This day couldn't get any better!

byMurieB86

891 followers

Updated 9 years ago

All right, I know what you must be thinking. Did I make more money yesterday? Well.. In a way I did LOL! Not WA related, though. Still, I wanted to share the events that occurred yesterday with you despite of them not being WA related. Ok, here goes:

In the morning I woke up and I expected my dad to be here around 12:30 PM

He then ended up calling me that he would be at my house a little later. I was waiting for some curtains to arrive at the store and I needed my dad to help me picking them up. He has a big car and I don't own any car LOL! Seems, clear, right? Well, when he arrived, it was kinda awkward. Let it be known, that my dad and me aren't the close to each other, like I can easily not see him for a few months or longer and I still wouldn't miss him.

We arrived at the store and one of its employees immediately apologized to me and as a form of compensation, she ended up giving me a discount of about 15 euros on top of the entire price. So, why apologizing? I had to wait almost three months for the curtains to arrive compared to the promised three weeks.

Second point of clarity. I had to make a small down-payment on the curtains when I ordered them and I would pay the rest when I picked them up. I expected to get a ten per cent discount off the pending balance, not the entire price. That was 10 euros. Then as an added bonus, she allowed me to pick some sweets or something else free of charge. So, there, my total discount increased to 15 euros.

My dad told the lady that I have the Asperger Syndrome and it causes me to get really disoriented when things don't go according to a plan. Well, this happened in a minor degree, but not in such a degree, that I couldn't function anymore. Trust me guys, that happens to a lot of autistic people when things don't go according to their plans.

The talk with my dad in the car while driving home

Yes! That was quite an exciting talk and I didn't expect him to say what he said to me. He asked me what I needed to be able to move to Cebu. I said, well I need a plane ticket, I need to make some trips to the Filipino Embassy at the other side of the country, I need to renew my passport.

I'm sure I said more things, but I can't remember EVERY single detail. What I do know is that he said, "What if I pay your plane ticket, what else do you need?". That's basically how we started talking about that and finances. I said that I would have to find a way to make some money to finance me moving to Cebu.

Also my mom called me last week suggesting that I could maybe let someone else rent my apartment from me for a few months and in the meantime I would be able to experience what it's like to live with my girlfriend in our own place permanently. Well, for those few months I mean. When it works out, I could get to terminate my lease and other utility contracts and stay in Cebu.

I know I would have to take care of many things here in Holland to make it possible for me to stay in Cebu permanently. Well, I was surprised when my dad said that my mom actually came up with a great idea. This would allow me to come back to Holland when things don't work out during my trial run.

I would still have my apartment and my stuff. If the housing organisation would not cooperate with me when it comes to allowing someone from my supervisor's organisation to temporarily rent it from me, my dad asked me if I was willing to take the risk to losing everything. That's a valid question and when I think about it, when I move there, I'll take the most important things with me.

This apartment I'm living in is a nice place, but my girlfriend isn't here. I don't feel attached to this place in the least. My dad made a joke about me having to sleep underneath a bridge when I would come back and I gave up everything. See, dad and his new wife have plans to move to Portugal. I said that mom would never let that happen and my dad said of course not.

Afterwards, what happened

Let's just say, that my dad said I should discuss this with my supervisor and he said that it was important for me to have a goal, a deadline to work towards. He said that right now I have no direction in life (well, he doesn't know about WA yet), and it causes me to slip away into this downward spiral if I'm not careful. Then I said, that my supervisor watches me carefully and would raise an alert when I get too unhappy.

Well, I'm not unhappy now, OMG! I could be in Cebu by next year and who knows even celebrating my godson's 2nd birthday. When I told my girlfriend she was excited, too.

Just when I thought yesterday was the best day, guess what happened when I woke up?

I was checking my emails, feeling very fuzzy, and that's where I noticed one email. It said "Invitation accepted" from WA! I was like, what, invitation accepted? So, I apparently have a referral from one of the blog posts I shared with others via Facebook and Google+. Isn't it awesome? I'm not even working my way through WA bootcamp and still I could be earning a commission from this particular member.

That's it for now folks

I know this blog post is a long one, but I'm just so excited, that I had to share all of this with you. All of you make me feel so good about myself, my confidence level has gone way up since I've become a member here. People around me notice that also. Thank you for that! Most importantly, thank you for taking the time to read this blog post!