I started a job at Special Data Processing, which is the National Magazine Exchange and I work full time, 9-4. The difficult part of my job is getting there. I have to wake up at 5 AM in order to make it there by 9, by city bus. And I get home at 6:30-7. So, essentially, I work from 5AM to 6PM, including the 2 to 2 1/2 hour bus rides. My mum works a job that pays her very little. Her husband is fooling around with her and works a job that pays him cash under the table. My mum went to New York and helped a friend and as a result, was given $500. She was going to use that as a down payment for a car for me so I wouldn't have to ride the bus for so long up to Clearwater everyday. I just completed my first week, and get paid at the end of the second week. But the mortgage on the house is due on the 16th, which is the middle of the second week. Her husband has once again failed her and she doesn't have what he would have given her to help pay for the mortgage. So, she has to use the $500 to pay for the mortgage. We have two cars already. But we don't, we have one, mum's car. Her husband's car is a car that he insists on not driving. So that is why I have to ride the bus every day to work. If we would have had the car that I'd use to get to Clearwater, we would have had 3 cars, but essentially 2 cars because the third car would be a car that he doesn't use and refuses to sell. He spends a lot of money fixing it up, but no money on his family or their needs. He doesn't provide much of anything for the family anymore, but still claims that he has to pay for everything when he's arguing or complaining. She came and told me that we wouldn't be able to get the car because of him and I tried not to show any anger, but mothers can sense it. I hate cars, is all I can say. Cars and traffic.
