I Will Survive

And Thrive.

So far in 2018,

• Lost our babysitter for about 4 months
• My medical issue turned chronic causing me to be in severe pain for about 3 months
• Wracked up thousands in medical bills to resolve it
• Double Ear Infection
• Poison Ivy on like 55% of my body

I'm sure I could pick and find other things but these are the major ones. If you look at things negatively one would think I am not having the greatest of years. I am trying NOT to look at things that way. 

I have survived this long and I will continue to survive. These things will pass. Stay positive. 

No Good Year

I can't say I've had a good year so far. I feel a lot of negativeness.

JOB
First off my supervisor Kristen has put in her two weeks and quit. We all went to Social on 01/16 for her last day party. From what she tells me there was just too much pressure and something finally pushed her over the edge, she couldn't do it anymore. I don't like that. A bad place to work uses up every ounce of everything from a person and then discards them. A good place cares for their employees and makes sure they are happy and healthy and taken care of so they can do the best job possible. I wish her the best but I need to worry about myself and my family. I know they are not going to promote me to her job but I figured if I can help with as much as I can hopefully they can help me in return. If not we'll have to see who will. I"m going to need a bunch of money to pay for things (see below) and I am not yet where I think I need to be here.

BOY
Apparently the boy is still missing school because of this whole big thing with his mother's van. This started before Xmas break and is still going on. I don't know what the problem is over there or why in the hell does it persist for so long. Obviously it ended up me being the one that had to throw money at the problem to resolve it. I sent a letter to the boy's school to make sure they knew what was going on and there were things out of our control that we were doing our best to maintain.

MONEY

• At the end of January the car insurance is due. That's a grand. 
• This stupid high interest loan needs paid off as soon as possible. We have to pay that off to start with the mortgage stuff and building our house. 
• The baby is coming. It's going to cost a fortune to have and to keep since we both work. Ale is hesitant about asking Aunt Dee about babysitting. 
• We will probably have to pay a little bit when we file our taxes instead of getting money back because last year was a year that she claimed the boy. 
• Now Chuck has raised our rent like $80 a month out of nowhere.  

I am not enthusiastic about our financial future.


BABBY
One day Ale got really upset when she felt the baby was not moving enough. I know at one point they told us 8x in 8 hours and then I think it upgraded to 10x in 1 hour twice a day. Well she didn't feel it was moving enough and got super upset which then upset me. Luckily the doctor was the next day and when I kept pressing her about it she seemed to think if she paid attention that the baby was moving enough. We brought it up to the doctor and she suggested to take an hour off and just sit there and pay attention. Apparently everything is okay now but that was a scare I didn't need.

VIDEO GAME CONSUMERISM
I had Majora's Mask 3D pre-ordered on 3DS as soon as it was available to do so. One day I came home and read on the internet that there was going to be a Limited Edition version with an awesome Skull Kid statue. I checked the websites but it sold out in less than 2 hours. I kept poking around and even visited a store to check but apparently that was the stock. It's gone now. I am not very happy that I was not given a shot at buying this as I most certainly would have.
Also a new wave of amiibos have been announced so I have to worry about getting my order in before they all disappear again. I need to keep my collection at 'obtaining one of every single one available'. This is not a fun game to play. Me and my stupid possessions should not cause me such anguish.

MORE MONEY
I got ripped off at least twice so far this year on food purchases. I swear I have always checked my receipts but I must not be doing a great job lately. That and I don't like the conflict of bringing it up to somebody.
It took me 3 years to fully fill a punch card for Brooklyn's Pizza to get a free X-Large pizza. I finally went to cash it in and ordered a pizza and wings. Somehow that order came out to $22. Somehow I got ripped off there.
We stopped at Sheetz just the other day to get food for the boy who was home alone after school while we were at the party for Kristen. I got him a thing of popcorn chicken and fries. It came out to $13. Somehow the lady added all these coffees on my receipt and only minused off one or two so I ended up paying for one or two. WTF!? I must be more vigilant in stopping and checking my receipt after I buy something and say something if I notice it's wrong.

FAMILY
Blair is still having trouble with MaryJo and it seems that whole thing may be done with. It all starting with drinking and her kids were worried she was partying too much. (Yeah thanks for interfering in a grown couples business kids) So it started out they both quit then I noticed at family gatherings she was allowed to drink but he wasn't. Then I hear he could drink if she drank with him but not by himself. Sounds like a bunch of crap to me. You can't make someone stop doing something if they don't want to. Especially if you feel you can do whatever you want. So he drank by himself one day and she flipped. He took it very hard and the decision was made to leave. I had to help him this past weekend get all the crap out of his house and to a place out in Ligonier by his buddy and funny enough his first ex-wife's sister (who recognized me!).  He seemed to be in a daze the whole time. I feel bad but you don't want to have to deal with shit like that. The best part was when she came out screeching what a horrible inconvenience this was for her. Seems like you made the right decision Blair.

HEALTH
Health-wise I had a crazy thing going on with my right ear for a few days. I was hearing out of it very strangely in a way that I have never experienced before. Some people said I was getting an ear infection, others said it was just ear wax. I tried to clean it out then Ale bought me some drops and a few days later it seems to be okay but it was still worrisome to me.


Anyway some of things are bad, some may only seem bad to me but damn if you compile them up like this I truly am not having a good year so far. I need to focus, do what I can to fix what I can and not worry about the rest. Here's hoping this is the worst that I have to worry about for a while and that the rest of the year turns out to be a good one that moves my life forward and especially that the baby is born healthy and happy.

Keep the Animals Out of it

http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/7315336-74/police-rocco-rush#axzz3LJhnLSUm

http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/7331905-74/rocco-police-vests#axzz3LJhnLSUm

I don't know what kind of person this guy is and maybe I shouldn't but I feel really bad for him. He's going to be more severely punished for whatever he did wrong then he should be.

First off why do the police even need dogs. I thought they were to sniff for drugs. Who in their right mind finds an animal and trains it to attack other people? Oh, our American police force. Yeah that sounds like a great idea. Will people start to object to this if they start training alligators and lions and elephants to attack its citizens? Isn't that what the drug lords do in Mexico? Does anyone think that is a good idea? I know I don't.

Not only that but when inevitably something happens to said animal, they got the balls to blame the guy for defending himself? You are the one that put that animal in danger. Not him. You sent it after a fellow human. Not him. I can understand sympathy for it being hurt and all but to then go and use that public opinion to more harshly penalize people that are unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It should be surprising to no one that if you send an animal to attack someone that person is not going to stand there and let it happen. If something is chewing on my appendages I am going to do whatever it takes to get that to stop immediately.

Since lately it seems the police can do whatever they want to their citizens including shooting and killing them with no penalty they are also now trying to put the rights of animals over people as well.

I know I'm probably in the minority here but this is the biggest crock of shit I've ever seen. KEEP THE ANIMALS OUT OF IT. We are already a violent, horrible race that doesn't seem to care too much about our own. No need to take other species down with us. There must be a major source of profit in this somewhere or someone benefited politically from this.

So what are you for?

In some way most of these things affect you. Are you going to have your voice heard?


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Weird Social Encounter I had to Deal with

Every morning when I get to work I grab my water bottle and head up to the cafeteria to fill it up. I could fill it up at any number of places but I go the whole way upstairs because I like to walk. See I leave my cube and take the most twisted longest way to the stairs then again upstairs to the cafeteria and back. Doing that gets me some early morning steps and plus I get to see how the rest of the building is doing, if I notice someone has left their cube or they are doing maintenance anywhere. Chances are you wouldn't notice stuff like that on a normal day. Anyway I am there super early so there are not many people around but I do see sometimes the same people when I do this. Some co-workers are friendly and say Hi, others do not. I'm cool with that. You know I'm not a overly 'people' person anyway.

I started having trouble recently with the lady in the cafeteria. First off I don't know her and I'm sure it's probably her job to greet everyone that goes into the cafeteria but she started taking things too far. She works for Eat N Park I guess. They run the place. Apparently like I said it's either her job or she just feels it's her duty to say Good Morning to absolutely everyone that enters the premise whether they want to hear it or not. What started weirding me out was that even if she was busy clear on the other side of the room if someone (me) would come in I noticed she started dropping what she was doing to go over to the person I guess for the sole reason of saying Good Morning to them. I was friendly at first but she kept doing it and it was making me uncomfortable. I would just sort of grunt back at one point. I figure she would get the message to just leave me alone. It was unnecessary for her to feel she had to talk to me. I was here for 60 seconds to get my water and then leave.

Instead of discouraging her this seemed to make her want to extract a pleasantry from me even more so. For a few days I watched her get a bead on me and track me down when I'd show up in the morning. I'm sorry lady but I don't know you and as nice as you may think you are, you're freaking me out. Now when she would confront me I would just stare at her. I wasn't sure how to handle this anymore. Truthfully it seems like a non-problem for most people but I was getting serious social anxiety about it. I would think about it all day and run scenarios in my head. I was obsessing and it wasn't something I enjoyed yet I could not stop. The last straw was one day when she got right up in my face and after I wouldn't say anything back she started getting pissy with me. WTF? I don't need harassed like this. My solution ended up being to continue my normal morning walk but simply do not stop in the cafeteria anymore. Avoid this lady at all costs.

I know that probably seems weird to normal people but that's me. It's been a few weeks now and I haven't encountered her since. I thought this would be an interesting story to tell now that I feel better about it. Has anyone else ever had an experience like this?