Well, i'm 4 months in. I haven't blogged in awhile. I was offered LoA (they give us 115/day to fend for ourselves) back at the beginning of July, and the place I'm staying in doesn't have working internet.
The Endako roadhouse, is my humble abode. Nine, dated, hotel rooms above a pub in a "hamlet" of about 150 people. The whopping metropolous of Fraser Lake (about 1500 people, 700 of them natives) is about 10 mins away, so thank god for that! The weather up there is rediculous, I scrapped frost off my window on August 16th, it rained every single day in July, and we got about 1 week of summer in September.
People love me though, they guys I work with all like working with me. My bosses are all telling me i'll make foreman in a year if I stick with it. The locals know me by name and reputation :) lol I won the Fraser Lake talent show, with a kareokee rendition of Simple Man by Lynard Skynard.
I've managed to pay off 3/4 of my debt, which was goal number one. Now, I'm thinking goal two is getting something in the bank, so when I get layed off, which could be anytime between now and April, I can go hit a singles resort someplace hot, get my teeth looked at, (haven't been to the dentist in like 8 years) maybe look into knee surgury, so I can enjoy some of the things I love again without worrying about my shitty knee. Put a little into savings as a just in case fund. Move out of my parents house and find a cheap place to rent, buy myself a bed.
On my weeks off, I have my girls pretty much full time, so its nice to see them. They still love their daddy, and I think they're handling the change pretty well. I miss them like crazy when I'm gone. I don't get much time to do anything else on my turnarounds, between having my car in and out of the shop every time, and having the girls through the day, and having to be home to watch them in the eves, I don't get a lot of time to see friends. Which sucks, but they're all supportive, and to be honest most of them probs don't even notice i'm not here. :)
Being away, has helped me though, its helped me get an outside looking in perspective on the last few years of my life. Its much easier to keep emotions out of it when you aren't stuck in the middle of it. I don't think i've been gone long enough though, because I still seem to get sucked back into it everytime I come home. I chalk it up to "still transitioning" getting myself a fresh start is just the beginning, where I take it from there is a whole new ballgame. Old pains still haunt me, but they get better and better with time. I've come to terms with a lot of things, some things I'm still working on, but, yes, "transitional."
I'm still chugging away, with direction, and picking up speed.
