Vicki update

I’m so pleased to be able to have a positive Vicki update. Although nothing major has changed yet, it looks as if there will be some positive upcoming changes soon, hopefully!

I’m taking her to the SS office on Monday and God-willing, she’ll get approved for disability payments & SSI. She has been approved for food stamps, too. She is getting her last 2 months of electric bill paid by a local outreach organization. Her car payment is WAY overdue & will be repossessed soon, but a fellow biker friend of ours is going to let us buy a car from him for her (cheap!) which ultimately means that Vicki won’t have a car payment!!!! YEAH!

She is taking so much ownership & responsibility for her issues which is so impressive to me and makes me so happy. I give her a ‘To Do’ list once a week or so and she immediately gets going on it.

In the last 3 days she has been blessed by 3 different random people giving her $100 each. She is brought to tears as she tells me about this! So amazing! She is saving every penny of it to see what she will need in the future if and when she can move.

Housing is the one problem that remains. She is getting on various lists of public/subsidized housing, but the wait lists are long and her slum landlord now wants to raise her rent!!!! Outrageous!

Since she still lives without a TV or radio, I gave her a stack of old magazines… you would have thought I gave her a bar of gold. If you have any that you can donate to her, please let me know and I’ll come get them - books, too.

Keep praying.

Don't shoot the messenger...

from the AJC 2/11/10...

1 in 5 Georgia schools is suspected of tampering with answers on the state standardized tests.

More than half of the state's (GA) elementary and middle schools had enough suspicious erasure to cause concern.

69% of Atlanta's elementary and middle schools are likely to undergo formal investigation.

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good news for Vicki…….

I’ve been diligently searching for a different place for her to live. The list for gov’t housing is super lengthy and she can’t even sign up ‘til 3/24/10. There is just limited availability of cheap, decent housing here. She has a dog, which is an issue.

She hesitantly informed me last week that in addition to the chipmunks living in her walls, there are rats IN her house that come out at night and eat the dog food……  what exactly do you say to someone who has to live like that?

Yesterday she called and had a renewed optimism in her voice. She said that out of the blue she thought about an old, long-lost aunt of hers (thru her previous marriage.) She remembered where the lady lived and went to visit her. They sat in the living room for hours catching up, drinking tea and listening to gospel music. Then Vicki was thrilled to have chicken & dumplings offered to her for dinner! Best of all, this lady offered Vicki the opportunity to move in with her. The aunt, Hazel, is 80+ years old and lives in this house on her own… the company they could be for one another!!!!

Please pray that this pans out for Vicki… I just do not know how many more doors she can have slammed in her face!