now this is an experiment, more documenting for myself than anything
if you read this, immediately you will notice i am a terrible typist, no capitals will be entered into....
and im australian and the stupid dictionary keeps trying to tell me i cant spell but i can!!! we just do it differently.
so my partner of 7 years left to go travelling indefinitely a few months ago and this has caused a huge hole of depression of which i am about 2 cm up the wall on the way out, long way to go. but anyhow this caused me to look at stuff and i decided i need to change the way i am living currently in order to feel a bit more ethically at peace with myself and feel a little more fulfilled.
i live in a small apartment in the city of perth, i am a sculptor, my 11,1/2yo chihuahua is the most important person in my life.
before my boyfriend left i spent about 60% of my time at his house in the country, we had 2 sheep in our yard to eat the lawn, rambo the ram and sheera the sheep, a little veggie patch where we grew potatoes, tomatoes and herbs and we often went freeganing at a nearby shopping centre. on the whole i felt pretty content with my lifestyle. since he left ive had to spend 100% of my time in my cramped dark apartment with a small paved courtyard. this has been a bit of an adjustment.
i am feeling very oppressed by my surroundings at the moment, i yearn for space. i am lucky to have my apartment as it is through community housing and it tailored to my income so i can afford it. having said that i do long to move to the country, get some goats and make cheeses. but as that is the most unlikely thing to happen im going to have to see how i can evolve that to a micro scale to make it a realistic and achievable outcome. to put it simply, i want to live more simply in the city.this will (if i stick at it, not sure im much of a writer) serve as a progress document for me
