Cat v Greasy Landlord…the final battle.

Hey kids,

I know I've been awful to reach in the last few weeks. Sometimes you get ahold of me, and you've got my attention for a few hours, other times it's like three whole days before I reply. 

The first reason is this is my landlord, the one I've been fighting all this time. 

And you know, everyone, all the "just move instead" shit all of you have said to me, that I repeatedly ignored because I believed the guy would see the light eventually, yeah, you're right. I hate moving. I despise it. I'd rather live in the same shitty place for the rest of my life I hate it so much. It's the only home 2 of my 3 birds have ever known. BUT, despite all of that, I've been forced to live with bedbugs for a year. I've been shamed, vilified, mistreated. I don't really like being an object of pity, and frankly, many of the denizens of my neighborhood absolutely pity me for what I've been put through. The guy buys off judges, and he's super evil, and while NO ONE believes him that I'm a terrible person (the man literally told the courts I'm a gangster – I'll be 44 at the end of the month and tend to dress very professional and in nice dresses, not like a "gangster" would,) or that I'm destitute and selfish (I paid the guy for 5.5 years, during which time I was married to someone who literally used to rob me blind for part of that time and never worked, and I still kept the lights on and paid rent,) it's like fighting an uphill battle in mud while wearing crocs to fight this guy. It's exhausting. He wants to raise the rent on this unit, and if that's what he wants, I've lost more money fighting him than I would moving to somewhere else! AND I've slept with bedbugs for that expense and exhausting fight. Well, no more!

The thing is, once I decided this it made it very difficult for me to reply to everything because I have to pack up my home and do all of my spellwork. It isn't that I don't care, so this will sound cold, but a lot of my written work is explaining and re-explaining the same concepts and reassuring people, and I'm a very practical person. If I see it as not an emergency, whereas I see "getting secure into a new place that has heat so my birds don't die and I don't freeze to death," as relatively paramount, this is why "Cat I thought a scary thought today" gets left on read for a few days. I ENJOY doing spellwork, and that I see as ENJOYABLE and a stress relief – I mean I get to be out of bedbug hell for some hours because I don't do the spells here. I DETEST PACKING AND MOVING, so that is miserable, so I get kind of pissy and miserable while I do it. I am not fond of repeating myself (surprising, I know,) but I'd honestly rather be replying to you than trying to decide what I can box up immediately and what has to remain out til the last. 

What I'm trying to say is I try to spend a few hours replying because it's way better than trying to put my dishes in some sort of order or answer another landlord about viewing a place or anything of this process, but I do need to keep myself to task because I want to just get this over with. I want to get out of this bug infested shit hole that I loved so much until it became a bug infested shit hole and the landlord's greedy demonic side showed itself. 

Yes, I totally cursed him and everyone on his side, which is to say his greedy little minions are all going to get the same shit he gets, but it's really only a handful of people because some working for him have actually quit after seeing how I personally was treated. 

It's an annoying process but I am thinking I will be settled by Monday. I'm sorry it's been inconvenient, and I'm honestly pretty impressed how well all the magic I'd done and friends have done has kept me here as long as it did. 🙂 So, please just have a bit of patience in the meanwhile. I've always been a bit of an organizational nightmare so readings and replies may be a bit wonky until then.

~Cat