So I have been told many times I am not the typical Welfare Person. Who is the Typical Welfare Person? I consider myself typical in some ways, unconventional in others. I am unique, just like everybody else. If I lived any other way, my doghouse of cards would come tumbling down. For instance, here is my list of Typical Boring Person qualification
- I don’t smoke cigarettes (I can’t afford a habit)
- I don’t use non-prescription drugs (I can’t afford a habit)
- I don’t buy lotto tickets (I can’t afford a habit)
- I only drink on rare occasions (I can’t afford a habit)
- I don’t go on vacations (no money is spare money)
- I don’t take my kids to the movie theater (no money is spare money)
- My kids are not on any sport team (no money is spare money)
- I don’t pay a cell phone bill
- I never watch a band play, even if it’s my friends, or my favorite.(no money is spare money)
- I volunteer 10-15 hours a week at my church
- I volunteer 10-24 hours a week helping my friend start her publishing company
- I take 4 full time classes at a University
- I raise 3 children without help from their father
So no, I’m not getting away with anything special. The government pays me to keep my children out of the poverty cycle, and to keep my old punk ass in school.
I feel more typical than I have ever felt in my life. I don’t feel like societies enemy. So this is my villainous day-
5:30 am-I wake up at and get my 16 year old off to school with the right start.
6:30 Then I write or do homework for an hour
7:30 Then I get my 7 and 9 year old up for breakfast and off to school by 8:30 am.
8:30 am I go to school until 11 or to work until sometime between 12 and 4
when I’m done with that-
I do homework until Ambrose comes home at 2:30, or go grocery shopping, or pay bills, or take kid to a dr. appointment, dishes, laundry, make appointments, do therapy, get forms filled out by Ambrose school then return to caseworker, prepare for inspection
more homework until
Dinner at 4:30 when the little ones come home
5:30 pm Kids homework, chores or studies
6:00- 8:00 pm play with kids, or do schoolprojects
8:00 pm kids shower, clean room
9:00 kids story time/prayers
9:30 kids are out
housework, homework, I usually pass out in front of my computer screen…
BEEP BEEP BEEP! Do it again! One more time! With Feeling!
Something tells me I am very typical.
Kayla's Welfare 
Not because Im good at it, but because I sometimes write random tid-bits of stupidity or sarcasm. Maybe A conversation by proxy.
Devoid of roots, to make me strong. Chastized; an outcast, and to nowhere I belong… and this is a letter from no one.
I dont me, and no one does. Alone I breath; care half, half as much… because this is a letter from no one. I am the living dead. Searve me my life to go. Forgotten as I said, I you chose not to know.
A pair of boots, with tread long gone.
With this, my sorted past, equal my new song…
Letters from no one.
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Lady, there is nothing typical about you. You can try but you will fail, you are just such an extraordinary person that typical is beneath you no matter what you think.
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