Been A While Since I Wrote One of These...

How's everyone holding up? It's been a while, hasn't it? I've been trying to avoid voicing every little complaint and opinion which is why journals stopped. Not that anyone really reads them out of my 800+ watchers, but if you do, I want to thank you for your support, and to those who are maybe just reading this one, thanks to you as well for supporting me with your watching.

Well, I'm working 2 housekeeping jobs in addition to my dog walking so that's giving me a lil money. Not nearly enough to get me outta my parents' house, but it's a start and I'm enjoying the work for the most part. I'm the head housekeeper at a local B&B as well as a private housekeeper for a lady, so I'm getting pretty good at perfecting cleanliness and order, but walking Jack the Corgi is still my favorite job. I love that rascal, and he loves me. He seems to love my brother Paul more than anyone though, but since we moved out of the neighborhood the other year, they don't see as much of each other. But I did surprise my siblings a few weeks ago by bringing Jack out here and everyone had fun with that. Nothing sweeter than a bond between man and beast. :3

Things are still rough though since our old house still hasn't sold. We tried on our own for a while since we don't like realtors and have been screwed by them in the past, and we did have it sold twice before the people backed out on us. Reluctantly, we lowered our pride to see if an agent could sell it and still, nothing. I can't say I blame the agent this time though because people nowadays are just stupid when it comes to recognizing a good deal.

Now I know most of you kids who follow me aren't at my age, so let ol' G tell you a story. The house we left is a 3 bedroom, 2 story home in a valley community (not gated or anything, just a set neighborhood right outside of town). Typical house size. We had it priced for 220,000. A lil high for first time buyers, we understand, it's valued at 250,000. It has 10 inch walls so heating it in the winter cost almost nothing. To build a house with walls like that nowadays would cost 400,000. And aside from the windows, we've replaced everything over the 14 years we lived there. New roof, appliances, furnace, central air, water heater, counter tops, cupboards, redid the bathrooms, floors, light fixtures, etc. The only thing you'd have to change if you didn't like it would be our paint colors, so you agree the price is more than reasonable after hearing all this, yes? Well apparently no one else seems to think so. For that price they expect another bedroom since kids apparently just can't share nowadays (I never had my own room, and still don't. I share with my sister, and my brothers still share) or for it to have some other extra feature that houses don't need but people feel they did to have (like sound systems and whatnot). Did you know you can have all that? Did you know it might actually mean waiting and having to save up a while? We didn't overhaul that house right away. It takes time.

I cannot believe what young adults and such are like nowadays... I know I'm part of that generation, but being raised sensibly, I understand you can't have it all at once. If you have loads of money to do so, great, good for you, but most of us don't - yet we've been spoiled with every lil instant-gratification techno-gizmo and whatnot that as a whole, we've forgotten that nothing worth having comes easy, and it certainly doesn't come quickly. Maybe I just don't get the mentality of this generation, but I'd like to believe with how gullible we are with certain things, you'd think we woulda convinced someone to buy our house. If the crooked realtors can't do it either, that's really something.

So we're stuck paying two mortgages still and it's been almost a full year so now is when it's gonna start getting difficult. My siblings and I have all started paying for most of our necessities to help out, but it's still hard to come home some days and see Ma frustrated as she looks over the books. We've never been a family that good things happen to, but we're always able to endure it, so I know we'll be fine, but having a little less stress especially around the holidays would be nice... our new house looks nice though all done up for Christmas, even though it needs a good overhaul too, but we get that it'll take time and for now we're just grateful we have a roof over our heads.

Well, that's enough of my moaning and groaning for now. I'm trying to fix up chapter 50 for ya'll. Hope you're all hangin' in there. Take care!