For some reason, I haven’t been receiving comments to my email, so I’ve been missing the fury behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
Nicole asked why I am expecting other people to pay for the booster. Well, I’m not. I’ve been crunching numbers for days trying to figure out how the hell I’m going to make this happen this month. It’s either the booster or I find an apartment in town for the rest of my time here. I’m just grateful the company in Texas is helping me spend my money in the right place.<\/p>\n
Yes, I had a very good month of July. I also had the July money earmarked for several other things because I have been backed up on other things. The booster wasn’t in the budget so I’m now having work extra hours to make up for it. I have been doing 14-hour days now since about July 15th with no end in sight because of this extra $1,200 expense. Yes, I can cover it. But it is causing me stress that I shouldn’t be experiencing. Just because you can pay for something doesn’t mean you can afford it.<\/p>\n
I’m never made such a blatant a public request for help in my seven years full-timing. I didn’t ask for help when I had $4,000 worth of damage after losing my brakes on the Sea to Sky Highway. I didn’t ask for help after my car was totaled and motorhome home being badly damaged after being rear ended in 2012. I didn’t ask for help after my truck broke down in New Orleans in early 2013. I didn’t ask for help when I had breakdown after breakdown coming north in 2013, which was the same time I didn’t ask for help putting down my cat because it was going to cost my entire food budget for the entire month. And speaking of food, I didn’t ask for help in February of 2014 when a client was a month late paying me and I literally had nothing to eat in the house for three days or in December of 2014 when I got dropped without warning by a client and had no income for a month while stranded in a foreign country. Just a few examples of the top of my head.<\/p>\n
I’ve hinted at times that I could use some help and been very grateful to receive it in the form of blog donations, a meal out, or a place to park my rig while watching other people in my online community hold fundraisers for other RVers in distress and come out in droves to help.<\/p>\n
I haven’t asked for help because I believe in personal accountability and that my budget shortfalls are not anyone else’s responsibility. But you know what? This isn’t a budget shortfall. This isn’t something I could have prevented because I sure as hell didn’t vote for the government that gave SaskTel all this power.<\/p>\n
Yes, I chose to live here. But come on, was I that crazy to believe that a community located between the U.S. border and the Transcanada, the most densely populated part of all the other provinces, would not be online at SOME point in the next decade?!<\/p>\n
So going through GoFundMe was more of a social exercise and these four ladies who commented on my last post definitely helped to prove my theory:<\/p>\n
How many people hear of someone in distress halfway around the world and rush to send them help when there is someone in their own community needing help? It’s as though because we are in the first world, we are so much better off than anyone else that we shouldn’t have the audacity to ask for more.<\/p>\n
I don’t blow my own horn the way some people do on their blogs and talk about what I do for other people and how much time I volunteer or how I make it an effort when I am financially able to to take someone else out. I don’t talk about the hundreds if not thousands of hours I have donated to answering the questions of other RVers, although I might have mentioned once or twice that blogging has been at times nearly a full time job.<\/p>\n
So pardon me for saying that for once, it’s my turn to get some help. Nobody has ever offered to hold a fundraiser for me, so I’m holding it for myself. Some of you might be lucky to have parents or family to go when times are tough. I’ve been on my own for a very long time. You are my community. And like with any community, there are those who help each other out and there are those who don’t. I’d rather be part of the community. Sometimes you give and sometimes you receive. That’s how it works.<\/p>\n
Once again, thank you to everyone who has saved me about 12 hours of work towards paying for the booster.<\/p>\n
BTW, yes, it is for work, but I’ll be lucky to be allowed to claim a third of the cost on my taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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