BRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

1/31/19 -- These last couple of days have been very, very bone chilling cold⛄⛄.  
  Last week {from the 19th thru the 26th}I dog sat.  Whenever, I dog sit for this family, I have to spend the nights at their house.  I have to be able to let the dogs out before I go to bed, at night, then be there first thing in the morning to feed and let them out.  It seems their morning routine starts pretty early in the morning.  I totally enjoy spending time with these dogs.  It's actually quite nice to spend time with different animals, they are a complete different animal than cats.  
  While I was there, there was a pretty significant snow event, that left me snowed in, til afternoon.  I wasn't able to babysit, that day, as schools were closed that day, too.  Thankfully, the owners of the house, had arranged for someone to snow blow out the driveway.  I just had to let him now when the private road was plowed out.  The problem that I ran into was; I couldn't see the private road from the house and I didn't have my boots, to walk up to check.  I texted the man and asked that he come and check to see if the private drive was cleared; which he did which then he snow-blowed me out.
  We got quite a bit of snow that day, I would let the dogs outside, to do their "duty".  Whenever they were ready for me to let them back in:  There was one time I had let Fritz in (big schnauzer), I called for Doris (their mini schnauzer) and she came running/bounding thru the snow, the from the woods into the house.  It was so animated that I just had to video it and send it to their owners.  The woman said "poor baby" then said that she that she didn't want to ever come home.  You see, her and her family, went on a cruise, down in the Gulf of Mexico.
  The family got home on Sunday late, right in the middle of another snow storm, this one was worse than the one earlier in the week.  I was snowed in, in front of my apt, then on Monday, so no babysitting, again.  I was able to babysit, on Tuesday but then the "arctic vortex " decided to settle in the midwest.  Wednesday morning I was supposed to babysit but I couldn't get into my car, to try to get to work..... 

Once In A While Jobs

1/15/19 -- Well, I did send an email to my former employer, letting him know that I didn't appreciate how he let me go.  Letting him know that I should have had more notice so I could effect some changes in my routine and the why of the issues that i have been having in sleeping at night and functioning in the morning.  I was really hoping for a response and even a second chance but at the same time I wasn't expecting anything.  It is rather irritating but not a whole hell of a lot that I can do about it.  I do have a couple of dog sitting jobs coming up.  One dog sitting job starts this Saturday and stops next Sunday.  The other one starts sometime in February and will end at the end of February.  Yep, a month long dog sit job.
I went to have my hair trimmed up and inquired about the dog sitting job because I had seen on facebook that her and her husband were preparing to leave for a month.  Her husband has retired.  She was explaining that she had asked some relatives because she was concerned that she would have to pay me according to what she paid me last year when I did it for 10 days and with her husband retired they can't afford that.  I assured her that I don't expect that (yes it would be nice) but she paid me what she felt was good, last year, it wasn't what I asked for.  So, I told her she could pay me that for the month if that would make it easier.  I have to spend the night during that whole month to take care of their dog.  However, I can still come back to my place to take care of my cats since she really doesn't live that far from where I live.  I really like hanging out with Molly, their dog.  She's a cool dog, so laid back, but it's kinda nice to take care of a dog once in a while.
  The dog sitting job that starts this Saturday, is also a case of I do have to spend the night, at their house.  Their actually have a cool house, so I really don't mind.  These two dogs are really neat to hang out with, as well, so it's a nice change.  When I dog sit at this house, I get to park my car in their garage and sleep in the couple's bed, use their really nice bathroom and shower/tub.  They do live in the country, which makes staying at their house, like a vacation.  
    In actuality, this coming week, Monday, I won't even get back to my place til Tuesday mid morning.  I have to babysit, all day, on Monday {the little girls that I watch from 3-5pm}cause there is no school, on Monday. My usual routine is to spend the night, wake up, take care of dogs, drink coffee, eat breakfast, then about 10am ish I leave and come back to my place to take care of my cats, eat lunch, then about 2:30ish is head out to babysit, then do back to the dogs.  Of course, I make sure my cats have plenty of the food and water they need til the next day.

I don't Know

1/11/19 -- I have had way too many things go wrong for me over the last couple of weeks, but there is a resolution to at least one of the problems.  I have been on public assistance along with my working a part time job, but my paperwork from my now, former employer, didn't get received when he faxed the employer verification form.  So, then I had to text and email him to have him actually mail it to the address on the paperwork so everything could get reinstated.  I finally saw an email from public assistance letting me know that there was letters in my account for me to read.  So, I went there and discovered that all has been reinstated, thank the Lord.  I did have to ask my mom for some assistance for the food and at least one bill.  I wasn't expecting to get anything for the food end of things til next month, but they did drop something in so that was quite helpful.  The rest of the money for food that mom gave me, is going into my bank account to help with other bills.
  However, I am still jobless, for the most part, I do have a babysitting job that pretty much only provides gas money and maybe s a few small things.  I really don't count it for much cause it really wouldn't make a difference.  However, I am gonna have to make it count because I don't really want to make a change in the rent side of things, I want to pay something for rent.  I know that doesn't really make much sense but I do, I didn't like not paying anything during the time frame that they were letting me go rent free.  I don't like that at all.

GRRRR.....

1/6/19 -- I am not very happy with myself right now.  I don't like that I allowed someone to get into trouble because I had such a difficult time getting my ass in gear, in the mornings that I was supposed to be on time, if not early!  I do not understand why I have such a difficult time sleeping, at night, then my mornings are so very difficult in staying awake.  I have been struggling with being a bit down, hear lately, as well.  I have been putting on a good face, but in all actuality I am not feeling what I show (try to show) when people see me. 
      I absolutely despise that I have I lost an income that was very helpful to me, frankly I had given up looking for anything else.  Now I have to start looking again but maybe I will looking for something that starts a bit later in the day, like about mid-morning til 2pm because I do still have the babysitting job that I have to be at the house, no later than 3pm.
  Now I am at a loss as to what to do next.

Tired

1/5/19 -- Here it is 2019 and I lost one of my babysitting jobs due to my extremely difficult time in getting to their place, on time, therefore making her late getting to her job.  My problem with their method is they didn't warn me a month ahead of time.  The other thing is, I know that I haven't been sleeping very well, therefore I have had extremely difficult mornings.  I have also struggled with my headache returning and now, I recently discovered that my medicaid was cancelled with no warning.  I never received an email from the medicaid dept. letting me know there a problem with paperwork, or anything.  So, I get on my online account to check on things and that is when i discovered that everything has been cancelled.  I tried checking it out yesterday, but their site was down.  The reason I was checking is because Jonathon had asked me about the paperwork on Thursday, when I was there.
  I know that I just got done rambling about 2 different things, sorry about that.
  Here lately I have been struggling a lot with sleeping well, at night.  I get to sleep ok, but I don't think I sleep all that well when i am asleep.  Then my mornings end up consisting of napping and even falling asleep at my desk.