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sh1njuk1 I'm sitting in my favorite chocolate shop - exciting times!! We just signed the lease on a new place yesterday, hooray :) But because life gets crazy all at once, my husband finally cracked a bit after months of working completely alone in our awful plastic apartment, and he just left to spend a few weeks at his mom's place to recover from getting constant panic attacks all last week. He will be spending the daytime working next to a daycare the family runs, so that he can hear children talking and laughing and feel a part of society again.
I wish he had given me a heads-up earlier about how much he was suffering, but I was going through so much of my own stress (the move to the private office was the key, I am able to handle my job now! And also turn off the goddamn florescent lights - I have a grandma lamp from Goodwill with a non-LED bulb!) at the time that I probably couldn't have helped.
Anyway. Miraculously, I managed to get a new place scouted out anyway. It has one more bedroom, costs $600 less, and is one block away from the old place. The freed-up cash will go towards getting my husband into a co-working space to support his continuing mental health. This place is big enough for us to have our second child comfortably, so once all this is sorted, that's the next life plan :) I have two weeks to move, I'll be taking care of our son all by myself, and I'll still be working full-time.
Today is probably my last moment to myself for some time - I have a vacation day today, but the daycare was open. So I am properly stocking up on chocolate (I'm gonna need it) and using this blog to make a to-do list!
1) I need to start the process of breaking our current lease. Just to get a reference number, I was calling all around yesterday; this shithole of an HGTV set apartment changed management companies last month and I kept getting re-routed to someone in Texas. Maybe at least they will be able to process my lease breaking - they should be set up to process my check, at least? I hope? Anyway, I need to call them. LOL I just called them... got rerouted to Texas again! But at least Texas dude said he would leave a message with them and ask them to call me. Hopefully I will get a call tomorrow.
2) Finances! I completed most of them last week but I need to proceed with them this week! At least let me check the total I have in my checking account, to get ready for the bills as they start to roll in. OK, this is done - I should have enough to pay what is coming up.
3) Food shopping! I need to stock up on what my kid likes to eat, so that we have enough going forward that I don't have to do extra shopping, because I really won't have time, lol. Winco is a cheap place to get this stuff, so I'll be going there.
4) My husband tried to join me at my office last week - it didn't work out, as I need privacy to focus on the logic problems that are my entire stupid job, and not to be dealing with someone incredibly emotionally needy like unfortunately my husband was at the time. I'll need to grab the heavier stuff he brought with him, and take it home in the car.
5) I need to write and mail several letters. My cousin tragically died of COVID; I need to send my aunt a sympathy card. I need to return a key fob to the coworking agency I went to in 2020 (it's quite overdue). I need to write a last postcard to a friend of mine, to finish out the set. Just got all the addresses for doing this later.
And finally... start packing boxes. I can start moving them next weekend!! Exciting!! :)
I wish he had given me a heads-up earlier about how much he was suffering, but I was going through so much of my own stress (the move to the private office was the key, I am able to handle my job now! And also turn off the goddamn florescent lights - I have a grandma lamp from Goodwill with a non-LED bulb!) at the time that I probably couldn't have helped.
Anyway. Miraculously, I managed to get a new place scouted out anyway. It has one more bedroom, costs $600 less, and is one block away from the old place. The freed-up cash will go towards getting my husband into a co-working space to support his continuing mental health. This place is big enough for us to have our second child comfortably, so once all this is sorted, that's the next life plan :) I have two weeks to move, I'll be taking care of our son all by myself, and I'll still be working full-time.
Today is probably my last moment to myself for some time - I have a vacation day today, but the daycare was open. So I am properly stocking up on chocolate (I'm gonna need it) and using this blog to make a to-do list!
1) I need to start the process of breaking our current lease. Just to get a reference number, I was calling all around yesterday; this shithole of an HGTV set apartment changed management companies last month and I kept getting re-routed to someone in Texas. Maybe at least they will be able to process my lease breaking - they should be set up to process my check, at least? I hope? Anyway, I need to call them. LOL I just called them... got rerouted to Texas again! But at least Texas dude said he would leave a message with them and ask them to call me. Hopefully I will get a call tomorrow.
2) Finances! I completed most of them last week but I need to proceed with them this week! At least let me check the total I have in my checking account, to get ready for the bills as they start to roll in. OK, this is done - I should have enough to pay what is coming up.
3) Food shopping! I need to stock up on what my kid likes to eat, so that we have enough going forward that I don't have to do extra shopping, because I really won't have time, lol. Winco is a cheap place to get this stuff, so I'll be going there.
4) My husband tried to join me at my office last week - it didn't work out, as I need privacy to focus on the logic problems that are my entire stupid job, and not to be dealing with someone incredibly emotionally needy like unfortunately my husband was at the time. I'll need to grab the heavier stuff he brought with him, and take it home in the car.
5) I need to write and mail several letters. My cousin tragically died of COVID; I need to send my aunt a sympathy card. I need to return a key fob to the coworking agency I went to in 2020 (it's quite overdue). I need to write a last postcard to a friend of mine, to finish out the set. Just got all the addresses for doing this later.
And finally... start packing boxes. I can start moving them next weekend!! Exciting!! :)