I have to be out of my house in a few weeks. I'm getting some assistance from VA about where to go and so forth. However, all assistance was based on being a single parent/vet with a minor child. Originally, difficult child was supposed to be released from detention in mid-Aug, then he got released two weeks early so two days were spent rushing to put some things in order that couldn't be done until he was actually under my roof again- things like pursuing housing. Now that he's out again, I can't access the same type of services so this week has mostly been spent dealing with people who are now trying to help me as a single person, alone, with no child in direct custody. Resumes are sent out as I find any kind of ad that I think I have a chance for. But mostly, other time is spent trying to sell whatever I can as fast as I can. I had a yard sell last weekend and am doing it again this weekend.
IOW, the plans I was pursuing with difficult child in the home cannot be pursued now. The VA is now trying to line up trransitional housing anywhere they can for me but if some miracle happened and I got a job within a week or two, I could go to an apartment instead. So basicly, plans have had to be changed in major ways twice in the past 9 days. I don't won't to end up leavving a housefull of furniture and getting absolutely nothing for it so I have to sell faster now. When we thought difficult child was going to be with me, they could have gotten us into an apt and they had told me to not sell the furniture that we would need- which is why I had not been doing that and now I'm in a crunch to get rid of almost everything.
I thought most on the board knew this kind of stuff but maybe I've PM'd a lot more about it and not made it so clear publicly. I will be checking back on the board later this evening when I stop by again to check email about stuff I'm selling.
Oh- I went back to my first post and realizze the confusion because I did say difficult child had done illegal things and posted them and he's going to get into bigger trouble. The illegal thing was in the photo but PO already knows about it. The stuff that could get him into bigger trouble was posting photos flipping a bird and cursing and saying he didn't care about the law and so forth- that in itself is not illegal, but is certainly stupid for difficult child to be doing. Sorry Marg for the confusion!
Even though the courts might already know this stuff and it will come out at difficult child's trial, I don't want prof people I have worked with in the past and who know difficult child's name to run across that kind of stuff. I don't want a potential employer who might google my name to run across something like that, although I could probably get around that because they wouldn't necessarily know he is my son. It emabaressed me- right or wrong- people do judge a parent on things like this. He had his school and neighborhood listed- all kinds of people we know could have run across this.