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  • I'm doing it!

    The crysis center already has an apartment for me. They're going to pay first months rent and deposit, I can even have my cats with me!

    Since I left my wife, I've been saving sooooo much money. I know how to cook on a budget, the kids aren't picky, and I'm not wasting my money on door dash!

    It's gonna be a tough journey, but I can do this!

  • I think I'm on my way to happiness.

    I finally left my abusive wife this week. It was really scary, and she keeps sending me threats (to take me for child support and ruin my life) but I was able to get ahold if a crisis center for abused people, thankfully they have support for men. The crisis center is going to help me tackle all the debt she's put me in and get me into an apartment that will have room for me and my kids!

    Yesterday for the first time in 14 years, I was completely free. I just drove around town. I went and got an ice cream cone, and I got a Mexican Pizza from taco bell, and nobody insulted me, put me down, or made me feel worthless. I got a glimpse of me and I really miss that guy. I used to have the nick name smiley because I always walked around with a shit eating grin on my face because I love life and I love my job, but she's worn away at me lately.

    I might be homeless technically, but I have a safe space until I can get on my feet. I get my kids tonight, we're going to have a pizza party and play Mario Kart together. I think everything is going to be fine soon...

  • We snuck our cat into our apartment skirting the lease. About 4 years in, they noticed our cat. We were given the ultimatum, pay $500 by the end of the week, or get rid of him by the end of the week. I was absolutely devistated, but we had no choice but to rehome him. We found a nice family across town to take him in. They would send us updates for about a week until he ran away.

    About 6 or 7 months later, I'm watching TV with my wife at midnight, and I hear frantic meowing at the door. It was him!

    The management company was in such disbelief, they waived the fee for us and he lived to be 12 years old. He passed away in my arms about 2 years ago. I'll never forget him.

  • My friend says I act like this.

    I read a book called "how to win friends and influence people" and it completely changed my life for the better once I started taking the book literally.

    Everybody tends to be selfish and think of themselves (not in a bad way). If you play into this and learn what people are interested in, you instantly become interesting to that person.

    "Hey Ricky, how's your hot wheels collection! Get any new classics?" True story, different name. That's just the butcher at the grocery store I frequent. He'll tell me all about his latest hot wheels collection, and then I get a discount, we both win. I've made a friend, and influenced him to give me a deal.

  • Oh I absolutely would ask for consent. I'm in a college town, so it got easy for me to read people. Some people want silence and I could feel it, and I had a kill switch for the sub just in case.

  • I did lyft pre-covid and I loved it when people would sit up front.

    I had a 12" sub and I'd let people sync their Bluetooth or request music and bump through town. I made so many temporary friends!

    Good times...

  • I make plenty of money, but the dumb decisions in my past among other things made it so it's always going to debt, but I can't climb out of it because of interest, and now that I've lost my home (staying with in laws now), my wife spends insane money on door dash, and I can't get it through her head how expensive and unhealthy it is, and if she really wants fast food, I can go get it. I will literally cook an entire meal, plate it, then hear the doorbell for door dash.

    It's so frustrating and it feels never ending.