Real Life Stories Of Wild-Fires.
So, here's a story about the Idaho forest fires, as told to me by my sister who heard it from my dad's nurse, who's daughter is the one that actually lived through it.
( Under the cut for upsetting topics. )
( Under the cut for upsetting topics. )
My week's going okay, my parents left on Friday so I've been on my own since then. I've been slowly getting things done, paying bills, moving my life to Delaware. The movers showed up on Saturday and were not prepared for resort traffic so it all took longer than expected. They hoped to arrive at noon, ended up arriving at 2:30 then there was trouble getting their truck into the unloading area of the storage place. When they got going it went quickly and done. Since then I've been kind of lazy, I sent some emails I've been meaning to but haven't gotten back into full job searching mode yet.
Today sucked as I woke up from a bad dream about having to deal with my old work and helping a replacement. But no one would listen to me or believe me when I told them things. Then I tried to return my Comcast stuff here and they said I couldn't, so that still has to be done. Tomorrow I'm going to have lunch with the local children's librarian who's a friend and mentor of mine and see if I can help out at the library. I'm also trying to sort out seeing some friends in the area and a trip to New York for a thing with my New Zealand university.
Stuff's happening just slowly and that's okay. Its nice to not feel this push of must get a job, must get this and this done. My parents completely support me taking a breath and being in their place is already helping. I can walk to places to eat, I can work at my computer in the back garden. The only downside is they don't have cable but they have an Apple TV and Netflix so that works.
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Ugh, no. You are out of there, it shouldn't still be haunting you! I hope it doesn't turn into the thing you dream about whenever you have a stress dream, like I still dream about junior high school and no one will believe me that I graduated high school years ago!
But other than that, it all sounds pretty good. Nice and easy going and some good decompressing time, which is sorely what you need. I think it's great that your parents are giving you a chance for that and not being overly pressure-y just yet.
(J came in the room while I was reading this comment and said, "Oh! How is she? Tell her I said 'hi'!")
Pippin was very excited today and came and sat in front of me with a toy mouse in his mouth and then chewed the tail off it for me to see and then did his 'hunter's' howl for five minutes. He thinks he is so tough but it was just adorable instead!
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It is good and I think it helps a lot that I'm the youngest. All of my older siblings have had points where their plans didn't quite work out and they came home for a bit. My parents know this is only a pause and how awful this past year was.
*waves at J* Aww, Pippin, he's so silly.
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