First Week of 2024

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Hah, okay, I decided to start trying to do "week in retrospect" blogs without realizing it was still the first week of 2024. It has been a VERY rough holiday season. So yeah, I don't usually vibe with New Years Resolutions, but a fresh start is usually pretty welcome, especially when I have things I've been wanting to do, like writing, blogging, and doing various arts.

But chaos. this week as the start of the year? Yikes.

It wasn't all bad, of course. Nothing ever really is. New Year's day with my mates was lovely, I got paid Friday, Saturday was my first day at a new job that I'm getting pretty optimistic about (sadly only one day a week with that job right now, but again, I'm optimistic), and I kinda ended up having a philosophical breakthrough that seems to be really helpful for my mental health. But.

Chaos. It got super rough fast. First up, it was the second week of camp at my job. Camp days are HARD. Especially when we're perpetually short staffed. Two counselors trying to wrangle 30-odd kids and 10 horses? Well, at least the horses are mostly trying not to be little gremlins. Aaand we end up with one counselor teaching a riding lesson with 10 of the kids while the other tries to keep the rest entertained. And not stepped on. IT'S PRETTY ROUGH. Ah, the childcare professions. You will be fucked.

So that was rough. Working at the location that gives me an hour commute to do it is also rough. Not being able to afford gas and eking along in $10 increments on tip money is...worse. It's worse. Having my Venmo locked down because a transaction didn't process until after I was already overdrawn threw another wrench in the works. My mate was generous enough to switch cars with me and put up with my very, very smelly car for the day.

And then...rent. We were about $1,200 short. Yeaaaaaahhh...it was...not good. We eventually managed to scrape what we needed together, but it was rough, and...it's been building for awhile. We're gonna end up moving from a 2-bedroom apartment back down to a 1-bedroom. It's tight for 3 people and 2 cats, but we can make it work. But now we need to pack up all our stuff and pare down to fit in the smaller apartment within the month. Yikes. We'll get it done, Robin and I have played this game before, and Vi knows what vi's doing too. It's just, yanno. A Lot.

Sooo, crazy work days, severe money issues I went into already overdrawn, and the looming First Day at a New Job.