• The construction workers building the new Italian restaurant next door are insane. They yell and scream and sound like pirates.
• Facebook is eating my life. Mousehunt has taken hold of my soul. It’s not pretty.
• My job still makes my brain hurt. Which is good. But it still hurts.

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As much as I love my mom and am inexpressibly thankful for how she and Ed have let me live in their house and be a total mooch for many months now, I am SO looking forward to having my house sell, and being able to spend that mortgage money on rent for a place of my own.

I’ve never lived alone for more than a week. That’s a pretty sad fact for a so-called grown up, but it’s true. I’ve never had a place truly mine, and only mine. No parents, no roommates, no husbands or anyone of any kind. Just me. Just mine.

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Today the date was set for the court appearance to formally dissolve my marriage. It will be at 9am on December 7th. I’m glad that it will finally be all resolved, finished, all that, but it also forces me to think about things.

Everyone knows that life changes in all kinds of ways when you get a divorce, but I’m still surprised by some of the things that come up.

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