We
have to move!
Being mentally and physically isolated for 4 days
because of my schedule is one thing but then to be mentally isolated, due to
lack of funds (which my friends agree is a huge issue in the rural South) for
another 4 days is all a person can take.
Praying all the time for a miracle, for months, may have led to an
answer. Lance and I are going crazy…
I have only 2 weeks before the Holidays arrive,
and even less time to move. I texted
Abui and we agree to hold off meetings so that I can move. I endured my rotating schedule of four days of
work and four days off. Those off days I
spent trying to pack up a 2 bedroom, 2 bath our trailer. (Please note:
in the South trailers can be the dumps seen on tv for the stereotype
poor or gorgeous pre-fabricated mansions.
We lived in the first one; with a roach infestation that the landlord
never told us about or fixed. No amount
of bombing and pest control helped).
Long story short, found a new job (need to move up there, before we can set up work date), I gave my 2 weeks-notice, did
the mail-forwarding, and few days later
we moved our things to the new house. I
spent my last 6 days on my friend’s floor, because I needed a place to sleep
after work and motels are expensive when you don’t have any money.
My friend’s empty room didn’t have heat, so
that even with a small portable room heater (blankets were at the house and no
creature comforts were offered), I would wake up with the temperature being 22
degrees at midnight and doze in and out of sleep until it was time for
work. IT WAS HORRIBLE! (Still thanking God all the way because
sleeping in the car would have been harder).
These three weeks were so stressful for me that I
basically stopped talking, and went into auto-pilot to save energy.
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