How long did it take you to drive across the country? When I lived in my auto I drove from Miami to LA and San Francisco and back twice, It took 3.5 days to drive from Miami to LA, I slept in my auto when I got tired, otherwise I had just cruise control on.
The elderly Jewish man (84 years old) actually told me his story how he had survived during the NAZI occupation in Poland while fighting in the forests of Poland. He told me how they, his friends, had used German army uniforms to carry out their activities against the NAZI occupation. He also told me that he ate two eggs a day with other food during the 2nd WW, which made me to add to eggs in my diet during my auto living in America. I actually have met some real heroes such as two elderly women in a synagogue in Atlanta who had transported food and supplies to Leningrad across the lake Ladoga during the siege of the city by Adolf Hitler’s troops.
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Oh, im very successful in ruin things generally.
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One major goal I set when I was just a little kid was to own my own home. Later in life it didn’t look like I ever would. Came close in my early 30s but circumstances led to that not happening. Then I set the goal to own my own home without loans or mortgage…I started out while homeless, down to pennies, and 5 years later had it.
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I think it took me about four days. I did not sleep in my little red truck. I was a girl alone with her cat. We stayed at motels that allowed “pets.” I ate potted meat and Vienna sausages until the last day. At the last motel I stayed, I ordered a pizza for room delivery. When, they delivered my pizza, my cat snuck out of the room. Some guys also staying on the same floor hollered; “Lady, is that your cat?” I got my cat back; thanks to Spirit. I was very upset with her, though, but, I was so happy to have her back I didn’t stay upset. By that time of my trip, I had a terrible headache and it was very very foggy and rainy.
breathing… 
take care 
oh yeah, and i have a 
spaceship behind the house.
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I believe the foundation of my daughter was a success. Unfortunately she had to watch me derail. We speak about every other day now and she continues to be the reason for my continued existence.
Got into drugs at a very early age and ruined my education.
After having my child I started working trades. Sheet metal, fabrication, install…I started picking up everything quickly and it was great exercise. As luck would have it, Chicago PD picked me up for DUI while sleeping off my buzz in a legal parking spot after a friend’s release party…Cornservitory. I lost my trade job and moved.
I worked at a steel mill for sometime which was gnarly, so dangerous, but yet so fun. Some of the steel we rolled sold to a train manufacturer next store, I went to welding school there and built countless cars and laid miles of welds. Production sought to be too monotonous and I found myself bored quick. I had good report and landed a trip to NDT (non destructive testing) school. Learned ultrasound, xray, mag particle, dye penetrate…yada yada. The pay was better but the job ended up to be me with a piezoelectric transducer in my hand reading tiny blips on a portable green screen for up to 16 hrs a day at times. I escaped to a job with Suzuki as a Kaizen tech. There, myself and 2 others designed and manufactured, in house, a complete material handling system way under budget. It was a very expensive experiment that turned out to be hugely successful and ended up in some form or another in many other Suzuki plants. An embarrassed engineering dept. took us under their wing and formed a new department. Our product was ATV’s. Soon after I started to self destruct and ended my first marriage. Symptoms set in hard and I eventually left the company. Big Mistake. Missed a Japan trip and an opportunity of a lifetime. After a short stint at a pawn shop I ended in high pressure die casting. A black art, if you will. Soon after learning how to operate the machinery I was salary promoted and given more schooling, PQ squared, tooling, process work. Very technical. Being true that it is impossible to make a perfect casting, I fell in love. I had a small office in and was put in charge of a Ford account. I made them quality goods. Unfortunately, China was given several contracts, our company got sold to a large corporation and they decided to shut it down. I went down with the ship and witnessed many families and lives fall apart. Ultimately, it would be mine. Devastating breakdown leaving me as is.
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Yup, yup. It’s not over until it’s over.
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I’m in love with the aesthetics of mechanical and architectural drawings. School if I can get my head straight Pete. Mowed the lawn and went to Sears today…baby steps I suppose.
The second time when I drove across the country I had also a black cat with me, I got this cat in Miami Beach, it almost escaped in Beverly Hills but came back. Driving across the country is fun, one sees a lot of nice places. When I drove back from LA to Miami and started sleeping in my auto in Miami I woke up in one morning to a feeling that I was still driving, this was after 3.5 days of driving.
I’ve had a lot of successes. Getting out of being condemned to rot in a state hospital to graduating high school with honors was a big one. Getting married is up there too.
I think that one success of mine was when I was a management consultant in America five years operating in an international environment and traveling a lot.
yep im with you
What comes to mind is - quitting piano lessons.
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I would like to learn how to play a violin, I should have tried this much earlier in my life, the time is just running so fast.
Going back and finishing college after developing sz.
Singing a solo in a musical.
Playing the lead in a play.
Violin sounds neat.
I too graduated from college. I was a eunich, so no dating life with women. that was a major success despite my parents drinking and fighting in the home. I was an only child and was used to breaking up their fights and putting them both to bed since the age of four. they simply did not remember it in the morning and everything was like miss mary sunshine once they were up. I developed a bad case of insomnia toward the end of college though and was very drained upon graduation. right before that I fell visiting a friend of the family in the hospital and my symptoms of schizophrenia started. but despite it I worked 3 yrs for an aegis contractor and one year after I visited the state hospital for exhaustion, I had a job working on a computer at an airbase near where I live. there have been a lot of successes. I have a security clearance, but no close friends, still no support network. I get involved with the media every once and a while whenever my symptoms of delusions of reference occur, but the ones around the nursing home are used to me now(I hope) and let me nurse my dying kidneys.
I have diabetes, so I spend a lot of time checking a1c and urinalysis. now at 60 I have completed a religious poetry book, ‘rainbows’ which I gave to the catholic church. that took 100 poems. i’m now working on a second book of fiction. I like whodunits and its about a detective that becomes disabled and his dog (service animal) helps him stumble humorously to solving the crime, but the dog is the real hero and ive started a blog about dogs. that’s all to current day