Thanks for the help!! Me and the girls are having a great time. ❤️

I am still waiting for disability pension and have very little income.
I need to raise $800 for a short term rental while I wait for my room at the YMCA to be ready.
Please help if you can.

Well folks,
I have to move out of this shelter by June 1st.
The other shelters in this city are dangerous. Rife with drug use and crime. Just this week there was a multiple victim stabbing at one of them.
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Elaine and her sweet little nephew spoiled me tonight with this awesome cake that Bill picked out. He sang Happy Birthday to me and helped blow out the candles. Him and I got the biggest, corner pieces...lol.
This was a healing moment for me.

Her nephew, Bill, is coming over. We are buddies. And he and Elaine are going to pick up a cake for me!

Thanks Laura!
It wasn't the best day.
But today will be better.
I'm going to Elaine's house today. She always makes it better.

Thank you for the reminder, Steve.
This is a hard thought to escape.

The mentality that I’m a burden is roooted in the idea that “I’m not your problem to have to solve, I have to sort things out for myself by myself.”

You’re not a burden because you’re not a problem. You’re a human being going through things as a human being. And the right ones will walk it with you

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Hi y'all.
I have a birthday coming up.
On Thursday.
It's bittersweet. I've made it through another year. And fought hard to do so.
It cost me in loss of strength and mobility.
If you are feeling generous, or would like to bless me as a group, here's a wish...
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April in Ontario....blah....

I really appreciate that, Laura. Thank you. 🫂

Thanks sis! It was awesome!!!

Her mother tried really hard to keep me away, but she continually underestimates my commitment to my children.
This kid turned 5 on Saturday.
Elaine and I picked her up today to celebrate. A trip to Costco for an Easter dress and iced cream cone and an afternoon of cuddles on the couch with her dad!

Kris and I are the same age. Armand is in his 60's. Kris has face tats and a brother in a powerful bike gang. Armand is a retired soldier and professional driver. He transported VIPs for the army and drove limos.
All four of us had very different lives. And now we share them with each other.

Here's something positive.
For about two months now, Elaine and I have been hosting "dysfunctional family dinner".
Armand and Kris, friends I made at the shelter who have found permanent housing, come over each Saturday or Sunday evening and the four of us eat together and hang out. It's really nice

I managed to speak to her eventually. It took me calling her mother's phone, over and over, until she finally answered it.

Yes they will. And there is space for it in the room I'll be provided.

Not at all.

It's my daughter's birthday today. I've been trying all morning to get her mother to have her video chat with me.
Her mother keeps making up excuses to prevent this.
I know this is intentional. Trying to manipulate a five year old.
Her mother will prevent this interaction and then blame me.
😡🤬😥😢

Apparently our accessibility laws do not include the homeless shelters. Lol.
I'm pretty sure that it would be a human rights violation to kick me out over a mobility device. But who knows?
It's nearly impossible to get a case opened with our human rights tribunal.

Think Canada is a socialist utopia of universal health care and government assistance?
Think again...
The third floor social worker here at the shelter told me yesterday that I can't have a mobility scooter in the building.
Although our government will help pay for one, they won't let me use it...+

I really hope for this too. I was trying very hard to teach them a very different way.

not welcome around my parents or siblings. They hate me. But they feel entitled to be around my children.
They told me my kids are better off without me...
All of this is happening to protect the precious reputation of these Christians. To cover up the evil abuse and control they thrive on.

It's my baby girls birthday tomorrow. She'll be 5.
Her mother has taken the kids phone away, called the police to get them to tell me I am not allowed to enter their house, and made plans to take my daughter bowling to celebrate my dad's birthday and hers. He won't acknowledge my existence.
I am +

I asked her if she wasn't going to let my kids have their phone, if she would bring it to me so I could return it to its owner.
She told me to take the bus and pick it up myself. After learning about my decreased mobility and increased pain.
But she will take my kids to her church on Sunday.

church spent years downplaying and denying my disability, and this recent change kind of makes them all look really bad.
So she can't have my children talking to me.
Why is she so cruel?

So....I gave my kids a phone so that they could keep in contact with me. I spoke with them last week about the changes to my health and mobility. They are concerned.
But their mother took their phone away from them.
She told me it became a problem...
The problem is that she and my family and their +

Life can be hard some days.
If you are feeling this way, turn up the sound to full, and play this a few times.
It sure helps me feel a bit better.
I hope it helps you too.

could drive me there and back. I didn't ask her. She just booked the day and told me afterwards.
Little things like this are what heal the wounds.

Here's something positive to add to my previous post.
I've been made to feel like a burden and complainer by people close to me.
I'm used to figuring stuff out on my own and was prepared to take a long bus trip to my doctor's appointment in another city. Until Elaine took a day off work so that she+