First off, the Solar addition has been so wonderful!
Second, I’m beyond grateful to all of the help I’ve received for the transmission! I’m feeling super supported and loved! People have been so kind. The bus is overflowing with food and love!
We are, again, at a playground. The kids are playing. We’re half way through Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Could use a bath.
Regardless of the bathing situation, sweat dripping from my arm pits and I’m still getting hit on…. It’s to be taken as a complement.
I still feel like I should ask for a couple bucks per attempt. XD Would be funny if the kids did! Come up to strangers and just flat out state: “You owe us x amount for taking our mom’s attention!” I can also see that backfiring when it’s someone concerened with our well being without any intentions. So maybe not…
A couple days later now, We are sitting at the shop next to the bus on a lift and a shiny transmission in a box.
The kids have cartoons in the shop office. The dogs are basking in the sunshine with me. Today was the first morning where Rhea played with our new puppy. Sonny ended up leaving the Puppy, Gizmo, with us since he’s become so attached to the boys. He’s very smart and listens well for a 13 week puppy. He’s also a bit territorial and barks at all strangers, which is a little annoying, but also very handy.
Sonny went to the gathering. He called yesterday to say he was heading back to Tucson. It was good to get some space and recumbobulate my brain. I have so much to do that I’ve been putting off. Deadlines put a block on me, and I managed to get myself one! I even asked for it! Silly me. So, since I have a deadline on the translation I need to do, my vlog and blog have suffered. It’s not all the deadlines fault. My headspce needed a break as well. It’s a time to reflect and work on unresolved history.
So, what did the week of transmission spange look llike? Spending no money, except on laundry, where I met a lovely soul sister and her two sons. A few playgrounds and a library stop, and lots of parking lots. At the Marana Walmart, I met a few lovely humans. We spent about 3 nights in that lot, Then laundry day I figured we’d move to the speedway one so we wouldn’t be overloading Marana. Two nights at the Walmart on Speedway, with a long walk along the wash to a playground. The second day, at about 9 AM, a cop came up to notify me that we were trespassing since walmart only allows one overnight stay. He took my DL info and told us to be out of here as soon as possible.
I wanted to go camping anyway. We were overflowing on food thanks to the kindness of two lovely ladies. and so we headed to Snyder Hill BLM where we wiled away 2 nights. I used the time to clean and sort and mentally revamp some interior build flaws (more fleshing out than changing! We love our home so much, Crikett! I don’t think I’ve told you enough how amazing you are!) and definitely not “working” as I ought to.
The kids played in the dirt and we hiked the hill a couple times.
I called the shop yesterday and they said they were ready for us, so we meandered over in the afternoon, to sleep on somewhat an angle and get the bbus up first thing.
I am kind of forcing myself to at least do this right now. I also should really edit another video, but everytime I’ve attempted, the app shuts down on me. It’s really frustrating. Maybe I just need a better app that I actually pay for? Would that make a difference?
Then the translation, from German to a flexed business english. Le sigh. I downloaded a writing program on the laptop Crikett gave me a while ago. I started on the first title, just to make sure it would work. Now I can plug it into my inverter and work on it “whenever”. I really need to get it done and it shouldn’t really be that hard, I’m just shying away from all effort right now. It’s even seeming difficult to feed the kids dinner. My appetite isn’t on the same schedule.
This, too, shall pass. I apologize to anyones inconvenience. I’m grateful for the patience I’m envoking about it.
Galixy keeps running out and showing me a silly dance routine. He’s been insisting on the daily that he’s Atreyu’s sister, wearing his butterfly dress over and over again. I’m not trying to dissuade him, I just keep offering him all the options to change out of the dirty dress into something clean. It doesn’t really matter anyway. Whatever makes him happy. Maybe he’ll grow out of it, maybe not. No expectations except honesty and communication. And love for self.
The bolts are being pulled out of the transmission, now.Fluids drained, price announced at about $451 Which is lower than my set goal, but (always) higher than my hope.
I’m getting eager to get out of Tucson. My friend, Ari, is feeling it even worse than I. She got a new van which turned out to be a lemon, and she’s stuck about 50 miles north of us in a spot where no one is helping her out. All her money went into the van, no one online is helping, the mechanic is saying he’ll do the work for free if she comes up with the parts. I wish there was more help I could offer her. Maybe if I’d been working on my projects , I’d have my insurance covered as well, and the bus satisfactory and would be able to give her more money than I already had. I wish I had some wealthy humanitarian friend so I could point them in the direction of the beautiful people I know, struggling and needing just a little hand up. I wish I was that wealthy humanitarian. I mean I’m humanitarian but I’m broke XD. What would I do if I won the lottery? Put some money aside for bus maintnance and deck it out beautifully (mayne take a grande or two) and then have a kickdown stash. Give my friends a big share. We could all use a little more energy to figure out these situations.
I met a guy that goes by Kaos and has been without money for the past four years. gHe doesn’t want to know what time it is from a clock. His self proclaimed mission is to scavenge for building material and food and redistribute it to those who seek it. He does this through Arizona, New Mexico, and California, hoping to eventually have a large bus to haul materials around the place. He seemed very nice and charismatic trying to shine a little light into this world.
On that note, I will try to reconfigure my energy to work some more as these lovely people toil on the bus.
Stay grateful! Loving you
Matilda the Bugus 