Health Insurance -Will You Marry Me?

September 5th, 2008; 7:43 AM

Current mood:bouncy

In one day, so many things changed. I am officially an employee at the place that I've been working at for a while now. Which means that I get benefits now. Woo hoo! Health Insurance! I love you! $10 chiropractic, dental, and vision will you marry me?? I'm really liking it here...

I also bumped into an old friend that I have wanted to see for ages, and she offered me a job with a signifigant pay increase and benefits! She wants me to do computer work for her...which I've been wanting to get back into. If this all goes to plan, things are going to be great. I am hoping to have 3 jobs soon! I want to update my portfolio and get some freelance jobs in SF doing things that relate more to my art background. Digital imaging, graphic design, etc. I am so jazzed that this all fell into place.

I also ran into my neighbor, Phyllis. And we cleared up a lot of stuff in a short time. She is the neighbor who I thought had called the police when my mom was trying to go for a walk around the block. It turns out it wasn't her. It was a little old lady. (Mysterious little old lady.) Anyhoo...just talking to her in such a friendly  manner really helped me to feel better about that whole situation, and also was really good to clear up the situation with her. I am glad she knows what is up with my mom now, and understands that it is OK for her to walk around the block or go visit Millie.

I also am going to a SGI meeting tonight in San Francisco. I am reconsidering weather or not I am going to be a YWD leader again. I quit because I was sick of how some parents were forcing their kids to come to meetings, and then of course the kids who were being forced had the crappiest attitudes in the universe, and ended up taking it out on me because of course to a teenager I am the face of authority -right!?? Anyhoo... I couldn't get the parents to stop shoving their dogmatic, oppressive views down their kids throats, but what I could do was resign and not play any role in the process. Which is what I did. And I was feeling pretty good about it too until Joshua found out and was like -You quit? When did you do that? Why? He seemed to think that being there and just being myself and letting the kids know what I thought was what I should be doing. That the organization and kids would benefit from that kind of diversity and realism. I'm not sure. I have to say that getting in between what parents think thier kids should be doing/obeying and free spirited thought and expression of your personal feelings is scary ground. I'm not sure I want to put myself out there like that for people who really don't appreciate it. Some of the kids do. And some of my adult peers do too. But man...the parents in general and the parents with the worst attitude kids really don't. And yet...tonight I am going to SF to meet with other youth leaders, get inspired, and perhaps pick up the gauntlet again. We shall see...