We left off with me kicking A out and being on my own. I managed to stay in the place I was living for a year and then the management changed and since I was behind on rent due to having to pay it in installments to be able to live. Any ways after fighting with Welfare and the new management I packed up and moved. I couldn't find a place in time to move and ended up putting my stuff into storage and living in my Mom's living room for a month. With my Mom's help I found a basement suite in North Van that was barley affordable and moved into the shoe box of hell. It was the smallest place I have ever live in next to just renting a room. I was a 1 bdrm suite which was about 600 ft (maybe). AY and WY share the bdrm and I had a corner of the living room to sleep in. At that time I regained internet and got in contact with Galen again, but will save that story for another post. I stayed in the suite for 8 months. I was part of a program through Welfare to help me get back into the workforce and they were helping me find more affordable housing by helping me apply to BC Housing and applying on my behalf to other independant housing complexes. So I got a call form the complex that I am now living in, in Sept of '07 asking whether I would like to come in for an interview for a spot that was coming open. Of course I said yes and went for the interview, not expecting that I would get in, but went just in case. My 1st impression of the area was pure awe, it was so beautiful and the complex seamed nice even thought it was under renovations. I got to see the suite that was coming available, I just couldn't wrap my head around having that much space again. I left the interview with good feelings and a reassurance that they would call and let me know either way. I received a call at the end of Sept that I got in and could move in Nov 1st. I was able to move in a week early due the fact that the turn over went faster than expected. So I arranged help by asking A, the man I was dating at the time, and another ex who was still my friend. I also asked Galen to help, so by the time I was going to move I had 5 men and 2 trucks because my boyfriend at the time said he was going to bring his truck and get a friend with another truck to come help. On the day of the move only Galen showed up and I could not reach anyone else, so it was him and me doing the move all bye ourselves. We tried to get a van from U-Haul, but since I did not have a credit card and it was short notice that only thing they willing and able to rent to us was a pick up truck and the wanted it back in 4 hrs. So we spent 9 hrs and 9 trips doing the move, Galen was amazing. He just kept going, past the point where most people would have given up. I kept asking why he was doing this and his response was "Because I'm your friend and that's what friends do!". We did finally get it done and after we were done we went to a Halloween party and I ended up crashing at his place. He also help me unpack and get things organized in my new place, this and many other reasons made me realize just how good of a man he is and I took the leap and decided that we would become more than just friends. We had been kinda dating since late Aug of '07. I came to the decision and told him that I want to be his girlfriend Halloween night of 07'. Time past and we were seriously dating and he was spending as much time as possible here with me and the kids. In March of '08 we came to the decision that he would move in and he did. He lost his cabinet making job that same month. He was unemployed until he found a job in May of 08' and at the end of May we got officially engaged. Time past and things move on and about a year ago we decided that we going to be very active about finding other partners for us as couple and each of us individually. We are poly, which means that we are open to having secondary partners outside of our core relationship of just us. So we went about looking with out much luck and a few critical fails too.
So much has happened in the last year, Galen's Mom got very sick and nearly died and it looked like we going to move to Alberta and then while we were away at the Gathering in Aug she did pass away. So we stayed here, we decided to set a date for our wedding and start planing. I ended up meeting a wonderful man who is now a serious part of my life and Galen has rekindled a friendship with a lady we meet at the Taboo show last year. Things are going fairly well, stressful at times and there is a crisis that we are dealing with right now but I will let Galen tell it since it pertains to him.
I will be posting my day to day stuff from now on since we have reach the end of my back story. Though probably won't be be posting everyday since my life is not that exciting, just posting when big things happen/come up.
Thanks for reading and I will be posting a more detailed back story pertaining specifically to Galen and I. Stay tuned.
A concise summation, love.
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