I was too naive to even ask either of my parents to take my order card to work. I did force my mother to drive me into town so I could sell them door to door, though, so I could get at least a few boxes sold. My folks never suggested they take them to work, so I don't know if they were opposed or just as naive as I was!

Cindy, it was a single thick chunk, and it pierced through my sock. It didn't hurt around the wound when I pressed the area

First 45? At least? I feel lucky to post before the first 500 these days. Back to catch up...

Aimee, one thing you can do, too, is to write letters of explanation and send them to the credit agencies. They have to append them to your report and notify the people who gave you bad credit, they may then remove the negative credit for you. I had to do that with one apartment I rented when a debt that I owed to the government popped up even after it had been forgiven. Nothing was ever supposed to go on my credit report, but it did and you can believe I wrote a pretty nasty letter to them when I found out.

Aimée, can you get the apartment you wanted if you clean up your credit?, or is it too late for that?

It's too late. It was probably rented yesterday.

We're gonna do our best to clean up his credit and we'll see. Who knows? Maybe we'll buy something.

dies laughing

I'm still upset about the credit stuff. B&E think we should keep looking, but I am hesitant. I just .... I don't like rejection as it is. This seems like asking for it. If I wanted rejection based on superficial shit, I would have remained an actress.

Aimee I feel your pain. My credit is not all that great. When I was looking at apartments a little over a year ago I was just very up front about it. I had a copy of my credit report with me, and I told the folks that I talked to that I had less than perfect credit. If it was a problem at that discussion I moved on. I never had an ugly discussion, and almost everyone seems appreciative of the fact that I was telling them as opposed to them running a check and then having to reject me. When I found this place they never even ran a check. They liked me, it worked, and I rented.

I'm so fucking bored with the crip experience right now. Not just mine, everyone else's too. But my article is coming along fine...I'm just reminded of why I didn't go into disability studies full-time. We're boring and we complain a lot. Did y'all know there was a gay crip magazine called "Bent"? "They used to have more respect for cripples!"(off look) No, they didn't!"

"My dad said that if I called you, you'd buy cookies." I, of course, did.

Well YEAH.

Maybe we'll buy something. (dies laughing)

Play the lottery?

Aimee, I had trouble renting when I first moved to Jersey because my credit report was showing that I owed the IRS $10,000 (I didn't). I explained the sitch to the landlords, and they were okay about it. It helped to rent from people, who make their own decisions, rather than management companies. Also, letters of recommendation from previous landlords help a lot. Don't give up!