For the first night in a couple of months, I am sitting at home giving myself time to rest and relax. I haven’t posted any updates since May, so I suppose this is as good a time as any to make a list (y’all know I love lists) of my last 5 months.

New job

I got one! I’m working in the industry I want to, I have significantly less externally imposed work stress (my brain hasn’t changed, unfortunately), and I am excited about all that I am getting to learn on the job.

Moving closer to work

There could probably be an entire blog post that goes over the level of hatred I feel for attempting to find a new apartment, but it is done and I will move there in December. Moving will justify my apartment search hell by removing some of the angsty emotions I have towards driving in traffic and paying way too much for toll roads where I can’t even drive the speed limits because heaven forbid anyone in Texas understand what a zipper merge is. I digress.

Working on taking care of myself

I suppose this is more of an ongoing project than an accomplishment, but I’ve finally hit a point where I realized I needed to stop running myself into the ground. I did a little bit of online counseling and got some tools that I do still attempt to use, but since I didn’t feel much connection there I am also going to start looking for a real life, human, in person counselor to help unravel my constant stream of thoughts.

Aside from the mental health, I finally decided that I hated sinus infections enough to warrant allergy testing, and surprise, I’m allergic to the whole wide world. Just…all of it. So I’m thankful for allergy shots.

Magnus

This is my sweet dog who I accidentally got a couple of months ago. I was just supposed to drive my mom to pick up his sister…and well…oops. After months of insisting that I didn’t need a dog because I didn’t want the responsibility and I was perfectly fine on my own…I’m glad I got his dumb fluffy face. He is a mess, but he is my mess.

Adult human dating

So yeah, I’m doing that thing, and it didn’t end in someone verbally assaulting me for my beliefs this time! It is going quite well. I think. I would say it is. My brain is still a huge jerk so we will see how it tries to sabotage me inevitably in the future. But hey…progress.

Aside from all of these highlights life has been about the same, meaning a lot of growth both in good and painful ways. One of these days I will set a regular blogging schedule, but today is not that day, because if I add anything else to my schedule I honestly might explode. So to my small audience, thanks for checking in. I will share fun adventures sometimes in the future.