They're taking our house
It's finally official that my parents will be losing the house they've lived in for 25 years. We haven't been able to make payments with any consistency since my dad lost his job as a manager at a window factory. (His greatest weakness as an employee is probably his inability to keep his mouth shut if his boss announces a plan that actually wouldn't work for X, Y, and Z. Sure he saved their stupid asses money, but it involved pointing out that they were wrong. That's being uppity.)
He's the one I'm worried most about; he's been working two full-time jobs, sleeping about three hours a night, trying to keep this from happening. He was trying to convince himself for a while, and I mean literal denial, that this time would be just like the others, that all we had to do was scrap together $3000 by the end of the month... from somewhere. Wasn't going to happen. Even if it did, that payment is just the tip of the iceberg. We haven't been making electric payments, haven't had the money to meet car payments... This time, we're sunk.
As it concerns me personally, I know you're all worried, but it's sincerely not going to hit me very hard. Eau Claire has felt more like home to me for a while now. A few years more would have seen me coming back to visit only on Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's the one positive; at least all the kids are out of the house with my little bro going to school here with me. But where my mom and dad are gonna stay afterwards, I still have no clue.
I'd made plans to go down to New Orleans and help out with the relief effort over spring break, but I'll be going home along with my brother now. I have my work cut out for me in the coming weeks to make sure everyone gets through this alright.
(I wish we were the only ones, but it seems this is going around: The same thing is happening (protected entry) to iwasntlistening. Send her a few kind words if you can.)
He's the one I'm worried most about; he's been working two full-time jobs, sleeping about three hours a night, trying to keep this from happening. He was trying to convince himself for a while, and I mean literal denial, that this time would be just like the others, that all we had to do was scrap together $3000 by the end of the month... from somewhere. Wasn't going to happen. Even if it did, that payment is just the tip of the iceberg. We haven't been making electric payments, haven't had the money to meet car payments... This time, we're sunk.
As it concerns me personally, I know you're all worried, but it's sincerely not going to hit me very hard. Eau Claire has felt more like home to me for a while now. A few years more would have seen me coming back to visit only on Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's the one positive; at least all the kids are out of the house with my little bro going to school here with me. But where my mom and dad are gonna stay afterwards, I still have no clue.
I'd made plans to go down to New Orleans and help out with the relief effort over spring break, but I'll be going home along with my brother now. I have my work cut out for me in the coming weeks to make sure everyone gets through this alright.
(I wish we were the only ones, but it seems this is going around: The same thing is happening (protected entry) to iwasntlistening. Send her a few kind words if you can.)