, I have been taking heat from some Family members for doing so. The person who was in charge of the project, it seems, was never officially put in charge of the project, at least according to some. This means some people have MORE to get on my case about. I will say that a lot of Family members have thanked me for it, but the ones hurting me are actually involved in putting/holding the Family together.

Hugs and tears,

Me

I’m starting to feel safe at home again. Starting to feel that nothing will happen to me if I go to sleep. Starting to reclaim the things I was doing last January. Getting to work on websites, arranging to do things I wanted to do, and getting some hats knit.

I had no idea that loving someone meant that much sacrificing of myself. Really. I spent a lot of time fighting to reclaim little pieces, but I should not have had to lose the big ones.

It’s amazing how much less I hurt. It’s sad that it had to hurt someone else. I hope her recovery shows her that she, too, is stronger now. Gotta be something we both get out of this.

Hugs,

Me

I’m sort of recovering. I’ll be going to Thanksgiving Dinner with my Family in Pigeon Forge, and Sunshine will be there. We have lots of loving friends and I’m sure we’ll be OK — and if not, well, we’re each taking our own vehicle.

I’ve had phone calls and chats with friends, new and old. Yesterday started out weepy but I was feeling almost OK by the end of the day. I actually overslept this morning — I’ve been waking up somewhere around 11:30 and told a friend to call me after Noon… and she woke me at 12:30.

Just as I started typing the last paragraph, Sunshine called. I tried to be nice, but there are parts of being broken up that she’s not getting, and I don’t want more arguments over that.

To Sunshine: I am SO PROUD of you, you tried to break the cycle of abuse and find a non-abusive honey. Most women who have the history of abuse you’ve had never take that step.  You have another step yet to take: you still HEAR the language of abuse, no matter what I say. The language of abuse and the language of love are almost entirely different languages, even though they sometimes use the same sets of words; they are used entirely differently.

I’m not perfect. Sometimes I’m pretty good, sometimes less so. I may not be saying everything I think I’m saying. There are tools we can use to see if we’re hearing what the other is saying.

I love you, sweetie, but until you can hear options and things to work on instead of just the dire consequences, we can’t be together. I don’t want you harboring any fantasies about that. But as soon as you can learn to hear a helpful or loving comment and not try to make it into a hurtful one, we can work at getting back together.

I’ve edited this a number of times. I’m still not sure I’m saying what I want to say, but I know I love you and I know you love me. I hope some of it gets through.

Hugs,

Moss

My honey came over yesterday. She was supposed to have me help her move a lot of her stuff into storage, but she didn’t have the storage rented yet and of course nobody was open on Sunday. It turned into a very uncomfortable time for both of us, as she apparently did not want to leave but we had nothing to do or say.

I got up to feed my rat. The Rat Who Would Not Die. The rat who spent a whole week in the freezer with the intention of becoming Frozen Ratty-Bites for a friend’s snake, but did not cooperate so I took him out and made him a pet. I have had him for over a year since then. He was barely moving today. I fed him, made sure he had water, and went to do errands.

I took my digital converter box back to Comcast. No increase or reduction in my cable bill. I then took my old TV over to my “sisters”, Star and Jevim. Good timing, as their little TV had just died. They needed a bigger one anyhow.

I tried to call Sunshine but got voicemail.  I came home and checked on Hratgar, the aforementioned rat-not-doing-so-well.  Still not doing well. I put him outside so that he could, at least, die a free rat. Might be the wrong thing to do but I’ll check on him later.

Very very very conflicted what to do, what to feel, how to keep going. Nothing life-shattering, except that I’m already feeling shattered. I have kept going before, and am not going to stop now.

I did chop my beard off the other day. This means I have several days of bloody face as my face gets used to being shaved again, eventually ending with me giving up and growing my beard back, but it had to be done.

May all your days be gentle and filled with love.

Hugs,

Moss

I was so happy that my honey got out of the crisis center this morning. Even though I barely had any sleep, it was good to have her home cuddling with me.

That was the high point of the day. I thought we were doing pretty well, but she was obviously feeling more stressed.

I was hoping that she would stay the night. After all, she lives here… and had not been home 5 of the previous 6 nights (3 at the crisis center, 2 at a friend’s house). But then she started packing to go back to the friend’s house, and I started crying.

At the end of it, I decided it was time to stop holding onto the relationship, and suggested we should break up. I love her with all my heart, and I know she loves me the same, but we have not been able to fix the problems we’ve had, and we’ve been working at it for 9 months. If she is so stressed she would rather sleep on a friend’s couch than stay home with me, then we have problems. We have been trying to find her an apartment for some time so that we could work out those problems. No luck yet.

I know it is going to be hard for her to try to keep going without me, but it has been hard for her to try to keep going with me, and the same could be said about me. I hope we can figure stuff out. I’m not holding my breath but I’d love to be holding my honey.

No new job prospects. Honey’s only job prospect calls for an interview on Dec 7. Not much to look forward to. Hope she gets it and can keep it, but they sure are being slow about it.

OK, don’t know what else to say. I’m hurting, she’s hurting, we both could use your prayers.

My mother has been moved from the hospital to a rehab facility for physical therapy. They say they will let her out for a few hours, I expect she will go home and then go back to the facility. I hope she can just go home soon.

Hugs,

Me

My sweetie should be released tomorrow, and I finally get to visit her today.  My mother is getting well enough that the doctors want to move her to a rehab facility for physical therapy. And I’m just sitting here without enough sleep. No news for me other than that my new car GPS came in the mail.

I keep feeling like my honey and I have turned corners, only to find her standing just before the corner I thought we had turned, quivering her her metaphorical boots.  Apparently she is really afraid of changing something, and it’s so bad she went for help. She couldn’t even ask me to take her, had to call a friend 25 miles away to take her.  So now she is gone for at least 3 days.  Without her here, I can’t even go to bed until I’m entirely exhausted, and then still take a couple hours to get to sleep (after 4 am last night).  I have been making some less-than-great decisions in other areas (my last “new” TV was an already-6-year-old Sharp in 2005, so I ordered one from a place which gives me credit, and without a job I really can’t pay the payments… at least I held it down to a 26″ LCD for $300 instead of one of the huge $1000+ models).

I don’t have any job prospects right now except a part-promise that the company I interviewed for last would hire me if they had enough clients. I need to take control of that again.

Not doing well. Could be worse.

My mother has been in the hospital almost two weeks now. My uncle is starting to panic, saying things like, “We have to get her out of there, people DIE in hospitals,” which is a very true statement considering Mom is already 83 years old.  And this has heightened my missing my father, who died last year. Nov 12 would have been his 86th birthday, and having my mother in the hospital…

Well, let’s just say I am doing as well as I could expect to under the circumstances. Half the time I want to just throw all my stuff in a Uhaul and head for Nebraska. My ex-wife and her husband have found a place they are welcome, and housing costs are way cheap… if I can afford the utility bills… but I would have zero job opportunities there and lots of other things. You know, when things go bad, running is one of the options. I think of all the options, even the disastrous ones, just don’t give anything much weight when I can still sit here and stick things out.

Goat any extra prayers sitting around doing nothing? I could use some.

Hugs,

Me

Now that’s a title I’ve probably used a dozen times…

I called on the job, and was told they hired someone else, but they did want to keep me in mind for a different position — which they do not currently have an opening for but hope to have soon.

I have had some short breakdowns like the one a few days ago, but not as long.  I will keep going because I can.

It’s nice that Obama got reelected, that gives some hope. Since I live in TN, and as I believe the President has not kept more than half his first-term promises, I got to vote for a third-party candidate who more closely meets my ideology without hurting Obama’s chances of being elected (my county voted over 67% for Romney, and it was about the same state-wide, so my vote did not have a remote chance of taking an electoral vote away from Obama). Historically, second-term Presidents are LESS effective than they were in their first term, but at least we’re not looking at losing all our gains in health care and education and giving all our money to the richest of the rich.

Not much more to say. Honey got turned down on an apartment. But she seems to have understood one of our issues, which should make it easier to stay here as long as she needs to. Several issues to go before it would be safe for her to stop looking for an apartment and just stay here, but I really love my honey and I’m glad she understood one more thing.

Hugs,

Me

I had an absolutely horrible morning yesterday and the rest of the day was only better by comparison.I spent over a half hour bawling my head off and mostly unable to talk, this is the worst I’ve had that I can remember, at least in recent years. But today I have my second visit with my new psychologist and I hope to hear from the job… hopefully positive.  Honey has a job interview today. Lots of scared, lots of hope, no relief yet.

Hugs,

Me