im a little drunk writing this because i went out partying (sort of) with my sister in law and had quite a bit of alcohol. i could post this on my tumblr but im honestly too lazy to login.
anyways, i moved to texas. horray. if anyone doesn't know it was a chicago-->san antonio, so it was a cross-country 1,200+ mile move for me. it was super stressful but im here now and it's great! i even got my allergies taken care of since those were bothering me for the first 2.5 weeks. i've decided to stay down here and might be taking a semester off of school before i get my BA. i have a bit to sort out before i can graduate like finding an apartment (living with boyfriend and his mom right now. she's cool but our own space is better), getting adjusted to a job, finding health insurance, figuring out grad school, getting medical and psychiatric stuff taken care of, among other things. things went super downhill with my step-mother the night before i left for the airport, so i've decided to write a letter of no-contact to her towards the end of this year. but things are overall going great here. i've found a family, i've found friends, i have some job prospects, and i've started writing and drawing again.
oh, and i turn 21 on memorial day (the 29th). boyfriend is taking me out for dinner and im gonna go to the zoo with him an in laws the following week. his 22nd is a week later on the 7th of june so our birthdays are super close together. he bought me a dnd book and my first dice set for my birthday! i'm also super into dnd right now, so i might be posting stuff like that.
honestly, giving myself 1,200 miles between me and my abusive family has been pretty great. they can't touch me here, and that's amazing. im pretty fucking happy and it's great having offline friends again too.
like i said, im drunk and probably shouldn't be up this late (doing stuff with in laws over the weekend aka this morning) so this journal doens't really have a point, but happy memorial day and early birthday to me. if you'd asked me a couple months ago where i'd be on my birthday, i probably would've told you that i'd be miserable in illinois. i made a decision, though, to drop everything and leave and not look back and right now, that's the best decision i've ever made.
thanks.