The Silver Lining...

     A silver lining has been found through last week's chaos...

     After the initial shock of last week's little unsettling notice in the mail, I was finally able to sit down and try to resolve the issue in my head. Basically, my girlfriend and I have been kicked out in the middle of winter...in Canada I might add. I decided to contact the landlord directly and see if we can't settle the matter in some other fashion. After 2 days of phone tag, I eventually was able to speak with her and basically told her that I agreed with her and respected her decision to want us out. I was originally going to fight tooth and nail to stay in my little crappy apartment but the fact is, I just can't afford it.
     I need to be able to actually get ahead for just a second to get some breathing air. Luckily, my girlfriend's parents were more then happy to offer their place for us when they heard the situation. I had been living there for a couple months in between dropping out of college and getting my own place and it's great, but obviously not my ideal living situation. The major loss of freedom and privacy is a blow to the face that I will gladly take if it means I can finally move forward with certain aspects of my life. I, like any other post student my age, have a loan to pay off as well as a maxed out credit card and very little pocket change after every month of rent payed. This way, I will be able to save up tons of cash and also pay off most of my debt within a few months. I make some good pay at my job, but rent was always in the way. Of course, I continually insist on paying a small rent fee and will probably have to sneak it to her parents without them noticing since they seem to be totally against receiving any sort of payment from me. I will be moving out sometime next month and, just in case anyone is wondering...yes this will almost definitely affect my ability to rent my next apartment in a negative way but I know personally from looking around that Ottawa seems to have some pretty forgiving places that don't mind if you've screwed up in the past with your rent, so I'm not very worried about that.
     Something else that has been nice is that I have been constantly jotting down ideas for a fantasy novel I want to start writing. To be honest, I originally wrote this crappy fantasy book, which really seemed more like a short story at 78 pages, back in grade 7. After realizing that it was quite horrible (and I'm hard on myself, but this was....well I was only 14 so...) I rewrote in in highschool but only made it about half way through before having some mental breakdown and hating the entire thing. Since then, I have grown substantially in my writing and creative thinking skills and believe that, within the last month or so, I have come up with something completely new but with some of the original aspects that I just thought I could never replace. After jotting down days worth of notes on the characters, places and basically creating my own world from scratch, I decided that this would be a 3 book project. I heavy load to say the least at each book being somewhere around 200-250 pages, but I think it's the best way to have the story told. I later summarized the first chapter of the first book in jot notes then started the first rough draft yesterday at work. Today I will continue where I left off and hopefully have it done by Monday. From there I'll redo it a couple times then show it to a few people and if I think it works, Ill move on to the next chapter. I'll continue this process until the book is done then I will go over it from start to finish and fix up anything I think doesn't work and HOPEFULLY call that the final copy. I have no idea when this will happen since writers block is a daily thing for me but I will try my hardest and update anyone listening everytime I post.
     This novel will take a major spot in this blog as it is the biggest thing I'm doing and I'd love to be able to get past some of the writers block by writing my ideas and frustration on here. Thanks again to anyone who has even stopped by once to read my blog. It's great to know that even 1 person is reading and enjoying my biggest passion...