So I am currently under a 14-day “Pay or Vacate” notice in regards to my house I’m renting.
I’m not mentioning that here to get sympathy or anything, but to set up the story of what happened today.
I got the PoV notice (nice fancy way of saying eviction if I don’t pay lol) on the 5th or 6th. Whatever the Tuesday was last week (Labor Day was the Monday before).
There’s an agency here in my county which helps to mediate these when possible, also helps try to obtain rental assistance to prevent eviction.
I’ve been all over the map mentally, but working to be as Stoic (with a capital S) as I can.
Accepting that this is what I’ve made happen through my own choices, and so on.
Part of that alloverthemapness was putting off talking to that agency for a few days.
I finally contacted them a few days ago to set up a call with them today.
Last night in bed, when picking subs to run (I rarely stick a stack/cycle these days. Mostly just run whatever sounds good based on the day’s events)…I first loaded up a stack of Wanted+PS+Libertine…but decided that a money/mindset stack would better suit the call today.
So last night, I ran:
LBFH Masked (Solace)
True Sell Masked (Solace)
Master Moneyfestor V1 Masked (Solace)
LBFH Ultrasonic
True Sell Ultrasonic
Master Moneyfestor V1 Ultrasonic
The total runtime of this is 90 mins…3 titles though…I did it like this as 90 mins is a standard human sleep cycle…meaning I’d get exposure to all 3 titles (either in masked or ultra form)…at different parts of the sleep cycle…a sort of crude and makeshift sleep learning approach to subs.
Anyway, I did things I needed to do today…to make sure I was back home before the agency called.
The phone rings, I answer “This is Palpatine”
It’s one of the girls who works at the agency.
I was surprisingly not nervous like I would normally be.
I just answered, she introduced herself, and I said “Happy Friday!”
She let out a sigh…“Thank goodness it’s Friday, too!”
More of an informal tone than you’d expect from someone from a place like this.
I said “Looking forward to the weekend, huh?”
Her: “I’m more glad this week is going by fast because my birthday is next week!”
I said (obviously jokingly) “I’m surprised they let 19-year olds work there.” or something like that.
She laughed and said “I love that you said that, but I’ll be 38”
I said “I just hit 47 not too long ago”
She then asked how I feel mentally, if I feel 47 or if I feel younger, or if I feel like I’ve figured life out yet.
“I said, I feel like I’m in 20s…and by that I mean I feel like I’ve figured NOTHING out yet.”
got a big laugh from her on that.
SOMEHOW (I don’t even remember how) I got out of her that she’s a single mother of 2 kids…has been for a while…she bought a house entirely by herself…handled the mortgage, and so on.
She said at one point how annoying it is when she brings a man into her life, and invariably like 95% of them jump right into telling her how to handle the house SHE paid for…
The example she gave was a guy she was dating (briefly) who as soon as he saw the house, started telling her “You’d make so much money if you sold this place!”
She said “If I want financial advice about MY house, I’ll go to a professional!”
We laughed, and I said “If I were the guy coming into your life, I’d just try like hell to listen first to what your life goals are before even presuming to offer any sort of ideas or advice”
She said “Thank you. You understand. You get me.”
Then she said she wishes it were easier to find a male role model for her son because she can’t teach him all the “Man” stuff.
I mentioned how I’ve been reading stuff like “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and just thinking about how kids need a male role model, and how that stretches back to the caveman days.
It seemed like we talked for ages…turns out the entire call was only 19 minutes. And that’s including the stuff we had to talk about re: my current rental situation.
Anyway, that stack is powerful as hell.
I asked her what day her birthday is next week. She seemed pleasantly surprised I’d ask…told me.
I’m planning on calling or shooting an email just to wish her happy bday the day before. As I presume she’ll be taking the day off.
Little gestures like that are appreciated. And LBFH got me wanting to spread a small bit of joy where I can.
That is all for now.