Some Life Updates.

I moved out...

I officially moved to a new place, January 1st. I moved in with a friend of mine. Turns out my old place was literally making me sick, from black mold, sewage, smoke, other drug fumes, and just general terrible things. The fallout between me and my landlord was horrible, tragic, and I lost a friend over it. Not only that but I lost a creative connection too. This should have never happened.

The apartment was terrible. My new living situation is a great improvement. I am actually saving some money and I have more time to work on game stuff. Also, the office is greatly improved but my personal space is not. I am also not a huge fan of all the yelling between roommates, not directed at me, but over petty shit. It's annoying. And as someone who works in a bakery during the night time. I need my day time hours to not be so loud.

But also... I am breathing! Isn't that wild? Turns out I was struggling to breathe most of my time at the old apartment (I wonder why). Cough is gone, and I am no longer blaming "allergies".

Paint job!

I learned to paint walls. This is my new bedroom. Not the best of jobs, but trust me, the previous paint job was significantly soooo much worse.

Also, cats.

"Harley"-Davidson, the Pooper.

There are 3 cats here at the new place. I have been struggling to keep the cats from pooping in my space. This has been one hell of a fight. They don't go into my room, but my new office doesn't have a door. It is a converted Den space with stairs leading down. I will share a full set of pictures at some time once I get the place fixed up. But for now...

...You can see it in it's half complete state. I still need to get keyboard stands for my keyboards.

Spoilers: Gross Part of the Story (TMI)

Also as a complete gross note, I am in shock. To preface this: I have to let you know I have male plumbing (a hose if you will). Never have I lived and shared a bathroom with someone who has active female plumbing. And granted, I have a sister! But we never shared a bathroom. So I have to say, that this is indeed a culture shock for me. For a huge part of my life I have lived with my grandparents. Grandparents do some gross things from time to time, and that's normal. But this is so wildly different to me. I don't get grossed out by much, but over the past week, I learned that I still am grossed out by completely normal bodily functions. Sorry for that being: TMI.

Emotional State

Can I complain? Yes. The world stresses me out. I worry about the future of my friends and family. I worry about my day job, the economy, and my LGBT+ community. I don't like to mix politics into my safe havens, and game design is one of those safe havens; but as of late, that's been very hard. World politics and American politics has infested my daily life, and it's unavoidable. The stress levels of friends losing government jobs, to Nazi's becoming emboldened in my hometown of Cincinnati. It's getting nasty out there. People are hurting, and it's making me hurt too, even if I feel a little more emotionally stable than I have been in a long time. We got your Luigis and Cybertruck burners, a symptom of our current world. And hopefully after these terrible growing pains, we fix something. Hopefully we move in positive, good-aligned directions.

But the take away is... Stay strong. We have to fight the world's negativity with positivity. As prolific errotic/horror writer Chuck Tingle recently said in some social media posts "Be positive as an act of protest." (I am paraphrasing from memory, but this is my take away.)