What a long day. My night seemed loud and cold and last nights dinner came through on the fly. That was super uncomfortable.
First thing after coffee wake up I received an email from an Angel. She donated onto my PayPal and subscribed to my blog. I’m not really capable of accessing that money to cash but I can set up my domain with it and I’m working on getting it more accessible, so it’s made my life lots easier and my day bright and off to a good start.
The next thing on the list was dentist for Galixy, so we went to Guadalupe and spoke to some wonderful people that help the homeless. The first thing they said was that they were going to get us housed. I told them, thank you, but we’d rather not, so they filled out some papers and sent us to a clinic to wait there from 1pm on.
We went to a park to give Solo a chance to work on the door. It’s coming along nicely and it will be solid once it’s all done. He’s an amazing craftsman. The only hassle is really the fact that my bus is a fucking mess and adding anything, especially a guy, a big pack and his big dog, means I’m tripping over things constantly and cursing things out. This should be better as I just cleaned bugus, but there’s still the whole new door and parts and the propane tank on the inside. It’s not practical or safe and it’s the next thing on the list after Galixy’s teeth and the door. Maybe I even found a nice guy that offered some help and his skills, if he calls.
We got to to clinic and people were very friendly. They got us in after reading a ton of books. While I was filling out paperwork, a nice father with an about 8 year old son read to the boys. Also, while in the waiting room, my phone glitched, probably from the recent cracks, but it got way worse through an undetermined factor. I couldn’t see anything on the screen except this weird olive tinted or dark gray. I hoped it would recover over a time span.
I just heard my mailbox drop! Woot!it’s dark and late and I’m trying to recap as best I can.
Galixy could’ve done better with the dentist but she confirmed that the best option is to pull not just the side 2 but all four front teeth so it wouldn’t warp his adult teeth. I hope we get to keep them! They tried to schedule me for Wednesday which would’ve been 8 days from today, but I politely asked for sooner. When he suggested Monday, i got a bit irritated. “What don’t you understand about emergency tooth pain? I can’t wait that long!” *footstomp* tada, our appointment is tomorrow at 10:45 am. Getting shit done. My poor ow-low will be unhappy but so happy after it’s all healed.
So, Galixy started having a melt down in the office. Because I wouldn’t let him monkey around 🙄. When I told him that I felt sorry for all the people having to listen to him right now, and not for his minor dilemma, he stopped crying. As soon as we got out to the bus, he started up again. Traffic to go find solo was a mess and my phone wasn’t de-glitching, add screaming Galixy and we have a frazzled Laney. When I found Solo, some other friendly looking people came up right behind him to inquire about bugus. I was less than friendly. I wish i could’ve been more friendly and genteel towards them. This month has been stressful and i feel like i should be rising to this challenge better and deciphering its meaning while maintaining my breathing. It’s hard and I’m flailing. Not failing. Just flailing and trying again.
I managed to get a hold of my dear Mama through voice commanding my phone. She understands the need for a phone with the kids and traveling and now blogging, so she allotted an update if I found the next Verizon store. Legitimately how should I surf craigslist and jet around to get a cheap phone, while wasting my words worth times and scribbling dumb notes so my recap could be complete.
Ah see! I forgot about Samir at the park! What a lovely guy. I mean…. well. He’s a Syrian refugee, so I welcomed him here and asked him how he liked it. He seems to like it quite fine, he plans on staying. He was really a pleasant fellow, trying to practice his English and being generous with his cigarettes to Solo and inquisitive about Bugus. When Samir suddenly told me how beautiful he thought I was and that he liked me, I knew Solo must’ve stepped away. Sleazeballs never stay transparent to all parties, though, also I really don’t fly on physical compliments or quick handed assumptions on what people like about me. I played it off like “yeah genetics can come in very pleasing forms”, but when he asked me if I wouldn’t kiss him, I told him straight up, no, thank you, I have other priorities than kissing men I don’t even know. I’m feel kind of like he was trying to hit on me in the only ways he knew how. I’m sure there’d be plenty of people who’d feel complimented by his advances, but really, not my kind of person.
Anyway, off to Verizon store we went. The first guy there I spoke to wasn’t very friendly. He rudely told me all the obstacles in my way and when I came back with the amount of money he told me I’d need, his manager seemed surprised I had come back at all and told me he had probably already left. I said that I definitely wouldn’t mind being helped by any other representative. And so it was that I got to meet this lovely young lady who was “blown away by my fearlessness” (the bugus and my lifestyle don’t equal absence of fear! I just deal with life differently). And now I have a new Galaxy 7 or something. Put a case on it, gonna get a keyboard so I can computer type it up and then probably put it away for most of the day in fear of breaking it. It seems solid, but I don’t trust new technology. Its built to want to break. I never had that cool of a phone before. This one’s ok, but there was this tiny thing called a Palm. I thought it was a tiny phone. Super adorable. Thought it’d be perfect for me. It’s a stupid accessory. Gotta have a phone to access it properly with. A teeny tiny smart phone. I was sold, and then dropped.
After all the waiting around on me today, I took the boys right next door to McDonalds. They are poorly. I didn’t complain, I don’t want them eating that junk anyway. But they were happy to have some running time. I needed to set up this phone anyway.
Now we’re at the Walmart off Valencia. I’m tired. Gonna check my mailbox and then eat a sweet and head to bed. Its gonna be cold tonight again. Cant wait to see how Galixy feels after tomorrow. It’ll clear up my head space on what’s going on next.
I will let you know as I get there.
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