2021 Goals

[rynling]

I just told a friend to "follow their heart" when it comes to real estate. I understand that this seems abstract and overly sentimental, but I was dead serious. In fact, I was so serious that I think I should probably follow my own advice.

My dream is to move to the country and start a combination puppy farm + fungus-based organic body disposal service. If "the country" doesn't work out, then I will settle for Cleveland, where I hear you can buy a house for the price of a VCR. I will use this as a front for my actual work, which will involve writing monster romance and Legend of Zelda fanfiction.

I have written and been rejected for so many grants during the past five years that I think I'd like to write a grant for this. Specially, I'm going to write a grant for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

You may think I'm joking, but let me assure you, I'm absolutely not.

Comments

[runicmagitek]

💕💕💕💕💕

I am in absolute love with this dream of yours and I hope it comes true. My boyfriend and I are starting to veer towards something similar. If I'm going to become the local hedge witch cryptid, I need that lil' house in the middle of the woods and away from fucking people.

[rynling]

If I'm going to become the local hedge witch cryptid, I need that lil' house in the middle of the woods and away from fucking people.

E X A C T L Y

This might be my anxiety, and it might be my ADD, and it might be me getting old, but

(it's probably the stress of the pandemic)

I'm starting to become extremely sensitive to noise. It's gotten difficult for me to get into a focused headspace for writing, and sometimes I think I would do anything for half an hour of uninterrupted silence without sirens or car horns or screaming children. I have white noise playlists and noise-canceling headphones, but still. Imagine sitting outside on your back porch in the evening with nothing but the sounds of frogs and crickets.

A best-case scenario for me would be southern Georgia or northern Florida, where the weather is warm and land prices, maintenance costs, and homeowner taxes are about as low as they get in this country, but I'm also seriously considering moving to Delaware, which is small but surprisingly rural.

Intellectually I understand that the aesthetic of "cottagecore" is problematic, but I just can't deny the appeal of having a small murder house out in the woods.

[runicmagitek]

Yo as someone with anxiety and probably ADD and also definitely getting old, FUCK NOISE. I've always been super sensitive to sounds, but I swear it's getting worse. There's only so much ambient music and noise-canceling headphones can do. And as much as I feel a lot of my basic needs would be met in closer proximity to a city/urban area (and also feel safer being in public as a queer person), my soul belongs in the middle of nowhere.

Also, what the fresh fuck do people with massive houses with 4+ bedrooms??? I just want something small and cute and covered in vines and with more animal neighbors than human neighbors, yet all I can find currently for the middle of the woods homes in Mass are obscenely huge in size and price. Or I'd need to move to Western Mass and have a 2+ hour commute.

Sigh. I hate it.