June 27, 2020

47

In my 47th year I emerged from the basement! After a long hard road of uncertainty, I finally got my own place. I tried to buy a house at first. I fell in love with a colonial style two bedroom two bathroom house but after going back and forth with the owner and switching mortgage lenders, I was done with the process and decided I wasn’t ready for home ownership. It was a good learning experience and I’m glad I tried.

To be truthful, I didn’t really want a house, especially since my children are adults. I want to own property but I don’t want to live in a house by myself. So instead I got a loft.

Anyone who knows me knows how much I wanted to live in a loft.

One thing I learned from living in my sister’s basement for so long is that I don’t need a lot of space. My one bedroom loft is a nice cozy place perfect for me with a lovely view of a park.

I got a promotion at my job and getting it really was an ego boost as well as a financial one.

For my birthday, I got LASIK eye surgery. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 6 years old. I tried contacts but because I had severe astigmatism, I couldn’t see as clearly as I did with glasses.

I had lost 61lbs, moved into my own place and got LASIK. I was moving into a new chapter of my life and I would be starting this chapter a single woman. My relationship of two years had come to an end. I had asked him a while before my eye surgery if he would give me a ride to and from the procedure. He said he would then two days before my surgery he said he couldn’t do it, on top of that I got a happy birthday text at 3 o’clock in the morning the day of my birthday and that was enough for me to finally let go.