Author Archives: David Beamer
I'm currently living in Florida. I'm married and have two kids and two cats. I love photography and technology.
Made it to Kentucky
Sorry for the long wait for a blog post. We made it to Kentucky.
So what we did to move from Florida to Kentucky in such a short notice. One I am grateful that my Mom had room for us all to move in with her. So we all packed up our personal belongings.
We ended up getting a trailer hitch installed on the Kia soul and rented a 5 x 8 trailer to take our personal belongings and to have room for everyone in the car.
Our car was full with my wife, son, daughter, dog and two cats. So there was absolutely no room for anything else in the car. I got to admit I was nervous pulling a small trailer with a compact vehicle. But the little kia that could killed the road trip.
There was one area where the Kia felt like it was struggling a little, but it was a road going up a steep mountain. After we passed that we were all good.
Now the cats, I was worried about them meowing the whole 12 hour drive. But they did really really well during the drive. One did meow a little but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be.
The dog did really good but we gave her a children’s Benadryl. I definitely recommend anyone traveling with a dog to use that. It keeps them calm and the whole trip was smooth as butter.
The kids napped pretty much half the trip. I don’t blame them lol especially since we left Florida around 3am. Also it did make the trip a little less stressful.
My wife she also slept half the trip but like I said we left at 3am.
I’m not going to lie them all being a sleep at 3ish in the morning I was getting sleepy. But I ended up stopping and getting a energy drink and once the sun came up I was as good as new 😂
Now that we made it to Kentucky, the animals seem very happy. Also the kids really seem to be a lot happier. We enrolled the kids in school and took the kids to go see their school and they absolutely love them.
My daughter was so happy to see all the things they had there for her to be able to do. Also this middle school still has the national beta club. So she can continue doing that. There is also a few sports she would love playing that they offer. But I’ll post more about them as it happens. All she needs is a physical so we will get that done before school starts.
My son also wants to do some sports. So I will end up getting him a physical to see if he can be able to play this year.
Other than the move my next thing on my agenda is to start a business and get serious on side hustles. If anyone has any advice or ideas please share them with me.
All I know is things are starting to get better and once I can get a steady flow of income coming in all will be great. I love my family and love that we had a safe and beautiful drive here.
I forgot how much I love hills and mountains. I’m so glad we moved. Anyways thank you for whoever is reading this and I hope you have a great day and week ❤️
Ready for change
I’m excited to move away from Florida. Idk if anyone that reads this, but if you ever felt trapped somewhere. That’s how it felt for my family in Florida.
I did learn some lessons out here. One lesson I learned is all employers don’t really care about you. They may say they do but they don’t. So no matter what look after yourself and always have your guard up.
My job that I put my two week notice in was a good job, but the stress and non appreciation, is not worth it. The pay definitely not worth it. Especially when its a hazardous job.
That was one of the reasons why I want to work for myself and or start a business with my wife. Because doing bridge inspection is not worth it anymore for me. The politics are always crazy in the office and all the risks are no longer worth it.
I’m ready to become everything I want to become in this world. I’m ready for a positive change in my life. I’m ready.
Getting ready for the move.
Inflation, wages and everything else…
I haven’t blogged as much as I want too. I’ve been stressing just like everyone else during these times.
So we are going to be moving by the end of the month. I can no longer afford our apartment. We also received a notice on our door. I’m just lucky we are able to go move in with my Mom.
How did I get here? Working and trying to survive 🤣 it’s nuts. I have a nice job inspecting bridges but it doesn’t keep up with the cost of living anymore. So since I can’t afford to live in Florida anymore. We’ve decided that moving in with my Mom is our best current move.
Idk how much longer wages can stay the way they are. I feel like more and more people our in the current situation we are in right now or homeless. We need change and we needed it yesterday.
I’m still trying to process all of this and it does suck to quit a job that I’ve been at for almost 8 years. But I have to what is best for our family and if we try to keep staying here in Florida I feel we might end up homeless. I mean I know our family wouldn’t allow that but the thought of us being homeless with our kids, nope.
So the move to Kentucky is our best move for right now. I can save up money there and work on some side hustles I’ve been wanting to explore. Who knows maybe this is a blessing we don’t know about .
Once we arrive I will start blogging more and try and explore more of Kentucky while we live there. We are going to be moving back to the West Coast as soon as we save enough in Kentucky.
Summer
The kids are out for summer and are so excited.
My daughter is so excited to go see her grandma this summer. She will be flying out on a plane by herself to California. It makes me nervous even though I know she will be fine 🤣
The funny thing is that she has been counting the days down on a whiteboard on the fridge. She told me she has all sorts of plans for grandma.
I look forward to hearing the adventures and funtime she has out there. I love when she tells me how her day or how anything went. Because she goes into great detail.
My plan is to also teach my son how to swim while my daughter is out of state. He seems excited about it. I just hope he picks it up really quick.
I also want to take my kids to the mochi nut store that is opening up soon. We had it in Cali and love it. That and a boba place.
Speaking of boba and summer I made two shirts please check them out.
Summer T-Shirt https://a.co/d/6F5gZbp
I Need Boba T-Shirt https://a.co/d/aCp3EnG
Dreaming big and setting goals
I love dreaming of how my life can be with my family. With a house that is big enough for all of us to live in. So the kids have their own room. I dream about it all the time. Then I think how can I get there?
How do I get there? Especially with they way society is nowadays. With inflation, housing pricing, gas and etc… Just everything has gone up. So the question is how do I get to where I want to in the way society is.
Well I plan on setting multiple goals and I plan to stick them out even if the goals don’t achieve everything I want. At least I will be one step closer.
I also dream about ways to help society change into humans that aren’t greedy. I dream that we help each other out and end poverty, because for us being as smart as we are. How come humanity let’s each other suffer just because it is not affecting them personally. Well you should feel affected because we are all humans so why watch other humans suffer when that could easily be you in their shoes.
I dream that eventually, humanity comes together and helps battle all the real-world issues that are going on. The way we all can help make that a reality is by setting goals to be more positive everyday. Tell people how you truly are feeling. Humans are emotional and we really need to express that emotion and not suppress that emotion.
I dream that 20 years from now that everyone is living a good life and we are working to make the earth a very beautiful planet for everyone and everything can live together and be happy.
I have a lot of ideas but keep them inside. But the way society is going I feel like we all need to share ideas to make earth and the world better.
Because when it comes to it we all live and we all die. So everyone lets live our dream world and help humanity change for the better. Let’s give back to the world. Let’s spread that positivity out and change society so we can all live the lives we want.
I hope everyone has a great day and set goals today, but set a goal that will help society change for the better. If that goal is to smile more 😊 then do it and spread it around 🥰 because we need a little more positivity in this world of chaos. ❤
Amazon Merch
My wife made a nice design for a shirt and on a hoodie. It says pawsitivevibes to spread positive vibes around the world. Especially if you are a pet owner.
I really love the design and if anyone who reads this would love to buy the shirt or hoodie to help spread positive vibes please do so and if you do I really appreciate it and thank you!
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Time Flys
When I was a kid I would hear older people say “enjoy your time while your young” or “enjoy being a kid while you can” I really took what they said with a grain of salt.
Now that I’m in my thirty’s and my kids are growing up so fast. I actually see and understand what those older people were talking about when I was a kid.
That’s one thing I’d wish I had more of is time. I feel like I never have enough time.
I feel like my kids are growing up so fast and my Mom is getting older quicker.
I know life is short. I’ve lost my Dad to suicide. Everyday I wish I spent more time with him.
I just wish everyone had more time to actually live on this world. That way we can spend our time with our families ect… But we always give to much of our time to other people’s buisness ect that barely pays to get by now a day’s.
If we all had more time to focus on each other and the world, I guarentee we can accomplish a lot as huminity. We can fix real world issues.
I feel the way society is now is holding back huminity overall, but if we can overcome the old way society thinks and come together to make a society that everyone can love and live in.
I also feel if we had more time to be creative and just do and discuss new ideas. That we can solve alot of problems.
Housing Prices and Rent in Florida
I’ve lived in Florida for 7 years now. When we first moved here it was affordable. We planned on buying a house or at least renting a 3 bedroom home.
Well we were about to do it. Then the pandemic happened. After that Florida has had more and more people moving here each year. Ever since then prices kept going up and up.
Yes we should have gotten a house sooner, but at the time we were working on our credit. It was getting better. Then a lot of other financial factors prevented us from getting into a new place.
I was supposed to be in a higher position in 2020 that would have helped get us into a new home, like many of my friends at work. Then that fell through due to rumors and management.
Besides all of that. I really wanted to move my family into a bigger place. My kids deserve thier own room.
The thing that I’m worried about now is how expensive Florida has gotten. Also the fact the wages out here can’t keep up with how fast cost of living has gone up. So what worries me is how much longer I can afford living out here.
I know it’s not just us in Florida and this is an issue across the nation. All I know is we all need to figure out how we can come together and make life better for every person.
How can we do that?
Some way we can help is by starting a universal income for the United States. That way everyone can afford the basic needs no matter what.
We also need to make housing affordable for everyone. No human should worry where they’re going to sleep or eat. We also should make it to were everyone has insurance.
The healthier our society is the more our communities can flourish. The more the community flourish the better our economy will be.
The way society is right now. Everyone is just working to die. What is the point in that. We should all be able to enjoy life.
Beamer's Life 