"WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe" (wesbarton89)
02/24/2015 at 14:19 • Filed to: None
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"WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe" (wesbarton89)
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I keep going back to things that played a big part of my past. It's strange. And it's not always in my control. I'll be 26 in less than two weeks (March 8, if you so wish to mark your calendars). From 1997-2010, I lived in one house. I basically grew up there. I remember places I lived before that, and of course, places I lived after that.
In 2010, after a big family fallout (which has mostly been resolved), I moved with my mom and stepdad to his house in WV. I was driving an Infiniti at the time, and working at a call-center 40 hours a week doing customer service. Around the same time that I moved out to WV, I met the girl who later became my fiancée, and the mother of my daughter. We dated for some time, and then she moved in with myself, my mom, and stepdad. After a while, things got strained, so we moved into her mom's. I quit my job over stupid conflicts. I didn't have the Infiniti anymore, either. Then, after things got strained at her mom's, we moved back into my mom's. Then, we found out she (my fiancée) was pregnant. I got another job, also a call-center, the following week. We went out and bought a car, a Cavalier. It was junk. After our daughter was born, we started trying to find our own place, and moved out on our own for the first time that summer, in 2012. We lived in one rental for about six months, and then we moved into another rental, on a bad side of town, and lived there for a year and a half. It was miserable. Her parents had some bad luck, and had to move in with us for over a year. Then, in the summer of 2014, something happened.
We ended up buying the house that I grew up in. We had been trying to sell it for some time. My uncle was the proper owner of the house, and my mom was paying him each month for the cost of the house, and she was trying to get out from under it. In essence, we agreed to pay back my uncle, what my mom owed him originally. In return, the house was ours, as long as we kept up on the payments. Neither one of us has good credit, and we wanted to buy a house, so this worked really well. 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, 3400sqft, with incredible views and lots of character, and a brand new deck, for about $35k, paid off by 2021 at the latest. No interest, no closing costs, no banks to go through, just lots of paperwork.
Now, as far as the jobs are concerned, I was still at that second call-center job, up until this past December, staying there for over three years. I left there, going to a place taking care of individuals with intellectual disorderes, thinking it would be an improvement. That didn't work out, so I am back with that same call-center job. Funny how that works.
I'm also, as you know, driving an Infiniti again. A different one, but still, same make. The other one was small and black, this one is bigger and white. Usually it's the opposite, ha!
Also, funnily enough, I'd gained a bunch of weight when my fiancée was pregnant, and now I've lost a good chunk of that, and I can fit back into my old clothes that I used to wear. For the first time in almost four years, I'm down below 200lbs, which for me, is a big deal.
So, basically, there are some things you can't escape in your life. I own the house that I grew up in, I outright own the same make of car that I used to make payments on, I'm working the same type of job I used to work, and I'm wearing the clothes I wore before my daughter was born, and I couldn't be happier.
Life works in some funny coincidences sometimes. I guess things are meant to be a certain way for some people, and I take a little bit of comfort in the way that things have worked out. I've put a lot of work into my life, and experienced some failures, so these successes make me feel good. In the grand scheme of things, it may not mean a whole lot, but it's peace for now. Things aren't perfect, but they never are.
This writing is probably altogether pointless, and may not mean anything to anybody here. I just felt like putting some words on a screen. Just wanted to point out, that no matter how much things change for a lot of people, the older parts of our lives never really go away, even as we change and mature. I'm a much different person than I was five years ago, when my life took a huge, irreversible change, but it's nice to hold on to those little pieces that remind us where we came from, and gives us a reason to keep working to get what we deserve in life.
Plum Crazy Durango for reading
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
02/24/2015 at 14:24 |
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Like the durango, I'd say your life is just...... plum crazy!
Shamoononon drives like a farmer
> WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
02/24/2015 at 14:24 |
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You had me at 35k for a house.... I couldn't buy a tile in the bathroom of a gay men's nightclub for that amount here.
Ducky
> WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
02/24/2015 at 14:25 |
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i see too much sob story and "awww my life is so hard things are so roughhh" on here. good on you dude. don't let anyone ever give you gruff over lucking into the house deal; you had an opportunity and you worked hard enough in life to be at a position to take the opportunity.
good for you man. keep it up.
CalzoneGolem
> WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
02/24/2015 at 14:29 |
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Plum Crazy is always the correct choice.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
02/24/2015 at 14:32 |
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At first, I almost stole the Durango by enjoying the view and not reading. But I changed my mind and read.
It's funny how life works isn't it? I made some choices back in high school that launched me in a different direction. I grew up in NJ and decided to go to a school 12 hours from home in a state I've visited once and knew not a single person in. Michigan State let me have a fresh start, I met my wife there, and I got a great education which led to great jobs. I've been truly lucky and blessed on that part of things.
I think often of how close I was to going to different schools in different states and how different things would be (Almost went to Penn State or UMass for swimming scholarships) but It all worked great, sometimes the path your on just works.
The funniest part is that I really liked growing up in NJ and some of my friends REALLY wanted out of NJ, I never knew why, they just did. The ones who were most adamant about leaving are still there and the ones (like me) who didn't have a real urge to leave NJ are all gone lol.
Aaron Paul: Oppo's Resident Fake British Actor
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
02/24/2015 at 14:33 |
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I see what you did there.
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Aaron Paul: Oppo's Resident Fake British Actor
> WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
02/24/2015 at 14:34 |
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Damn, those are massive wheels.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
02/24/2015 at 15:53 |
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