So, this year opened up with a ton of nonsense that seemed hellbent on keeping me fucked. How 'bout that?

Our plumbing was borked for a good few months, and I was constantly on call to try and fix it despite in no way being qualified to know what to do. I'd end up being kept without sleep sometimes just to be an assistant to someone else attempting to work on it, even, because my family seems aware that they will never help out or even remotely understand an explanation of what's going on, so come wake me up as I'm just laying down to try and sleep. Logic. We finally got it solved, though. Turns out it was an issue on the city's line, meaning we wasted time and money trying to deal with it on our side of the line. The pipe had busted under the road, so the city repaired that finally once we were able to prove it. (Speaking of stupid, why the hell is it on the customer to find out it's the cities problem? Just do some freaking maintenance checks. We were without regular use of our toilets, washing machine, and shower for months and it all could have been avoided if they just thought to regularly check their lines around homes!)

After that, our house's power went to shit. At first, it was just the power company not sending the correct voltage, disabling half the rooms in the house (shocker, of the bedrooms, only MINE was affected). After that, it was found that we had a faulty receptacle, which...was also shutting off power to those exact same areas. Woo. We installed a new circuit board, leading to more time where I was kept awake past 24 hours on more than one occasion to serve as an assistant in something I literally have no clue about. Had to fix that later, too, as for some reason, one of the breakers was being overloaded to the point of smoking despite how little was connected to it. Can't remember what the issue was found to be there, but we got it fixed too.

But, now these issues are done with and I'm neither feeling sick, being constantly kept awake, or to an extent even being remembered (I mean, I guess take the good with the bad, I don't get bothered but family barely remembers I exist, hm...) so now I'm working to get myself in gear and back on a regular schedule. I'll try and get myself back to weekly updates even if I've nothing to show/post, but I'll be aiming to get caught up enough to feel like I can post again guilt free. I thank everyone who's been patient with me, and everyone who might not be but have at least tolerated me.