Broke the Silence in Current Events

My boss reached out to me this morning to let me know that I am entitled to bereavement pay. She helped me switch my shifts around last week to make it to a funeral but did not know whom it was for. Yesterday she learned that it was my grandfather. She apologized for not supporting me last week and offered me the rest of the week off with pay. I’m getting paid more for not going to work than had I worked my scheduled shifts so I agreed to take it. Now I have a six-day weekend.

Last night, Toni broke the silence. She asked about the money I wrote about on the whiteboard in the kitchen. She wanted to know if she owed me that and I told her that I didn’t know what we want to do with that information. She was flustered and not thinking straight, she thought that we couldn’t afford food. She was offering to stop eating so much and to stop eating all the snacks and as much as I would love that I told her that we can afford to eat like kings and queens. We just need to redistribute the costs. I was way too tired to have the rest of the conversation so we are going to continue it this weekend.

Yesterday evening, I visited my friend whom I am going to keep anonymous in this entry. While we were visiting, I offered to help her declutter her apartment and optimize it for space. She didn’t take offence, she knows I love doing it for fun. I can’t wait to go back and do that.

She’s now working as a resident manager and is responsible for 17 buildings. Her probation is almost up and she will have a discount on her rent and her load will be lightened up for her as well. She wants to open a daycare one day but right now she is trying to get rid of her debt. She opened up to me about something she has never told a soul. We were talking about what we needed to let go of and she told me that got talked into doing something that she didn’t really want to do. Her husband’s friend talked her and her husband into committing fraud years ago. They pretended that their car was stolen to get the insurance claim and they got away with it. First of all, fuck the system. I don’t care if the system gets hurt. I said. She knows that I am not going to judge her. I grew up in the ghetto where we do not disrespect a person’s hustle. She got that off her chest and now we are going to clean up the energy in her home because it is tied to that money and to the woman who talked her into committing fraud.

I reached out to Bev today because her sons wanted to get together with me this weekend. That’s when she told me that she just started a new job as well. An office job. Everybody has something positive going on in the career department. I still haven’t received a call about the full-time position that I applied for. I just know that I will get a call either way. This is not my first rodeo, of course. This is my third time trying but my first time trying at a different location. I waited almost an entire month last time before I got let down. I stand a really good chance here. I’m so close it hurts.

Yesterday, my sister sprained her ankle but thought that she broke it. She wanted me to take her to urgent care and I told her that it would be a waste of time because she does not have the patience to wait to be seen. It’s a minimum of six hours to get a bed. That’s Canadian healthcare for ya. She agreed to wait until today to go see a doctor where she learned that it was just a sprain. She kept her daughter home from school today to help her out. Poor thing cannot walk. The dog pulled her with his leash and she lost her footing and landed the wrong way. Her husband works out of town for weeks on end and she is alone with the kids. I was going to offer to spend the night to help her out but my lungs are not happy right now. I spent the night at her place on the weekend and the Airwick plug-in did me in. It was the same thing at my friend’s place last night as well. My lungs feel a lot better after my detox bath. I’ll do a castor oil wrap on my lungs tonight. The air outside is still dirty. The streets are being cleaned at least. I went for a run on the weekend and that is when my allergies kicked in.

I started my day off with my self-care routine. I didn’t do it last week. Detox bath, coffee enema, face mask, clean up my facial hair, whiten my teeth, trim my paws and claws, manscape, etc. Then I hung up all of the things that I bought for my wall. The framed picture that my grandmother gave me is on my wall now. I managed to save the frame. I have more wall pieces en route. I will take a picture once it’s done. I also set up the string lights on the balcony and brought two of my plants out there. They are hanging from macrame hangers. The rest of the week is proper spring weather, finally. With the exception of tonight. I’ll bring the plants in, I just go too impatient.

Anyway, I just broke my fast. I’m going to go run around and look at pretty things at the shops in my area.