Q6

Woke up and realized that I am 100% not intoxicated on anything . . . it's scary.  Sobriety sucks and I'm still feeling anxiety.  I mean I still have a significant amount of money in my pocket and I realize that it's not the intoxication that I miss, I miss people.  I'm lonely!

So many of the people that were huge parts of my life less than a week ago are now ignoring me.  My "best friend" was just using me as a free babysitter.  My other friends were just using me for free stuff of one kind or another.  Still, I'd rather have all my fake friends back, instead of sitting here all alone trying to figure out who was a real friend and who wasn't.  What if at the end of this journey, I find out that I really did have no friends, and that the only reason people hung out with me was because I gave them stuff?  Talk about a fear that's right up there with dying.

Q4

I'm going to have money tomorrow . . . I didn't want to have money tomorrow.  It's been four days without and I've done that before. Tomorrow will be the test, I'm going to have some money and I'm going to be hanging out with a friend and I'm going to be trying so hard not to go buy something.  What if I fail?  I probably am going to fail.  I'm afraid.  The ONLY reason I moved here is so I would be away from everything,  So here I sit, probably gonna fail tomorrow, but I'm gonna try and do my best and that's all I can do.  Please God, give me the strength to say no tomorrow.  I know I'm not strong enough to do this on my own.

Q4

Last night I was called by one of my old friends to see if my normal paynight routine was on and I had to tell him no.  That was hard.  It is so tempting to go back to the way things were.  But I said no.  That is all.

Q3

Today I have done nothing to feel guilty about.  I have not been intoxicated in any form in over 36 hour and I have done nothing mechanical in almost four days.  This week and next are going to be the easy parts, the hard part comes on the 2nd payday after I move here when I'll have money and nothing to do.  Still, that's a couple weeks away, for now I bask in virtue.

First day in Labanon, and I can't help but miss all those things about Albany that I was running away from.  Not just the mechanical stuff, but the idiot drunks that I woke up to every morning, the loud annoying neighbors, and I miss Suzan.  I didn't get to say goodbye to her before I left.  I'm sure she'll barely even notice that I'm gone, except for the free babysitter part.  But I know she was never going to be my Happily Ever After, but it was nice having a someone to talk to when I felt down, someone just to hang out with when I was bored, someone who trusted me with her deepest secrets and her most precious possessions.  Just her being in my life made it a little bit better.  And now, she's gone.  Along with so much of the rest of the mindless crap that made my day tolerable and my life my own.  And it's all my fault.  I decided that I wasn't strong enough to "Just Say No".  So I had to leave. I had to run away from my problems the first chance I got.  I sad.  Maybe tomorrow will be different.  Oh and for now: Q2.

Just a quick observation.  I'm in the middle of a family BBQ, sitting in the computer room all alone wandering the Internet and one of the dogs (there are four here) comes up to me and wants me to pet it, then when I stop it's still laying here.  This dog would rather spend time with me than go play with her friends, touching.

Wow today was interesting, last night I Meant to be responsible. I Meant to be a good boy and eat and have a goodnight sleep before I went off to my first day at work. All I wanted was some "maintenance", just do a couple things to make the world a little better and then go off to nighty night land. . . and then it didn't happen. After fixing one issue, I went onto another and another and before I knew I had to take all of the credit fixing things instead of spreading the glory around to my very capable and gerous friends. So after getting way greedy with the "credit" and loosing some parters in the shop, I end up staying up until three in the morning obsessing over the fact that I have to work tomorrow and all I can think about is how much time I spent trying to work on an issue . . . the point is, I ended up staying up all night obsessing over things that while relivent, did not make me a better new worker boy. . .

So I flipped. I tried and I tried to sleep and concentrate on the task at hand and getting some sleep, the harder I tried, the less effective I became. So there I am, it's six thirty in the morning, the sun is up and I'm in the shower still trying to stop obessing over the irrelivent, so I try some more and an hour before I have to go to work I'm at my nieghbor's house asking if my mind is so far on mechanics that everyone at the new job will notice that my mind just isn't it. If they know that my mind isn't it, then why bother to show up in the first place. . . I mean, rather be fired for not showing up than to be fired for being too preoccupied.

So I go. I fought and then I went. I'm there. First, I'm in a new environment, a place that I've never been before with thousands and thousands of strangers crowding all around me and I'm late! I don't want to late for my first day. If I'm late, why bother showing up . . . see, it was an out. But I did show up. And I'm set in a non-speicific place, doing a non-specific task, with not enough information. Litterally, I was placed on a line and told to keep people from cutting through the flag. I wasn't told what to say or exactly what to do, or where to stand or how to stand. And I was stuck in a the middle of 40,000 people people as they ALL filed past me. Wow, I felt like a tweeked out retard splayed out for all the world to gape at and comment on. . . and then after the worst of it, and a break and a big bottle of much needed water, I slowly start to realize that this is not much different from the rest of my jobs.

It's all trouble shooting (like when I stood infront of a broken bottle telling people to watch out for the glass) or customer service, like when I was asked by the VIP lady where the shuttle was and I bullshitted and answer, and then there was passing the buck. When I didn't know, I pointed them in a vague direction for someone that did have the answer. Just like call center work (and some variation of that will be my facebook status). So I got a compliment from my supervisor, and I figured out a job while facing my fears and I stood in the hot sun for five, long brutal hours. So in short, I feel accomplished. Still I feel bad for being greedy before, but that still be old Manni popping up his head, though I kinda don't think so. And now I'm tired and it's time to sleep.

So six more days until I give up my life in Albany and move to Lebanon to help my parents out with the bills. At 26, this is undeniably a step backwards, but sometimes in life you have to go back before you go forward. I'm not sure what else to write about this, it's all been written in my temporary paper blog . . . just that's what's up in my life right now.

So I've decided to keep a hard copy blog, as in a journal . . . just in case this fizzles into nothing, I have a record of my true decent to madness . . . I know this can't last forever, but the paper will last for a little longer . . . blah, no good at writing today, I'm gonna go back to bed and wake up tomorrow in a better mood . . . or maybe not, lol

August 7, 2011

Claude,

This letter is to inform you that I intend to vacate the premises located at ************ in Albany, Oregon on or before Tuesday September 6, 2011.

For the 6 days that I will be residing in your residence in September I will pay ______. To be paid in full no later than September 1, 2011.

On a personal note, thank you for being such a great landlord. You've made my stay here a very pleasant one and I want you to be assured that my decision to leave has nothing to do with you or anything you have done. This decision was made based on the fact that my family needs my help right now and that really I need theirs.

Thank you again for all that you have done.

Sincerly,

Jason W. Feller