Even though it's been over a month since that last entry it seems like life's more or less been cascading from mid-May's events.
It set a kind of tone.
The third part of the equation... part one being finding a new part-time employee for the store... part two being having to go to a funeral on the very day that new employee was scheduled to start traing... the third part was coming back to find out firstly that everything had worked out ok at the store, better than ok even. Secondly, while basking in the ok-ness of things getting e-mails from my landlord saying she'd sold the building my apartment is in, and from my aunt saying she was concerned about my mom's health. The second half of that is a complex situation and not really a public-blog matter, so I'll just go on about the first.
I've lived in my apartment for around 15 years. Day/hour wise that means it has just recently inched into first place past even the house I grew up in. Now it's not an exceptionally nice apartment... but it is on a good street, in a convenient area and until recently it was madly affordable given the amount of space I had. My previous landlord had struck a "temporary" deal with me about 6-7 years ago that saw me as the sole occupant of this 3 bedroom for a 1 bedroom apartment rate. This was supposed to be for one year until renovations were completed and she could get three more people in. In actuality 3-4 years went by with no further mention of renovations... then one July evening she drove up while I was having a coffee on the front step and told me we "had to talk" about the rent. I assumed she'd be asking me to vacate so three new folks could move in... or at least have me get a couple roommates and raise the rent back to its previous rate (at bare minimum). Instead she said that she "had to put up my rent by $40/month," which was still equal to or less than what most people were paying for actual one bedrooms. Joy.
The new landlord seems to be pretty flexible... so far anyway... and all the actual one bedrooms I've looked at are pretty gross, so I think I'll be staying put for now. I'll catch you up as things progress.
*note this was sitting around in Drafts for some time.
