A day off today - that wasn’t. I was up til 2 am, reading, and then I sprang up at 3 am with an idea for the “in memory of” for the little girl. I was up til 5 am working on the wording and setting up things behind the scenes. I’m excited about it, and I am getting good feedback from the handful of people I floated the idea to today.
I slept from 5 am to 9 am, and then rearranged my schedule so I could stay in bed longer, but pretty much all I did the entire day instead of sleeping like I wanted, was answering messages and trying to solve problems.
Last night, two different issues presented themselves that needed immediate attention - first was one of my volunteers has a son who was found nodding off, having been stripped of his wallet. Apparently he had been living out of his car for a few months due to his addiction. This was her first time discovering this, and she was frantic. I gave her some information about the rehab services BugGirl and GuyFriend have received, and told her to get him on the phone with a specific person. So today, that happened, and she called me in the afternoon crying her eyes out that he has a bed waiting tomorrow at 9 am.
Which is absolutely wonderful! She said I helped a lot, but now she needed more assistance - he only had the clothes he was wearing, and they were smelly and torn and terrible from living in them nonstop in his car. So I made a post, and pretty much all day long people were dropping off a full new wardrobe for him. By the time I left my house at 6:30 pm tonight, he had two brand new pairs of sneakers, socks, undershirts, boxers, tshirts, pants, shorts and a hoodie. He also needed some toiletries, so we got that worked out too. Yay! It was tiring to coordinate, but I will always be there for my volunteers - they’re there for me all the time!
I also was contacted last night by someone who was being evicted tomorrow, and had failed to rehome her two bonded adult cats. She has mental health issues, and was already spiraling because of the eviction. One day to find a home for a pair of cats that have to stay together? Gah! Oh, and one of them wasn’t fixed and had no shots. Well, by the end of the day I had secured a donor to pay for the neutering, had a rescue willing to transport for the surgery, and a new permanent home for both cats together. That literally came together as I was getting in the car for my sleepover with SirGawain.
So yeah, it was a tiring day, but extremely successful! Oh, and I also heard from GuyFriend in his rehab. He needs cigarettes and his paycheck brought to him on Friday, which I am willing to do. He was very excited to tell me about going to a halfway house soon and his plans. Which was fun, because I read a letter from him later, talking about how he signed up for a 27 week program to become a tech and how he finally had some direction in his life. I am so proud of him! I am really worried about how the breakup with my daughter will play out, but he talks about it a bit - saying if she doesn’t want him anymore, etc. But we won’t hear from her until she is past her 30 day blackout.
So yeah, anyway, I am writing this from SirGawain’s basement. He’s cooking me dinner and he’s very excited. I am less than thrilled about eating bbq ribs in bed - he doesn’t own a dining room table - but he’s cute so we will let that go for now!
Still, that is definitely on the list for a must buy in the near future. It’s funny because that was the same thing with DarkKnight when I first met him. I don’t know why these dudes don’t seem to know how to purchase furniture! Oy!