Daily Check-in

[starwatcher]

 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, March 29, to midnight on Thursday, March 30. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #28692 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 36

How are you doing?

I am OK.
24 (68.6%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (28.6%)

I could use some help.
1 (2.9%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
17 (48.6%)

One other person.
13 (37.1%)

More than one other person.
5 (14.3%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

Comments

[hitokage]

Wife and I are going to have to watch our two eldest grandkids next week because the usual care arrangement our son has for them when he's got to work has suddenly, oh no, fallen out again (funny how his biomom and her side piece just happen to suddenly be fleeing the state the same week as school vacation AGAIN). To be fair, he asked about this today and won't be bringing them until Sunday, so we actually have time to do the spring cleaning we ... had been putting off because it's a monstrous task for two disabled women to manage, but we'll get there, so that part is fine. But I am still going to be absolutely furious that he has to drive two hours, across a state line, one way because it's his only option. And grateful that the boys have a dad (and grammas) who love them enough that he'll do that to make sure they're okay and looked after while he works.

Also, the boys haven't been here since last summer, meaning they haven't been with us since my Georgie died and don't know about it exactly. George mostly hated them (young boys, they were 3 and 5 when he first met them, which was far too loud and energetic for him even when he was a kitten), but they sure adored the heck out of him, so that's going to be... something.

[kathmandu]

::sympathy on all of that::

[we_are_spc]

Damn that sucks. ::hugs::

-T~

[we_are_spc]

Even if it's just hugs.

...

1) I get yelled at by co-worker who's tired of dispatch for wheelchairs coming down on her for taking me to Starbucks, even though the last couple of times I hadn't asked the coordinator (Wose words were that she's basically the top of the food chain (Above everyone else, save her direct boss (Who works in the office most days)) and I'm not taking away from her time) and that if I do again I'll be written up. Talked to manager got that cleared up.
2) Mon-Wed 10A.M-4P.M; Next week Thurs, 10 A.M-3PM; after that (Starting from Apr 13 forward) my thursday shift'll be 10A.M-2P.M because too many people, and she already has 2 working 2-7. I can at least do this math: 18 hours (Or so because I left early yesterday) this week, 17 next, then from then on, 16 howers per week. Which is 24 every 2. Just thinking about that makes me want to cry. I can't...really do much more of this. I'm almost 50 (OK, I've got seven years, but) and I have nothing retirement wise to show for anything. It's freaking me out just thinking about it.

At this point, I'm no longer certain who's saying what, because the owner (Dave) wants to give me more shifts, but the manager is cutting me back. I like working there, mainly because they're the only one after ME fuckery who offered me anything at all, but at this point, I'm not sure it's worth it anymore, and I'm fealking out because finding a job as a blind person is hard enough the first time around, and the first place who offered me a job when I came back to Indy let me go, as well. I dunno how much more I can take of jobs letting me go within the first two years before this causes its own set of trauma responses. And the n the new bosses who hire me wonder why I thank them profusely for hiring/keeping me longer than a year. Like...ever since I've yhad a license, I'm not sure I've had a job longer than a year for one reason (most of them beyond my control) or another, and it's starting to really get old fast, and nervewracking in that same amount of time.

Having to go through it again gives me mild panics, and makes me want to cry. Hard.

I'd just started looking at make up (Mac, so not cheap, but) to start sprucing up my appearance, too. I wish life would stop throwing me fucking curve balls just when I'm getting secure in the things I know I can do.

I hate this shit.

Not quite sure I can do the usual of ending my comment on a positive note today, sorry ya'll.

-Trausio~

[kathmandu]

Sending sympathy.