How bad do you want it?

So , as I said last blog I would tell you more of my exit Texas strategy.



Well here it is: Get the heck out of there in the fastest way possible.



So , I started that In January, and just in case you don't have a calendar handy there with you, it is now May.



I realized somewhere around Nov. of last year that I no longer wanted to be in the relationship that I was in.

I saw some really wrong things go on and I cannot live with my conscience and let these things go on.

I realized that Tony and I no longer had anything between us. That our values very 100% different on every account.



I didn't want to spend Christmas with my family so I choose to stay until after the holidays.



In January I came to Nebraska for a visit and as I always do I longed to be "home".

I talked it over with my bestie and it was decided that I was moving home again.



I had no idea what was in store for me as I began to leave.



First of all I had to find a way to gently break this news to Tony. Finding him on a less angry day/mood is Impossible so i kept it to myself waiting for this day to arrive. it never did and things only got worse.

So, to make a LONG Complicated story short I was forced by circumstances to move into a Safe House.

A place where women go to hide because they are involved in Domestic Violence.

I thought that I could get a Protective Order and be on my way in about a week.

But like they say "Everything is bigger in Texas".

This also applies to wait time. It took me 5 weeks and 1 day to get a Protective Order.

In the mean time I am forced to hide out and wait.

I have learned that I am a horrible waiter. Its not so much impatience as I just hate waiting.

I think that I had to prove to someone somewhere that I in fact really did want to leave Texas.

In Order to leave I had a list at least a mile long of errands to run. And every errand turned into at least 3 more.
I went to get my things from storage and found out that I had to come back the next day.
I went to get the oil changed in my car and had to go back 3 times because they broke the window opener thing on my car and then they had to order the part and put it on.

I went to get a spare tire for the car which resulted in 3 trips back to the same place. Just to get a tire.

I had to get a hitch installed on my van in order to pull a trailer . They cancelled my appointment twice and then I had to pay $100.00 more than I was quoted.

SO finally the day before I am set to leave I get everything accomplished and think that it is now behind me.

The day of court I go in and am done at about 9:45 and I am set to wait for them to make me a copy of the order that the judge had just signed.

I wait until 12:15 Two and a half hours to make a copy! are you kidding me. Then I wait for a taxi to pick me up and I wait about two hours.

I then finally drive away and out of Texas! Hallelujah Jesus!

I arrive in Oklahoma where I am set to pick up a trailer and load furniture.

WRONG! THE U-Haul guy that told me he could meet me after hours to pick up a trailer. told me straight up NO he wouldn't work with me even though he told me on the phone that he would. GRRRR

Go to the house where the furniture is only to find that there is about twice the furniture there than what I had in mind .

So, we just leave and drive to outside Oklahoma City.

We just made a 150 mile excursion on to our trip that was pointless.

It is now 3 am and we stop to get a room. I have been waiting all day and I am about to burst with frustration. I take a shower and lay down and sleep.

AHHH what a glorious sleep it was!

Everything has gone to plan since then.

It was just as if the great God of Texas just had to know how bad I really wanted to leave.

I Love Nebraska! I love being home! I love being out of Texas!

And I think that I earned my freedom.

Karen