Changes?

This is a brain dump and an effort to write here more regularly, I need to do this more often.

I made a friend at work, a couple of them actually. They are both on the same shift as I am and are on the maintenance staff. One of them is from Mali, in West Africa, and came here with his family a few years ago to get away from ebola and other stuff going on there. He tells fascinating and terrible stories about what its like to live in a place like that, as fucked as our government is...his makes ours look perfect, GOP included. 

The other guy is from Barbados. He was a sugarcane grower, as was his father before him. He met an American woman and moved here to be with her but then it went wrong and he decided to stay. 

I was talking to my friend from Barbados and he has a house he is going to be renting out. A woman was living there and trashed the place, he said she was young and young people have no respect anymore. We talked about the place for a while and I asked him to tell me when he is ready to rent it, I would be interested and could give references that we would be good tenants. He agreed to and said I seemed like someone that he would like to rent to that would take care of the house. 

Could this be the year we get out of this house that I hate so very much? Prayers to the sweet baby jeebus that it is. Any extra energy, mojo or animal sacrifices anyone is willing to do to help would be wonderful. Im sure if the landlord was to try and complain about us leaving we could get out of our lease based on the amount of stuff she knows about and hasnt made any effort at all to repair for at least 2 years. 

Speaking of work, its going smoothly. I have adjusted well to the walking and figured out a schedule that gets me moving a lot and makes time seemingly go faster. I am still doing between 4-5 miles a night with the occasional bump up to near 6, I expect this number to grow when it warms up as I plan to take longer routes and be outside more. Im not sure if this will be a summertime position or not, there is talk of making it a Butler University position from their police department and I have indicated my extreme willingness to come work for Butler and drop ESG to part time. That would be an amazing opportunity. 

Im still eating like shit, but its getting a little bit better. I am really trying to do two things: I want to eat healthier stuff for lunch and I need to learn portion control. If I get too much I will eat it all no matter if I stop being hungry or not, a throwback to childhood when I was taught that food was love and love was completely consumed among other mindfucking lessons I learned around then. I am trying to learn portion control in a number of ways and some of them seem to be working, others not so much but I figure I can keep with the stuff that works and get it done eventually.

Another problem at work is hydration. I love to drink water, but somehow I dont like to drink it at all when I am moving around. I move around the vast majority of the time I am working so I get behind on hydrating and it takes a real toll. I try to carry a small bottle and refill it a lot but I can never find anything that is convenient and works. The search continues.

Thats about it for now. I am off to watch a movie after I work a little on cleaning the kitchen. Our next house will not get as fuckified as this one did. That I swear on my soul before the old gods and the new. I cannot live like that.