It has been nearly two years since my last post. After posting about my family emergency, I had to live through it. My father passed away in January 2013. I write that not as a way to evoke sympathy, but more as a way to mark the time that I was away. Sympathy is something you need right after the event of losing someone. Not neccessarily this long afterward. Yes, I still have days where I miss him, and especially poignant are the days when I really wish I could debate something with him, or talk about music or politics. But mostly, I live my life, and hope that, if there is a continuation of the sentience that was my dad, that he's happy, or content, or even better, at peace.
I moved to Washington after he passed, using money from my 401k (so long retirement) and from his life insurance. I dabbled at starting a freelance art business, and realized that people don't really have that much money for art nowadays. I had a blog during that time, but it's long gone, now. My web hosting expired, and I never renewed it.
I got a full time job with a retailer that I quickly came to dispise, and eventually got my own place, and moved my mom to Washington, along with my brother. I quit my piece of shit job in the full expectation that a place that I did very well at during an interview would be calling me back in no time. It never happened.
I'm currently three weeks unemployed, but I have a great prospect coming up. In the meantime, I've decided to start working on the endeavors that I wanted to and that drove me to quit my awful last employer: writing and art. To that end, I've returned to my blog.
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