So, I applied for, and got, an Apple Card. I FIGURED OUT a conservatuive bestimate of the Trust's yearly income , reined it in, and used it as my income, which it is, and got me a card. I’m guessing my good consumer standing with Apple the past few years didn’t hurt either. I’m saying all this now because tomorrow morning I finally have a Trustee meeting and I’m nervous that they’ll react poorly to me getting a credit card. But I was tired of the Trust repeatedly taking advantage of Butch by expecting him to repeatedly tie up his credit card with deposits for my travel expenses and stuff. And, honestly, with them not seeing money management as an important part of my recovery. Honestly, when it comes to $, the Trust has always a bit slow to acknowledge my recovery progress. And, frankly, I’m done. Done with holding back on my recovery because the Trustees appear, by their omnipresent silence, to be so much more comfortable with preserving the status quo, than advancing my...
a blog that is also meant to serve as a recovery journal, for this gay, Quaker, writer dealing with t.b.i., from surviving a hate crime in Sligo, Ireland, on 1.31.99.