The Good Life by Beau Jodie

Author:Beau, Jodie [Beau, Jodie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

I got pretty lonely after the divorce party. With the kids out of school for the summer, Allison had her hands full, and I had trouble dealing with the noise and commotion over there. Adam practically lived at the hospital. Jake was around for small pockets of time but he was usually on his computer working on his pictures and marketing his business.

I was supposed to be looking for a job, but I still felt scarred from the Skank Queen incident, and so I focused on volunteering to help others instead. I fulfilled GLL Challenge #25 by volunteering at a homeless shelter. I washed sheets and made beds and also donated a bunch of my expensive beauty products to the homeless women. I hoped to go a few times a month.

Even though it wasn’t on the GLL, I’d also gone to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to request a little sister to mentor. Since I couldn’t start my Social Work studies for another year, I thought a little sister would help keep me motivated. After a process of interviews, background checks, reference checks and drug screenings, they finally found me a little sister.

The info I was given was that she was thirteen, her name was Violet, she had been born to a teen mom, didn’t know who her father was and had been raised by her grandma while her mom was off whoring around – under the pretense of trying to find a father figure for her daughter, of course. Seriously, I’m not making this up. Sometimes stereotypes exist for a reason.

The girl had started to act out by talking back to her grandma, getting in trouble in school and hanging out with the wrong crowd. Grandma was worried and contacted BBBSA. That’s where I came in. I was supposed to hang out with her twice a month and try to show her different ways to enjoy life that didn’t involve getting into trouble.

We’d already had one session together and I thought it went well. Since I knew she was in the art club at her school, I took her to an art gallery and then a carnival. I could tell she was a good kid, and my guess was that her bad behavior was influenced by this new group of friends she had. Saving Violet from a life of STDs, teenage pregnancies and drug use was my new goal for the summer.

Aside from saving Violet, I didn’t do very much during my first few weeks back in Michigan. I sent in a few resumes via email for jobs that were way out of my league, just to say I was looking, but I wasn’t putting any real effort into it. I wasn’t putting much of an effort into anything. Most days I just hung around at home in my loungewear. My brother and Jake would make asshole comments about me wearing my pajamas all day but my clothes were from the “loungewear” section of the stores, and they were made specifically for laziness.

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