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Getting fuckin\' kicked outta my house.
Long Story short, This is my grandma\'s house shes sick right now in the hospital with a stomache problem. My Loving Aunt and Uncle decided a few days ago we were going to have a \'family talk\' today at 8 am.
So the \'family talk\' is basically them 2 just yelling at us, telling my sister, her BF, their baby, and I (and my mom and her BF who aren't here for this) that we need to leave by September 1st. Why the hell did this have to be done at 8am on a Sat. and not a week ago? Why do we even need to discuss this like this anyways, why not just tell us when you told us to come to this meeting?
I don\'t pay rent here but I do whatever anyone asks me to do around the house aside from shit I normally do like yardwork, clean the pool, trash, buy groceries (that I never even eat), etc. I\'ve been doing yardwork around here even when I didn\'t live here. Been doing it for like the passed 5 years, only lived here for about a year.
The \'Family talk\' consisted of my uncle calling us lazy and saying we don\'t do shit or pay rent. I told him; 'how the fuck do you know you are never even here!?'. And he basically called me a liar. He also said that she is not coming home with anyone in the house so if she comes home tomorrow we got to be out today.
Anyways I have a week to get all my shit out of the house and find a place to live. I have $263.01 in the bank, no car (I drive mom\'s BF\'s van). Which is part of the reason why I don\'t pay any rent, I\'m saving for a car among other things like MOVING OUT OF HERE. Which now I cannot do because I\'m gonna have to fucking pinch every penny for food, rent, and other fun things that life requires.
My GF has been a bitch lately and I don\'t know if she would let me stay with her. Even if she does I don\'t know what I\'m gonna do with all my stuff. I had just recently signed up for cable internet contract and Blockbuster online thing too, which I'm going to have to deal with.
As many of you may know I just built a new computer and I had just signed up for the cable internet. My next step in my plan was to save up another $600 and do the deposit on Full Tilt and start playing poker so I could buy a car and move out etc. But this plan has been obviously ruined.
On top of all this my boss has been planning to close down the store I work at since last summer and turning it into something else. This job just makes me enough money to buy basic shit like food and gas with a couple hundred to save every month. So I might be out of a job too.
What perfect timing. Life is great.
UPDATE 10/06/07:
Well right now its actually even more fucked up. I moved into my GF's house with her mom,dad, and brother. I paid 200 for last months rent and am supposed to for every add't month (plus whatever utility goes up, which is like 12 bucks for water and shit).
I didn't want to move in with my gf in the first place and situation has only gotten worse. I hate living with her, but I have to right now. I just got off the phone with her and she was crying saying its over etc. Which is why I say I am 'supposed to pay' that because this month has already started. I am seriously considering taking all my shit and bouncing.
Shes inconsiderate, disrespectful, insulting, stupid, alcoholic (along with all her loser degenerate friends), and a bitch, among other things. And her family dislikes me for whatever reason for the most part because I don't feel the need to socialize with them constantly or some shit. I mostly keep to myself because I think thats how people should be, minding their own business. Its not like I'm a mute antisocial or anything, I just don't care for their company. Which should make perfect sense to my gf because just about every day her mom comes home and starts bitching and nagging everyone in the house about anything. But no instead of her ignoring it or just escaping the drama she gets heavily involved and ultimately starts taking it out on me and blaming me for shit etc. Its like shes one of those ignorant black chicks on Jenny Jones. Oh and I forgot to mention the house its pretty well stuffed full of clutter.
Anyways I'm not getting anywhere financially closer to getting a car (because paying for rent along with other things, I'm effectively stuck).I have about 600$~700$ in the bank. And for whatever reason my gf just stopped giving me rides to work (she still won't explain to me fully why she is doing this other than it was some kind of test to see how I acted when I didn't get my way) how the fuck did she expect me to react, "oh its ok, I'll take 4 buses every day instead". Its not like I want to rely on her or anyone for anything, just right now I fucking need to.
She is just too young and naive I guess, She obviously doesn't understand the concept of grinding everything out herself. Seeing as her family has provided her with everything she has ever needed in her life and especially taking for granted such luxuries as a car etc. My family on the other hand has giving me basically nothing except a roof over my head (which is gone now!). Even just eating is something I have had to do since I was in my early teens. Everything else I have earned on my own.
PS- My Mom and my aunt have been totally overhauling the house. Totally remodelled kitchen, new windows, new carpets, paint, the works. Meanwhile this whole time the house has been empty and in mine and my sister's rooms nothing. I could have been staying there this whole time with no harm to anyone whatsoever (I would pay the utilities etc and rent if asked for).
My gramma has been through a lot of complications, first it was a stomache thing, then a urinary tract thing, then pnuemonia and a collapsed lung, its been rough. I don't really like to visit people in the hospital because its depressing and shitty, and it makes me think that it makes them think I'm assuming they are on their deathbed or whatever. I just block it out and hope they get better. I did talk to her on the phone and her voice was all fucked up to the point where I couldn't even understand what she was saying.
Anyways, My mom-who has been visiting her practically day and night, said she is really recovering nicely and can come home but is choosing to stay at the hospital for rehabilitation and monitoring. She had to relearn how to swallow and stuff, its really disheartening to think about. She says my gramma really misses me and wants to see me and stuff. Knowing my mom I don't know if shes just making up a white lie or whatever but its kinda confusing, because one minute she wants everyone out then she wants everyone by her side.
I had dinner with my mom yesterday and I said I am sick of my GF etc. She said my gramma would probably be cool with me moving back in for like $100 a month and doing the stuff I normally did (like mowing the lawn, etc).
I dunno, I'll probably go visit my gramma sometime this week and see how she is doing and maybe talk about this. I feel like an asshole though just for the fact that I'm going in hopes of her being healthy enough to discuss such things. I'm still kind of mad at her for the whole fucked up situation in the first place.
EDIT- 10/08/07 My mom's BF said he would sell me the crappy van that I was using previously for (2000$) 500$ up front and 100$ every month until the rest of the 1500$ is paid. I really don't want this POS because its a gas guzzler, bad handling/acceleration, ugly, radio/stereo don't work right, Windows down't work, etc. But Beggars can't be choosers I guess. And its slightly patched up with my gf right now. I'm being extremely nice to her and trying hard as I possibly can to use my 'Thumper Mentality'. + Show Spoiler +
If you can't say anything nice..
Its not even what I do so much as what I say. What ever happened to 'Sticks and Stones'?
I can never understand why girls (anyone for that matter) would rather hear endless lies and bullshit instead of the truth.
"Do I look fat?" - her
"Yea you're overweight a bit, you should start running." - me
"I Asked other guys and they said I'm not fat, you such an asshole!" - her
"Yea, of course they would say what you want to hear. They hope to get laid or just 'white lie' so not to hurt your feelings, Duh" - me
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Yea, I can see exactly how this can hurt someones feelings, but why the hell ask the questions if not to better yourself with the constructive criticism? Its like shooting the messenger.
She set her self up for the fall, not me. I'm not the one eating all the fast food and pounding 1000s of Coors light every night.
edit- 10/20/07 So I'm planning on moving out/getting kicked out. I have no where to go and I literally have 4 dollars in teh bank and 10 in my pocket for the next week since I bought the van. I might end up living in this beast for a while.
11-2-07 Stupid fuckin van won't start. I just makes some clicking noise when i turn the key (might be the alternator?). I owe anohter 150$ on it as of yesterday. I owe my gf's mom 200$ for rent unless I move out soon (was planning to). Need to find a new job. Oh yea I got like 170$ in the bank.
Ok the van needed a jump. My mom said it might need a new battery which is like $50 bucks. I still haven't put the car in my name which is more money I don't have. Do I even technically have to do that ? I mean I paid 450$ up front but thats not even 1/4 of the total cost and I don't have any pink slip or papers saying the car belongs to me.
EDIT- 11/18/08 Been a while since I wrote here. Quick rundown of what's going on now;
Was on unemployment for a while then basically I moved back in to my gramma's house in Jan/Feb and found a job with my old employer at a further store under the table and with a raise in pay. I was seriously making a large effort to pitch in around the house with fixing stuff, replacing stuff, etc. I even overhauled the completely-blocked-with-clutter garage. I repacked, recycled, disposed, and carpeted the garage. For some reason everyone slowly started moving back in the house and even my cousin all the sudden showed up and moved in with her shitty smelly little dog. She began to move a bunch of clutter from upstairs into the garage (which was really annoying) and doing half assed outdoor yardwork that I finished multiple times. For whatever reason almost exactly a year from the original kickout everyone was getting kicked out again. Or so I was told, my cousin got to stay (probably because she has nothing to do all day except play guitar and sing around my gramma) while everyone else with lives must move.
So since I was kicked out again I had to move all my shit to my dad's garage that is really far away and look for a place to live while staying at my gf's temporarily (after all I should get a free month here since her mom basically got a free month's rent last January). My friend luckily had his roommate moving out 3 days ago and I took his place. It really worked out pretty perfectly because he lives only 5 miles away from where I work instead of 12-15miles (save lots of time and gas). The rent/bills are a good price (like 650$/m) but its a little over my budget so I don't think I have enough to save up or do extra fun shit with. But hes got nice cable and internet and we have been friends for like 10 years so we can pretty much do whatever we want in OUR house. You wanna fuck her in the middle of the day and be loud?, slam it. Play loud music?, Pump it. Drink and party or play poker any night we want?, Fuck yes.
So I just moved in the other day and am almost done setting up all my stuff. I even bought a Cali-King bed off craigslist for 100$ bucks (uber deal), guy even gave me free ropes and help rigging it to transport it back to my new pad. Gf bought new sheets for housewarming gift (from Mervyn's which is going out of business, so like 60% off. They normally cost like 100$ bucks lol).
Went to my gramma's house yesterday to pick up a few leftovers and i see there are more renovations going on in some upstairs rooms. Shit is ridiculous, family is so obviously fixing up the house to sell and waiting on my Gma to pass. Its so fucked up. But My gramma is either dictating most of it or being persuaded into it (I can't be bothered trying to figure it out). Either way they are assholes.
The only real downside to everything is that my dumb sister drove my dad's car into the boxes that were in the garage and my DVD player fell down and the microchip snapped. So now I have like 600+ DVDs with no player (I could use my computer, but it sucks to do that). That and the paint on the walls is made of steel or some shit, because every thumb tack I try to force in either bends/breaks or will not go in whatsoever. So I can't put up all my pictures and posters and shit.
A couple other minor things to be fixed and setup and I'm good to go. Maybe I should get a second morning job or something. Anyone know how much Best Buy Geek Squad idiots get paid? I could do their job 100% better.
And we have a bunch of old computers we are planning to set up for lan too, sick dope.
EDIT- 11/20/08 I forgot to mention that the old cell phone store I worked at did get closed down in oct/nov last year and I got laid off. That's how I got on unemployment and how I barely squeezed by. My boss has always had another store about 15 miles away but he didn't need any employees at the time. He sold the store to his buddy who has a few restaraunts downtown there, and its really fucking nice remodel. Has huge HD flat screen monitors just for the Menus, jesus.
Anyways, a few months later he called me to fill in for one of the guys at the other store so they could visit family in CO for a wedding or something. A little after that the other guy went on vacation to Turkey (where his family is). Both of these guys were finishing up with their degrees and one of them took off into his career and the other guy has a part time like internship thing. So he takes a few hours every morning and Sundays and I take the rest and Saturdays. But really most of the time he calls me up to fill in his hours and of course I always oblige. So I'm basically working fulltime. I probably make a little over 1k a month under the table.
My job is pretty damn easy too, I basically just browse TL and other shit all day and watch movies and SC games. Every 15 minutes or so I get a window shopper, or some Verizon person who needs help with their bluetooth or whatever. I don't have to work on commission which has its pros and cons. We probably do a new contract/upgrade 5 times a week.
About my gf, we're still together but same thing as the next sentence;
I really like my job but its not something I wanna be doing forever. Still trying to figure that one out.
6/20/09 I now have a 1700 bail I have to post from a fix it ticket 4 months ago that I was under the impression didn't cost anything. That plus the expired registration that cost 161$ (and only lasts until dec), the smog I had to pay for 50$, the tire that was riddled with metal debris for 25$ (which is actually the wrong size and fucks my alignment). Oh and the $50 street sweeper ticket i get every month (cause the SoB comes 8 times a month; I apparently have the dirtiest street in america), Not to mention the 2 other expired registration parking tickets I got (one of which I was parked for literally 5 minutes) which are 60/65 $ each.
With work, my boss put us on legit payroll, so every 2 weeks I get a check now but 60$ of it is gone to the gov't (120/month) . Other guy doesn't take off time as much anymore either so my pay is down to like 800-900$ which is seriously raping me. On a plus not we [my roomie and I] did haggle with charter about switching to fios and they offered us a deal we couldn't refuse. So we save like 50 bucks a month on that bill now and have better internet.
Since we started selling FiOs at work we are supposed to get commissions on that but It's hard as fuck to sell because 90% of the people who come in are local and the network just isn't setup yet. And since the commissions are so low and far inbetween my boss is lagging on paying them out (he agreed to pay half of the sale to the salesman and he keeps the other half) which is anywhere from 50-150. I dunno what the fuck is going on with that.
And to top it all off I'm supposed to have been saving money (something I am actually good at doing) for a vegas trip next week and I can't even afford to buy some gas to drive 30 miles to visit my dad tomorrow for Father's Day. Whoop-dee-doo
I'm thinking about selling my vehicle for a lump of cash and learning to use the Bus again. This mother fucker has been nothing but problems since I bought it.
30- 40$ a month on gas (which is rising), all the yearly bullshit you have to pay for to the DMV (150-200$) , Insurance 50$, Oil changes, part replacements, and fucknig tickets. I've had enough of this fucking racket run by the government.
I'm also thinking about maybe moving out or moving to the couch for less rent. I should probably get EBT(food stamps card) but I dunno how that works because I don't have my name on any bills for anything to prove my income and residence except my phone bill.
9/23/09
fml.
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