Good grief, where did this month go? I’d probably better do something around here…
No guarantees that the Fifth Ace Showcase will return first thing in November; I did say it could be the earliest that it would reappear, but I naturally didn’t want to promise anything. The day job hasn’t been too hectic, but I’ve had enough going on day to day that stuff has been keeping me occupied. In the evenings, I just want to zone out, and I’ve been using podcasts and Let’s Plays while playing Minecraft as a means of doing so; I only rage quit once in the past week, which is a vast improvement on my usual playstyle. All this to say, there may or may not be comic pages from Wednesday next week; maybe by November 6th if I feel I need a bit more time to build up a buffer.
In terms of stuff happening day to day, I am overjoyed to report that my fiance absolutely crushed her learnership interview, as I knew she would; she heard back the very next day with them offering her a contract for next year. Not only is this something she’s been wanting to do for a long time, it’s something that is going to change our lives as a whole. In order to take on the contract, we have to move closer to the school where she will be working, which means we need to be living in a new place by the beginning of 2024. We’ve been waiting for a potential house purchase all year, and that still hasn’t manifested properly, so we’re currently looking for a place to rent instead. With the salary that my fiance will receive from the learnership, we should be able to afford a bigger space than we currently have; that said, if I can find a different job closer to the school myself, it’ll be a lot easier on my fuel tank, and my car’s fuel tank too. As much as living in a full-sized house would be preferable, anything bigger than the two rooms we have now would be an upgrade, plus we wouldn’t be dependant on anyone else for owning the house; if we are renting purely on our own income, we are still living our own lives without anyone holding such things over our heads.
A bigger salary would also help with sundry expenses; we’ve made more trips to the vet in this past month than we have in years. First Silver had some unidentifiable pain that we needed anti-inflammatories for; then she developed an abscess that had to be drained and sliced, and then flushed daily by us for a week; and then just as Silver was recovering, Sparrow got an upset stomach and was vomiting all night on Monday; it didn’t last long, but the vet gave him an anti-nausea jab just to be safe. We’ve managed to stay afloat, but it’s always inconvenient when the day job can’t pay on time; moving house is the perfect excuse to try and find something better.
The biggest change that would come with a new house would be more space; it sounds obvious when I put it so plainly, but it’s also the thing we’ve needed the most for a long time. We’ve spent three and a half years in our tiny home, living on top of each other and having our stuff clutter up what little room we still have. To be in a bigger space, with everything spread out, and having dedicated rooms for our activities is going to be such a relief; with a proper office space, I may actually be more productive in my personal work without having to fit in between everything else that life has presented us with, piling up on the desk.
Other than that, there’s a new D&D game on the horizon; with our every-other-Thursday game on hold indefinitely, one of the players has elected to run a game of his own with a new group, starting in a couple of weeks. I’ve been brainstorming characters to play since the weekend; whenever I join a new game, I always make a bunch of characters so that I can pick one to fit whatever everyone else chooses. I’m already quite attached to a few of them, and am keen to be playing again; the Thursday group was okay, but that was the one with the problem player I mentioned way back in March. Due to circumstances that are not my place to describe, it’s unlikely that we will ever return to that game, and I’m okay with that if it means I’ll no longer be sharing the table with someone who I am convinced is an actual, clinically sociopathic narcissist.
Well, that was a bit of a longer post this week; like I said, stuff has been happening. Tomorrow we’re going to see the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, which I’m sure will be gloriously stupid, but probably highly entertaining. My fiance will be in cosplay, so if you’re at Cavendish Mall and see a Foxy the Pirate animatronic standing around, come say hi!
Ciao for now.