Posted by Wauchula Woman on 11/3/2007, 7:19 pm, in reply to "Well, I'm a little late responding so...."
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Rhonda, I will pray you get the money to get phone service again. I'm not online much myself anymore and when I am online, I've got like 40 e-mails to answer. Family, people I've worked with over the years, internet friends, I get a lot of e-mails and I feel like if somebody writes me a letter, I am obligated to reply and not with some short note. So it takes up a lot of time, even though I type pretty quickly.
I've never heard of being paid with an ATM card, but after listening to you, I'm sure I'd be the "lucky" one to have a glitch like Rhonda describes.
I've really got the blues myself. I've got my own money problems, I need to have this throat surgery and I'm going to have to drive my niece back to Texas at the end of the month. I haven't told her yet. It's breaking my heart. But she won't study, she's flunking her classes, I ahve to dole out the money her parents send, $10 a day, like a 2nd grader or something, because I had to close out her checking account because she couldn't manage it and wrote hot checks. And now, I think she's stolen money from my husband. She denies it of course. But there are only three people in this house and I know that I did not take the money. She got very upset when I talked to her about it and she's been upstairs in her room all day and evening long.
Anyway, she's about bankrupted me. I sunk every penny I had into getting her into college and buying things for her and now, my tiny check has to pay to feed her and I both, because she won't get a job.
It just hasn't worked out and it breaks my heart. I loved her so, I still love her. Sending her to college, was like the only goal I ever had in my entire life. You just don't know how long I have been planning for this year. As soon as she was old enough to start voicing what she wanted to be and how she wanted to go to college when she got older, I started working to make it happen. I suppose it's a mistake to plan so much of one's life around another person. I mean, I can look back at all the people who I have invested myself in and none of it has ever worked out. It always ends with me being taken advantage of. You'd think, eventually, that I would learn. But I never do.
Anyway, as soon as this semester is over, at the end of the month, I'm going to pack her up and drive her home. My sister won't take her back. She has to go live with her dad, who lives in a garbage strewn, rat infested place. I feel like I am sending her back to be nothing. But I cannot continue to take care of an adult who won't work, won't study and doesn't seem to care about doing anything but eating, sleeping, playing on the internet and "partying".
I dunno, maybe she'll look back someday and appreciate what I tried to do...then again, she may blame me for giving up on her. I just don't know.
Take Care all,
WW
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