Status Update

Just a quick update for everyone. Pete has moved into his housing. He is sharing a house with 3 other guys that work for the same company as him. Even 3 other people living there his rent is pretty big. I'll still be in the Dakota for the time being, out on the street in front of the house. Internet is intermittent here, but I might be able to swing something.

I start at Walmart on Wednesday, for orientation. I did have an interview for a housekeeping position at La Quinta Inn. Its a bit closer, so I can walk it if I have to, and it pays over $2 per hour more, so I'm hoping this girl calls me. Plus, it gives me actual housekeeping experience, so I can add that to my Target Logistics profile and increase my chances of getting hired there.

If this whole experience is teaching me anything, its patience. I used to think I was a patient person. Boy, was I wrong. I'm starting to see things that have happened, and things that could happen, and I see them as steps on a path that has to be traversed. You can't go straight from your point of origin to your destination in one step, ou have to take the steps in between to get there. That's how I'm viewing all of this. Being a Walmart cashier, or doing housekeeping might not be what I want to do out here, but its a means to an end. Its the steps I have to take between the nothing I have now, to the debt free life I want.

My mood still changes in waves, but the waves of optimism seem to be getting bigger and the waves of panic are shrinking. I still have this feeling deep down that this was the right thing to do and that things are working according to plan, but I can't help but have those voices that chime in asking, "what the hell are you doing?"

An astoundingly intelligent man who once was my English teacher once told me, "Every day you should do one thing that scares the living shit out of you. Make a wrong turn, try something new for dinner, whatever. That fear will fill you with the essence of life."

That's food for thought...