doing my check in HOW ARE YOU BABE
had to collect a couple of these like infinity stones,,, ahhh,, i will stop apologizing for being gone so long as you can see by the dates of these messages, because I know the gang understands why it had to be this way !!
BABES
let's do a brief summary of what happened to me in my year long sabbatical
I had just moved in the last chapter, i was couch hopping from like May to August, that year. fun summer honestly. So by september 2024, I was only finally settling in
In october, we had our housewarming party, and I got a job working at a studio--- however, it was/is part-time only, so I kept my OLD shitty well-paying desk job but now part-time also. they overworked the fuck out of me. i was working weekends a LOT. i barely had time to write (as I'm sure you can tell)
Found out my mom has cancer (yipes !), but I talked in more detail about that in another post, so I won't do a deep dive here. Suffice to say, it's been rough, but she's still alive, and that's a huge blessing, and I'm thankful
Found out my brother was moving to chicago to take a better paying promotion, and that'd he be moving by Feb 2025 (YIPES !)
Now we are spending every holiday together, for as long as possible, because these 2 things have made us all cherish each other a lot. Thanksgiving is wonderful, Christmas was beautiful, I stayed with my brother for like 3 weeks, it was sick--- Did not have the time to write like I thought I would, oops
Brother moves in february
cousin gets married (hell yeah) (not really that important, just a sick wedding)
my coworkers watch me being psychologically abused and encourage me to quit my shitty desk job, we make a side gc and make a plan. i use all my free time to book appointments and use all the insurance money i had with them. new glasses, cleaned teeth, meds refilled, therapist aquired
once i save up 5 months worth of wages, I quit my shitty job, and only have my nice studio job
studio job continues to be parttime (rip) but it's busy and I get a lot of cool responsibilities for cool people, UH OH a bunch of insane shit happens with my company, we're okay and we're doing good, but i am at the center of making sure everything goes ok, so that is like. a lot. to handle.
studio asks me to take classes for production, they pay for the classes (hell yeah), i take them, it lasts all summer, DID NOT. HAVE TIME TO WRITE SHIT !!!
oh also i visited my brother in chicago.
and then idk the rest is sorta blur. a lot happened.
And that was everything that happened, while i was away. So the question is: how am i now?
Eh. Yeah, I'm good, I think.
I think I'm doing pretty good. Could things be better? Sure. But could things be a lot fucking worse? YES, TREMENDOUSLY.
Honestly, when I first started writing CK, I was in my parents basement with nothing else to do... And then once I got a job, I was sleeping on my grandma's couch, writing up a storm, since I didn't have time to do anything else.
Now, I haven't had time to write because I have so many people in my life back again now that i live in the city !! i fucking LOVE MY FRIENDS RAAHH !! So yeah, took a break because things were bad and busy... but also, took a break because things were happening, as a whole. I was busy and my heart was/is full.... a win, in my book, babes !!
but i truly truly am glad to be back. I missed y'all. Still figuring out how to balance things tbh, this chronically ill bitch has so little spoons, yknow?
