...iz tired

[freezingrayne]

This post coming to you from a rather stressed, shitty-feeling headspace. Things have been sort of crazy around here lately, what with a sick family member, my mother doing crazy antics, and the ongoing search for a place to live.



My mom's landlord sold her house, so she has to move out. This would be all well and good, but she wants to move out of my sister's school district, which I think is a horrible idea. My sister is going to be a sophmore next year, and she really loves her school. I am pretty against pulling kids out of a good environment and putting them into an unknown one. So, to ensure that my sister will be able to stay at her school, my dad might rent out our house and rent a house in Urbana, where my mom currently lives.
Of course, I'm moving out next month (providing I can find a place to live) but it's sort of disconcerting to know your house won't be there when you get back. I feel like everything's so out of wack right now. I iz a depressed and tired person.

And I'm worried about the house hunt--we found a place that seemed really nice, and we were going to turn in an application for it today, but then one of the people I'm moving in with's dad told him that it would be good to look more. Which, okay, is fair, but I feel like it was a mistake, since we found a good place, and should have gone for it. Now we might not get it, since our realtor went on vacation and won't be back till Monday.

Ah well. What can you do.

Comments

[lassarina]

it's sort of disconcerting to know your house won't be there when you get back - I lived in the same house in PG County from age 3 to age 21. My parents moved after I graduated college, to a new house maybe 5-10 minutes' drive from the old one. The new house is beautiful. It's also very comfortable, and although some furniture has been replaced as time and use warranted, there's a lot that's still what I grew up with, like the living room furniture that's used only when we've got company that overflows the den.

And yet, it is not home. Oh, it's getting more home-like: my parents are there, and there are cats, and I can find nearly anything now because my mother, God bless her, organizes things according to categories I can intuit after nearly 30 years, such that even when I walked into the kitchen the very first time, I knew roughly where things could be and on average opened the wrong cabinet door only once before finding the right one.

But it's still not home.

Which is a very long-winded way of saying that I totally sympathize.

I'm glad your dad, at least, sees the sense in letting your sister stay at the school she loves. I'm....frankly a little appalled that this apparently hasn't entered into your mother's calculus, although naturally there could totally be things at work that I am unaware of.

Anyway. *hugs, and provides homemade risotto and salad, and also chocolate*

[freezingrayne]

Mmm, sounds tasty! *hugs back*

My mother is...an interesting woman. Who does things that frustrate me to no end. Don't get me wrong--I love her, of course but...you know. She seems to have a hard time thinking about anyone but herself. And Jesus.

[lassarina]

That seems like it would be very hard to deal with. You have my sympathies.

(Ever since I went to college, and started hearing stories of other people's families--I have been getting progressively more grateful to have had the parents I have--my mom drives me straight up the fucking wall sometimes, but overall? I am so lucky.)

[freezingrayne]

My family is typically great, my mom is just sort of hard to deal with sometimes. My dad, who I currently live with, is the probably the best person I have ever known. He's such an awesome guy. And a science fiction writer, and all that cool stuff.

[mmefrankenstein]

Dude, it'll work out. ^_^ If it's really Sweet Home, then it'll be waiting for us. I somehow doubt hordes of rabid home-hunters are going to swarm upon it over the weekend. And besides, realtor-lady knows we're interested, yeah?

And I think...well, most everything'll be okay. I mean, yeah, it really sucks right now. (And I mean super-really.) But these things have a way of working out, so to speak. ^_^;; At least, that's what I'm trying to convince myself. So hang in there, bro. I got your back a thousand and one times.

And eat the nice chocolate and risotto. ^_^

[freezingrayne]

Ah, if only it wasn't cyber-risotto!!!

Thanks bro, I'm trying to chill out and calm down. Taking some deep breaths. Tomorrow we're gonna go look at some more sweet homes.