After july 4th shenanigans

Monday, July 7th, 2008
by badr

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Hello all. Things have been going fairly well. Our life has gone back to normal, well as normal as it can be. We are both looking for work, playing the game, “Beat the month”, before the bills come in and kills us. Its difficult but, its life.

Amikolle, my fiancee is doing her meetings, she has a home group at Free Spirits, which is the place I also go to my Nar-Anon Meetings, and she shares and is trying to make the best of it and is really doing a great job. She is also looking for work, and has had already a couple of interviews. She is really happy about an interview she recently got for Content Manager, so we are looking forward to her getting that position because its super close from home, in a nice looking company. We also got our Marriage license, and we got some nice silver wedding bands. The plan is to in a couple of months get married through the civil court, then in June next year have our religious ceremony in a beach in Rincón, Puerto Rico. We are going to Pre-Canna classes in our local church.

As for me I am looking for work as well. I have had some interesting interviews, but the most recent one that I am hoping I get chosen is the one working for the Office of the Comptroller of Currency in Washington, DC. Basically I was “hired” already. But because this job requires a clearance to work there, until I get my clearance, I cannot start. I finished already with the part of the clearance, so I am just waiting till the results come in. So lets all hope it works out. There is another job position I am pursuing, that is with the team of scientists that analize the Hubble Telescope photographs, that looks interesting as well.

4th of July weekend, we spent it with our friends Adi and Carlos and their daughter Keilani in Dover, De. We drove there on Friday July 4th, then we spend it at Adi’s cousin’s house till the fireworks went off. Isaac has 6 new friends when we go there, they are the 6 kids of adi’s cousin and her husband. They are a troop but a lot of fun, everytime we go there we have a blast. We spent Friday and Saturday in Dover, then Sunday around 2pm we drove back. Sunday was kind of shitty because I helped Carlos with a washing machine and I injured my back. Amikolle gave me a nice backrub when we went to sleep and today it doesnt hurt as much. I hope to get better in the next couple of days.

On friday July 4th Amimkolle’s parents had an unpleasant surprise for her. These people are like we say in my country, “Le gusta predicar en calzoncillos”, or in a rough translation, they like to preach in their underware. Basically what happened was, her father in trying to force her to pay some bills and limit her again so that she freaks out and flips her switch, took her car away. The car is on her name and her name only. They took the car, locked it up, restrained it with a wheel lock, and didnt let her use it, until she payed some debts with her father (no debts for companies or services, but some money she owed her dad). Seeing as she has been in treatment and not having a job that she could pay off her despotic father (the guy is an asshole), her father often showed how little he cared for his daughter’s opinion or even her boundaries, by taking her car without her permision and driving it around. But on tis week the drop that filled the glass was when on July 4th we learned that her father RETURNED the car to Volkswagen (She drives a 2008 Jetta), and told the dealership that she had been missing all this time, and that they didn’t knwo where she was and that they didnt have any contact with her daughter since she bought the car. Where all this is a lie, because we have been receiving calls from them in our cellphones, and we have proof they have had constant knowledge where their daughter lives and how to find her. This is just an example how ill they are, and how they have resorted in lying, cheating, manipulating and deceiving people to accomodate them to do their bidding and taking pity of them.

So to make the story short, Amikolle called the police and asked what she could do and after the cops explained, she called the dealer and the dealer general manager told her, her father sounded fishy with his story. He told her not to worry, that her car payments were up to date and that they would hold the car for her until she picked it up on monday and that no one else could move it from there. So although we had a happy ending for this, this situation put her in a lot of anguish, stress, and is a good example of the emotional mistreatment these people put in her daughter. This is why I decided to not care about them anymore, and certainly I dont want anything to do with them and their sob stories. They dont do anything for themselves and they dont do anything to help her daughter and her campaign for getting better.

So today monday we are picking the car up. And just continue with our schedule. Will talk to you all later.

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