BS: officially homeless

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: kendall
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 09:20 PM

Peg? a bag lady? we wont allow it will we folks? Peg, are you familiar with the Hermes? messenger of the gods? I think he is trying to tell you something...

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: Peg
Date: 26 Apr 01 - 12:37 AM

hesperis: thank you for the "bullying." I am thinking about it...I have a friend who bought a house recently who just might take in my kitties for me if I do that...

But it would make more sense to wait a bit and do it in January (put more money aside for the school tuition and living expenses...I mean, I won't be able to work over there so I have to think ahead). I do appreciate the spirit in which this is offered: I just don't want to jump into anything. I don't have the resources to just go live abroad right now...but you have made me eager to go back to my research into aromatherapy schools that I was checking out last summer...

harpgirl; thanks for all that info. The new teacher bonus is awarded over several years, I believe, not all at once...and I am not certified. The homeowner stuff is worth a look tho.

kendall: what, precisely, do you think Hermes is trying to say? (I have been trying to talk to Hestia and, well, not sure she is listening)

Peg

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: kendall
Date: 26 Apr 01 - 08:53 AM

It's like a hobo peacefully riding a train in the wrong direction. The railroad bull comes along and puts him off the train. He is upset for a while, but, then he realizes that he was on the wrong train. There is no such thing as a good example, but, thats the best I can do at the moment. If you want, I'll PM you my own experience along those lines.

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: hesperis
Date: 26 Apr 01 - 09:05 AM

Are you listening to Hestia? She's probably trying to tell you that home is in your heart...

That said, looking for a new place is a real bitch of a job. And moving is even worse.

So good luck.

*Visualizing you in the perfect place to be you*

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Apr 01 - 09:46 AM

Kitties are still welcome to visit me. So are you but I have to warn you - my nephew is messy!

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: Peg
Date: 29 Apr 01 - 09:08 AM

thanks again Sinsull...we shall see.

I am visiting my parents this weekend. They want to sell their house and get a one-floor, smaller thing...it will be a TON of work to clean up this place and get it ready to sell and my folks are not able to do it (my mom's MS is so bad she can barely walk, and my dad looks awful; he sees his doctor tomorrow and I fear the news will be bad...cirrhosis perhaps).

Anyway, if I do not get a place for June 1, I might do this:

see if the new owner will let me stay thru the end of June to finish teaching my class until June 26; put my stuff in storage in Boston; place my kitties with a friend or two; move back to Elmira for July and August (would probably spend part of July at Brushwood for a pagan gathering I attend each year); work for my friend's landscaping firm; help my parents haul out junk, fix up the garden and clean the place (a monumental task), generally spend time with my parents and help them as much as I can, and then get a place in Boston for September (a very difficult time to look but I would have a big head start). I could save money this way, too.

It does look like my trip to England at the end of June is right out...barring miracles or winning the lottery...

anyway kat informs me this week seems like a bad one for making decisions...so the weighing and balancing and considering continues...

oh, and I look at a place near Harvard Square on Wednesday night.

thanks, all, for your good wishes; you have given me much hope and many ideas and I know I shall look more closely at putting some of these "dreams" into action in the coming year...

love to all,

Peg

Subject: Lyr Add: No House
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Apr 01 - 11:47 AM

Looks like another interlude while Peg mulls over the alternatives. Malvina Reynolds once wrote a song about this dilemma, back before she was known beyond a small circle of friends:

NO HOUSE
(Words and music by Malvina Reynolds © 1950 by Schroder Music Co.)

Oh, the cat has a house,
And the rat has a house,
And the dog and the mouse and the flea;
And the snail has a house,
And the whale has a house,
And they all have a house but me.

Chorus:

The sign on every building says:
"No children wanted here."
When I grow up the sign will say:
"Landlords kindly stay away."

Oh, the pig has a pen,
There's a coop for the hen,
And the bird has a nest in the tree;
The snake has a hole,
And so does the mole,
But there's no kind of place for me. (CHO)

Oh, the cow has a house,
And the sow has a house,
And Truman (President at the time) has a broad balcony;
There's hangers for planes,
Roundhouses for trains,
Garages for cars,
Taverns for bars,
And buildings for stores
With seventeen floors,
And money enough for three world wars,
But they couldn't build a house for me.

Peg, I share this computer with Charley Noble and I'm tired of him looking for relevant songs in my nicely organized mess. I'll post my own, thank-you!
Good luck in your search,
Landlady's Daughter

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Apr 01 - 11:10 AM

Refresh!

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: Pelrad
Date: 01 May 01 - 07:43 AM

Peg, have you considered moving south? Sharon, Canton, Franklin, etc, only 1/2 hour out of Boston and the T runs to all these places. The T runs as far south as Attleboro, MA, but that town's kind of a pit...and it would be an hour commute anyway.

The rents are not a heck of a lot better; when I looked a few years ago it was easily $1,000 a month for a two bedroom apartment, but there might be something. Manville is very affordable but I'm not sure if they have a T station.

Good luck, especially with your kitties. We have four ourselves or I would consider offering a temporary home to some of yours. Apartment hunting with pets is virtually impossible.

Kim

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: Peg
Date: 01 May 01 - 10:08 AM

thanks, Kim. I am considering moving further out. A friend has a place near here in Ayer opening up; it is small but cheap!

I would like to stay in or near the city but it is looking impossible...

I am considering Salem, too.

Subject: RE: BS: officially homeless
From: Amergin
Date: 01 May 01 - 11:56 AM

ROFL! I am sorry, Peg, but I find you moving to Salem to be rather fitting...lol