April Update
What has been happening in my life lately
March was a CRAZY month for my household. We had a whirlwind of moving houses, selling one and buying a new one, and it was absolute chaos.
From March 11th through to March 25th, we were living in hotel rooms and trying to make progress in our home through that time. It was really hard on all of us and I’m not sure what I would do if I didn’t have the help and support of my family during this time. I am so grateful for everything they have done to help my family.
Since March 25th, I’ve been working as much as my body will allow in one day to make this house into the home I know that it can be. Unfortunately, the house was in a little rougher shape than we originally thought, and the dirty bitch that lived here left a BUNCH of her shit in the house. So much so that we had to order junk removal service AND a bulk garbage pick up from our trash service just to get rid of all her shit.
Little by little the house becomes less Hotel Crack-ifornia (there was a DEA raid on my home apparently) into a lovely little swamp witch home full of greens, greys, and a little white. Today, my mom, my son, and I tackled the kitchen. The weirdos put this horrible contact paper all over these gorgeous white and grey swirled countertop and all of the cabinets. Which that would have been fine (I guess) but they did it so slap-dashed and crooked that it looked HORRIBLE. Once we got that (and the layers of cockroach shit and grease) off of everything, it looks like a completely different beast! I was shocked with how good we were able to get it!
Now, we had to get a new oven and fridge because the other ones were infested and disgusting and unfortunately, those don’t come until the 6th. But thanks to my parents, we were able to get GORGEOUS new appliances. I’ve never looked forward to something more in my life, I swear lmao. I don’t care if they arrive at 7am (apparently they could come any time between 7am-7pm), I will be so happy that we have actual appliances I might cry. I haven’t had a working oven in over two years, and the last half a month has been spent eating out of minifridges and coolers. But I see the light at the end of the tunnel and it’s getting closer.
One of the first things I did when I got to my home was start my seeds for my new garden. I’ve never had a home where I had a place to put a garden bed and I’m so excited to grow my own food, flowers, and herbs. The first batch of seeds I planted exploded and is now over 100 seedlings in a little box, waiting to be big enough to be put in the garden. That will take a little while still, but MAN are they growing FAST. The first batch is also all flower seeds that my mom gifted me. My second batch is another flower (lol I couldn’t help it they were SO PRETTY) and two types of tomatoes and sugar snow peas and THEY STARTED SPROUTING TODAY! I’m SO EXCITED!!! I love tomatoes and there is literally nothing better than home grown tomatoes. And people doubted my ability to grow and honestly I’ve had a hard time with growing because of my ADHD and living situation that didn’t allow for me to have plants. Now, I am motivated and I have the set up, so it IS going to happen.
I haven’t been able to get to writing yet but as things get more settled, I’ll be able to start picking back up my writing. I mean this is the first substack article I’ve written in a minute and I used to do those like weekly to a couple of week. But I also felt like I was annoying people when I wrote that much lol.
I will be getting back to In Between Our Stars soon, thank you for your patience with me because it has been rough lately. But slowly things are getting better and better. I’m so happy to have my cats back and now all of my pets are in my home, my home is getting cleaner and nicer the more work I do on it and I am feeling hopeful and grateful.