Day 8 & 9

Day 08 → Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit.

When I lived with Lynda.  That is a part of my life that I've done my best to block out.  She turned out to be a horrible, cruel person that I wish I had never met.  I was brand new to Pittsburgh and she took advantage of that-she offered me a place to live because I wasn't getting along with my roommate, and like an idiot, I took it.  I thought she was so nice-she was 36 so sort of a mother figure to me.  Three weeks after I moved in, she got me and our other roommate evicted, even though we'd been giving her rent money, she'd been spending in on drugs and alcohol-which I didn't know until later.  We lived in hotels for about two weeks.  She rented a U-Haul in my name and then kept the U-Haul for an extra week, just because she hated taking the bus.  U-Haul had a warrent out for my arrest for "stealing" their vehicle, and I ended up taking it back when she was at work-she didn't talk to me for two days after that.  She never paid the money she owed them, so that's still on my credit report.  People told me I should get my own apartment but I was so young still and afraid of living on my own, since I had never done that before.  I was basically afraid of being alone at all.  We finally got an apartment, and it was good for a while, but then she starting being awful to me-calling me horrible names, slapping me, stealing money from me.  I finally moved out to my own place, but she hurt me so much....I don't understand what it is about me that says yes please, walk all over me, abuse me, hurt me.  I don't stand up for myself, that's probably a big part of it.  Funnily enough, I moved out from that bad situation right into a different kind of hell-but that's a whole other blog post.

Day 09 → Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted.
I guess a lot of my friends from IUP-it's part of growing up.  I miss IUP a lot, especially when I'm so down and sad.  I miss living with ten other people and always having SOMEONE around....We all were best friends, and now we're spread out all over the country....but they're still my best friends.  I wish we could all be together, but life gets in the way, growing up gets in the way....