Monthly Archives: November 2016

Seven Nights A Week

13 Sunday Nov 2016

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I’m working 7 nights a week now and continue to do all the work around the house. My roommates think spending their nights off getting drunk is somehow productive. I get to come home and clean up the messes they left.

The ‘third roommate’ is still without a job and he isn’t being very active in trying to find another one. Although he has this month and Decembers rent covered, if he can’t find a job soon I’ll be forced to begin looking for a new housemate.

I’ve been cooking and/or baking every day. I’m trying to have enough energy after work each morning to make food – but it’s irritating that my roommates – who literally sit around and do nothing will suddenly disappear moments before the food I’ve made is done. They complain about having no money and complain about being hungry but when there is food done – they’re gone.

In other news, I need to clean out the fridge – there are a lot of left-overs that they told me they’d finish, but they never did – opting instead for fast food.

I’m beginning to wonder why I even bother any more.

Right now I’m currently reading THE BURIED GIANT by Kazuo Ishiguro and enjoying it quite a bit, I’ve just been so tired lately – and busy – that it’s taking me much longer than I had anticipated to read. I began it over a week ago, it’s only 317 pages and I still have 90 pages to go.

In my works busy season, it’s not easy for me to read 100 page a day like I can during the slow season. Oh well, I’ll get through it soon enough.

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Lost Jobs and Lost Fathers

08 Tuesday Nov 2016

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It’s been awhile since my last post – and I don’t think, even today, that I’ll have the time to summarize all that has taken place in the past two weeks or so.

Two weeks ago the youngest roommate got a phone call saying that his dad, who has Huntington’s disease,  had become unresponsive so the three of us took a road trip an hour north to drop him off. As the day progressed, his dads condition continued to worsen, his organs began to fail and he was taken to a hospice for end of life treatment.

His dad died later that evening.

Instead of staying up north for just a few days, my roommate stayed the entire week. Since he didn’t have a year in at his job, his employer had to terminate his employment. In short, my roommate came back from up north this past weekend to no job, so my best friend and I have been helping him find a new one.

But in the meantime, my best friends work had to cut two and a half days of work from him due to a fire in a factory that his factory distributes to. So on top of one roommate who will not be receiving a paycheck at all, the other one will be getting a really small one due to the lost hours.

This situation has me a little stressed, the good news is that the utility bill came and it was miraculously low – low enough that I can cover it without a problem.

I just hope that my works over time begins to kick in soon so this newly acquired financial burden isn’t as heavy in the weeks to come.