Our trip to Missoula

Last week, Timmyfan and I went to Missoula and we really had a blast there. Now mind you, Missoula is a much bigger town than Bozeman and there was really a lot more there to see. One of the first places we went to was at a mobile home park that TF called about that did not have a pet limit. It did sound too good to be true, but we had to check it out. When we finally got there, the park looked kind of crappy, although some homes were in good shape. We scoped around trying to find the main office and all we could find were some of the residents. Timmyfan spoke to a man that lived there and he gave us some very interesting information about the landlord. He said that the landlord was a slumlord, he would refuse repairs, act rude to the tenants, and even had the city contact him about that too. I knew there was something wrong when I called up the landlord and I said I was interested in seeing the park, he hung up on me, which I think was rude. After hearing all that, I wasnt interested in the park anymore and went merry on my way. Then we went looking for apartments. I found one that had a river flowing in the backyard, a dishwasher, and even a backdoor for Odessa to get out. It looked kind of dirty inside, but I think they were still in the process of fixing it up. But it looked great, I might consider that place as one of my options. Then the next day, we went to look at RVs at this one dealer that had a huge lot and a bigger selection than the one here in Bozeman. We took the dogs into each and everyone that we saw. One of the 5th wheels had a living room up in the top, which I had never seen before. That one was cool. Then there was one that was like a little trailer with a glass sliding door and a huge living area. That one I would LOVE to give to TF. Imagine living on the beach with that one and a huge bay window with a view of the ocean........AAAAAHHH!! We had a fun time looking at the RVs. Then I let Timmyfan stay in the hotel room while I went out to do a few things. I went to visit the school there, but couldnt get around much because of the construction that was going on. so I didnt stay long. Then I went to look at another apartment building that made the last one I saw look junky. It was nice and it had everything: washer/dryer hookups, dishwasher, AC, and outside a swimming pool, a huge lobby and lounge area, and even a mini movie theater. I told myself...this I want it. But it will have to wait. Another reason why we went there was also to attend an orientation at their local housing authority and sign up for housing of any kind. I went for the biggie...section 8, public housing, and for another complex that sounded great. But the waiting list for those can be up to 2-3 years. If TF has to wait for hers, so can I. But the real truth is that I wanna be there right now. The reason I decided to pick Missoula was mainly to be closer to home without having to leave the state. They have a lot more than Bozeman does although I am not so sure about free bus rides. You dont have to go through an awful lot of passes to get home which might be safer. And Missoula is at least 1,000 ft. lower in elevation than Bozeman. It was actually much easier to breathe there than it is here. Those mountains there were actually so close you could touch it....no I really mean it. A friend of mine on Facebook who lives there said that I would love it in Missoula after I posted that I couldnt wait to move there, and you know, she's right. I already do. The only problem is trying to decide which of those cool apartments to move into. Why I didnt think to move there in the FIRST place, I will never know. The cost of living is actually cheaper there......everything is cheaper there, even food and gas. Probably because I didnt think of it at first. But TF hates Montana and I would think that she would not like it there as much as the coast, even though she did have a good time. TF belongs on the coast and there she will stay. But there are at least a few things about Missoula that I worry about. First of all, its a bigger town, and bigger towns usually mean a lot of crime. I see it on the news all the time. Second, I didnt see a single huckleberry soda there and this is a place where huckleberries are found. Of course that problem could be solved if I went to the gas stations and looked for them, like we did lastnite. Well, thats out trip in general. I would love to do that again.

My life, or so I thought

I just dont know what to think about anything anymore, and everything I worked for maybe flying out the window and I hate that. It all started basically when Lois caught Timmyfan not having her dogs on a leash. There's a camera on the 3rd floor lobby that we were not aware of. Lois threatened to give Timmyfan 30 days notice or she's outta here. TF just like gave up everything and had her last straw with the manager. She became more determined than ever to leave here and go back to the coast. But this is not really what started this, but it certainly escalated to the extreme to where TF had nothing left to do but move back home. Before I even started attending school here, I was so excited about coming here and I was really excited about being accepted too. I talked it over with Timmyfan and she seemed to be all for it....THEN. I tried looking for a place to live for all of us, but they either dont allow pets or they have student restrictions. But when it came close to time for the finals and for me to go home, I had to find something in a hurry. Thats how we ended up here in subsidized housing. At first it was just gonna be me and Odessa. I should have kept it at that and never should have mentioned this to TF at all. But the only reason I even brought Timmyfan in the first place, THE ONLY REASON, was because we were being pressured and pushed into an actual date to move out by the housing authority back home. They kept threatening to cut off our housing privaleges if we didnt give them a date. They even didnt give TF enough time to find a new place in Ocean Shores. It was either take her with me, or she lives on the street. Now that I look back on it, I should have left her on the street, at least she would stay on the coast. I'm sure Ma would have come to get her and helped her find a new place. I never expected TF to like Montana, its not her thing. And I never once forced her to like it here either. She complains about the climate here, and she often compares to what we had in Ocean Shores that they dont have here. Its mainly just little things, but the climate is her biggest threat. TF tried to make it work here, but the longer she stayed, the more depressed she became. I sympathized with her, I really do. Thats why we need to get TF back to the coast NOW!!!!!!! But there's more to this story that has me asking "what the .....?" I am really excited about starting school, a new program, and some courses that I cant wait to start. I spent all year getting it set up and to finally claim myself as a resident. Now that its getting very close to school starting, TF and Karen are trying to talk me out of it. they are more worried that if I graduate, I would not find be able to find work as a mapmaker and that I will have a mass of student loan bills to pay for and no job to pay them. The thing is that I dont want just a job, I want a career, something I can be proud of. Just once in my life, I want a step ahead and not remain at the bottom of the pool. Now that TF has talked to Ma and Dad, they want me to move back home. OMG, I am not as enthusiastic as Timmyfan to move back. She would be the only one to get any pleasure out of this. She wants to live on the coast. I like to live in places where they have everything and I love the mountains. All this is just so sudden to me and I have not done anything to get myself out. I also have the feeling that I might not get to stay on the waiting list for housing in Missoula, which is what I really want. TRM, I gotta write a blog about our trip to Missoula and tell everyone how that went. Might explain that last sentence. Been meaning to do that you know. I dont know what to say or what to do. I am like totally confused I dont know who I am anymore. I worked hard to gain residency here and it took me a year to get to this status. Because of that, I really dont wanna leave Montana. Just because TF hates it here, doesnt mean that I have to. I mean we both dont like the same things, doesnt mean we dont like each other. But I am an adult and free to do whatever I want to. Most people my age dont have parents around telling them what to do. Plus I'm single, its not like I'm married and tied down with a family. If TF wants to move back to the coast, hey, I'm all for it. I have never objected to that. I only wish her the best of luck and gain more happiness there and then some. That is all I really wanted to do for TF.

a funny joke

Karen and I just played a mean and dirty trick on Kim :)I mean really, she deserves it. I was pissed at the bag of dog shit that was in the dog park and Karen told me that Kim left it there hoping for someone else to throw it away. What a wuss!!! I took the bag of shit and put it on her doorknob of her apartment building. Kim wont know who did it, but I will bet you 2 to 1 that Karen will get blamed. Kim is a backstabbing, lying bitch and deserves to be treated like crap. It is a childish prank, but where Kim is concerned, I dont care. She lead me and my sis to believe that she was our friend ever since we moved here, but in reality, she couldnt stand us. She was calling us names behind our backs and acting all nice to our faces. That makes her a hypocrite and a coward and I cant stand people like that. Fuck Kim!!! This will be the best joke we ever played on her, and I got a few more tricks up my sleeve. I wont tell anyone that I did it. I'm gonna pretend that I had nothing to do with it or that I dont know about it. Lets just hope that nobody else snitches to the manager and gives me away. I got my revenge, and I can say that these Montana folks dont know a lot about revenge. They could learn a lot from us. HA HA!!!!!

Timmyfan wrote this Pt. 2

OK, maybe I didnt know that it just a ploy to get a cat person to shut up, but it sounded real to me and I took it seriously. I ended up accusing a best friend of attempting animal cruelty. I know TF wouldnt REALLY do something that bad. But you have to admit, those of us who know her are not really gonna believe that she was making it up. This reminds me of something that happened a long time ago, I just got done talking about it. It was in a pet forum, I cant remember which one, probably Pluba. There was a lady there that was always on the forum. I remember hearing stories about how she had this kitten once, a very cute one too. One time the cat got sick, but she never took it to the vet. She just let it get real sick and then it died. I got so pissed off at her that I called her a cat killer and a dumbass. I dont remember how she responded, but I think she called me every name in the book. I remember that I got into a big fight with her, but she deserved it. Kittens and puppies are like small children, there helpless when they are young. They rely on their owners to keep them out of trouble and take care of them. And if one of them gets sick, its the owners responsibility to treat them. I never just let them die. That is totally inhumane and stupid. I cant stand puppymills for the exact same reason. Cruelty is not cool, dont go there with me.

Its been a loooooooong time

Lots of things have happened since my last post. I figured its time to post something now. I have started school in Bozeman. For 5 months I have lived in a dorm and at the same time tried to find a place to live. I am just simply too old to live in the dorm and I wasnt really having much fun in there. Just before I went back to Ocean Shores, I found an apartment building that was, well, somewhat mediocure (sp?), but it was the best I could come up with in such a short time. I went home, stayed for about a month, and then moved our family to Bozeman so I could be near the school. But the bad news is that I had to bring Timmyfan with me and I didnt want her to leave the coast, or more importantly, bring her to Montana. So far she couldnt stand being here and will do anything to get back to the coast. She's more of a beach person, I love the mountains. I am hoping she will get to go back to the coast soon. I never really expected her to like it here. After all, I'm the one who's a real big fan of this place, not TF. But since we have lived here, we have been everywhere. I got to take TF to Billings a few times. We even spent the night once at a real first class hotel there while we went shopping. Now that was really exciting. Then there was a few times we went to Helena too. Before we moved here, the only thing I liked about Helena was its name. But after being there a few times its not so bad, not as bad as I thought. We even went there twice to shop for food, which we shouldnt even be doing anyway. We have a Walmart here in Bozeman, and the point of living in a town like this is to have everything here, which we had no shopping back in Ocean Shores. We have even been to Butte for a soda or two, and even went back to Philipsburg to that candy store we went to a few years ago. Now TF liked that. That time I bought us each a BIG box of candy. Next time, I would like to take us to Virginia City, but thats gonna have to wait a while. I am planning something big this summer that will make TF happy...VERY HAPPY!!!! Then came my birthday and I finally got something that I wanted more than anything in the whole world....a trip to Idaho Falls. After over 7 years, my dream finally came true, and I LOVED it!!!!!! I had the best time ever and it was worth waiting 7 years for. The only thing that I didnt like about Idaho Falls was that the state charges tax on food stuffs. We went inside the Fred Meyer store and bought some very large potatoes that for some reason we dont find here in Montana (that sucks). I saw on the reciept where they added tax to the potatoes we bought and immediately concluded that Idaho charges tax on food. If it weren't for that, it be perfect. But I guess no place is perfect. We are going to the Oregon coast this summer and were gonna have fun. Were hoping to drop in on our parents too. I am trying to persuade TF to move to Oregon instead of back to Ocean Shores. I'm gonna be honest here, Ocean Shores was nice and being near the ocean was really cool. But as a full time town, it sucks. Its mostly motels and gift shops, but no shopping. Its more of a tourist and retirement location than it is for someone looking for work and raising a family, unless you own a business in town. At least the Oregon coast has more developed communities than they did back home. I dont know why we didnt move there in the beginning. I remember we talked about it, but were never serious enough. Probably because we had been wanting to move to Ocean Shores ever since before we left Lakewood and we wanted to know what it was like to live there. The main thing here is that TF wants to be on the coast, and I thought Oregon would be the better place for her. At first, she will have to live in Seaside or Warrenton, but I am hoping she will get to move to Coos Bay in the future. At least there, they have a super Walmart and she doesnt have to go far to go shopping. If I were to move to Oregon, I'm not sure where I would live at. But since TF will be in Coos Bay, I should at least be in the same part of the state. The only problem is that California is close by......OH GREAT!!!! Although I would kill to have a view of Mount Shasta if I could see it from southern Oregon. I did see it from there that time we went to Reno, and that was cool. It will depend on the availability of jobs and what they have there as far as shopping is concerned. Although Medford is a good size town and they did have a job for mapmakers there. But thats as of now, and I seriously doubt that job will be available when I graduate. I found the listing on a job site, but a majority of them were in the DC area. To be frank, I'd rather go back to Lakewood than to move to DC. Hell, I'll even settle for California or Great Falls, and I hate all of them. But DC is out. I hear the crime rate there is just as bad as LA, and I dont want to get mugged everytime I step out my door. I rather have no job than to move there. I'll just keep looking, but I may have to wait.

Adventures in Billings

What can I tell you? Billings was cool. I rather enjoyed myself. I got to visit the MSUB campus which I thought the tour was something else. I think I will go there next year. Even though I loved Bozeman, I think Billings would be the one place to go to. Then after spending a couple of days on campus, I moved into the Billings Hotel. It was a very classy place with a waterslide pool and everything. I usually end up in a very cheap motel, but this one was better.
I originally went there to look at properties, but I had very little luck finding one that will allow pets. So I took advantage of the car rental and drove to Pompeys Pillar. The famous Lewis and Clark Expedition carved their names on this rock. It was cool. The whole time I was in Billings, it was stormy...thunder and lightning and everything. And as I was coming home from Pompeys Pillar, storm clouds were rolling in and I got some really good video shots of the lightning. Its not everyday we get to see things like that.
It was sad leaving Billings because I had fun, but I had to go home. And when I did I caught a bad cold. Damn it!!!

pics and movies

I cannot wait to go on my trip to Billings. I plan to get plenty of pics and movies on this trip. With my luck, there will be plenty to talk about. But I want to post the pics on Facebook so everybody can see them. If I post them on youtube, the only ones who will see them are my family and trolls. I cannot stand youtube trolls, they have the habit of picking on people and I dont want to have anything to do with them. I want all my friends to see my trip.
The movies, well, I am posting them on vimeo.com. I find its a lot better than youtube, at least thats what Timmyfan said. So my trip videos will be found there.