Defeat

Yesterday and the whole past month, everything has happened at once:

• We bought a house -
  
• that came with not just a mortgage. We also got an outdated electrical system and several truckloads of furniture to get rid of.
  
• We put in the garden!
• which grew weeds much bigger and tougher than me.
• The cats got comfortable in their new home
• by getting sick, sick, sick.
  
• We planned to go furniture shopping,
• but my car broke down.

I've been feeling overwhelmed and a little bit lonely, despite the fact that we've already had more people over at our house than we did in our entire last year of apartment dwelling.

Sometimes I feel like there's an expectation that I should be clever here, but lately I've just not felt clever. So today I decided that's okay, and this is my blog, and I'll cry if I want to.