Page visits stopped two days before my mom died. I guess she was the only one who really cared.
Now, although I write for her still, I guess I am writing more for myself because I am alone, and sometimes lonely. Right now I am a little out of sorts because the court didn't throw out the case my ex is putting on me to stop alimony, and when I was talking to my son on the phone while he was trying to fill out some college loan paperwork, he couldn't hear me for some reason and he was getting frustrated and so was I. Then he had to dash off to meet a friend.
So, life continues on...
Maybe someday my great-great-grandkids will be doing some genealogy research and come across this blog, and find out all this stuff about me. Who is really to know that couldn't be true?
This is how I feel right now... Just a kind of great big "AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH !!!!!"
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I have been looking at ads on craigslist.org for available rooms. Most want more money than I really want to spend. Most also want you to stay for longer than a few months. Understandable. I just don't know what is going to happen after the work on the seasonal job ends.
This morning when I got off of work, it was 34* and the van was cold. But by the time I got halfway home, the van was warmed up some.... I have a pretty good heater. I am thinking that a small investment in either an electric blanket, or a small electric heater, (or both!) turned on only while I am driving from work to Walmart would probably do the job of taking off the chill. This is do-able. The whole, stealth-parking-living-in-my-van thing is really not that big of a deal... I mostly sleep during the hours between my 12 hour shifts during the first part of the week anyway. Staying warm is easier that trying to cool off in the van. Also, the cats do better in the cold than in the warm. I have no air conditioning system in the van for when it gets hot. (Let's all try to forget the Drive from Hell... trying to escape Lake Havasu at 1:30am when it was the "coolest" at 94* to get across the desert before the sun actually came up - Ugh, that was a horrible experience!)
My only real issue is getting my hair washed, and a nice shower now and again. Working means I need to maintain some appearances. I can take a shower at my son's place, but I don't want to horn in on him every week. I need to research some gyms in town or the YMCA for showering facilities and what that may cost.
A quick Google search has produced a gym where I can get a free 14 day pass :) Might be a couple others in the area. There are also two truck stops off the freeway that offer showers. I will see what campgrounds might be around in the area also.
What is really great about living in my van is having everything with me all the time... I never have to "go back home to" get something, or drop something off. It will really make me more mobile. Instead of hanging out at home, I can take my home with me on a new adventure. So this will get me out and about on my days off, and I am glad of that.
That is the short-term future... until my seasonal job ends. I don't know if I want to stay in this area or not.
I have possible plans to accompany the lady I met in Joseph on a cruise... if she makes the trip a reality.... and I had thought of getting my car in Arizona. Since I don't have a place to bring it back to, I might put that idea on hold. Friends in L-town would like me to come visit. And of course there is the financial question of making ends meet.
If I wasn't so deep in credit card debt, I could live really easily. But I have things I have to pay off, so plug away at it I will.
I was sharing with my best-bud C.J. that I was having a difficult time finding just the right temperature aboding spot... not too hot - Arizona in summer, and not too cold - all of the upper part of our country and all of the east coast... and she suggested Northern California. So I started doing some light research and have found a place that has a moderate Mediterranean climate... Napa Valley. There has to be a lot of service jobs in the area, don't you think?
So I am considering checking it out for reals. But I am not sure I really want to settle down.... I'd like to keep traveling. I'd like to make it to Glacier National Park... just as I was hoping last summer. Maybe head to the mid-west to see family... maybe to the east coast (before winter hits).
Then this morning while I was thinking that my Family said they would give me a good reference... maybe I should consider being a nanny for a family that is really rich and will take me traveling with them :)
So many adventures to look forward to.... I wonder where the road is going to lead this year?
:)
And on another note... I am playing this game on my phone... constantly... (only not in French! lol) If you read this years and years and years from now... look it up in Wikipedia... lol Currently I am on Level 24.
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