Thanks Bill for fixing the pictures
November 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have to go back down to Galveston for 4 more months Saturday. The manager asked as a favor, he is giving me a raise if I will do this. I found a house to rent with a young student girl in Alvin. Its month to month , only $400 a month. I can handle that. My lease here is up in april. I told Dad I would just break my lease early and put my furniture in storage , but he is adament that I come back so I have to keep this apartment as well. The apartment won’t even let me turn off my power or water its part of the lease. The water bill will continue to be $80 a month even when I am not here because they take the average of each apartment and add it to the rent , which is why my rent is $800 a month. dad wants me to keep this apartment till the end of 2009. But, hopefully by the time my lease is up in april he will realize that is just too much for me. Hopefully, my power bill will go down. They said I could turn off all breakers except the refridgerator. what to do with my plants though. I have a million???
9 Responses to “Thanks Bill for fixing the pictures”
You know I’ll be glad to take your plants Lainie. I can’t promise I will be able to keep them alive but at least they’ll have a fighting chance!
I’m really glad you are going back cuz you told me how much you love Galveston. Take lots of pictures!
By beth on Nov 4, 2008
Thats great Beth, I made two more sets of keys to my apartmetn yesterday. I am giving you a set and Lake a set. Between the two of you ya’ll can have my plants. I especially have a camillia tree that is worth $100 dollars in a $100 dollar pot that needs a better home. I don’t get enough sun on my porch and it got bagworms while I was in Galveston. I sprayed it with sevin dust when I got home but it had lost alot of leaves. If it can be put in a sunnier place outdoors and fertilized it should come back and have flowers in January. I am in the process of trying to sublease my apartment while I am there because I still have to pay the rent, water and power while I am gone and they stay the same price because the apartment takes the aveerage of all the apartments for the bills. I have been advertising on “roommates.com”. If you know a student let me know. They cant beat the deal.
By lainie on Nov 4, 2008
Great. Just let me know how to get the plants. Dad prolly can loan us the truck to transport them.
If I hear of anyone looking for an Apartment I’ll let you know. Are you going to take your furniture too or leave it in the apt.?
By beth on Nov 4, 2008
Nope I am leaving all my furniture as well. When my lease is up in April I will fly back and get all my furniture and drive a U-Haul back. I talked to Tommy on the phone today. I hadn’t talked to him in a month and I didn’t realize how much I missed him. He was so glad I will have a downstairs apartment cause he can actually get in there with his wheelchair. Oh, well, if I get mad at him I can just let the air out of his tires lol. He said he would be flying down in a few months to visit Texas.
By lainie on Nov 5, 2008
I thought Tommy was completely out of the picture, Lainie.
I don’t like him, because of the way he hurt you so much.
I also don’t like his “clinging to mommy skirts”. He made you sad and unhappy, and made you cry a lot. It’s just something else to “forgive” so I can keep going to the temple. Who am I to judge anyone, anyway?? No one has made more mistakes than I have in a lifetime.
For five years, since all of the “skirmish” in court over Bailey, I’ve felt lower than low. I just couldn’t forgive myself for so many, many things.
Finally, after hearing our Bishop give a talk about how we should go and “confess” anything that might have happened in our past that was slowing our progress in the gospel, I decided to do that. I went to President Martel, one of the counselors in the stake, and told him everything that was bothering me. He told me to read “The Miracle of Forgiveness” and to see him before last general conference.
I read the book, prayed a lot, and then went to see President Martel.
He looked me in the eye and said, “All of your sins are forgiven.”
And then he signed my temple recommend.
For the first time in years, I felt free and happy.
But it’s the little things that get to us, sometimes.
And now we have a president who is, indeed, going to change this country in a way we have never dreamed could happen in America.
But it is going to happen. We are on a fast track to losing our remaining freedoms, one by one.
And then….Rush Limbaugh and all conservative talk show hosts will be ban from the radio. Free speech will be gone.
By mother on Nov 6, 2008
Don’t worry Mom, I am not gonna marry Tommy. I care about him but he is not marriage material. He won’t work and that is one thing in a man I won’t tolerate. He also hates middle easterners, cajuns and gay people and I don’t tolerate that either. He would have to completely change in order for me to feel different, and I just don’t see him doing that for me. Besides I want to move to Galveston and they have a huge gay population and he definately wouldn’t move there.
All of that stuff with Bailey hurt me for years, but its over and I just want to move on. I would more than bet that Bailey will end up out there with me sooner or later anyway. Casey already talks about wanting to come out there with me anyway, but I tell her to finish school and let me get situated. It was right that I came back from Texas, I kept my relationship with Bailey and grew closer to Casey and even saved Casey’s life. But its time for me to go back to a place I was actually really happy. I have no good memories in Birmingham, it just depresses me to be here. Atlanta depressed me as well, because it reminded me too much of Birmingham. But, Atlanta had its place as well, because it was there I was reinstated in the church and forgiven of past sins. It wasn’t a coincedence that they kept sending me back to Galveston. There were Home Depot’s all over Houston that everyone was sent to , but they kept sending me back to Galveston and when I was there I felt like I was home again and I always feel peaceful when I am on that Island. I looked at neiborhoods all over Houston this week on Google maps , cause you can do street level now, but I didn’t feel much about these neighborhoods, but when I looked at homes in galveston I felt something. You know you can stand out in front of the Galveston Church ward and look down the street and see the Ocean.
By lainie on Nov 6, 2008
How beautiful!! I wanted to come to Florida, and get near the ocean, but it didn’t happen.
I love the beach and oceans. I always will, partly because of good memories, growing up, and vacationing in Panama City, Florida, when I was just a little child.
I remember so clearly the first time I saw the ocean. I was only 3 years old. We walked up to Panama City Beach, and the sand was so dazzling white that I couldn’t see anything.
My vision cleared, and Inez took my hand, and took me down to the edge of the water. She put her foot in, and it slipped. Uncle Joe yelled, “watch out for the undertow, Inez.”
I took one look at that huge water, and when I saw Inez’s foot slip, I turned around and ran pell mell as fast as I could back to the safety of Daddy’s arms. It was just too much for me, all at one time. Of course, as we continued our visits over the years, I learned to love the beach more than ALMOST ANYTHING ON EARTH.
Now, I have no desire to go down on the beach. To sit on a verandah, and watch the waves would be wonderful, but I never get the chance.
By mother on Nov 13, 2008
One of my best memories with my parents and Alex, is when Daddy went for a job interview in Panama City. I could hardly believe the good luck!! Live in Panama City!! Wow!
We went for three days in April of 1954. It was so beautiful on Long Beach. I walked and walked. I sat on the edge of the benches at the “Hang Out” and saw a boy and girl dancing. I watched them. The girl left. The boy came over and asked me who I was. Turned out he was going to be a Senior at Bay County High School. Some girls from Bay County High School were having a house party right next to the hang-out. He took me over and introduced me. They were so friendly. That is….until the school year. Turned out they were from “The Cove” and too snooty for me. They considered me a beach bum, and later one of the girls told your Dad that “you can do a whole lot better than her, Bill.”
But here’s a GOOD STORY. Your Dad asked Wally to take me to the Christmas Dance (for the Seniors). I’ll never forget the day that Wally asked me to go with him. We were in the gym, and the snooty girls saw him ask me. One of them said to me, when I was walking out of the gym.
“Did Wally ask YOU to go to the Christmas dance?” Her expression was incredulous, and she was seeing daggars at me. I just flippantly said, “yes”, and walked out loving Wally from that day forth.
By mother on Nov 13, 2008
The snooty girl was Nan Whitehurst (or Whitehead). I think she had a crush on Wally. Many years later, she and Wally had some kind of business together. I think it was Real Estate. Her husband had died, and I wondered if she was still extra fond of Wally. But, of course, he married again after his divorce to someone else. I don’t remember her name. All of you Polhemuses know her. A beautiful woman.
By mother on Nov 13, 2008