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Yeah, I am. And I have been for 3 years!
3 years ago I packed up my backs - er... laundry basket - with some socks, a few t-shirts, my acoustic guitar and about $28, a pack of Camel Lights and a Monster Energy drink to my name.
I hit the freeway like a bat out of fucking hell - 14 South -> Los Angeles.
I arrived in West Hollywood where I moved in with a girl I had only been dating for a few months. Eventually I ended up homeless. Then I moved to North Hollywood with Erin and Stephanie, sleeping' on Sally's dead Grandma's couch (and they kept me up all night with Guitar Hero 2.... this could go on - its a song.)
Then I moved into Katy's house in Santa Monica behind the college. After another stint there, Katy's Mom politely kicked me out and that's when I landed at the apartment I've been in for the last 2 years-ish, or so... i can't keep track.
It's been wonderful, It really has been... but I need to be honest with myself - I am in over my head, and have been since the day i moved out here. The video game industry has literally collapsed, my current job isn't paying enough to keep up with the pile of bills in the kitchen and I am tired.
I'm tired of being stressed about rent (which I haven't paid for 2.5 months), about bills, about my lame ass fucked up job, about when the landlord is going to come over, about when my cat will learn how to stop being a bitch about a shared liter-box, about when my roomies will help with the dishes since I've DONE THEM THE LAST 3 or 4 TIMES THEY PILED UP LIKE THAT.
I haven't been having the best of luck out here in the last few months but overall, it has been wonderful.
Unfortunately, Rocky people aside (since I knew you pre-LA move anyways) I've probably only made a handful of friends, and only about 5 or 6 might stay in touch when I... yeah.... you guessed it - move back home.
I need to go back to school. I need to get back in the swing of things. I need to not have rent/utilities/etc. all piling up. I want to have a phone bill, car payment and insurance to worry about. not everything else under the fuckin' sun.
So I've decided that when 2010 starts, I will be moving from this awesome El Segundo apartment and back home with one of my parents in Lancaster. This was a really hard decision to make but after the last 2 months... I'm ready to go back to school. I'm going to continue going to school out here in Hollywood and at the same time getting some of my gen. ed. out of the way either at Santa Monica College (while i'm down here) or at AVC... whatever works out easier for the commuting.
The chances are I'll probably move in with my dad since we share about the same hours with each other and we'll be able to not bother each other with our random hour'd life-style.
This was really hard for me to come to, and to be honest, I'm giving myself till about Christmas time to think it all over... But the chances of me moving back to the AV are pretty good... unless i can find a job out here in LA that's part-time or full-time but flexible enough to go to school - and still make enough money to pay for rent/utilities/car payment/insurance/phone bill/groceries/cat stuff/etc...
yeah right.
*sigh*
I promised myself I would never move back to that town.
I promised myself I would make it work out here.
I promised myself... a lot.
-Tim
3 years ago I packed up my backs - er... laundry basket - with some socks, a few t-shirts, my acoustic guitar and about $28, a pack of Camel Lights and a Monster Energy drink to my name.
I hit the freeway like a bat out of fucking hell - 14 South -> Los Angeles.
I arrived in West Hollywood where I moved in with a girl I had only been dating for a few months. Eventually I ended up homeless. Then I moved to North Hollywood with Erin and Stephanie, sleeping' on Sally's dead Grandma's couch (and they kept me up all night with Guitar Hero 2.... this could go on - its a song.)
Then I moved into Katy's house in Santa Monica behind the college. After another stint there, Katy's Mom politely kicked me out and that's when I landed at the apartment I've been in for the last 2 years-ish, or so... i can't keep track.
It's been wonderful, It really has been... but I need to be honest with myself - I am in over my head, and have been since the day i moved out here. The video game industry has literally collapsed, my current job isn't paying enough to keep up with the pile of bills in the kitchen and I am tired.
I'm tired of being stressed about rent (which I haven't paid for 2.5 months), about bills, about my lame ass fucked up job, about when the landlord is going to come over, about when my cat will learn how to stop being a bitch about a shared liter-box, about when my roomies will help with the dishes since I've DONE THEM THE LAST 3 or 4 TIMES THEY PILED UP LIKE THAT.
I haven't been having the best of luck out here in the last few months but overall, it has been wonderful.
Unfortunately, Rocky people aside (since I knew you pre-LA move anyways) I've probably only made a handful of friends, and only about 5 or 6 might stay in touch when I... yeah.... you guessed it - move back home.
I need to go back to school. I need to get back in the swing of things. I need to not have rent/utilities/etc. all piling up. I want to have a phone bill, car payment and insurance to worry about. not everything else under the fuckin' sun.
So I've decided that when 2010 starts, I will be moving from this awesome El Segundo apartment and back home with one of my parents in Lancaster. This was a really hard decision to make but after the last 2 months... I'm ready to go back to school. I'm going to continue going to school out here in Hollywood and at the same time getting some of my gen. ed. out of the way either at Santa Monica College (while i'm down here) or at AVC... whatever works out easier for the commuting.
The chances are I'll probably move in with my dad since we share about the same hours with each other and we'll be able to not bother each other with our random hour'd life-style.
This was really hard for me to come to, and to be honest, I'm giving myself till about Christmas time to think it all over... But the chances of me moving back to the AV are pretty good... unless i can find a job out here in LA that's part-time or full-time but flexible enough to go to school - and still make enough money to pay for rent/utilities/car payment/insurance/phone bill/groceries/cat stuff/etc...
yeah right.
*sigh*
I promised myself I would never move back to that town.
I promised myself I would make it work out here.
I promised myself... a lot.
-Tim