Need to start packing...
7 Aug 2022 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhack... except we don't have anywhere to go yet.
Let me back up a little: We need to find a new flat. This apartment has issues which are not going away and the ones that should have been settled after 7 months of living here do not seem to be within the power of the landlord to fix (ie. have hot water to do dishes without letting 20L flow down the drain first; have a shower that is not either boiling hot or freezing cold).
So the past week has been a whirlwind of apartment hunting.
Before that, I fell off the face of DW because I was so engulfed with the teaching that I was asked to do at the two different churches we attend. I just wasn't able to keep up my art or writing at the same time.
Aside from teaching this coming Saturday night, I think I am going to have a bit more time in the next few weeks. If the flat hunting doesn't eat it--and my energy--first.
And then it will (maybe) be time to go home to France for a couple of weeks. I so need to be able to roll with all the different "routine busters" that come my way, but I think I just need to face the fact that whenever these things happen, I just can't do all the things, all the time. :-/
However, I can't help feeling a twinge of ARGH to note that 7 months have passed since we moved here and I had such high hopes of writing and illustrating a children's book and finish up at least 1 (but aiming for 2) middle grade books while on this contract. And, yeah, I even thought I could finish up my trilogy. Reassessing might be in order. But I would rather just be able to get done what I want to get done.
/rant
Let me back up a little: We need to find a new flat. This apartment has issues which are not going away and the ones that should have been settled after 7 months of living here do not seem to be within the power of the landlord to fix (ie. have hot water to do dishes without letting 20L flow down the drain first; have a shower that is not either boiling hot or freezing cold).
So the past week has been a whirlwind of apartment hunting.
Before that, I fell off the face of DW because I was so engulfed with the teaching that I was asked to do at the two different churches we attend. I just wasn't able to keep up my art or writing at the same time.
Aside from teaching this coming Saturday night, I think I am going to have a bit more time in the next few weeks. If the flat hunting doesn't eat it--and my energy--first.
And then it will (maybe) be time to go home to France for a couple of weeks. I so need to be able to roll with all the different "routine busters" that come my way, but I think I just need to face the fact that whenever these things happen, I just can't do all the things, all the time. :-/
However, I can't help feeling a twinge of ARGH to note that 7 months have passed since we moved here and I had such high hopes of writing and illustrating a children's book and finish up at least 1 (but aiming for 2) middle grade books while on this contract. And, yeah, I even thought I could finish up my trilogy. Reassessing might be in order. But I would rather just be able to get done what I want to get done.
/rant