Getting My Act Together part II

Each day that passes brings me one day closer to my goal of returning to the south and a higher level of humidity. I'm having loads of anxiety and panic attacks but I tell myself that I can do this because it's not just for me, it's also for my kid. The cartoon image is pretty close to just how far I'll be traveling by bus with my kid, I'll be traveling from Utah to South Carolina which is going to take three days. We will both be so glad to get off that bus for the final time.

I'm planning out what I want my place to look like inside and what I can do with the restrictions that come with renting a property. I can't do a huge amount with walls but I can hang things and put things in front of or hang them from the walls and ceiling.

I love these bluish and greenish shades, they are so calm and I definitely need to be able to be calm for the move so that I don't freak my kid out. I'll probably come up with a few projects for my kid to help me with so he feels more involved in making our new place more homey. One thing I'll do is paint a dresser, it won't look exactly like something out of one of the photographs that I find online but I'll try and the fact that he gets to help will make it fun for him.

I would probably do the outline in black just in case he tries drawing on the outside of it and it would still look really nice. That and he can have his little Star Wars figurines on the top and it would look almost like it was made for them.

Aside from planning how I'm going to get there I guess planning the visual theme in my future place is a pretty big thing because I need it to help my kid feel like he's coming home and guests will feel welcome. Not sure yet if blue is going to be the main color or something else but I'm gathering all the ideas I can. Including the instructions on how to make my own furniture so that it looks the way I want it to and not just like I settled for what I could find in a thrift store.


This would probably be an excellent idea for my kid, he loves outer space and Star Wars and other boy themed stuff. I won't be able to make it look exact but I'll see what I can do about doing something along these lines.

Getting the act together part 1

Getting my act together and trying to not fall on my face is not going to be an easy one. First of all I'm a single parent who seems to be prone to people trying to screw me over, usually for money that I don't have. I'm also in the process of getting ready to move at the end of the school year and so far the only people who know are a few of my friends and some of the local bus drivers. His teacher doesn't, and won't get to, know because she might tell my roommate. Those who I've asked about housing and other services in the state that I'll be moving to sort of know but only in the sense that they've been asked about housing that might be available at the end of the school year. Also my current job knows because I've warned them that I'll have to leave in order to move.

I have to plan how I'm going to move, where I'm going to live and work, where my kid is going to go while I'm at work and where he'll go to school in the fall. He hasn't been told because I don't want him to tell my roommate and her then get spiteful and decide to kick me out early because she thinks she's teaching me a lesson. I've not told anyone in my family either because they would tell her and possibly get me the same consequences.

I don't know about anyone else but this is super rough on me. I'll also need to be able to figure out how I'm going to pay the utilities and get food on the table that I've not yet purchased/made. I'm doing the research so that I can create my own furniture and possibly earn money from it on the side.

Some of the places I'm looking into are either one bedroom homes or two bedroom homes, they're pretty much the same cost as renting just a room in the area that I'm looking into in South Carolina. I was living there about a year and a half ago and miss the place a lot, so does my kid. I want to tell him that I've already purchased the bus tickets to take us there but I don't want to risk the consequences of HER knowing about it until I pick up our suitcases for the final time and walk out the door holding my kids hand.

By the end of the summer if things work out the way I'm hoping they will I could take us to the coast for a few days and let him experience the ocean from the eastern shore. I think he'd love it. I could also work on my hobby of photography and collect a few hundred if not a few thousand photos to put up around the house. The pictures that I've posted so far are my original photos I took myself.

One thing that I want to do and it would probably be super helpful if I can get a hold of the information is instructions, preferably pdf format, on how to make cardboard furniture. I'm no pro but I don't want for what I make to look like I just brought a box home from Lowe's and painted it because I'm either to cheap or poor to get something nice.

This right here would be a good start. I'm going to have to see what I can do about copying something from youtube because the search so far has been extremely frustrating and fruitless. I want to make a complete kitchen and dining room set, bedroom necessities and maybe some decorative stuff like a nice hanging desk or something. The cabinet below or something similar I really want, partly because it looks nice and partly because if I have something hanging I don't have to move it to clean under it.

If anyone has the instructions or the link to a website that I can get the instructions from I would love it if they shared that with me because I really do need it.

The pictures of the furniture I don't own, I found them on a google search for cardboard furniture.