If I were any happier, I'd have to change my sobriety date!
same planet...different world
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Butte, America
Posts: 10,946
If I were any happier, I'd have to change my sobriety date!
WOW!
Had some problems with the local section 8 office.
bla bla bla
they tried to cancel me.
bla bla bla appeal.
today, while photocopying all the papers
*I found their error!*
now meanwhile,
the woman who runs the local office
has been very 'smug' and gloaty'
and LITERALLY said to me
"you're not ever going to get this back"
"I've done this job for twenty years and you are NOT going to find a way"
ha HAAAAAA !
GOTCHA!
I wish I could bear to type up all the crap that's been going on
with this office
but basically
I've been treated like a third class guttersnipe
from the beginning
and a criminal
lowlife by this woman.
I could not even get her to tell me HOW to file an appeal.
SO!
I am photocopying everything
and sending a letter
to the State Attorney General's office
and saying that I cannot TRUST anyone in this town
to represent me
because of this woman's 25 year history
of running these offices in this town
everyone EVERYONE is afraid of her.
So I am going to ask HIM to appoint me an advocate
and to arbitrate the ordeal.
Hot damn.
All with my new-found college skills!!!
FREAKIN WOW ON A HOCKEYSTICK!!!
Very very happy right now.
:day6
Had some problems with the local section 8 office.
bla bla bla
they tried to cancel me.
bla bla bla appeal.
today, while photocopying all the papers
*I found their error!*
now meanwhile,
the woman who runs the local office
has been very 'smug' and gloaty'
and LITERALLY said to me
"you're not ever going to get this back"
"I've done this job for twenty years and you are NOT going to find a way"
ha HAAAAAA !
GOTCHA!
I wish I could bear to type up all the crap that's been going on
with this office
but basically
I've been treated like a third class guttersnipe
from the beginning
and a criminal
lowlife by this woman.
I could not even get her to tell me HOW to file an appeal.
SO!
I am photocopying everything
and sending a letter
to the State Attorney General's office
and saying that I cannot TRUST anyone in this town
to represent me
because of this woman's 25 year history
of running these offices in this town
everyone EVERYONE is afraid of her.
So I am going to ask HIM to appoint me an advocate
and to arbitrate the ordeal.
Hot damn.
All with my new-found college skills!!!
FREAKIN WOW ON A HOCKEYSTICK!!!
Very very happy right now.
:day6
same planet...different world
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Butte, America
Posts: 10,946
oh.
ha!
Huge hole , there -
I posted this because
it's a major codie type breakthrough for me!
The 'old' barb
would have projected 'bad guy' all over the office
done the 'victim' thing
gone to bed for three days before even opening the mail
I wasn
t fearful.
I *know* that college is where I'm supposed to be
I *know* that whatever happened
there's be 'the next thing to do '
to cope with whatever the outcome would be....
I've never done that before.
I sat the papers down... until my brain stopped racing
enough to read the entire letter.
I *did* go to bed
but because It was bed time
and I NEVER 'knee jerk' any more.
I always ALWAYS 'sleep in it'.
before plotting an action.
It was so .... METHODICAL!
I *did* feel stressed
I *did* ... FEEL... period.
I just didn't let *it* determine the next move.
wooHOO!
ha!
Huge hole , there -
I posted this because
it's a major codie type breakthrough for me!
The 'old' barb
would have projected 'bad guy' all over the office
done the 'victim' thing
gone to bed for three days before even opening the mail
I wasn
t fearful.
I *know* that college is where I'm supposed to be
I *know* that whatever happened
there's be 'the next thing to do '
to cope with whatever the outcome would be....
I've never done that before.
I sat the papers down... until my brain stopped racing
enough to read the entire letter.
I *did* go to bed
but because It was bed time
and I NEVER 'knee jerk' any more.
I always ALWAYS 'sleep in it'.
before plotting an action.
It was so .... METHODICAL!
I *did* feel stressed
I *did* ... FEEL... period.
I just didn't let *it* determine the next move.
wooHOO!
To thine own self be true.
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All with my new-found college skills!!!
same planet...different world
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Butte, America
Posts: 10,946
One woman I talked to
told me that this woman
would berate her sister
so badly and not let up
until she made her cry.
That is just wrong.
I asked her if I needed her would she
come and tell her experience to a board
if it comes to that
she said she would.
there's stories all over this town
about this woman choosing who gets help
in spite of it being a RIGHT for anyone
who goes there and is qualified.
she's met her destiny.
and her name is BARB.
I just can't stop thinking about
how many women
were forced to return to an abuser
because she refused them help.
Or how many were forced to move in
with a pervert
who forced them to have sex
to keep a roof over her own head.
Let's don't act like that doesn't happen.
Because she didn't like their 'look'
or because they weren't a family member
or weren't born and raised here.
I wish I could get that out of my head.
told me that this woman
would berate her sister
so badly and not let up
until she made her cry.
That is just wrong.
I asked her if I needed her would she
come and tell her experience to a board
if it comes to that
she said she would.
there's stories all over this town
about this woman choosing who gets help
in spite of it being a RIGHT for anyone
who goes there and is qualified.
she's met her destiny.
and her name is BARB.
I just can't stop thinking about
how many women
were forced to return to an abuser
because she refused them help.
Or how many were forced to move in
with a pervert
who forced them to have sex
to keep a roof over her own head.
Let's don't act like that doesn't happen.
Because she didn't like their 'look'
or because they weren't a family member
or weren't born and raised here.
I wish I could get that out of my head.
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Location: Atlanta
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(((Barb))) - good for you!! I've always seen this side of you, but I think it's just taken a while to build up that self esteem and truly believe that you DO know what you're doing, you DO know when you're being mistreated, and you DO know what to do about.
Thanks for the posts I needed to read, today
Love, hugs, and prayers,
Amy
Thanks for the posts I needed to read, today
Love, hugs, and prayers,
Amy
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,766
Way to go, Barb!
I can't stand arrogant people who feel like they can play God with other people's lives.
Now she gets the privilege of suffering the consequences for that.
And even better, you will get the money you deserve.
Hooray!
I can't stand arrogant people who feel like they can play God with other people's lives.
Now she gets the privilege of suffering the consequences for that.
And even better, you will get the money you deserve.
Hooray!
. We really need to watch out for each other and thanks for taking a stand.
AWESOME! It is cheesy of me to have instantly thought of the tune they play in cheesy Western showdowns? same planet...different world
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Butte, America
Posts: 10,946
Luckily I keep a journal.
I can go to the exact day the woman told me
because she was REQUIRED BY LAW to inform me
that I'd come to the top of the list
and she told me
that I'd never get section 8 in this town.
A week later
I went to the livbrary
and looked at the public accessible list
and she'd moved me to the bottom of the list.
I had told her in the phone conversation NOT to move me on the list.
She provceeded to do that to me for THREE YEARS.
her ass in MINE>
I named myself 'Barb Dwyer' ... for a reason.
it's a warning to people like that -
they don't want to get TANGLED up with me.
Man-
that's a side of me
that hasn't been around in a very long time.
I was SOOOO broken when I came to recovery.
I wouldn't even take up for myself.
I let that woman push me around for all those years
becasue I knew I ws too poor to have a voice.
heh.
hey -
there's a sone
called 'And she can Fly'
jit's by The Chenile Sisters
there's nothing on Youtube for it
but it fits right here.
I can go to the exact day the woman told me
because she was REQUIRED BY LAW to inform me
that I'd come to the top of the list
and she told me
that I'd never get section 8 in this town.
A week later
I went to the livbrary
and looked at the public accessible list
and she'd moved me to the bottom of the list.
I had told her in the phone conversation NOT to move me on the list.
She provceeded to do that to me for THREE YEARS.
her ass in MINE>
I named myself 'Barb Dwyer' ... for a reason.
it's a warning to people like that -
they don't want to get TANGLED up with me.
Man-
that's a side of me
that hasn't been around in a very long time.
I was SOOOO broken when I came to recovery.
I wouldn't even take up for myself.
I let that woman push me around for all those years
becasue I knew I ws too poor to have a voice.
heh.
hey -
there's a sone
called 'And she can Fly'
jit's by The Chenile Sisters
there's nothing on Youtube for it
but it fits right here.
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