My last post was a little depressing, I'll admit. I was saying goodbye to 2014 in hopes that 2015 would be a better year for me. My high hopes for the new year were well intentioned as I had a pay raise at work that meant I would be making just as much working fast food as I would've if I'd taken the security job I was offered further away. I was also registered to take a construction rehabilitation specialist class so that I could get a job in construction making enough to move out of my parents' house. Then February came.
My class that I had been looking forward to has now been postponed for two months because of low enrollment. To most people, this is not that big of a deal - two months, big whoop. To me though, two months means eight more weeks of getting paid nearly minimum wage and living with my parents. It means two extra months in between time when I can look for a construction job and finally move on with my life.
The second issue actually involved my family. My father had not seen a doctor for the past 15 years so when he finally started going at the beginning of the year, we knew his health would be bad. It turned out he had bursitis in his arm, cirrhosis of the liver, and diabetes. At the beginning of February, he started throwing up and eventually it lead to blood coming out of both ends of him. We took him to the hospital to find out where the bleeding was coming from and he went into a coma. After coming out of the coma, we found out he had cysts in his stomach that burst which caused the bleeding and when they gave him medicine to stop the bleeding, his ammonia levels were so high from the liver cirrhosis that the meds sent him into a coma. Now the issue is he needs a biopsy on his liver and they still don't have insurance so in the back of my mind I'm trying to calculate how much I'm going to have to work to help pay their bills because I know my parents and they will need financial assistance so they will be looking at me. Me that still has to live at home because I can't afford to move out. Me that had to trade cars with my brother so he could sell mine and I would have a newer model because I can't afford to fix a broken car or buy a new one. And Me, who had a $700 refund from the government that they kept because I am in default of my student loans. Yes I am fully qualified to hand out money.
Their health has made me rethink my own and in retrospect, I have now signed up for Obamacare, if for no other reason than I can't afford to end up paying hospital bills. I will now have a $30 health insurance bill that I really don't have a grasp on what exactly it covers.
The good news of 2015 has been the birth of my first nephew. Bryson is a healthy baby bow who at a month old can roll over and almost sit up on his own. He and his big sister have finally made me rethink my choice of having kids but now I need to find my forever guy to help. A hard to find mission if there ever was one, seeing as how I am a hardcore atheist living in the Christian occupied South. Maybe it won't be as bad though because the oldest woman in the world swears she has lived so long because she did so without a man. I honestly think I would take a loving husband over a long life any day.
My class that I had been looking forward to has now been postponed for two months because of low enrollment. To most people, this is not that big of a deal - two months, big whoop. To me though, two months means eight more weeks of getting paid nearly minimum wage and living with my parents. It means two extra months in between time when I can look for a construction job and finally move on with my life.
The second issue actually involved my family. My father had not seen a doctor for the past 15 years so when he finally started going at the beginning of the year, we knew his health would be bad. It turned out he had bursitis in his arm, cirrhosis of the liver, and diabetes. At the beginning of February, he started throwing up and eventually it lead to blood coming out of both ends of him. We took him to the hospital to find out where the bleeding was coming from and he went into a coma. After coming out of the coma, we found out he had cysts in his stomach that burst which caused the bleeding and when they gave him medicine to stop the bleeding, his ammonia levels were so high from the liver cirrhosis that the meds sent him into a coma. Now the issue is he needs a biopsy on his liver and they still don't have insurance so in the back of my mind I'm trying to calculate how much I'm going to have to work to help pay their bills because I know my parents and they will need financial assistance so they will be looking at me. Me that still has to live at home because I can't afford to move out. Me that had to trade cars with my brother so he could sell mine and I would have a newer model because I can't afford to fix a broken car or buy a new one. And Me, who had a $700 refund from the government that they kept because I am in default of my student loans. Yes I am fully qualified to hand out money.
Their health has made me rethink my own and in retrospect, I have now signed up for Obamacare, if for no other reason than I can't afford to end up paying hospital bills. I will now have a $30 health insurance bill that I really don't have a grasp on what exactly it covers.
The good news of 2015 has been the birth of my first nephew. Bryson is a healthy baby bow who at a month old can roll over and almost sit up on his own. He and his big sister have finally made me rethink my choice of having kids but now I need to find my forever guy to help. A hard to find mission if there ever was one, seeing as how I am a hardcore atheist living in the Christian occupied South. Maybe it won't be as bad though because the oldest woman in the world swears she has lived so long because she did so without a man. I honestly think I would take a loving husband over a long life any day.
Song of the day:
Bastille covering Miley Cyrus' We Can't Stop
Movie of the Day:
Kingsmen: The Secret Service
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