State of the Whatever
22 March 2023 21:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ginkageSo... since I have sort-of rediscovered my journal here, I guess it's worthwhile to maybe do an update? I never really did one back in 2017 so I suppose there's a lot of ground to cover.
2017: My father passed away from complications from lung cancer/congestive heart failure in January. I then was told by his last living sibling that I needed to find somewhere else to live other than the house we'd lived in for the past 9 years. She charged my mother rent weekly for me to stay there until I could pack as much of my stuff into a storage unit and get out. I lived with friends for about a month in a tiny little room with my cats until Mom and I got together and bought a house in April. Got let go from my job in May due to downsizing. Then in June, Mom retired from her job with the Federal government and we spent the better part of a month getting her moved down to the house. Three separate trips with three separate U-Haul loads and then a final weekend to clean out the apartment. Ran myself more than a bit ragged, but we got it done. Went down to Tennessee for the eclipse that year and had a wonderful time, but had an emergent health issue start up on the way back that came to a head by the end of the year. I was diagnosed with a very early-stage uterine tumor which was causing excessive bleeding and rolled me into 2018 with a looming hysterectomy/oopherectomy/salpingectomy. Had to quit my job at the time because of the health issues.
2018: Went through surgery in January, spent the next couple of months on the couch in the living room recuperating. It took a while to get back to finding a job I could do and it started an inexorable slide in finances. Ended up working in event ticketing for a while and somewhat enjoyed it. Went back to school in the latter half of the year into the next. I also got into streaming on Twitch during this time and did my chainmaille, crochet, and some gaming streams.
2019: Got a certificate in Medical Coding, got licensed, spent months trying to find a job that'd hire me with the 'Apprentice' tag on my certification. Ended up going back to work in customer service for a local telecommunications company. It wasn't ideal, I was burnt out on customer service after almost 20 years doing it for a living. But... it ended up being a godsend when the pandemic became a thing.
2020: Job went into lockdown in April and we all got shifted to working from home. Spent the rest of that year tucked into a tiny corner of my bedroom with a laptop and phone gear and slowly losing my mind. I fell headfirst into K-pop in this time, specifically my favorite band: Stray Kids. Their music got me through much of 2020 and onward. I also took a turn at writing again, getting a couple of pieces of fanfiction under my belt for both Voltron: Legendary Defender and Stray Kids (I'm on Ao3 under Ginkage, I'm not shy about being looked up.)
2021: I started to realize early on in the year that the work-from-home thing was great, but the job was slowly killing me. My weight had gone up, my blood pressure had worsened, and my diabetes wasn't being managed well. On a whim, I reached back into my skillset and drug out the pharmacy technician stuff I'd tried vainly to get work in back in 2013. I applied to CVS because there was an opening... and I got hired so fast. Started that in June and been there ever since...
2022: My life pretty much consisted of working at CVS, getting my tech license back, and finding that the corporate bullshittery of the job is wearing me down fast. Started eyeballing jobs at local hospitals. My mother made it clear in April that she wants to move back to DC as the healthcare down here is subpar. That's going to mean ultimately fixing the house up and selling it... and I'll have to move again.
2023: Hours are getting cut at work, I'm getting more stressed, and I finally had my luck run out in March and got Covid. As of right now I'm negative after over a week of being out of work and my finances have taken a definite hit. I've been putting out calls for help but I've come to realize that I am the only one on the hook for fixing this mess I'm in. I listed all of my remaining jewelry that's been made on my Ko-Fi page (ko-fi.com/ginkage) and put up donation stuff (my PayPal is at my email: ginnokage at gmail.com) but I'm just sunk for now.
Ultimately I'm just trying to get to the point that I'm in a better place, in my own space, and trying to repair my credit that's taken a hit over the last two years.
I hope this post finds everyone as well as they can be. Thanks for reading. Maybe I'll get back to journaling now.
2017: My father passed away from complications from lung cancer/congestive heart failure in January. I then was told by his last living sibling that I needed to find somewhere else to live other than the house we'd lived in for the past 9 years. She charged my mother rent weekly for me to stay there until I could pack as much of my stuff into a storage unit and get out. I lived with friends for about a month in a tiny little room with my cats until Mom and I got together and bought a house in April. Got let go from my job in May due to downsizing. Then in June, Mom retired from her job with the Federal government and we spent the better part of a month getting her moved down to the house. Three separate trips with three separate U-Haul loads and then a final weekend to clean out the apartment. Ran myself more than a bit ragged, but we got it done. Went down to Tennessee for the eclipse that year and had a wonderful time, but had an emergent health issue start up on the way back that came to a head by the end of the year. I was diagnosed with a very early-stage uterine tumor which was causing excessive bleeding and rolled me into 2018 with a looming hysterectomy/oopherectomy/salpingectomy. Had to quit my job at the time because of the health issues.
2018: Went through surgery in January, spent the next couple of months on the couch in the living room recuperating. It took a while to get back to finding a job I could do and it started an inexorable slide in finances. Ended up working in event ticketing for a while and somewhat enjoyed it. Went back to school in the latter half of the year into the next. I also got into streaming on Twitch during this time and did my chainmaille, crochet, and some gaming streams.
2019: Got a certificate in Medical Coding, got licensed, spent months trying to find a job that'd hire me with the 'Apprentice' tag on my certification. Ended up going back to work in customer service for a local telecommunications company. It wasn't ideal, I was burnt out on customer service after almost 20 years doing it for a living. But... it ended up being a godsend when the pandemic became a thing.
2020: Job went into lockdown in April and we all got shifted to working from home. Spent the rest of that year tucked into a tiny corner of my bedroom with a laptop and phone gear and slowly losing my mind. I fell headfirst into K-pop in this time, specifically my favorite band: Stray Kids. Their music got me through much of 2020 and onward. I also took a turn at writing again, getting a couple of pieces of fanfiction under my belt for both Voltron: Legendary Defender and Stray Kids (I'm on Ao3 under Ginkage, I'm not shy about being looked up.)
2021: I started to realize early on in the year that the work-from-home thing was great, but the job was slowly killing me. My weight had gone up, my blood pressure had worsened, and my diabetes wasn't being managed well. On a whim, I reached back into my skillset and drug out the pharmacy technician stuff I'd tried vainly to get work in back in 2013. I applied to CVS because there was an opening... and I got hired so fast. Started that in June and been there ever since...
2022: My life pretty much consisted of working at CVS, getting my tech license back, and finding that the corporate bullshittery of the job is wearing me down fast. Started eyeballing jobs at local hospitals. My mother made it clear in April that she wants to move back to DC as the healthcare down here is subpar. That's going to mean ultimately fixing the house up and selling it... and I'll have to move again.
2023: Hours are getting cut at work, I'm getting more stressed, and I finally had my luck run out in March and got Covid. As of right now I'm negative after over a week of being out of work and my finances have taken a definite hit. I've been putting out calls for help but I've come to realize that I am the only one on the hook for fixing this mess I'm in. I listed all of my remaining jewelry that's been made on my Ko-Fi page (ko-fi.com/ginkage) and put up donation stuff (my PayPal is at my email: ginnokage at gmail.com) but I'm just sunk for now.
Ultimately I'm just trying to get to the point that I'm in a better place, in my own space, and trying to repair my credit that's taken a hit over the last two years.
I hope this post finds everyone as well as they can be. Thanks for reading. Maybe I'll get back to journaling now.
