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So it's been about 4 or 5 months since I've moved into my new house and for the most part it's been rather simple up until recently. The wasps in my place are no longer around (mainly because of the cold weather) and I did have that bird stuck in my wall, but aside from that I really haven't had much happen aside from me paying my bills.

However, within the last 10 days I've had problems around me non-stop. First, my pipes in the basement (being a crawl space with the walls made of rock slabs stuck together with cement) started to freeze over and to cut the explanation short, I managed to thaw them out. The downside is that while I thawed them out, apparently the hot water pipe leading to my kitchen had been rubbing against the "brick work" of the house and caused it to basically form a high pressure crack under pressure. While this is a leak, it's not pouring out gallons of water by the minute, it's more like a mist and it takes a while before there is even a small puddle of water.

Though a leak is still a leak and that pipe will have to be replaced, but it can't because the two main water valves (that allow water to flow into house or restrict it) one being in the basement and one outside covered underneath a manhole are both basically rusty. So that second water valve, being outside, is actually part of the city's property and we (me and my landlord) have come up with the plan to have the city replace that water valve outside, as that's the only way we'll be able to shut off the water to my house and replace the leaking pipe. Until that gets done (as we are still waiting on the city to get to work), I have to turn my hot water valve to "ON" every time I wanna use hot water and turn it off when I'm done, otherwise that pipe will start leaking. Funny thing is, because I'm considered in a city (that is the size of a city block), Whiting (the state I'm residing in) will actually have to have their water shut off by the city when they replace my water valve. So no one in the area will have any running water while they work on that.

So while I wait for that to be fixed and not a week later, on new years eve, I had another problem. My furnace, for some reason, shut off without any warning and for me the night of New Years Eve was incredibly cold as it dropped down to -11F (-23C). To cut another long story short, the problem was that a mouse or rat made its bedding within the actual furnace itself and chewed up one of the wires inside. This wire was left bare and it touched the metal interior of the furnace and basically short-circuited everything, keeping the furnace shut off and wouldn't turn on. So after having the wire replaced after calling a guy up to take a look at it, the furnace started running, it only took me, my dad, my landlord, his dad and this guy to figure out what the problem was and resolve it.

Now we're getting to the most recent of things, literally almost a week away from when all these issues started. I just finished working my first day at my job for the year of 2018, it was an ordinary Wednesday up until the point I left. When I left, I heard a "Bumpa-bumpa" sound that only grew increasingly worse as I got on the highway to head home (being really my only option). I pulled over and went around my car, inspecting the tires and saw that the front passenger tire was both flat and shredded. Now, I've never actually had to replace a flat tire before in the midst of driving, I actually didn't even have a jack lift to lift the car up to help me. So basically I had to call my parents at 2 AM on a Thursday morning and ask for help, about an hour later my dad showed up with a floor jack. 

To make this very short and less confusing, we got the spare tire on but it also was flat and spare tires are NOT built like regular tires, they are so much thinner and smaller. Basically, it came down to having to leave it on the side of the highway while my dad took me home to let me get some rest and whatnot (which I really didn't get much given my mind was racing). The plan for this was that my dad would head back home and get a new tire and replace it with a new one. Basically the car was fixed and brought back to my place while I slept in my house (for only a few hours).

Honestly, it feels like I'm having the worse moment of my life in a very LONG time. Though it's basically been the most lively in perhaps years for me, but I would have preferred it done another way. I'm just hoping that this is last of it for at least some time because this seriously all happened not even 10 days ago, spread out like every 2 or 3 days.

Hey! This is just a little update on my new residence and how well I'm getting situated.

I've currently managed to put the majority of my stuff away and the things I have left are mainly miscellaneous stuff that I really have no place for (As I just sorta put everything in my room into boxes. I had more stuff than furniture to put it all in). I also have some stuff in my closet I still need to move out, but that's honestly for another time because I have to clean that out as well.

Given it's an old house and I'm probably the first person to live in that house for some time, there are spiderwebs all over the place as well as other bugs. Luckily though, the spiders are usually very small, so small you can't see their webbing without them on them. Though a large majority of these spiderwebs are on corner-like areas, such as where the floor meets up with the wall or on windowsills. I plan to actually clean up all these spiderwebs and cobwebs come winter, as they won't be around when that time comes.

The funny thing is, I only realized this on my nights off from work, but I apparently actually have a cricket in the room right next to my bedroom which has all my gaming consoles and stuff in. Luckily, I don't sleep at night because I work the night shifts, but that cricket will literally chirp so loud that it kind of tells you that it's a big cricket. I've also had a few issues regarding gnats and a few mosquitoes flying around in the dark, attracted to whatever screen I have on at the time. (Even saw what I think was a baby wood roach)

Though the bugs don't typically bother me, as I've seen about 1 mosquito and 5 gnats the entire time I've been here, which spreads over the course of 2 weeks. The real issue I have here is the dust in the air. I start sneezing and without the AC running, it causes my nose to stuff up, get runny and cause my lungs to feel tight because I start to cough (I have asthma). Interestingly enough though, these symptoms only have occurred a few days ago, and I have turned on the AC about 4 times since I've been here. (I'm being really cheap so my bills aren't that high. And when I say cheap, I'm going distances where it's 90 degrees outside (That's 32 Celsius) and I'll be asleep with nothing but my bedroom fan blowing).

Aside from what I've said, I'm pretty much settled into the new house. The only thing I have recently learned is that no one is picking up my garbage! So I've gotta get that settled before there's a mountain of trash sitting out at the curb. I just hope that it isn't like with my wifi where I had to wait for nearly a week to hear back and get an issue resolved from them after my initial call.

So that's about sums up what's going right now at my new place, aside from not having curtains in all but the bedroom. It's pretty nice living there on my own, though I will say I constantly worry about just how high my bills will be for this first month. I know I'll have enough money to cover the costs and still have some left over, it's just how much I will have left over is what worries me. Like I said, I'm being cheap XD

So things have changed since I first came onto Deviant Art. When I started, I was still in High School, 2nd year I believe. But now that has changed as it's been a few years since then. (Looking back at my stories from then and comments I've left on here, I feel like I was very inexperienced in my ideas).

Recently (A few months ago), I have graduated from Computer Repair and Networking from Washburn Institute of Technology, a branching part of the university known as Washburn University that covers electronics, engineering and nursing. The program was 2 years long and I started when I was in my senior year of high school (luckily half of the pay was being paid by the school because I was part of the program at the time, that changed after I graduated from the school and went on to the second year of the course).

Prior to graduating from the college course, I had applied for a technical job at a casino a bit of a ways away from my home. After about a month and a half or so of time, I managed to get the job. I currently am working as technical support for the casino, working ten hours a day because of my department is short-handed (prior to me and and another guy joining, everyone worked 12 hours a day). I work third shift, which is usually midnight to say 6 or 7 in the morning, but in my case it's from 10pm to 8am.

The job is well paying and I only have to work 4 days a week (because the job is salary and I work 10 hours each day, making up to be the necessary 40 hours a week), but the only real issue is that it's almost an hour drive from my home (which is my parent's house), to the casino. I'm spending gas almost every week and have had a few close encounters of almost running out of gas while driving.

Though I might not be driving an hour here in September. A couple that are friends of the family are currently trying to sale a house that belonged to one of their grandparents and actually is only 15 minutes away from the casino. We contacted them, saw the house and they are willing to let me rent the place for $450 a month, which is a nice deal with how much I make. The only issue is that there is someone else looking into the house, wanting to buy it, but they don't really have the trust as they do with me and my family (the house is old, it was built in 1901). If the one's looking into the house don't say anything come September, the couple will give the house to me.

I've done the math, and despite how I'm actually spending less by simply paying for gas, I would prefer to live in the house. My car is old and has just recently hit the 200,000 total mile mark, so it's getting to be somewhat worn out or at least less reliable. But it's a front-wheel drive car and I have very little experience driving in snow and ice. I want to reduce the possibility of sliding off the road or having my car fall apart by living closer to the casino for when winter hits. They say that the highways are well salted during the winter (As the casino runs along the highway and the small town the house is a part of is considered part of the highway), but I simply can't take the risk with the drive being about 50 minutes from my parents house and the casino. I'm taking up about 2 hours of my day just to get to and from work in total whereas I could only take up 30 minutes with this house).

So there you have it! An update on my life as of right now. Come September, I might be moving in to the house, or might not be as it all depends on those other people looking into the house. It'll be a learning experience for me considering I'll be living on my own, but I'm fine with that as I need to start living on my own at some point in my life, best start as soon as possible.

So Eric said I have to post 5 of my liked videos, well I'll post 10 and one of my most favorite likes.

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And now, my most favorite Liked video.

My grandmother is in the hospital, had heart pain because of some fluid got built up and caused pressure, meaning pain. However that's not the issue, she has leukemia; a type of white blood cell cancer that's pretty rare, look it up. I don't know what stage it's in because they haven't been able to do any tests regarding the cancer and the treatment for her heart is getting in the way. The doctors have never seen anything with the heart issue, so that's why and because of that they can't test the cancer to see what stage its in.

The only treatment for this cancer is chemo, the medicine and it's never been the best option to ridding cancer. So, I'm preparing for the worst because my grandma doesn't sound like she's improving. Just letting you guys know, I might not be around for some time if the worst does happen.