Last month my fiance and I moved to North Chicago, Illinois. The first month was tricky as I had the damnedest time with my sleeping schedule, for the life of me I could not get it to where I was awake days and asleep at nights. I'm no stranger to being nocturnal and have been most of my life but with Chris working days, days are the best time to accomplish stuff around the house, from the cleaning and meal prep to the art and writing.
   I gotta say already I wish that whatever jackhole named this little city would have come up with it's own name for it. You would not believe how freaking hard it is trying to explain to people, "no, no I'm not in Chicago I haven't even really been to Chicago except on the drive here when we moved, no seriously it's separte town a suburb kinda thing  north of Chicago, no it's not part of Chicago, oh for #@*%'s sake it has it's own freaking dot on a map several miles north of Chicago's border!!! Ya know what I'm done talking to you I have to go take preventative measures to keep my head from exploding..." My Gramma still don't believe me that it's a different city.
   The majority of this month I will be spending on painting the interior of our new house, which has three floors at 600 sq feet each including the basement. I will not even attempt to paint the basement. Since they only brought over white paint and said don't bother painting the baseboards which are a different color I'm going to assume the basement which has no white paint in there is not expected to be done. So only about 1200 sq. feet to paint. If I get it done before December hits we don't have to pay rent that month. I'd like to say we get to use that money for the purposes of awesomeness, but no tragically it'll have to be used to catch up on some random bill paying. Lame.
   I asked Chris how long he thinks we should be in this house, he said probably 5 years or more. I will refrain from doing retarded happy dances in light of that. The longest I have lived in one place consecutively was two and a half years, having only just broken the 2 year mark at our last address. I am severely sick of moving around.
   I had wanted to try my hand at NaNoWriMo this year. For those who don't know what that is, it's National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which people try and hash out a 50,000 word novel in 30 days (the month of November). Of course the first week I forgot to write for it. And the rest of the month I have to paint the house. So there goes that plan. It's just as well I think I need to warm-up to that sort of thing anyhow, or just take a more relaxed approach to that. I need to avoid stress for the sake of my sanity. It's pretty crucial. Never take your sanity for granted people.

~ Aurey Sorrow