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I bet the tenant dad is A. He just got fired.They said they thought it was time for him to move on....
sigh. he has made up lies and is refusing to pay the rent.
so I sent a no cause eviction today. Its nothing they can fight.
I will have to live on a very very meager income. Which is fine. I like being frugal and simple. Its weird as I feel so rich. (c:
No more that is it, done and done. I never rented the little trailor after them skipping out and moving out of the state owing me $700. Now no more renting the big house with five acres.
I could move back there. But have NO desire too. Cannot do it. Am too done with that part of my life.
See I stupidly asked my friend, can I have a do over?Can I go back to when ex AH was coming around wooing me and chasing me, and tell him "NO I will not marry you! I don't care you have been on program for years, have money in the bank a nice vehicle and a thriving remodel contractor business. and I LOVE how you kiss me, want to take care of me." New concept, someone take care of me a little. That part was nice till it wasn't.
Anyway so now I am letting my place go that was worth $300,000 just a few years ago. now is not worth what I owe.
The disease finally took it all. Here I am driving my car someone gave me tha two windows won't roll up in under 32' weather.
Anyway I feel serene. So I must have gone totally insane. I may lose my internet forever that means my landline and watching movies on it and stuff too. Lose my cell.
This was the one month I needed the rent. Had wood ordered. Kerosene to buy, My three bills, meds. I asked friends to get the feed till the 28th. But I can never recover from this on my own. as my new - 500 a month starts Dec 28. BUT I can afford my rental. feed what animals I have. not sure about heat at this point. Power is all paid up for awhile.
It's strange as I keep thinking about what I have and not what I don't. Maybe I have gone insane. lol
Its the fog of loss I think. Nice place to be.
It is so darn cold! I gotta hang something over my slider I can feel the cold air dang it!
Isn't addiction lovely how it can suck everything away. The trick is to grow stronger from all the games it plays. Learn that things will be ok. Believe me if I could work I would.
anyway where do dead bad tenants go when they die?
Here is a recent pic of my son and his g friend. (c: waiting for new pics from daughter and my Sprout kid!!!!
Mac is happier than I have seen him in his life.
this is his g friend. She makes him dinner goes hiking, they are pals too.
Gabe is a newfy/mastiff I found him when he was really down. He blames me...haha Gabe got bloat horrible. mac makes him a food mix now. but he would not gain weight. I was very concerned and told him I felt something was very bad. 3 xrays found nothing. welll then after at least $3000 he barfed up a silver foil like granola bar wrapper. Is now very huge again! I am sure mac blames me for that too! lol
Money has been a huge issue for me since I left the ex a. Last Christmas was awful I could barely afford to eat. I was supposed to have a full time job in January and they reneged which left me with nothing. So my debt went up. I've made up about half of it but am still in debt.
You are not alone. Some of us do not recover from the A's actions. I know in his disease the ex A can always justify it all. The fact is he probably has less than I do and he still keeps using.
I am so glad that nothing else can come along and take away my peace of mind.
Deb, You are very much in my thoughts and prayers. I can so relate to the money worries. We have so little income and it makes me crazy to see AH drinking much of it away every day. Even though we are in a so-called ¨tropical¨climate, we are in the mountains and it is the cold time of year. Our house has no heating so it's just a matter of dressing warm and extra blankets on the bed at night. On the bright side, there is no heating bill to pay. Like you, I get so much comfort from my animals. Some days they are the only ones I interact with, I would be completely lost without them. I'm so sorry that you are having to deal with this. But I'm happy to hear you are managing to maintain your serenity through it all. Thank you for sharing.
Deb, I feel your pain and I understand your serenity and resolve in the face of "what else can I do but get through this one more thing". Our family is still living in a travel trailer with one room addition. Two adults, three kids, and it got to 12 degrees last night. You can't keep this place truely warm no matter how much firewood and how good the wood stove, but at least the dogs water doesn't freeze on the floor next to the wood stove anymore. Progress is made slowly, but surely one day at a time. Today we spent part of the day stapling cardboard around the door to seal out the cold a little better.
Winter and the holidays are always a hard time of year. Many winter related expenses. Heck, even laundry costs more cause we are wearing more bulky clothes and can't hang them to dry outside if we want to wear them this week. LOL
Hang in there, hon. We'll get through another one somehow. We always do.
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~Jen~
"When you come to the edge of all you know you must believe in one of two things... there will be earth on which to stand or you will be given wings." ~Unknown