Sick & Busy
This year nears a close and I'm wondering how it escaped me so quickly.
The past year+ has been a whirlwind. Last summer (Jul 2021) I sold my house in Fresno while the market was still hot. Once Chris moved out it became exceedingly difficult to maintain the house and the bills myself. I rented my third room out to help make ends meet but I was still constantly living outside my means. so when I finally sold it and made a decent profit I felt great. As if I had just cut a bolder from my ankle.
Since then me and Es have been living with Jacques in his 3 bedroom house. Its bigger than my last house and has a pool and hot tub, so that's been nice. I especially love the soaker tub in the master bedroom. I love taking Epsom salt bubble baths and watching TV from the tub.
Since my bills have been cut living here I finally have actually done some world traveling this year. In June I went to Detroit for a work conference. downtown Detroit is beautiful in an old-building sort of way. Then after I headed to New York for a week long vacation. Jacques met me there, and we saw everything! I loved New York. I loved the vibe, the liveliness in the air, and all the good food and places to see. I'll try to upload photos to this post. I havent used LJ in this new format yet so I'm not sure how everything works or whats changed.
Anyhow, then a month later Jacques and I went to Fiji! It was truly magical and beautiful and I kept feeling like I must be in a dream. I've spent most of my life with self-limiting beliefs, thinking myself unworthy or incapable of extravagant things, so sitting at a beautiful resort with infinity pools felt surreal.
In August I was contacted by a community college for an interview. During COVID I finished my Masters Degree in English. Once complete I applied to this one school and then just gave up looking out of self doubt. The school reached out to me a year later, and I got the job! So this semester I taught two English I classes. I fell I love with it and again, it almost felt surreal having accomplished something I'd previously only dreamed about. But in addition to those two classes I have my full tfullfull-time-time day job- working remotely from home in marketing & operations for a machine vision company in the automation industry. So my days since AUgust have been work heavy and busy. I don't hang out with friends much anymore. I feel domesticated and work driven.
Next semester I only have one class to teach and I'm relieved. I want a lighter work load.
ALso in January I start on a second master's degree- this new one for Film Studies.
I want to get into more details but I need to get up and eat.
I'm working from bed today on the laptop because I'm sick. Jacques gave some illness that's annoying me because I only like to feel in the tip toppest of shape.
I've decided to force myself to write in this more no matter how busy I am!
More tomorrow...
