Heaven help me

Yesterday my roommate was arrested for fraud, techically check forgery. When he was living with new friends he met living with a coworker in a cheap hotel and had a falling out with the coworker to move in with this couple. His friend found checks on a sidewalk and he helped his friends by depositing them in his bank account which is how the police traced them to him. Stupid, I know. He was freaking out cause he never had been arrested before. His girlfriend came over and contacted his family for help attaining a lawyer. They refused to help so he has a public defender. I drove him to the station to turn himself in. Girlfriend said to act tough. A friend bailed him out the next day and since I was sleeping, I didn't go pick him up so he took the bus home. I found his mugshot online and copied to to hang a sign with it saying Welcome Home. He and his girlfriend thought it was hilarious. He discovered the checks were not found on the sidewalk cause the owner of the checks is dead. Those checks were stolen and forged. He ratted on his gal friend and immediately was sent death threats from the guy friend with other friends asking where he was living. Now he is worried how he will get a job without a driver's license, little experience, no higher education, and now going to jail. Of course I can't sympathesize much since I've never been arrested.

Great idea

Roommate had a great idea. He and a friend will drive my car to do food delivery. Unsure if it was expected that I drive or his friend. I replied that would alter my car insurance to drive for business purposes. I said no. He refused to apply at my hotel for Banquets convinced he won't get hired after he was dismissed from our hotel as a security guard he he was caught in the Presidential Suite by a couple still in their wedding clothes I had to downgrade to Governor's Suite.

I found out rommate's girlfriend has lost custody of her son. She can't provide for him so the father was given custody. Can't say I was surprised. She has an unstable job and bouncing between friends to spend the night. She has trouble paying for 2 storage units so how can she pay a security deposit and first month rent to a landlord. Then roommate lost his job trying to help her. What did they expect?

Having a bad day

While eating in the living room, roommate gets woken by a phone call. He freaks cause he is being arrested for fraud. When he had a falling out with his coworker living in the hotel room with him, he went to live with the couple next door. Lady shaved his head to the skin and he was so embarrassed he wore a baseball hat for weeks. Well, one of them found checks on the sidewalk and he helped cash them by depositing them in his account. This is how the police traced them to him. He says he felt he had no choice cause at the time he was unemployed and dependent on their charity. Later, they kicked him out. He called his girlfriend who ordered him to call his family to help with attaining a lawyer. They refused to help. I drove him to the police station to turn himself in. Then dropped off the girlfriend across town. I have no money to bail him out. He called a friend who did. He was bailed out by a friend the next day. I found his photo online and printed it to make a Welcome Home sign. He and his girlfriend thought it hilarious. He called me to pick him up but I was sleeping so he took the bus. Apparently, the checks belong to a dead person so they were not found on the sidewalk. He is worried for his future. No driver's license, little experience, been fired twice, and with a conviction, who will hire him? He says he has never been arrested before and completely terrified what would happen. Girlfriend said to act tough and don't cry. He survived and squealed on the lady who he saw at the jail.

Goodbye Boromir

Received a job rejection via text message but no name or company mentioned so I have no idea who is rejecting me. I let the animals sniff Boromir so they understand he is gone. Poor Luthien sniffed him all over, walked around the house, returned to sniff him again, walked around the house again, sniffed him a third time, and finally snuggled in a bag to take a nap. I buried Boromir in the backyard under a concrete bench he loved getting under. My roommate made a cross and nameplate for him. That was so sweet of him. I placed a red carnation on top. Poor Luthien started sleeping in spots where Boromir slept. She misses him.

Then I notice the house is cold. Had to call a furnace repair guy and spend more money I don't have to keep my pipes from freezing. Since it is outside normal business hours cause it's a Saturday, I have to pay an extra $125 plus parts and labor. He tells me my furnace is fine, just needs to change the filter. My problem is someone switched off the circuit breaker to the furnace. That was my roommate. He also said my capacitor is failing so he replaced that. Final bill wasn't that bad. The bad part is my roommate lost his job after 3 weeks cause a coworker got upset he used a racial slur. He was so happy working again and management wanted to promote him to shift lead. Now he is broke and unemployed. I'm just broke and in debt.

RIP Boromir

My roommate called me at work stating my ferret is dead. He was wrestling with the cats and fell down the stairs. After the tumble, he was alive but barely moving. Roommate said it was the first time he saw both cats at the same time. My roommate was with him when he passed. He went into full panic attack demanding I come home right away. I called for security to watch my counter while I went home to find out what happened. I held my furbaby and blew into his nose. No noise. I opened his mouth and his tongue and gums were all red. I closed his mouth and no movement. I moved his paws and no movement. I cried realizing he is really gone for good. My roommate hugged me. I wrapped Boromir in a dish towel and went back to work. The restaurant manager was on the phone with my supervisor trying to check a couple into the hotel. I explained my ferret wrestling with the cats fell down the stairs and we think he died from internal bleeding or a brain hemorrhage. No injuries on the outside that I could see. Ferrets are so fragile. I put my purse back into my locker and checked the couple in. I apologized for making them wait so long. Goodbye my sweet boy.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Had a phone interview and praying hard I get the job. Then when chatting on my interview for five minutes, my landline phone rings, my cell phone rings, and the landline phone rings again. Thinking it was a scammer I look at the caller ID. It was a restaurant I applied at for Birthday Coordinator a long time ago. Perfect timing. Oh well, no message left so no return call.

Got the appointment made for my cats annual vaccinations. $134 each. Plus my accounting software and online store want money and my cards are maxed out. My pets are top priority I have to save for. So to raise funds I advertised green candles for St Patrick's Day as 10% off on my 2nd online shop since first one is suspended from non-payment. Next my accounting software suspended me for non-payment. Then after a week and still no sales, I shut down my 2nd online shop. The only way to get my candles, wax melts, and home decorations is directly speaking to me. One online shop has a free option subscription so will use that for the direct sales. The soy wax candles I made last year are turning white so have been burning them myself. Apparently soy wax only lasts a year or two. Great when I can't sell candles or wax melts.

Had a drunk hotel guest harrassing my female security guards by inviting them to his room when they keep rejecting him. I tried to intervene stating they are not allowed in his room cause it's against the rules and they will be fired. He brushed me off. One guard hid in the back office. He continued to go back upstairs and come back down to follow them around the hotel. I offered to call the police since employers can get sued if they do nothing to stop the sexual harrassment, even from guests. Eventually he stopped coming downstairs so didn't call the police.

Made a Leprechaun gnome to sell for St Patrick's Day. I use a toilet paper tube wrapped in yarn for the hat and attached the yarn beard and wood bead nose. I got black ribbon and jeweled gold ribbon for the buckle. I twisted a green pipe cleaner for a shamrock and attached a rose to the hat. It was so cute and hoped to sell at least one.

Had snow fall again. Probably the last until next winter. Found an ant in my kitchen, it went squish. Finally heard from a gym I interviewed at a month ago and got rejected. Received another rejection from a high school I applied at 2 months ago but never interviewed with.

Made payments for the accounting software and 1st online shop so was ready sell items for St. Patrick's Day offering 10% off all green, gold, and amber candle jars and tins. Then 3 days before the holiday and no orders for anything, I gave my Leprechaun gnome to my Mom. We visited her friend in the nursing home part of the same building Mom is in (she's in assisted living). She also needs hearing aids. Received the acceptance letter for a farmers market I applied at for this summer. I had to tell them that I entered credit counseling and can no longer afford to sell at their farmers market. That broke my heart. I was hoping a different farmers market would yield better results.

Set up a video interview. Started a Gofundme page for my Bilbo's teeth cleaning next month for gingivitis. I pray he doesn't need a tooth pulled, who knows what that will cost. I hate begging strangers for money, but I am desperate. At least Misty's teeth were okay. I know why this happened to these cats and not my other cats who never had their teeth pulled out. The teeth cleaner I put in their drinking water stopped being made during Covid and never returned. I tried other kinds but cats never liked them. Who thought up Green Tea flavor for cats? I finally found a tuna flavor one that they liked but the tarter built up too much trying to find one they liked. Sigh. At least I got the money I needed in 2 days from 2 donors. I think I'm going to cry.

The rain we were getting in the daytime turned into snow in the evening. Wild ride driving to work tonight.

Trying and trying to go nowhere

Rommate got tired of watching videos to learn virtual wholesaling (there's 80 hours). I told him to figure out what he does best and figure out a way to get paid for it. So he decides on woodworking and I bought some sandpaper for him. He grabbed some broken branches and works all day trying to carve out spoons to sell. He asked me to teach him how to make soap when I make candles. When I made a candle, he didn't pay attention so not really interested in that. Just wants easy money that he can do. He carves that wood with my tools until his hands get sore. He took a break and called his friend he worked with at a fast food place. He was a cook there before leaving to do the security guard thing. His friend said he could be a shift manager. Here's hoping.

Oh boy, why me

Spoke to roommate about paying rent since he is raising my water and electric bills. He agreed once he pays off the storage unit his things are in and pay back some friends, he can give me some money. Right after I get home, he calls me to pick him up. He was fired for using a racial slur that upset a biracial coworker who complained to human resources. He was more insulted the coworker called him white, when he is Mexican. Says his grandma is Guatemalan.

Now that roommate can't get a job from the way he was fired, he decided to be self employed. He wants to mow lawns for people using my lawn mower. I said he can use my printer to print some fliers to give my neighbors.

His girlfriend got him excited about virtual wholesaling. She did it for years before her divorce, but apparently it didn't stop her from falling for a rental house scam. Doesn't she not know how to look up property records online for free? Right now she works for a security firm as roommate suggested cause that's what he was doing at the time.