Heavy Hearty Time

Somehow all the bad things just came in all at once. This month I dealt with several issues-big and small. It wasn’t really a happy moment of my life.

The first small annoying thing was my gym card. Somehow it didn’t get extended and I placed an order from the beginning of September. It took about 2 weeks to solve this and I still didn’t know what caused the issue.

The second small annoying thing was my Nintendo Switch online group that was locked. No new people could join. It had been good from the beginning. This year someone wanted to leave. So I had to find a new member. Though it got restricted. It was just solved after the renewal.

Another one was my sewing machine. I bought a secondhand sewing machine online. It worked for just 1-2 hours then it exploded. There was smoke coming out. My electricity went off. The breaker was released. At least, it didn’t catch fire. The good part was that the seller was a technician and she agreed to help fix it for free. I just had to wait until her husband came back then I could take the machine to them next month.

One bigger headache was my current assignment at work. It started off pretty good. I was so hyped and excited to work with this assignment. I got very talented and experienced teammates from different offices to work with. Then, who would have thought that the assignment would get super messy after a few weeks in?! Many issues arose from the technical side and we had no control. Things didn’t go as planned and I couldn’t plan my life accordingly. It was because I had to travel during this assignment and, for many times, the decision just came in the last minute. Then the ticket price got expensive. We had to manage the budget and working hours by ourselves. It became really stressful and difficult to manage. There was also last minute cancellation that we had to deal with. I could only hope that we would deliver something valuable to the client eventually.

Then, there was someone at the office who misunderstood me during the summer and ghosted me for some months. I didn’t know anything about it until he came to apologize and explained what happened on his side. At least, he told me what happened or I would have no clue at all. We hadn’t talked much since then and I didn’t know where this would go. At the moment, I had to leave this as it was because I had other more important things to focus on.

The biggest heart-wrenching thing for me was my apartment. There had been issues to deal with since I moved in, both big and small. It came to the point that I considered selling it. One big issue was that I couldn’t really save much money over the year. I learned that I took way too big mortgage. It was time to admit that this was exhausting. I spent a lot of time and energy in this apartment over the year just to make it home. As much as I liked this place, I never thought that it would be my last home though. Like my friend said, it was time to rip off the bandage and fix this.

Apart from all the shit that happened, I still managed to bake something. As this month was pumpkin season, I baked a pumpkin pie. It was very nice and was up to my expectation.