Ending 2017 with a bang

[nny]

Hey all.

So in the past week I have:

Left my job (and hopefully my profession)

Teaching has absorbed my life to the point that I don't have anything outside of it, and it doesn't even make me happy. So I have decided to screw the paycheck, get something less involving, and attempt to spend more time writing. Of course, this means my wages will drop massively, so I have also

Moved house

into a little 3 bedroom end of terrace house share. That happened yesterday. I'm not in my room yet - they have maintenance to do - but I'm in the house, and so far I like it. I have much packing and organising and cleaning and chucking to do, but that I can cope with. It'll mean I'm spending about £400 less a month on bills, so that can only be a good thing. I'm aiming to pay off all debts next year, that's the big goal.

(If you want my new address, please ask!)

I also

Had my stuff stolen

while moving! That was fun. It was 3 tote bags full of... random things that I will not identify until I look for them and they are not there. However, there was CCTV and they think it was a resident of my old place who thought they were up for grabs. Therefore there is potential that I will get my stuff back. So that's good! Also I have


Gone home for Christmas

Remind me not to do that again.


Um. I missed you guys, hi, I'm gonna try to be more here in 2018. A little more life under control, a little less sobbing in my bedroom. XD

Now I'm gonna go do the year's word count, I guess. :D

Comments

[genarti]

<333!

I hope the house share and the career change and everything work out super amazingly well for you! I respect you a lot for making a hard call that sure looks to me like the right one.

[nny]

Oh man this has been SUCH A LONG TIME COMING. I am glad. Scared, admittedly, but glad!

[catwalksalone]

Massive respect to you for hanging on in there for so long, tbh. I don’t think I’d still be in the profession if I had to be school-based.

You are where I think you are, y/y? A very good place for regrouping.

Good luck on getting your stuff back omg! Wait an appropriate amount of time before making assumptions about salvage, resident, Impolite!

[nny]

Hi hi hi! I just went and read the previous journal entry, after I'd posted this one, and holy crap leaving teaching has been a long time coming. I'm so relieved, even with the stress of not being currently employed.

I am currently in Notts, I was gonna move to Manchester but the negatives sadly outweighed the MASSIVE POSITIVES there.

[apiphile]

Hey fuckface <3 I hope you get your shit back, and your shit slightly together, or at least vague in one geographic location which is really all any of us have or hope for.

[nny]

I got my shit back YAY! And I have applied for benefits for the first time in my life, because I forgot they existed, because I am a human made of privilege. And now I can breathe again without panicking!

*lies on floor for five years*

[apiphile]

I saw! I'm so glad there turned out to be a benign and reversible explanation! Also, yes. You've paid a LOT of tax in your life; this is your fucking hard-earned freedom. Breathe! And eat beans.

[sasha_feather]

Best of luck to you! <3 I hope you get your things back.

[nny]

Thank you! I totally did! I now have even more stuff that will not fit in my tiny room, but there are certainly worse fates. XD

[krait]

Welcome back to DW, and congrats on the Bravely Going Where No Nny Has Gone Before! I hope you find yourself able to enjoy your profession again, thanks to the change.

[nny]

I have no idea what I'm going to do for a profession now, I'm kind of in a state of desperately-trying-not-to-think-about-it. :D

[naye]

Wow, huge changes - good on you for taking such huge steps to improve your life in general. Sorry about the bags of stuff - I hope you get them back!

[nny]

I did, yay! Thanks so much for the support. :D

[naye]

*HUGS*