Guest Post!

As I previously mentioned, Mo & I entertained our first "house"guest this past weekend. Groove came to visit & see the good, the bad, & the ugly of being homeless. In the words of my best fraaaaaannnn...

Hello all you loyal Mo readers! As Shush has mentioned before, I had the awesome opportunity to become a van dweller for a weekend. I learned a lot about the routine Shush has going for herself and the little tweaks you must make in order to successfully live in a van. Within hours of arriving, I learned first hand the importance of airing out your shoes & placing a dryer sheet inside of them to prevent the home from being a smelly mess. Onward to my weekend's events...

I wasn't able to leave until after work Friday so I got up Shush's campus at 11. Unfortunately, when you live in a van, there isn't much to do to entertain yourself. Fortunately for us, we've been given the gift of gab and were able to enjoy the simplicity of talking to one another and doing some general catching up. We wandered campus for a while and settled on this nice little deck by a pond. As we were talking we noticed this helicopter doing some weird things. It was flying around with its spotlight on like it was searching for something/someone, but it was far too high in the air and moving too fast to actually be looking for something. We sat there for a good 20 minutes trying to figure out what he was doing. At one point, I noticed him flying straight towards us. As he was flying over us his spotlight stopped on us and I just got the urge to yell 'ooh that's us!!" and wave. Shush joined me in our giggling waving antics until the weirdest thing happened...he shut the spotlight off!!!! Whatttttt??? It was so weird 7 we were absolutely shocked that we just managed to flag down a helicopter.


After all that excitement, we decided to go to bed and realized the bathrooms were locked and we couldn't brush our teeth. So we did what any other resourceful homeless person would do. We brushed out teeth in the automatic sprinkler system. "Van girl's brushing her teeth in the sprinkler!!!"




















Saturday started off with me sneaking into the sports center to get a shower. Epitome of homelessness. Shush snuck me in a side door and I had to run behind the front counter while the attendant was distracted. But this was no quick "let's run from the corner across the hall" kind of sneaking. No. I had to haul my ass around an indoor running track to the very opposite side. It was a little challenging and I almost screwed things up but alas, I succeeded in my first attempt at homeless showering. After our ghetto showering procedures we went to the local laundromat and washed a number of loads of laundry. To entertain ourselves, we looked at car magazines and all the cars I'll never be able to afford and Shush taught me how to make oragami paper cranes. Apparently, her 5th grade class had some issues learning the steps but being the 21 year old I am, I can proudly say "Yes, Jeff foxworthy, I am smarter than a 5th grader."


We made our way down the road to visit C.E.O. at his new apartment. He thought we'd be bothered because his furniture han't arrived yet. Silly C.E.O. Being the hobos we were, we thought annemities like running water, electricity, and closet space made up for it. We ended our fabulous Saturday by moving downtown for the reminder of my van dwelling weekend. We went to the canal to walk around and have a picnic dinner. I surprised Shush with a cooler filled with fruit, cold drinks, meat, and cheese so we utilized some aquired bread and had ourselves a feast. Shush doesn't get cold drinks or other perishables often so I think she was happy I brought things. I can be responsible. Sometimes. And I can aquire things from my job that make both of us happy.


After our feast, we reverted back to our hobo ways and passed out on our blanket under the tree for awhile. When we woke up, we wandered the streets of downtown and even managed to stumble upon some kind of mexican fiesta in the streets. Finally, we found a nice little darkened area downtown to park and called it a night.

Overall, I had an awesome time van dwelling with Shush. It definitely is an experience not having a permenant residence but that's also part of the fun. This whole experience in Mo will definitel be laughed about in the future.

Thanks for sharing MY moment with Mo...