So...hello lj. Sorry I have ignored you. I got caught up in the "myspace" crowd. I know...I'm sorry. I found out that myspace isn't as cool as lj. So I am back. I hope you welcome me back. I've missed you and look forward to catching up with you.
Ok...my life since April. It's been a rollercoaster ride I tell ya.
So being the philanthropist I am, I took in a girl. Crys is a friend of mine that I have known for over a year. We would hang out whenever we both had time. We were not bf/gf, but we enjoyed each other's company. Well, back in March we had a fight because she wanted more than what we had. She wanted a relationship. I didn't. That sent her into major depression and the rejection threw her into a whirlwind of events that was catastrophic to her. She resorted to drugs, doing coke and hanging out with the wrong people. She missed a few days of work and got fired. Because she didn't have money for rent, her roomate kicked her out. She ended up staying with this guy in ElCajon that her friend put her up with. Turned out this guy was an ex convict. She was getting high with him, and then her car finially broke down. She had no money, no place to live, her car broke and she was doing drugs. Come to find out that this guy was threatening her life as well.
Anyway, I get a call one night at 2am. It was Crys, crying, asking me for help. She is living on the streets since the guy kicked her out. At first I didn't want to get involved, but I couldn't leave her in the position she was...she called me for help.
I picked her up from El Cajon around 3am that morning. She was spun out and was very suicidal. She looked horrible and was crying. I told her she can stay with me until she can get her life back together. She stayed for 3 months living with me, in the same room. It was hell but it was a good experience.
I told her that living with me doesn't mean we are together, but I am helping out a friend. She understood, but she didn't like that. She wanted me to be her knight in shining armor, which I was to a point. Anyway, started right away looking for a job for her. It was 2 weeks before she found a job. This was good. She had a job, which meant that she wasn't home thinking about how messed up her life is and she was making money. So basically I was supporting her for the first month and a half. It wasn't too difficult, just had to cut down on the excess spending.
At first she was sleeping on my couch, but as the time went on, I let her sleep in my bed with me. There were a few times when things happened, but for the most part we were good. We had our fights. She was resorting to drinking when she was depressed, and I told her that she needed to stop that while she was with me. Then shit hit the fan around the beginning of the 3rd month when she started developing those feelings towards me again. I couldn't handle it, and basically told her to find her own place soon. I knew that was impossible since she only had $800 from her job saved up, but it was starting to wear on me. The next day I told her I do want her to find her own place so she could get her life back, but if it took 6 months she could stay with me.
Then one day after I picked her up after work, she told me she was moving back home to Iowa. She hated that decision, but she said that it would be the best thing for her. I agreed and told her that once she gets back on solid ground she can move back out to California.
Crys moved back home at the end of June. We still communicate everyday. It was a tough situation to go through, but I learned a lot about myself being in a situation like that. I would still do it over again. It was something, even though it was tough, that I do feel good about. I could have left her on the streets to deal with her problem herself. I think of that and I know that she would have been dead in a gutter if I did.
In the middle of all this is when I stopped seeing Michelle and Chas started to come back into my life.
Anyway...that's it for now. 3 day weekend coming up, Tues. work, then Wed-Mon off for the Nationals at Glen Helen. Should be fun! I need the vacation.
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