homeless
I spent ten hours in the cold waiting for a check that did not arrive, and the guy still hasn't contacted us with a tracking number, so Bryan emailed him to say that if he had gone to FedEx as he states, that they would have given him the number. (Really no excuse for this. If he didn't send the payment, just admit it.) So I have no idea when we'll be seeing any cash from that.
Bryan started his new job, but, much like with Avon products, you have to get started and find clients. Which takes time, plus he'd get 25% of the business he generates. After much deliberation, I'm throwing the towel in. I have until Saturday to make arrangements because then we have to move off the docks. The harbormaster might be able to help us find somewhere to keep the boat in the meantime so that we don't lose our property, but it's looking like my only options are to either take the kids to a homeless shelter or fall upon the mercy of family and see if they can take the kids in for a few weeks. (Don't know how that would affect the food stamps application and such.) But right now, we have no food. We have no income. We have no dinghy to get from a mooring to land, and no mooring to keep the boat on.
I am completely tapped out. I need to find someone who can take in the cats until we can get ourselves a place. There is something I saw in a pet magazine here that fosters pets of the homeless or near-homeless. I'm going to contact them today, and also ask my aunt if she would be willing to take them in short-term. (Same aunt that lives in the town I was born in, so I could pick up my birth certificate there.) I just can't do this anymore. I can't provide for our kids without help right now, and I don't want to split us all up unless necessary. I know that my family wants the kids to visit, but I can't see shuffling them off from relative to relative for the majority of the summer. Not everyone is in a position to help, whether financially or in terms of living space, plus it isn't fair to expect them to drop everything for us.