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If you’ve been following along, you’ll know I had to set up a legal and living expenses fund to cope with a terrible series of events. I’m currently trying to secure a rental unit. There’s something called the 3x/rent policy where the landlord requires I prove I have assets to cover 3x the rent for […]
I am so close to securing housing after the divorce. There’s a place that checks a lot of my boxes. I put together a housing plan with the goal of monetization to sustain housing moving forward. Today, I learned I need $2500 to meet the rental requirements – 3x/rent for 12 months, first and last […]
Today, I harvested the final three of our five backyard pumpkins. Four are at the house and one is at Fort Faulsey. The vine itself is starting to give up the ghost. Hopefully it will return next year. Did you catch the joke – ghost/pumpkin? All five are robust and sturdy. I see meaning there, […]
While chatting with a friend recently, I commented how I had always wanted Fiesta ware. Our household dishes are a mishmash of inherited partial sets that we never got around to updating. I’m pretty sure they aren’t actually safe in the microwave or dishwasher, but they’ve been fused together by time and determination. At the […]
There’s a house on my block that was recently renovated, not restored. It has been on and off the market. The current asking price is $284,000. The house is 1300 square feet with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and an office. Plus living room and kitchen. I could store the entire pet food pantry in one […]
This week marked an important milestone for me – I got myself back home two years ago after six months of being homeless. That was March 10, 2024. It’s legal, but tenuous. So I began to wonder – am I still homeless? I’ve lived here since July 18, 2005. That’s the longest I’ve lived anywhere […]
I like calendars – being oriented to date and time are good mental health practices. I like calendars with attitude. And cats. In 2025, I had three wall calendars and one daily tear away calendar. The tear away was filled with women’s quotes, but in a bland way that focused on traditional messages. But I […]
Only four days into NaBloPoMo and I’m scrambling to get a post up in the next 51 minutes. Democrats won every single election. I’m sure the analysis will feed news stories for days to come. While it is much needed good news, it still is like the bare minimum to navigate the terror in the […]
My therapist recently asked me to recount a childhood experience where I felt or knew that I had been abandoned. At some point in our childhood, my parents started taking off for little drives on my Dad’s off days. They would leave while we were still at school and come home when the spirit moved […]
This weekend, I had a lot of time and an empty house so I decided to tackle a few tasks for me – tasks that would make me feel more comfortable, more satisfied, more content I guess. Laundry was a big one. I have a lot of laundry packed in IKEA bags. I had off-season […]
