The Pharaoh in Leather

I was living in the same house as two years ago, with two friends and one of their moms, until about five months ago. Money had become an issue and I found myself unable to afford even $500 rent at that house for my room (which in my part of California is a STEAL) and thus I made the choice to move in with my boyfriend, his mom, and his mom’s work friend over the mountain at the beach. I am currently here and not paying rent thanks to his mom who considers me family~ But even with that, money was still an issue. I was in debt about $9000 across four accounts and monthly payments were taking a large chunk out of my measly minimum wage paycheck. Oh! Yes! I got a job at Target six months before moving and transferred to another Target down here. But with the credit payments, storage unit payment and car insurance, I found myself without much leeway in terms of other purchases.

My sister had also been struggling herself, as mom was getting worse. After numerous falls at her memory care facility and even breaking a hip, Social Services deemed the place unsafe for her and would not let my sister bring her back. She had to find a new place for mom to live, which was a kind of home nursing place just a few blocks down from my sister. Mom was getting continuously worse, even being unable to recognize my sister who visited her every week. Eventually, she developed Kennedy ulcers, or “kiss of death” ulcers old people get when they’re about to die. She passed on August 5, and her memorial service is this Friday. Honestly, this was a relief for me and will be for my sister. Now that she has passed, all the things her still being alive had blocked my sister from having access or information about can now be taken care of.

We sold our childhood home as well, greatly above asking price at 3.65 million. A lot gets taken out for taxes of course, but thanks to my share, sister and I split the remainder evenly, I now have much less to worry about money wise. While I’m saving the majority for my forever home, my sister transferred me a good amount to pay off my debts, see a dentist for the first time in four years, and get my car taken care of as it has also been neglected. Last year, sister and I reconciled at Christmas a bit. We’ve been on much better terms than before. We had a big falling out, went through some therapy which didn’t seem to work and ended with her giving me a letter saying we may never talk again for years but we need some time apart. That lasted about a year before she came around and wanted a relationship with me again. Hopefully, now that the money from selling the old house is accessible and we both get inheritance as well as access to things about the rental houses and other accounts mom had, she will be less stressed and thus our relationship will also be less stressed.

I am currently working nearly full time at Target but plan to go back to school this winter. Classes I need to take were not in the most accessible format this fall, so I’m skipping this quarter. But I hope to be on my way to a four year university next fall and get my bachelor’s soon!

During these two years, my weight went back up to the heaviest I have been and I’ve been taking action the past few months with great results. I’ve lost about 25 pounds and plan to lose about 30 more. With that change, I’m going to cosplay again! This is something I really enjoy even if I don’t make the costumes myself but just the experience makes me happy, so I figured I should work towards that~

I unfortunately haven’t been writing these years. That’s partly why I’ve popped over here again as I’d love to get back into the habit, whether that’s unlocking the hell that is my Yami blog again or something else. I still have plans to be a writer in my spare time alongside an hourly wage job in editing or something. Though...I have realized my dream job! It’s a screen writer! Perhaps I will work towards that but I don’t really have much hope for it actually coming true. But...I won’t give up completely~

My boyfriend Stone and I are still together, and our four year anniversary just passed~ We’re planning to go to the NorCal Ren Faire next weekend with his friends and we’ve been talking about possibly moving out into our own place. We’d like to buy land and a mobile home to live in until we’re ready for a big house, then have it custom built on the land and rent out the mobile home to friends or family. Sister has a different idea but we’ll talk about that on Friday. This house has little entertaining space compared to my last home which is very important to me especially with holidays coming up but we’ll figure it out~

Miss Kitty is also doing just fine~ She turned 20 officially now! Still screaming and running and jumping...Stone has his own cat named Easy E, his mom has a cat named Adelaide, and we all have a dog named Nova who is very sweet and cute.

I’ve begun collecting enamel pins! It’s honestly a problem and I have too many but I keep...buying them...hahahaaaaaa.....I just bought some yugioh ones i might post here soon~