Yearly update.
I see it's been nearly a year since last I was around this site.
The basics:
- It will be 5 years in September since I moved to The Worst Place Ever. The best that I can say about here is that I...tolerate it. I hope someday to be able to say that I live in a place I really truly love.
- I have somehow, beyond all belief, managed to land A Job about 2 months ago. I'm holding on. It's not the greatest thing, but it's also not the worst. Most important is that I now finally have a way to start paying down the debt I've racked up over the past said 5 years of hell, which is not inconsiderable and which has the potential to get me thrown out of my house should certain people (some of you know who) learn of it. (Long, long, long story.)
- My Sam is 17 years old as of this month. He is currently in the end stages of kidney disease; how much longer he has is anyone's guess but as long as he's still eating and more or less acting normally (albeit sleeping much of the time) and doesn't seem to be in any pain I'm just taking it one day at a time. He is the best cat, or one of the best, anyway, that I've ever had. <3 I give him medicine twice a week, which has slowed the progression of his chronic illness - but it's not a cure.
- Speaking of pets, we had to put down my mom's dog back in June because her cancer resurfaced. I believe we did the wrong thing at the wrong time, but it wasn't my call to make. (Vet said it was a very slow cancer and not likely to spread beyond the site, which meant that Dog could've probably lived another year, give or take, but my mom apparently decided that she didn't want to go through any more of that and so The Call was made. The kicker is that mom couldn't even be in the same room when it was done; I stayed because although I never really liked that dog (too many issues and I'm just not a dog person anyway), I felt bad for her and I felt I owed it to her in some way. And yes, I was a total wreck. I've had to put down more pets than I care to remember.
- Am losing my state health insurance as of October thanks to the bullshit decision that I or someone else in the household (most likely my parents) "make too much." (Not how it was worded, but that's basically the gist of it.) I now have to figure out what to do because when I looked on the government healthcare site it quoted me over 400 bucks a month for a bare-bones plan. 400 is about the size of my check every 2 weeks, and that gets eaten up fast by debt installments, pet care, gas, and personal needs (groceries, toiletries). So yeah, that ain't happening.
- I've noticed my Akabane background is back. This pleases me.
- I try to write a little fic, but it's slow in coming these days. Mainly because Job takes up all my time and energy. The muses help entertain me in between customers.
Just basically trying to get through one day at a time and hoping things will get better. :/
The basics:
- It will be 5 years in September since I moved to The Worst Place Ever. The best that I can say about here is that I...tolerate it. I hope someday to be able to say that I live in a place I really truly love.
- I have somehow, beyond all belief, managed to land A Job about 2 months ago. I'm holding on. It's not the greatest thing, but it's also not the worst. Most important is that I now finally have a way to start paying down the debt I've racked up over the past said 5 years of hell, which is not inconsiderable and which has the potential to get me thrown out of my house should certain people (some of you know who) learn of it. (Long, long, long story.)
- My Sam is 17 years old as of this month. He is currently in the end stages of kidney disease; how much longer he has is anyone's guess but as long as he's still eating and more or less acting normally (albeit sleeping much of the time) and doesn't seem to be in any pain I'm just taking it one day at a time. He is the best cat, or one of the best, anyway, that I've ever had. <3 I give him medicine twice a week, which has slowed the progression of his chronic illness - but it's not a cure.
- Speaking of pets, we had to put down my mom's dog back in June because her cancer resurfaced. I believe we did the wrong thing at the wrong time, but it wasn't my call to make. (Vet said it was a very slow cancer and not likely to spread beyond the site, which meant that Dog could've probably lived another year, give or take, but my mom apparently decided that she didn't want to go through any more of that and so The Call was made. The kicker is that mom couldn't even be in the same room when it was done; I stayed because although I never really liked that dog (too many issues and I'm just not a dog person anyway), I felt bad for her and I felt I owed it to her in some way. And yes, I was a total wreck. I've had to put down more pets than I care to remember.
- Am losing my state health insurance as of October thanks to the bullshit decision that I or someone else in the household (most likely my parents) "make too much." (Not how it was worded, but that's basically the gist of it.) I now have to figure out what to do because when I looked on the government healthcare site it quoted me over 400 bucks a month for a bare-bones plan. 400 is about the size of my check every 2 weeks, and that gets eaten up fast by debt installments, pet care, gas, and personal needs (groceries, toiletries). So yeah, that ain't happening.
- I've noticed my Akabane background is back. This pleases me.
- I try to write a little fic, but it's slow in coming these days. Mainly because Job takes up all my time and energy. The muses help entertain me in between customers.
Just basically trying to get through one day at a time and hoping things will get better. :/