Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:
Wind and her 6 year old son have been staying with us the last three days. They moved to Colorado from Alabama after Wind left her boyfriend. Initially they stayed with a family member, but that quickly became dangerous and abusive. Said family member ransacked their belongings, taking mostly his clothes (and his teddy), before throwing them out. That evening Wind met a man who let them stay at his place, but he turned out to be even more dangerous! On their way to Walmart they met us and when we learned what they were going through we insisted they stay with us. We live in a bus and this isn’t ideal, but they are at least safe.
Roy has been spending 80% of his day working with Wind’s son doing math, reading, writing, music, science, art, and (of course) LOTS of playtime. He is currently not enrolled in school and Wind is anxious to get him back in, but she doesn’t even know where they are going to end up living!
Wind is signed up to work where roy and I work and she has an appointment with the human resources place downtown that helps us so much. They should be able to get this amazing family into a home asap.
All four of us are living in the bus now. They take the bed while roy and I have an air mattress on the floor.
They have nothing but two little backpacks. They each have about two sets of clothes, a Bible, and their shoes. Neither of them have socks and he has NO toys. He told me his favourite thing to play with is my deck of playing cards.
You can send Wind money directly to her cashapp ($Lakey28B) or you send money to roy and I (paypal.me/roydieud).
Please leave a note with paypal if you want the money to go to Wind.
Check the notes of this post to stay updated. I’ll add a wishlist for school supplies and winter clothes soon, as well as her own PayPal. I don’t have service on my phone so putting this together is taking a while.
This is everything they have besides the clothes on their backs and the white bag is pretty much just her father’s antique Bible (if you wanna say shit about her having that, you can go ahead and eat shit until you die instead).
I put this together for him out of the things that I have, and he was overjoyed when I gave it to him, but like. Come on. Look at this. This is EVERYTHING he owns in the world that isn’t clothes.
You guys have been keeping gas in our bus all week and food in our bellies. We have enough food for a couple days, but we’re close to running out of gas again.
Wind completed her orientation and her and Roy are keeping one eye on the job list all day for something they can both do.
Wind needs steel toes asap. A cheap pair is about $30, and she can work whenever she wants, as much as she wants, until she can get a permanent job.
We’ve received so much love and encouragement over the last few days, we just need a little bit more material “love” right now.
Thank you thank you thank you all of you (except you, orphanage anon) for the support and kind messages.
If you have any items you want to send us directly, hmu and I’ll give you an address.
Went to a job fair at local community college. Didn’t really do much with the employer booths, but did grab info from the trade career program booths. And found out that since I already have degree(s), I shouldn’t have to do any of the general ed requirements (might still do math; have not had a math class since…2005 or 2006) if I do decide to apply for something. I do think she probably thinks I graduated with my BA more recently than I did because…I have the Blessing Curse of a Baby Face. Combine that with an acne flair and lol, I’m betting it makes it super hard for people to believe I’m 32.
And then I came home and took like a four hour nap because lol, job fair = stress, even if I did get good info.
I still think this is so fucking tasteless and I keep it around to have a laugh at
hey remember when Christie Golden reposted unsourced artwork (that ended up being from a fan artist who primarily drew underage ships) of Anduin hugging and forgiving Garrosh hahahahahahahahahahahahhaha
…is this real? It can’t be, right?
Thoughts on some local theatre: if the play’s set up is that the victims of Jack the Ripper will be telling about their lives and deaths…maybe Google Jack the Ripper before you ask the people doing the play if the production is “kid friendly.” If you still need guidance in making a decision after that, then ask.
The theatre’s response was basically“…not for small children. If you let your middle or jr high kid watch horror movies and they’re cool with those, probably okay. High school is probably fine.”
disabled adults who are still living at home with their parents because they’re unable to live on their own—whether it’s temporary or permanent, whether they’re working or not working—don’t deserve to be looked down on or made to feel like they’re not doing enough or aren’t good enough. what they deserve is support, love, understanding, and respect. 💜💛
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