I had a major surgery on my tailbone at the beginning of May. I went to a specialist doctor 6 hours away. The whole thing was miserable. I'm almost at 11 weeks past the surgery and I still have painful days. But I'm doing better.
I FINALLY MOVED. I'm renting a townhouse 20 minutes from my previous home, slightly closer to work. It's two bedrooms so one is my office! It also has a good sized loft area in the hallway, so that is my prayer loft, as well as just where I sit to read and write and plan out my days. Some good things about the place is that I have a garage, and I don't have to take my groceries up and down stairs to get it into the kitchen. Previously I only parked my car in the garage for a few months in the winter and my dad parked in the driveway, and I had a set of stairs to take up all of my groceries. My laundry is next to my bedroom now, whereas before it was in the basement and my room was on the 2nd floor. It's good to have a desk with two monitors and a good chair to sit in for my two days working from home, whereas previously I was sitting on my bed or on a chair with my laptop on my bed, and sometimes standing with a portable standing part for my computer on my bed. It's been nice to have a few friends over so far, and more to come.
Moving itself though was a pain. It was my last time asking friends to help me move since it was just boxes and my bed and two bookshelves, because I had to buy all of my furniture and house stuff after I moved in. So the next time I move I'll have a lot more to pack, but also bigger furniture that will need a real moving truck. I had a lot of boxes to unpack, but also a lot of the stuff I bought was online and boxes upon boxes came, so I had boxes sitting around forever that I couldn't fit in my car, and it was driving me insane. I finally got a junk removal place to come get all of the boxes, and although it was expensive, it was worth it. Putting together all of the furniture has been awful. I've had some great friends, and my mom, come help me build some of it, and the other things I've built by myself. Literally everything says to nail the furniture into the wall so it doesn't fall over and kill you, and I'm not nailing all of my furniture to the wall in a rental. Also, IKEA furniture sucks. No seriously. They don't label things, they put ALL of the screws and tiny pieces in one bag, there are too many tiny pieces, and it's confusing and stupid.
I've been moved in for 6 weeks and it's been hard not having routines and rhythms to my days. Not knowing exactly where I should put things like my shoes, my purse, my work laptop... not being good at going to bed on time, trying to figure out the right temperature for the house because the upstairs stays a whole lot warmer than the downstairs...
I bought a PS5 and played Hogwarts Legacy - it was great! I went to Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios at the end of April and saw Harry Potter world for the first time, and it was as great as I had hoped it would be, and I don't even ride rides! The whole place was immersive, creative, and the frozen butterbeer was better than I thought it would be. I tried to replicate it when I got home from some recipes online and it was nowhere near it.
I've been at my "new" church now for a year! I've been in the same bible study for the past year too, with some people coming and going but a lot the same. It's been great. It's funny because a lot of the staff come from bigger churches and keep calling our church a "small" church, but to me it's pretty big because the ones I've been to before were smaller. It's actually hard for me to go to a church where I don't know most of the people in the room. I couldn't begin to tell who is new or who has been there as long as me, besides the handful of people I do know. However, it's still good.
I am thankful.
