I’ve been looking for freedom, have you seen it?

May 14, 2012 in My Updates by brok1881

Today was the first day I’ve been able to sleep past 8am for the last week. Jason and I have had a garage sale to try to make our bills this month, since there hasn’t been any money coming in. We are both so physically and mentally exhausted from the sale. I don’t know how people wake up to an alarm every day. I feel like a zombie all day long, and I can’t even sleep right. I found myself waking up every hour or two and panicking that I didn’t set the alarm right. The first day it was Jason dragging me out of bed, but the rest of the days it was the other day around. We were able to make about $300 from our stuff, which gets us right at making our rent. Well… we had to go to the store and buy cat food last night, as well as toilet paper, so I’m kind of scared to check my bank account and add up our money. The rent is due today, and I’m just scared we will be like $10 short or something. The landlord might just have to get a grip, and wait a few days until I deposit the money into her bank account. Luckily she lives two states away, so it’s not like she’ll be knocking on my door or anything. Plus she is really nice, so I might just shoot her an email making some excuse to pay her in a few days. We almost didn’t even get this place. They wanted proof of income, and I don’t really have steady income, so I took one of my bank statements, and forged the balance on the computer, making it look like we had thousands in the bank. It worked too. So the last thing I want to do, is make it seem like we are broke, which really, we are on the verge of being straight up poor. Read the rest of this entry →

The Man Who Quit Money (And You Can Too)

May 5, 2012 in My Updates by brok1881


I grew up poor. I didn’t get what I wanted as a child. All my toys and clothes were hand-me-downs, which I handed down to my little brother. I lived on instant-noodles all through high school. I went trough a foreclosure, when my parents couldn’t pay the bills, right before going to college. Then I worked hard and got a manufacturing degree, and got a well-paying job. Soon after, the economy crashed and I was laid-off. It was then that I realized that jobs, money, owning a big house. It’s all an illusion. It’s the carrot dangling in front of the horses face. I realized at a young age that money is an illusion. That no matter how much you have, it’s never going to be enough. Only you can make your own happiness. Read the rest of this entry →

What To Do Next, Where To Go…

April 8, 2012 in My Updates by brok1881

It’s time to leave this town behind. Indiana is so dull and uneventful. We have decided that we are exactly where we worked so hard to not be. So it’s time to move on. We have been throwing around ideas on where to go next. What to see. I saw this really cool video where these guys converted a tandem-axle cargo trailer into a mini travel trailer. I think this would be the perfect idea. So if we need to, we can park at WalMart or similar, and no one would even know it’s someone’s living quarters. They would think it’s just someone passing through, moving, or a contractor. The only difficult part would be obtaining and incorporating a generator. It would be a must. Read the rest of this entry →

Getting Lost in my Comfort-Zone ((Yeah, I actually have one of those))

April 5, 2012 in My Updates by brok1881

Last month we saw this Hawk in the backyard.

In late October of 2011, when Jason and I were just moving into this house, we bought a couple of $2 window bird-feeders. Okay, we mostly just got them to entertain the cats, but after some neat birds starting flying to the feeder, it started to spark my interest. I found myself constantly calling my mom and my grandma, trying to describe the birds that I was seeing, but that’s kind of hard to do over the phone. So last time I went to visit my mom, she gave me a bird book.

So this morning, I wake up, brush my teeth (I have to do it before I eat or I end up getting sick), and head to my big comfy chair, while trying to still come to from the melatonin-induced REM realm I had just left. I looked over, and saw that bird book. Needless to say, I’ve been to busy to even crack it open for the past two weeks. It’s not that I don’t make time for things I enjoy, it’s just that times are rough, and I gotta work to make money from when I open my eyes, until I can’t even keep my eyes open at 3 or 4am. So as I’m cracking this book open, part of me is saying; “Wow, this feels AWESOME! to just wake up and do whatever the hell I want.” Then the other part of me is saying; “Well have fun while you can, because now the bills aren’t going to get paid this month”. Read the rest of this entry →

I Can Pay My Bills, But Can’t Pay Attention…

March 27, 2012 in My Updates by brok1881

As a lot of you probably already know from reading my Tweets, I’m prescribed Adderall for my ADD. Most of you can probably tell when I’m not on it, because my site, my Twitter, Facebook, and my life in general, all get put on the back burner in my attention span, when I don’t have access to my meds. It felt so awesome last week, when I woke up to find that Jason had laid out all the bills that were due, with stacks of money on top of them. It was such a relief to know that at least the bills would get paid.

The truth is, now that I have finished my first website design gig, the money from it is pretty much gone. So until I can find more work, it’s going to be tough. We are still considering having a yard sale, to sell some of the stuff we really don’t need right now. But that it’s self is a lot of work. Jason paying the bills was a major relief, but I didn’t have the money to do it to begin with. So now that we are once again totally broke, I still can’t fill my meds. I received the refill for my prescription on the 7th of this month. But going up north to see my mom, and after putting gas in the Jeep, I’ve been too broke even get it filled, and it’s been really tough.

Getting that website finished was a real challenge and it took a lot to stay on task and not just wander off and find myself 4 hours later stuck in another huge project with no end in sight. Luckily this wasn’t the case, and it’s now complete.

So I’m just letting you guys know, that I’m trying really hard to find more work and get more income rolling in, while trying to accomplish things without my medicine. So please bear with me while I try to find the time and focus to keep this place updated.

 

-MiKE

Just a friendly update…

March 22, 2012 in Main, My Updates by brok1881

Hey guys. Sorry for all of the issues with the website. I have so much going on right now, and it’s been difficult to keep everything in order. I wanted to let you guys know that I know there are issues, and I’m working as quick as possible to have everything in better-than-before shape.

In the meantime, check out my Tumblr site.