{"id":45011,"date":"2017-07-26T22:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T02:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45011"},"modified":"2020-08-02T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:11:49","slug":"writing-because-i-suddenly-have-nothing-else-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45011","title":{"rendered":"Writing because I suddenly have nothing else to do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since the move, things have been pretty busy, to say the least.\u00a0 Between all the unpacking, resolving of the old apartment, clearing out my storage unit, and doing stuff in the new place like painting and organizing, and on top of it all, planning and preparing for mythical gf\u2019s birthday party, I began to make a joke about how I was going to work so I could relax.\u00a0 While at work, I could sit down, not be doing physical activities (except for going to the gym) and actually be somewhat dormant.\u00a0 In my downtime, I could actually write a little bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then work got busy, and I didn\u2019t have time to write, and the workload at home didn\u2019t relent, so I couldn\u2019t really find time to write there either.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, the party has come and gone, very nicely I might add, and suddenly the rush and the urgency in which things needed to be done, came to a screeching halt.\u00a0 Whereas I\u2019ve been working my ass off for the last three weeks and change, suddenly I don\u2019t have to have my foot lead-footing the gas anymore, and I\u2019ve hit points where I\u2019m actually hitting walls of progression where I can\u2019t actually accomplish tasks without requisite materials or conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I have time again, and frankly I don\u2019t know what to do with it all of a sudden.\u00a0 My televisions and computers haven\u2019t really been properly set up yet, both of which are also relying on requisite hardware\/conditions in order to do so, so I can\u2019t just do what I\u2019d been doing in the past, and marathon some show to pass the time.\u00a0 I can\u2019t really do that many more chores or tasks just yet, because some require more time than I have after a day of work, and are better suited for weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n

So last night, I did something that I haven\u2019t done in what feels like ages; I retired pretty early, crawled into bed, read a book for a little while, and then went to sleep at a sensible time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I swear, I woke up at 4 am, and then 5 am, thinking that it was time to get up in both instances.\u00a0 By the time my alarm went off at its usual time, I easily got out of bed, and for once I actually feel kind of rested.\u00a0 Things at work are also slowing down at an opportune time as well, so I\u2019m actually beginning to feel like I can breathe easier lately.\u00a0 So, realizing that I hadn\u2019t written anything in a few days which is a few days more than I usually like to allow happen, here I am.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes, it\u2019s hard to believe that 2017 started with me living in my old house, and just seven months later, I\u2019m in a different one.\u00a0 Between the rapid degradation of my old \u2018hood, compared to the general serenity of my new home, it\u2019s truly night and day, and I\u2019m still walking through rooms of my new house thinking that I can\u2019t really believe that this is my house.\u00a0 The joys of homeownership, in both its legitimate and ironic sense are gradually making themselves prevalent again, and I can safely say that I\u2019m over painting and never want to do it again despite the fact that I know that it\u2019s still not actually finished yet, and there are still odds and ends I\u2019m learning about my new home that even professional inspections didn\u2019t reveal.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I know that I\u2019m putting myself in a position of jinxing and tempting Murphy\u2019s Law, but so far, things are feeling good and with lots of room for optimism.\u00a0 Granted, I have yet to pay the first statement of what\u2019s going to be another endless mortgage, but I wouldn\u2019t have taken it on if I weren\u2019t capable of handling it, as long as I\u2019m not a complete shithead with my finances.\u00a0 But with each passing day, my new home is beginning to feel like home, and I don\u2019t really feel like I\u2019m so up against a clock or a calendar anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas towards the later years of my old home, I knew that that place wasn\u2019t the long-term plan any longer, and I restrained myself from certain purchases or hopes, such isn\u2019t the case any longer.\u00a0 Everything is looking forward and possible, and not seen as something I shouldn\u2019t bother doing, because I\u2019m not going to live here that much longer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conveniences of my new home are countless, it seems currently, with people and friends actually close by, and not seen as an insurmountable distance and requiring a day\u2019s trip in order to accommodate.\u00a0 In the past, I\u2019d measure miles to get from one friend\u2019s home, just to laugh incredulously at how far it from my old house, and currently, I\u2019m doing the same, only to shake my head in disbelief at how close it is alternatively.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can get to the homes of several different friends in less than ten minutes.\u00a0 This is something I hadn\u2019t really had the luxury of since I was living at my parents\u2019 home back in Virginia.\u00a0 In the past, I was limited to one grocery store, that was often times poorly stocked, or didn\u2019t have what I was hoping for.\u00a0 My new home has two grocery stores that I\u2019m equidistant to, and expanding the radius slightly opens the door to like, six more, of varying qualities, and finding shit like bougie cheeses for a party was not an impossible task.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conversations had at our party with even-more-local friends always had in the back of my mind that when the party was over, I didn\u2019t have to feel guilty that people were going to hop in their cars and have to drive an hour to get home, and it made me happy.\u00a0 Not that it really mattered anymore, because my house has ample space and actual guest rooms, so I know that I could house friends fairly easily without any real hassle at any time, and I\u2019d like to have people over more often now that I have the space to accommodate.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many, many restaurants in the area, and I\u2019m not just limited to the same four from my old place.\u00a0 Going to lunch with my girl and\/or nearby friends is a leisurely reality that can be done fairly on a whim and not requiring so much planning or a facebook group correspondence to arrange.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said it a few times over the last few days, but this is really how life should be.\u00a0 I don\u2019t regret my past down on the south end of the city, and I still remember plenty fondly about it, but god damn do the little things in life that make things pleasant feel so much easier now than they have been in the past, and give me great reason for optimism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since the move, things have been pretty busy, to say the least.\u00a0 Between all the unpacking, resolving of the old apartment, clearing out my storage unit, and doing stuff in the new place like painting and organizing, and on top of it all, planning and preparing for mythical gf\u2019s birthday party, I began to … Continue reading Writing because I suddenly have nothing else to do<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,71,56,73,121],"class_list":["post-45011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-famiry","tag-food","tag-friends","tag-homeownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45012,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions\/45012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}