Slum Life

Hello friends.

So as I mentioned in my last post, I am now living with my mom. But fortunately, i got paid on Saturday, so I've booked the ferry tickets to see +Tracey Ryan. And I damn well can't wait to get out of here. It's been horrible.

• There's no working vacuums
• The hot water takes ages to warm up
• Most parts of the house don't have a carpet
• You have to put money in the TV to watch it. Luckily i have my TV
• Nail clippers are very hard to find
• My bedroom (which used to be my sister's, so is pink and has glow in the dark fairies on the wall) is full of my sister's stuff. When i first got here, it had loads of junk, most of which was moved into the attic or thrown out. There's still some junk in there now
• No-one opens the curtains. I have to do it
• No-one closes doors behind them. I have to do it
• No-one does the washing up. It's always "someone else's turn". I usually end up doing it
• There's junk everywhere. Even before i brought my stuff here
• Pretty much everything is dirty. I'm literally scared to walk around in bare feet. I'm always in my slippers
• My sister is a lazy, stupid, uncaring git who only gives a damn about herself and whatever boyfriend she happens to be with at the time
• There's always stuff left around the floor for people to trip over. Mostly left by my sister
• When people finish off a toilet paper roll, no-one changes it. I have to
• There's no space for my few toiletries (razors and the like). They have LOADS of it
• They're both female smokers. They are constantly coughing. Especially mom with her "chest infection"

That's all I can think of right now, but I'm sure there's more i haven't thought of. I might add more later.

For a while there was no internet, but being the genius I am, i used a SIM that my mom uses in a "broadband" dongle, and put it in my phone and used it as a wi-fi hotspot, so now we all have internet instead of just one computer. Although obviously it's slow. And signal is usually quite bad, and sometimes didn't work at all. Another problem with the T-mobile/EE SIM is that they block content which they deem "adult", and when you go over the unfair fair usage policy (which isn't much), they also stop you watching YouTube, even when the videos are embedded on a website or something. Chances are, if you use YouTube a lot, you're going to get through that fair use policy very quickly.

I also didn't have any internet on my phone because I've used it all and it doesn't get renewed until 4th November. So for several days

Because of the lack of internet, I wasn't able to do much for job searching. I told them that at the job centre and they seemed to let me off. Especially since it's their fault. But eventually they paid me, and now i have a decent amount of money (for now). I'm going to try not to spend too much of it. I might buy a PlayStation Vita when the knobcentre pays me again on Monday, but other than that, not much else.

On an unrelated note, this my my 50th post. I think I've done pretty well. I've got over 13,700 views. To other people, that may not seem a lot, but it is to me. I'm sure there's more popular blogs out there by normal people like me, but ah well. I do seem to be getting several views every day. It's pretty consistent actually. Just today I've had 8, and yesterday I had 7. Last month i had 354!

Here's my latest stats for the past month:

Stats from the past month

And stats from all time:

Stats from all time

Anyway, that's all for now. Next time i blog, I'll be living in Ireland with my girlfriend. Until then, chums. Toodles

No Money, No Family

So i still don't have a job yet. And not only do i not have a job, i'm also not getting paid by the Jobcentre anymore because i didn't do enough to look for jobs one time. So they stopped paying me for "4 weeks". But they didn't start paying me again. I phoned them and they said that i need to send a form in that they didn't receive. So i sent it off again and they said it'd be processed and all that junk, by Monday (30th September). Now its 3rd October and i still haven't been paid. I'll be phoning them soon to find out what's going on. I have £37 in the bank and a bit in my wallet. Once that's gone, i have nothing.

I've been trying to sell some things but no-one will buy them. So because i have no money, i can't pay rent, so my dad is kicking me out soon. I'm going to have to live with my mom. And i don't get fed there at the best of times. And i don't even know if she has internet. My dad is also cutting off the internet. So that makes the computer (that i gave him) pretty useless. He cares more about his money than me. I'm just a big old burden to him. Well sorry that i have to buy food to stay alive. As if he doesn't make me feel useless enough. He points it out plenty. To everyone. Loudly. Including the cats, and i'm sure the neighbours know.

I had my phone cut off because i had to stop paying it. I've cancelled subscriptions to stuff like Netflix. Because of the Jobcentre's error, i have to try to sell stuff to survive. I essentially have no family. No support. Just me and my possessions and my girlfriend. She wishes she could help. I don't like asking for help. Anyone who knows me even fairly well knows that. But now i really do. I'm not asking you, the readers (although i won't turn down anything). I just need to get this off my chest.

Obviously the people who are supposed to be helping, the government, aren't doing anything. They don't care if i have money. I find that disgusting that they care about money more than treating humans good. But it IS the government. They've never done anything for the good of the country.

I badly want more than anything to move out and live with +Tracey Ryan. If i'd booked the ferry sooner, i would have been out of here weeks ago. And if i'd just done enough to look for jobs that one time, they would have kept paying me, and i'd be out of here as well. It's partly my fault. Only partly.

Anyway i'm going for a bath.