...In October.

After a certain offer from an anonymous  werewolf_ss, I have decided to move in with hir. The catch? About 1500 miles. Thats right, I'll be moving from Midcoast Maine to about an hour and a half south of Orlando. Gonna buy a little tow-behind trailer, lash all my stuff to it, and trek down there.

This is after the massively huge family reunion I'm having at the end of October. Instead of going back up to Maine, I'll be heading to Florida.

In addition, I am going to start transitioning over to not holding a regular job anymore. I want to get back into what I have the passion to do and what I attempted to go to college for; ceramics. Yup, thats right, I'm going to be moving professions from 'Guy that will work' to 'Freelance Artist'. Again, another catch; ceramics requires a very large initial investment to get into. The cheapest new wheel I can find is 500$, and used ones don't seem to be easy to come by. Also, I can't use the cheaper kick wheels because of the issue with my right leg and the specific way the bone grinds with my knee. I would wear away all the soft tissue in less than a month.

I will also need a kiln. For those of you that DON'T know, a pottery kiln is no small investment. Kiln brick is .50c apiece, and it can take thousands of bricks to build a decent sized kiln. Burners can be a couple hundred dollars. Overall, Im probably looking at at least a 1500$ investment, plus the $500 or so from moving (the 500$ is estimated). Add in the fact that this could just completely flop, this is a huge risk for me.

I'm thinking about picking up a 2nd job to increase my income, as well as ask for a raise from my current job. I deserve one, the owner is just stingy. My goal would be about 65 hours a week of work, which unfortunately would be all stand up and run around work, most probably. If I could swell my bank account to about 8000$, that would make me feel much better. If I could get the 1600$ my cousin owes me that would be wonderful as that would put my current funds somewhere around $5600 , but I can't count on that.

So yeah, just FYI on whats going on. If I suddenly start getting to the point where I am never on or something, its probably because I'm coming home and hitting the bed every day.