Marty MOOSE has to go back to
Columbus. Our 3 person plan has now been
demolished and there doesn't seem to
be much light. When we applied for the lease it
said if anyone had broken a
lease previously they would be immediately denied. So
Jess and I put everything in
our names. 'Cause MOOSE had to break a lease last
year. No biggie. Everything's
in our name, I trust the MOOSE. Got it all worked
out...everything was fine - we
headed west.
Unless your name is on the lease
you are considered an unauthorized occupant,
and you forfeit your lease. Now most
of you know this. Your landlord says you can't
have your girlfriend/boyfriend
there, you sneak them in anyway, it's usually all
good. The difference in this
case is that we've already paid our entire lease. 6
months. Up front. We had no
choice. Because we didn't have jobs to prove an income
they wouldn't rent to us -
unless we paid the entire thing. And
here's what kills me: WE DID. Through 2 huge
loans and our entire savings
(minus $500 for the trip out), we pulled it off. They
have all of our goddamn money.
Why does Marty's credit mean anything? THEY HAVE OUR
MONEY. But if he stays we run a
pretty huge risk. I sat and talked with them for about
a half an hour. I had to be up
front because they saw Marty just as much as they saw
us. They said they could NOT
budge. It's a pretty shitty situation. Not only for
Marty, but now for Jess and I,
because we knew we couldn't do this as a 2 man gig. We
have people to pay back...bills
to pay, and everything is expensive as hell. It
would've been a struggle with 3
people...and on two people's salaries
it's rather incredible. Let alone the fact we have
to get a freakin' refridgerator
and my back is killing me sleeping on the floor since
we couldn't fit our bed in the
trailer.
So bright and early this morning,
Jess and I went out looking for a refrigerator,
and a bed. We soon realized that we
simply cannot afford anything. We opened bank
accounts and we had to give them $300
to open a savings and $100 to open a checking,
and those are the LIMITS. We get
charged if we go under it. But we needed it to pay
bills. DOH. Our credit card had
$1000 on it before we got here, and now with the trip
we simply cannot add to it. The
$1000 before was for this computer - the final 4tvs
piece. So we're kind of stuck.
We jumped back in the car and just bummed. We have a
little cooler that my dad gave
me for the road and we bought ice for it...and got
some water. You cannot drink
the water here. When we asked the people at the front
office they laughed at us.
Alrighty then.
It's a pretty foreign feeling to
tell you the truth. Both Jess and I have applied
for jobs, and are about to go
apply at more places but at this point eating is more
of a
priority. For the first time in my
life...I'm hungry. Wow. It's strange. We have about
$45 between us, and we're still
feeding MOOSE until he finds a way home. I'd love to
be able to give him the $100 he
needs to get a greyhound ticket, but I can't. And
we're in some shit if they see
him here anytime past Monday. This place is like a
village. It's all gated and
there's no outside apartment entrances. Kind of like a
big outdoor hotel. They see
EVERYTHING. What a mess.
And on top of that WE DON'T HAVE A
GODDAMN REFRIDGERATOR so we can
go to the GODDAMN GROCERY STORE to make some GODDAMN
CHEAP FOOD. So back to me and
Jess in the car:
"Well, we simply cannot buy
ANYTHING until we get a paycheck coming in or
else that credit card bill in a couple
weeks will floor us."
"Adam...that's a
refrigerator..."
"What?"
"Look..."
And there it was: a nasty yellow
broken fridge someone was throwing out. Open it
up and it's a mess. Broken shit
everywhere the freezer is beat to hell...dirty as
hell, but it was about to be
taken away in a dumpster and we threw it in her
pick-up.
I doubt anyone
of you can imagine how
euphoric it feels to have found this. We
had NO choice here. We
had NO money, and could
not eat anything that needed to be
refrigerated. Even if this
thing didn't work - it was
a big ass cooler. We could buy ice and
keep stuff cold. Just like
the old school ice boxes
back in the diZAY. We cleaned it up and
though it leaks some
nasty brown shit - it is
cool. Not very cold, and we can't freeze
anything - but it is cool.
Oh, and the
movie today is
of MOOSE and I carrying THAT up the
steps...heh heh. A
little easier I must
say.
YouTube
link added
02.13.09
So the day ends with a nice little
ray of light. I must admit, being halfway
across the country...halfway?
Uhm, being on the OTHER SIDE of the country, knowing
no one, having a third of your
nonexistent income go away, and wondering what MEAT
tastes like because it's been
so long...is an adventure. I need this right now.
Losing weight is a nice bonus.
And staying hungry is what makes people tick. 4tvs is
a kick ass idea. I know I have
what it takes. I know that all of you reading are
pulling for us. This has
immediately become an extremely
interesting book. We already have intrigue. Adam
& Jess are screwed. We're
both gonna have to work 2 jobs to keep up and on top
of that I need to try and push
the show. It's the biggest challenge I've ever faced
and I honestly don't know how
to pull it off. Then again, we have a refrigerator
right now. The human spirit
will never die.