Originally Posted by
Pendulous
Papa Murphy's is good. used to enjoy it with my friends because they accepted food stamps.
Speaking of, I was thinking of some things the past few days. February 2011 I got sick. Just a regular cold, but I noticed my left ear hurt. I mentioned to my friends, and suggested to them that I visit a free clinic. They all passed it off as nothing, and gave me their ideas on how to fix it. Oh, sorry, did I mention I couldn't hear out of it? Yeah, that part's important. because my most trustworthy friend, told me to just get some rubbing alcohol and use it in the ear to break up the ear wax, and use a q-tip to get it all out. After that didn't work, and at least two months later, my other ear closed up, and I lost about 80% of my total hearing. Finally, my brother took me to a pharmacy and got some stuff that is ACTUALLY designed to break up the ear wax. A few days later, I got my hearing back in one ear, and eventually the other. Was it the wax? Maybe, but I doubt it. Right now I'm sitting at 3+ weeks of tittinus, and I never really believed that I had 100% of my hearing back, and there's probably some permanent damage in there somewhere.
One of the most important things I needed to do leading up to my decision to move here, was to get my food stamps renewed. After six months, you just fill out a new form and send it in, saying "yeah, things still suck". After a year, you have to go through the whole process again, but your benefits don't stop as long as you make your appointment, send in the form first on time, etc. Last time I tried to send one in through the mail, they supposedly never got it and I lost my benefits. So, this time, I wanted to make sure the got it. I asked a friend of mine to take me to the offices (because it was in a different city). he agreed, and showed up late on the last day I had. We got there right after they closed, and I lost my benefits.
One of the things that bothered me about my old friends, is that I felt like they always let me down, in ways such as I just mentioned. Meanwhile, I'd do anything I could for them. I made a New Year's Resolution last year, to basically be more selfish. Gotta love a promise you make to yourself like that, huh? I think that plus those stories plus some other factors I'm sure, led me to the decision to leave. I wonder how much of each.