The Past 7 Years

 

I don't want to let this blog just die so I'll just post an update on stuff.

We no longer live at my parents house. They failed to pay for the mortgage so we got kicked out. We moved to my own house around late September 2014. It was a good thing that my mom pushed me to buy (mortgage?) my own house more than 10 years ago, or we would have nowhere to go.

I've been buying lots of books since, and my to-read pile is now more than 500. I just need the time to read them all. TV shows and Netflix are taking a lot of my free time away from books, unfortunately.

The list of countries I have visited has now expanded to include those that require pre-approved visas: Australia and Japan. I have been to Australia twice, and thrice to Japan.

I resigned from my previous work in January 2020. I was there for 10 years, longer than when I was in my job before that, where I lasted for 6 years. I think having the ability to travel made me able to stay at my previous job.

We're now living in a middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. It's been 7 months now, going on 8 months, and I don't think the world has figured it out yet. The pandemic totally messed up with my plan of just taking it easy this year and just travel. The travel industry is in the brink of collapsing. I'm lucky that because I was planning on having a months-long break from work, I was able to save up enough money and live off it for several months.

But it's October now, and I have decided it's time to take on a new job. I'll be starting in early November and I hope this new job will be as good as, if not better than, my previous job.

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