I always like to give good thought to how I spent the year.... things I accomplished and learned, places I visited, and the people I met along the way...
2017 has been a good year.
I celebrated New Year's with R&C.... it was a nice evening.
I lived in the little house and was excited about the possibilities, especially being close enough to go through my stuff in my Lakeview storage after 3 and half years. I really didn't like being someplace so cold and tried hard to find things I liked about being there in Klamath. I liked the neighborhoods to walk in, and the downtown area was so close.
I had some difficulty finding work, and finally landed an Assistant Manager Training position with a pizza place. I was also going through stuff I had brought over from Lakeview. Unfortunately, my landlord/employer had a passive-aggressive meltdown, so I got a storage place, put as much as I could in it after donating a lot of things, packed the van, cleaned the house and was out of there within a week.
I had planned to move into the van to continue the job, but I just couldn't do it as the temps were dropping to sub-freezing and I just couldn't do that to myself, or the cats. The worst thing was having to tell my boss, who had been so good to me, that I needed to leave the position.
So then, I justed to get warm.... so I decided to head to Arizona which had been my original plan.
Lesson learned from this experience is that you need to know who your friends are, even if you have had them for a long while, and you need to not take everyone on their word. It seemed like an open door when it all fell together, but it became emotionally, physically and finanmcially wearing.
Hwy 101 was closed due to a mudslide so I traveled across California to a friend of mine's place outside of Porterville.
