A Long And Random Update

I've been forgetting to mention that since I've been in this new state I've encouraged my friend to let me help around the apartment however I can. So there have been a few times when I've helped him with the dishes as well as helped him stir something he was cooking on the stove. Shortly after I'd posted the last blog entry I'd written on Friday I texted one of the ladies whose house I was supposed to see later in the day. In the text message I'd sent her I asked her if she and I were still on for me to see her house in the evening. Shortly after I'd sent her that text message I received an email saying that the SSA had successfully verified the information that I'd submitted to the financial aid people. I then texted the friend who'd said he'd help me electronically sign my name on both FAFSA applications to give him the latest update on this particular situation. In the text message I'd sent him I'd also told him that maybe the SSA had to prove that the information that I'd submitted to the financial aid people was truthful before the FAFSA applications I'd filled out could be electronically signed with my name on each FAFSA application. The reason I'd texted said friend in the first place was because when I'd given said friend the information he'd need to help me get this taken care of on Thursday he was unable to find anywhere on the website that would allow anyone to electronically sign the FAFSA applications I'd submitted earlier the same day. So a little while after I'd given him the update about the SSA having matched what I'd reported to FAFSA I decided to find out what FAFSA's Twitter was and ask that particular company for help with the situation I found myself in. So once I'd found FAFSA's Twitter account I sent that particular company a tweet explaining that I'm totally blind and could not figure out how to sign FAFSA applications electronically. Fortunately someone from FAFSA tweeted me back less than half an hour later. In the tweet he or she'd sent me the person asked if I'd gone to FAFSA's official website. I then remembered that I hadn't gone to FAFSA's website (I'd been going to the FSAID website) which I'd thought was the same thing as FAFSA's website. Once I'd found out that those two websites were not one in the same though I looked at FAFSA's website as the person from FAFSA had suggested I do. Fortunately once I'd logged onto FAFSA's website I was able to electronically sign each FAFSA application that I'd recently submitted. To sign those FAFSA applications electronically though was an absolute nightmare. What I mean in saying that signing those FAFSA applications was an absolute nightmare is that FAFSA's website was hard to use as a totally blind person who uses a screen reader all the time. However I made it work through playing with FAFSA's website as much as I needed to, to get done exactly what I'd needed to get done. After I'd made sure that both FAFSA applications had been electronically signed I texted the friend who'd said that he'd help me get this taken care of. In the text message I'd sent him I told him that I'd been given the wrong website when I'd initially filled out both FAFSA applications. I then told him how I'd tweeted FAFSA to ask for that particular company's help in solving this problem and that this particular company had been very helpful in helping solve my problem. A few hours after I'd taken care of the issue I'd had with electronically signing the FAFSA applications I'd submitted it was time for me to go see the first house I'd scheduled to see that day. Since I was going to see a total stranger's house I made sure to have a friend go with me on said adventure. A friend and I took Uber to the stranger's house and when my friend and I'd arrived at our destination my friend asked the Uber driver what that particular neighborhood looked like. The Uber driver told us that the neighborhood looked nice and that every house on the block looked well-kept. So when my friend and I met the lady who I'd potentially rent a room from she showed us around the house. The room I'd potentially rent from the lady we'd met seemed spacious enough. The room I'd potentially rent in her house was also fully furnished. The location of her house is very close to the college I'm going to be attending. The bathroom that is next to the room I may rent in her house was a private bathroom which was also a plus. There were three or four cons though and those cons were as follows: 1. There are two men living in her house. 2. Her house is two stories. 3. Her washer and dryer are downstairs which means that if I rent the upstairs room in her house I'd need help taking the laundry upstairs and downstairs whenever I'd need to do laundry. 4. She only wants rent payments in the form of a money order or cash (this particular way of paying rent would be a huge hassle for me because my check automatically gets deposited straight into my bank account each month). Some of the pros of that particular lady's house were as follows: 1. If I rent a room from her I'd have the ability to lock both the bedroom door as well as the bathroom door. 2. The room I'd potentially rent from her is fully furnished with a bed, desk, chair, TV and closet. 3. I could pay her a little extra money every month to have her maintain the bathroom and bedroom for me. After the lady had finished showing my friend and I her house the three of us sat down and talked with one another for a bit. The lady mentioned that for work she's a provider and that if I became a tenant of hers she and I may be able to work something out where she could get paid by my insurance to cook for me. She also told my friend and I that she felt safe with the men who rent rooms from her which was also a big thing to me. The fact that as an elderly lady she felt safe with two grown men living in her house definitely spoke volumes. Her house is a very quiet environment and she has good values. She told me that she doesn't like to rent rooms to people who party hard or who drink, smoke or do drugs which is definitely important to me. Because I don't want to be in an environment where it's hard for me to focus on my schoolwork. After my friend and I'd finished having a meeting with that lady he and I went to a restaurant and got something to eat. While he and I were eating I called the other lady whose house I was supposed to see that same day. Unfortunately though the lady didn't answer my phone call. Since my phone always acts weird with regards to me not being able to send or receive IMessages if I'm not connected to a Wi-Fi network I knew that calling that lady was my only option. So since she didn't answer my phone call I told my friend that he and I should just go back to his place. As luck would have it though the second lady I was supposed to meet that day texted me right as my friend and I'd arrived at his place. In the text messages that that lady had sent me she told me that she'd left her phone in her car all day and that was why she hadn't gotten back with me. So I replied to the text messages she'd sent me to ask her when she'd be able to let me see her house. She texted me right away saying that Monday would work for me to see her house. I then debated whether or not I wanted to keep talking to her after how unprofessional she'd been because I thought that if she's unprofessional like this before her and I'd even met one another what kind of lies might she tell to get more money out of me as a tenant of hers? I started to write out a text message to her saying that I could only see her house sometime this weekend. However then I thought to myself that I'm not obligated to keep communicating with her and that I don't owe her shit. So I just flat out didn't respond to the last text message she'd sent me saying that she could only show me her house on Monday. A little while after I'd made the decision to stop talking to the second lady whose house I was supposed to see that day I called the lady whose house I had seen that day. When I. talked to the lady whose house I'd seen that day I let her know that I was interested in renting a room from her. She said that she'd let me know what she decides because she was going to have other people who wanted to see her house that same day. That evening a friend showed me a chopper he had and I helped him chop different kinds of peppers. Being able to help him in the ways I've mentioned in this post really helps my confidence level. Because when I lived in San Antonio Texas I had an assistant to do most things around my apartment for me. I honestly didn't like having assistants but I had to have assistance because the state of Texas wouldn't pay for me to have someone teach me how to cook. Friday evening when I took my medication that's for chronic pain, chronic migraines and Systemic Scleroderma the medication fell into the water bottle that I was going to drink out of to help the medication go down successfully. I ended up having to ask a friend to help me get the pill out of the water bottle and unfortunately all the medication had dissolved into the water bottle. So a little while after that had happened I was in awful pain in my body. At first though it didn't occur to me why I was experiencing so much pain in my body. I tried to convince myself that the pain would go away that evening. However I then reminded myself that there was no need for me to be stoic with regards to tolerating a ton of pain in my body. So I used a heating pad to at least help me sleep well that night. I didn't realize until yesterday morning that the reason I was still in so much pain was because the medication I'd taken the previous night had dissolved into the water bottle that it had fallen into that same night. So once I'd woken up yesterday morning I took another pill. I'm sure that taking another pill was a good idea because the horrible pain I was in had lessened quite a bit after I'd taken another pill for my chronic pain. Shortly after I'd taken another pill yesterday I did everything in my power to keep myself awake. I didn't have any reason to fight my sleep other than the fact that I'm not much of a nap person. Shortly after I'd taken another pill though I received a text message from the last lady who was my assistant in San Antonio. In the text message she'd sent me she let me know that she hadn't forgotten about the fact that I'd wanted her to send the equipment back to the Texas Library for the Blind. I texted her right then asking her to please let me know when she'd taken care of the Library for the Blind's equipment being mailed to that particular agency. An hour or so after I'd heard from my last assistant in San Antonio I stopped fighting my sleep. I took a couple hour nap. Once I woke up a couple hours later I drank a huge cup of coffee so that I'd be able to stay awake. As I drank my huge cup of coffee a friend and I searched for more possible apartments for me to live in. What brought on continuing to look for apartments for me to live in was that I'd told said friend that I don't think it's a good idea for me to put my eggs all in one basket. My friend agreed with that. The two of us then took turns calling different apartments to see if we'd be able to find anything that was reasonable for me. Because truth be told I don't want to live in a house where I'm renting a room from someone and there are guys renting rooms in the same house. I mean if it's between renting a room in the house that I was shown Friday afternoon and me having a studio apartment I'll definitely choose having the studio apartment. As said friend and I were in the middle of looking at apartments for me I received an email from one of the first apartment complexes that I'd called here in this state. In the email the person from that particular apartment complex had sent me he or she was bugging me about whether or not I wanted to go with said apartment complex as my choice of living. Actually this particular apartment complex was the one that I'd written about having emailed me before. So I replied to said email that that particular apartment complex had sent me yesterday afternoon to let them know that given the fact that that particular apartment complex didn't have any apartments that were within my budget I wasn't interested in being contacted by that particular apartment complex anymore. In the same email I also told that particular apartment complex staff members to take me off of their email list as well as their call list. However later in the day I'd reCeived another email from the same apartment complex. I didn't respond to that email though. There was no need for me to do so. Shortly after I'd read that email from the annoying apartment complex I received a text message from the lady who'd canceled out on me at the last minute. In the text message she'd sent me she asked if I could go to see her house on Monday. I exchanged a few text messages with her because my options of finding a place to live are pretty limited because of my budget. I was able to get that lady's zip code though and once I'd gotten her zip code I texted a friend to ask him if he'd Google whether that particular area was a safe area of this town. My friend texted me a little while later letting me know that that particular area was unsafe. So once I'd gotten that text from said friend I texted the lady to let her know that I wasn't interested in seeing her house because the area did not look safe. A little while after I'd finished texting the flaky lady I texted the friend I'd texted earlier in the day because I wanted to ask him if he'd look at the lady's neighborhood whose house I went to see the other day. A little while after I'd texted said friend, the friend I'm with checked the mail. It turned out that I'd received an award letter from the SSA in addition to several food stamp applications for the state of Texas. So I guess the state of Texas hasn't paid attention to the fact that I no longer live in Texas. Ugh. Such idiots! However in receiving things from the HHSC I was able to get the number to call 2-1-1 Texas using an out-of-state phone number which was a good thing because I didn't know how to make that particular agency aware of the fact I'm no longer in the state of Texas. I also received something in the mail from the doctor who's currently my General Practitioner (GP) who's located in San Antonio Texas. Apparently that particular doctor's staff members also did not pay attention to the fact that I'm no longer living in Texas. Ugh. This morning I woke up from a bad dream about some of my blood relatives. The dream started off with an uncle and this particular dream took place at my Oma's (grandma in German). The dream contained my uncle and I interacting with one another for a few minutes then my least favorite aunt entered into the dream. My least favorite aunt randomly appeared behind me and I was telling her off. I remember actually waking myself up saying something like "I'll love myself better than you could or would ever love me." Said dream definitely was not pleasant, that's for sure.