3483 Readers This Month

 

From April 30, 2011 - May 30, 2011 my blog has had 3483 Total Visits and I only advertise on Facebook and on twitter. I'm going to continue revising my poems and see if I can get the book put together by next summer.

I want to thank everyone for visiting. I remember a few years ago when I hit 100 page views in a month, I was ecstatic; to get over 3400 is mind blowing. I think I might advertise for a little while and see if I can get over that 5000 hurdle. That would be a lot of views in 30 days.

          All that I ever really wanted when it came to my writing was for just one person to sit back after reading something that I wrote and say “Wow”

          I never expected to get published and I never expected to make any money. I just wanted to touch one life.

          I mainly started the blog to help show women that are in abusive relationships, the effects that seeing violence has on their children but this has morphed in to something bigger.

          I think that it is still a way for women to see the struggles that go on in the mind of an adult child of domestic violence. They can see the many different aspects of my life and how the years of counseling and self study have helped me to get to a place where I can rise above the situations that I faced as a child. I hope that reading my blog will help show at least one person that they can rise above destructive behaviors and move on to a normal life.

          Unfortunately with the current custody situation I have removed over half of my writing. I did this because it was being used to try and make me look bad. I really think that this is unfortunate because I had nothing to do with the actions of the people in the other home. I think that their lawyer wanted to try and make us look bad to make his client look better, I understand the tactic and how unscrupulous some lawyers can be but it was still unfortunate.

          We are still struggling with DHS, for those of you that don’t know the story, a woman with a long history of making false reports to get even with people that she feels has wronged her back when she lived in Illinois got drunk while taking prescription meds and came on to me at a bonfire. She must have been embarrassed when I turned her down because she made a report about us shortly after that. Keep in mind that when this whole custody thing happened we were reported then and the findings were that the claims were unjustified. The woman that reported us this time lived in the home that reported us last time. Does that sound strange to you, it does to me. Now your tax dollars are being spent to go through with another investigation, the claim was that we have weak spots in our floors, we sometimes have ants in the house and that the dishes weren’t done. For any of you that are on my facebook, you know how often I do the dishes and mop the floors. I post about it every day, sometimes several times a day.  As for the floors, I weigh 379 pounds and I bounced up and down on the weak spots in front of the DHS lady and I didn’t go through. We do have ants here, if we drip something sweet on the counter and we don’t notice it we see them the next morning, otherwise we don’t usually see them.

          Some of you might be thinking that it would have been less trouble if I would have cheated on Mandy and not embarrassed the girl by turning her away but I have to say that, that would not only have been wrong morally it would have been a problem in the future. It is like dealing with any other form of terrorist. They try to get their way through intimidation and if you give in they keep expecting you to give in and eventually when you don’t they unleash their wrath.

          I believe in what I did, I stayed faithful and if we have to deal with DHS for a while because of it, then so be it. We passed with flying colors a few months ago, nothing has changed, I can’t see it as being a problem. It is only an inconvenience and a point of embarrassment but that was the accusers intent so I guess that's ok, we can handle it.

         

As far as DHS goes, we just spent $3100.00 trying to keep the children out of a home where they have witnessed strangulation attempts and suicide attempts, that $3100.00 would have went a long way toward fixing some floors and getting an exterminator. Why did we have to spend that money? The problem is that DHS supposedly can’t get involved when children have to see such things if the word “custody” is involved, even when an unsupervised child jumps on a bed and smashes through a window and cats are being thrown across the room in front of them. The word “custody” has some kind of power that makes it a matter for some other organization, so the children have to go back to a home where all of that takes place and we get investigated because I hurt a woman’s feelings and we have weak floors. Confused? Yeah, so are a lot of people, but it doesn’t really matter because the people that matter won’t help, they are part of a bureaucratic system that has forms, files and regulations that leave a lot of children’s minds and/or bodies scared beyond repair because the case didn’t fit in to a certain category or it didn’t fall under a certain regulation.

          The good news is that I am now a college graduate and after June Mandy will also have her Associate of Arts Degree. We both have plans to go further and I am already working on my next degree which will be an AS Business then it’s off to the University of Arkansas Little Rock for my Bachelors in Business Management. We also just got our third piece of land, that doesn’t count our 40 acre gold claim and over 4.6 million shares of stock; everything is looking really great for us. It’s a long way from 4 years ago when I sold most everything that I had, and moved here with a tent to live in the woods. I even got to shake a Senators hand the other day. I feel really good about how my life has evolved over the last 4 years.

 

          P.S. before I go, I just wanted to say that the other day we got a text message that came from the phone of the woman that turned us in to DHS, it said how they had used Cajon Voodoo to get the kids back in to the abusive home. Now, I ask you this, even if you were to try and use VooDoo to put children in harm’s way, would you brag about it? It kind of lets you know what kind of people we are dealing with and why your tax dollars are being spent on a DHS investigation. Keep in mind that over 3000 people a month will be reading this. I believe that the people have a right to know that their tax dollars are being spent foolishly. By next month 5000 more people will know the facts. I will continue to put every aspect of this situation in to the public’s hands as long as I feel that there is an aspect of this case that concerns them, and with times being as hard as they are I think tax dollars are important. I am not expecting any repercussions from telling the facts of this case but if there is even one thing that feels like it is a result of me going public with this I’ll spend every dollar that I have spreading this to everybody in America. As I said I don’t expect that because the DHS ladies have been nice and they have been respectful. They didn’t make the rules; they just have to follow them to do their job. I actually feel sorry for one of them, I know she was really concerned for the children but her hands were tied. I can only imagine what she would go through if the children had to see something even more horrible because she couldn’t stop them from going back there, or even worse if something happened to one of the children while they were unsupervised over there. She has a hard job and my thoughts are with her. I couldn’t do that job. I couldn’t let children be in danger over a silly rule. I’d get fired for sure. Maybe that’s why the DHS workers get burned out so quickly, I don’t envy them one bit.

 

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