The Young Witch Comes Home

It's been a long few weeks, ya'll. In case you missed it, here's what happened.

May 25: A pipe burst in the apartment two floors above me, setting off the fire alarm and flooding my apartment. Quicker than quick, they set up massive fans in my apartment to deal with it.

May 26: My apartment manager called me and told me the water damage was so bad in the walls that they were recommending that I move out. I called my parents in tears telling them this and asking them if they could come help me move home.

May 27-30: I packed up most of my apartment, dealt with all the ins and outs of moving out of the apartment with the manager, got weird looks from the people who came in to fix my building, coordinated my roommates to move out, my mom and sister arrived, realized I'm an idiot willing to live in 90 degree heat in my apartment and we quickly got a hotel.

May 31: I found out my dog passed away a few month ago.

June 1: We went to go to a repair place to fix a small thing in my grandparents truck and found out we'd have to stay a day longer than planned.

June 2: We were finally on the road and on our way back home.

June 4: We blew a tire on the trailer hitch carrying my car and spent an hour in the New Mexico heat waiting for the repair company.

June 5: We made it back to St. Louis.

Now, I'm dealing with one fluffy cat who is trying to steal everything I bring in the house, one big cat who only wants food (he's a dork) and trying to get back on a schedule I'm still trying to figure out.

It's nice being back home. I'm currently set up next to my mom with in perfectly good poking distance while we both do work. My dad is set up at the kitchen table coordinating his things for summer school, and I have two sleepy cats who are willing to put up with my love.

It's still weird though. My schedule has been thrown off by multiple time zones and trying to move my stuff back in and setting up my new room (before I moved to California, my parents were having me move from my dungeon in the basement to our attic). It's kind of weird. But it's not a bad weird..

I know there's a lot going on in the world and my moving back home is kind of insignificant in the grand scheme of fighting police violence and working to stop the spread of COVID, but this is what's happening in my world right now and I feel there's something to learn here.

We've all been thrown in the massive stressful situation known as 2020. We've gotten thrown out of wack and we want to find some sense of normal. The thing is though, our normal is something that's going to change and has to change as we grow and learn and that's something we need to do now. Grow, learn, change, and adapt to try and create the new normal that we want and hope for.

Now, I have to go get a cat out of my drawers because I can only have so much cat hair on my clothes before my asthma and allergies act up.