The last time I posted here I was freshly post breakup and had just moved into my first solo apartment. Here’s a little update...

A few months after I stopped posting here, my father passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. We had a complicated relationship and it’s been a weird loss for me to navigate. I’m not very good about talking about it so I’ll just leave it there.

I’m still single, and haven’t been dating. I started roller skating and totally fell in love with it, and I’ve made a lot of new friends through that activity. I finally feel like I have my own friend group and my life feels very very full. I get lonely sometimes and would like to find a dude eventually, but I’m happy. It’ll happen when it happens.

I adopted another cat last September- her name is Sage. She and Ollie are besties and I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to have the sweetest baby cats.

My business has come to a screeching halt bc pandemic and I’m down from 25 weekly walking clients to 3. I’m trying not to stress too much because I know I’ve got it a lot better than most and it’ll all work out somehow. I’m grateful that unemployment has been extended to the self employed. Also grateful that this happened when it did because it’s been nice to have a relaxed summer this year after two summers of non-stop running around caring for pets. I may need to get another nanny job in a few months if things don’t turn around, but I’ll be fine.

My brother had heart surgery two months ago- it’s something we were anticipating for awhile and it’s such a relief that it’s over and done with and he’s recovering well.

Since my business has slowed so much and people aren’t really going away much/need pet sitting, I don’t need to be living in my service area anymore, so last month I moved out of my adorable little studio that I loved so much into a little house that’s in the woods behind my mom’s house- it belongs to her neighbor who has a lot of land and built several houses on it. I’ve always said I just wanted to live in a house in the woods here, and now here I am. It’s about three times the size of my old apartment, the rent is a couple hundred cheaper, and I have a patio and backyard space! I’m so happy to be here and it’s really nice to be so close to my family. (My brother and nephew live with my mom too.)