Basically I "work" for my mom. Yes I know it's not a real job. It also hardly pays any money so any criticism you have can go away for right now there are more important things to talk about in this post.

Anyway, while she goes to work for twelve hours, I am at her place cleaning, doing dishes, taking care of domestic stuff, as well as the animals, and making sure dinner is ready... or breakfast... when she gets home.

Now, because my mom is working like 84 hours a week right now ( 7 days a week, 12 hour days) with strange rotating shifts between dayshift and nightshift that won't make much sense until the mill is running properly, I am stuck for a good amount of time at her place, staying in my old bedroom, having no social life.

There are benefits to this as well, the bed is more comfortable, and I have less time to think about things that would upset me, but that's neither here, nor there.

The end result of this however is I feel like I do not get to spend time with any of my friends, which makes me look like some kind of huge jerk. Not to mention all the spare time I get off is usually already set up for me to be doing something.

How the hell am I supposed to balance this and a social life?

Speaking of social life, I had the weekend off because I was invited to go to Sakura-con. I went. It was fun. I met a lot of homestuck cosplayers, attended a panel about persona, and ALMOST got to participate in a foam sword tournament but I didn't get to because of time constraints. Oh, also I played duck duck goose, musical chairs, and a game called ninja.

But yeah, if I am not online much, the reason is: WORK... well.. it's barely work, but whatever.