Adele Dawn

So, the stairs have been bad since I moved here. As in, crumbling under my feet bad. There was a metal ramp put in for safety during hospice care and I've left it just so I can go from the porch to the ground safely. Last weekend, family came to stay because we were going to fix them but it was during the heat wave and everyone was suffering so they went home a day early.

BUT! Stairs are being constructed away, in pieces, and they are bringing the pieces next week to construct a new way to the ground from the porch and I am very excited! It's only been two years of using the gawd awful ramp of doom so its time. They are also bringing the mattress for my bed and my cedar chest over with them (they have a pick-up and offered) so I'll finally have my bed and not the rock hard bed of DOOM! to sleep on. I'm also very excited about that.

The living room is finally a place to have guests and not just a disaster zone. Furniture mostly all where I want it (I'm moving a display case today to the "library" room) and mostly clutter free. I haven't set up any entertainment devices but I'm getting there, although there's nothing but a tiny tv/vcr combo and a projector. I don't watch tv anyways so it just hasn't been a priority. It's exciting to finally be moving towards having a home and not just a roof over my head.

I'm still working away at sorting through all the things left behind on the property. There's so much stuff and most of it junk and it's all mixed together with things that are not. Hopefully tomorrow some of the furniture is finding a new home and I'm looking forward to having more space.  That'll give me the opportunity to set things up in a way I'll enjoy and it'll let me see what else I want to get rid of (or keep).

Since I'm on my own now I've been working on making the house more of a home. It's wild to still be finding things to get rid of but considering how messed up the past year has been, I shouldn't be too surprised. I'm hoping to get mostly settled by early spring next year. I've got to pick up work somehow somewhere as well. Can't coast along forever - gotta have some way to pay the bills. I'm constrained in work simply for the fact I mostly only know customer service and physically I can't do that anymore. I'm hoping to find something at least part time online/remote, we'll see how it goes.But first, making it through the winter.