Saturday, February 7, 2009

Broken Capillaries Toddler's Face



I contacted several realtors in my neighborhood and I started visiting a few apartments. It is not easy finding time to get organized, but I still saw a dozen. I do not know how to explain it but I realized that it's hard for me to project myself into an apartment to me. Maybe because it's been that one is homeless. Or is that I can not believe it ...

I made the mistake of visiting an apartment above Budget Camille got fixed. The agency said it would be readily marketable because it is on sale several months ago. But in fact the current owner is not willing to lower the price. The apartment was fun but it takes more thought. When you must buy something with a specific budget, it is better not to look at it!

If I saw a lot of apartments that needed work or a general refresh. Why not, as long as it remains in the budget. I asked Emma to make a few visits with me because I need advice. By dint of visiting, I begin to realize the prices and what I can expect, but a second look reassuring. Even if it ultimately Camille chooses.

I am both a hurry because I can not wait to put our bags and find a home where you can settle for good and invite our friends ... And at the same time, I want to take my time to really choose the apartment where you feel good, Orpheus, Jules and me.

For now, we're still staying with Emma. I asked him if we could stay until the holidays for children and she agreed. That was good to ask ourselves a little. The return has been difficult and I could not to get organized and be efficient. But gradually life has resumed, and again I found the energy to the daily. We had a great time all six, as the festival for six years, Louise. Julius found himself the only boy at the party! He finished in the room watching "The Aristocats" with Orpheus and a little girl who had quarreled with her girlfriends.

I received a letter from the prefecture DALO on my record. They took seven months to realize that my file is incomplete! They ask me now return their completed file within a month to study my rights ! Given their slow, I wonder if that is the sentence I answer them. My situation has changed, I have an apartment and I will not be eligible ... So much energy and time for nothing ...

What scares me even though I'll finally find a home for us is that I will no longer be a priority in public housing. However, ideally I would like one day that we have two rooms, one for children and one for me. But in Paris, living in more than 35 m2 is a luxury!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

How To Recover From Marijuana Usage



Hello and best wishes for 2009. This year started sadly for us. My elder brother died suddenly on January 3 last. We therefore do not return to Paris for September as planned, we stayed with my mother until the funeral which took place last Friday. Meanwhile, Julius has been hospitalized in Bordeaux because of pneumonia and I accompanied him to the hospital a few days. He was discharged Sunday but he still recovering from my mother one more week.

I'm back on Sunday evening in Paris with Orpheus. At the last moment, I asked Emma again, because we had to make another apartment Monday and I had no idea where to go. Emmanuelle accepted without reluctant to host us again. We went directly home. After lying Orpheus, I went to get our business to the apartment where we were before the holidays. I have everything together in several bags and I put some in a corner. I did not have accumulated as much business in one month, I could move everything at once. Do not have an apartment is increasingly hard to manage effectively. I can not stand to make a bag, even for a holiday is beyond me ... I really should be a pro bag! We must ensure at all times to keep only the bare necessities. So I took the biggest, and I returned the next morning to finish everything and move back the keys. We will stay at Emma for a while, I'll try to find another solution soon. The next weekend, she received her sister and nephews. It offers us still remain, but I prefer him to free space for it to receive his family quietly. I do not know yet where we will go but I think a friend who lives in Pantin, who suggested we need to receive. We'll see.

So the news ... We left in the everyday and we try to stand. At the end of the month, it will be one year since we homeless. Leaving our apartment in January 2008, obviously I did not think it would last that long. It's a strange life that we still over a year. It's hard sometimes to never be able to land.

However it happened something incredible that I want to tell you even if nothing is done formally. Our problem could be solved more quickly than I imagined.

Someone decided to help us. Her name is Camille. I do not know her, she contacted me after reading the article in Le Monde last November. I received lots of messages at this time and it was lost among the others. A month later I finally find him and I answered it.

Camille was first suggested we take an apartment she owns in the 16th. It was a very generous proposal, but it was difficult at first to live as far away from both the nursery and school which are north of Paris, and my work is in the south suburbs. I had to spend 3 or 4 hours per day in transportation, and I do not know if I'd had the strength. It was a feasible solution from the summer because then I would have changed the children's schools and enroll them in this neighborhood.

Finally we encountered was, and she then made another proposal even more generous: she wants to buy an apartment in our neighborhood for us to rent at modest prices.

I must say that I never imagined that such things were possible! The whole story finally have me much reassured about the goodness of some people. We're currently looking for an apartment to buy in the neighborhood. This should take some time before we finally moved, but it puts hope in all my actions.