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And it expired in 2021! Laid out on the couch, having a few tokes off the joint I rolled earlier. Sent my resumé out again on Indeed. One week without work and I’m already up all night again...


But I can’t take this ride for you… Eric was my best friend for a long time. Countless hours of film watching, music listening, booze drinking, riding around finding places to park and hoof it...


November 13, 2024

Quicker Gettin' Sicker

I’ve got an itchy throat and a nagging cough now. 🙄 You’d think I’d put down the cigarettes but noooo nicotine addiction has me by the balls. Just had a bowl of ice cream, now I’m munching o...


November 12, 2024

H-O-T-T-O-G-O

Yup, I’m sick. It’s late, I’m eating chicken soup after taking some NyQuil. Peacock got into it with the owner of the paint company so I’m out of a job. Something feels off about that but...


November 11, 2024

Get 'Em While They're Hot!

I’ve taken to putting hot sauce or jalapenos in my eggs for breakfast. Tis good. Thanks to everyone’s kind notes from yesterday. Just one of those days.


November 11, 2024

FUBRAIN

Feeling lonely tonight. Brain is trying negative reinforcement, telling me I’ll be alone forever and to go drink. I’m so tired of this shit. Got caught in the rain at the Christmas event in TN ...


November 09, 2024

Prone To Accidental Accidents

This afternoon I shaved. Was trying to do No Shave November (just my face) and it got itchy. That and I looked…not right. So I buzzed then razored my fuzz scuzz. I look less homeless now. ...


November 08, 2024

Schlotzky's Calzone

That’s what I had for a late lunch. I don’t eat there often, in fact I’ve got there more times this year (four) than I have in the last fifteen plus years. Peacock got under my skin a bit tod...


November 06, 2024

Legalize Everything

In other news I took some skin off my shin when I accidentally walked into a sharp, metal object. I’ve got it bandaged up but boy did it bleed.


November 05, 2024

10:32 PM (P.M.A.)

Positive Mental Attitude I’m getting exercise on the regular now thanks to the job. Don’t know if that’s having any effect really but I know at night I’m ready for rest and I’m more alert/le...


Today’s Adventure: Bleach Won’t Cure This Our tale opens in a small, unsuspecting apartment in Madison, Alabama. The second apartment was a one bedroom and good lawd the smell damn near knock...



October 31, 2024

Ice Cream Fixes Everything

Not really but the vanilla fudge Drumstick I just ate was really good. Today was only one apartment and we were done in a little under three hours right at noon. On the cruise home I stopped...


The three bedroom today wasn’t bad at all. Only had to do a few walls. Found a butcher knife, some food and condiments still in the fridge, notes from a Pre-K school that the former tenants da...


October 29, 2024

Stairs Can Piss Off!

No elevators at The Alexandria. Apartment one today was on the second floor. Not so bad but making multiple trips by stair carrying heavy ass supplies will tire you out. It was a two bedroom...


Proper entry time. The painting gig isn’t bad. The rent that gets charged for these small apartments is crazy. I need to work on stretches for my lower back and some bending down exercises. ...


October 22, 2024

200 Days

I’m making my rounds of trying to catch up with everyone. I’ll post a proper entry later but I just wanted to mark that it’s 200 days sober today. I’m famished and got ribs on the grill! ✌️ Y...


Kernels, not Colonels. My sleep is off, yet again. So the sun has risen and I’m eating white cheddah popcorn. Yesterday was a housewarming party for my cousin. She bought a house. Good f...


October 14, 2024

Jinkies, It's 4:01AM!

And of course I can’t sleep so I’m watching Boomerang. This theme song, “slaps,” as the children say.


October 12, 2024

Sleepless In Flavor Town

Waking up alone after an intense dream of togetherness… I’ve been fucking depressed all God damned day… “The darkness bleeds its violent sights It purges from within Death, it holds you in its...


October 08, 2024

Affirmation *

Whenever things get crazy, always concentrate on what you can do. Not on what you can’t. -A. Lee Martinez Edit: Blah! It’s 1:56 AM and I got an upset tummy. 🤢 It’s 3:21 AM and I realize I...


October 07, 2024

Try Try Try

I’m in a rut.


October 06, 2024

It's Sunday Morning

And I want a effin’ Chick-fil-A. But noooo they gotta be all down with Christ n shit. I’ve been up all night, still playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Friday my aunt came down so I drove ...


183 days are. October 4th, I am six months sober. From and including: Thursday, April 4, 2024 To, but not including Friday, October 4, 2024 Result: 183 days It is 183 days from the start date...


Book Description

I came on my own volition.
I am the man that got away.

Work -
Tonight I clocked in at 4:30 PM and it was suddenly Wednesday when I worked 6:45 AM to 6 PM with only an hour lunch break and on my feet the rest. I was trying to relieve Logan in the back who was frying chicken both for our loose case and boxed hot case so he could go to lunch. Instead I got mixed with a redneck who wanted a Philly steak and cheese. I made his sandwich to order only to be confronted with the elderly gentleman behind him. He, to this shit. o, wanted a Philly. I was annoyed. Angry. Granted chicken side cooking sucks At least you’re away from the customers. I can, “pretend”, like I’m cooking chicken in the back but dick around for ten minutes, which actually rarely happens. You learn to smile and accept this shit. Made him his sandwich, didn’t stop to ask the next customer if he needed help. Instead, went straight to the back and told Logan to take his lunch, I was taking over, box up what just came up out the fryer and we’re good.

It was just one of those days. People wonder why I get stoned before work.

I.
Am.
Robot.

Tell.
Me.
What.
Is.
Next.

I’m versatile.
Put me in any situation and I come victorious.
Even on the bad days.

So when I go the hardcore bitch mode of my assistant manager on Wednesday after my eleventh hour there. I got irate.

I know she does a job for two.
Her boss/my boss sucks ass.
But fuck....I’m part time.
If you want to bitch and yell about the shit that the full timers didn’t do…bitch to them.
DON’T MAKE ME DO THEIR FUCKING SHIT THE LAST HOUR I’M THERE!
I’ve been working for this slave camp for three and a half years.
I lost my insurance last year due to me being stupid and the store manager catching on. Which is actually a big blessing. I haven’t missed a day in a year.

But I’ve been there for every shift.
Sleep, no sleep?
Fuck it.
Show up for work.
The computer takes over on schedule and now I don’t qualify for our good insurance.
I have to take the government stuff?
OK.
I’m a democrat.
Lifelong.
BUT FUCK YOU OBAMA!
Don’t tell me what to do.
I’ll go another year without health insurance.
I want my good Blue Cross Blue Shield Back.
Make my job give me the hours back for insurance.

People close to me say I need to see a therapist.
After A.A. and an almost check in at rehab.
Maybe I do need anti-depressants.

This is a rant with no one I know reading this.
Its liberating.

I welcome ProseBox into my life.