2024-07-28 “It’s A Start” by Emma

You can see I got my boxes from Amazon. Turns out the mattress has all the air sucked out of it and is rolled up. My granny would never believe a whole bed could come in boxes. I got some pillows, sheets, blankets, and bathroom towels. I got a little desk and a chair for it. All in boxes.

An’ this chair to my left. It came by a different truck and wasn’t in a box.

I’ll say this… everything in 2024 seems like it’s in a hurry and worried about being too big.

I ain’t meaning to complain. I like the microwave fine for heating up things.

Getting a bed delivered in a box is really nice. But it’s all in a big hurry. 

Well, I don’t know if that made a bit o’ sense to you. 

When the boxes got here I was wishing Jenn could be here to see and be part of it. I know she’s okay, ‘cause I can see her on Instagram and we can message. But I do miss her.

An’ I still have Merritt. I guess you know about me falling ‘sleep leaning on him. I ‘member dozing off an’ then I woke a bit enough to know I was leaning on him. I could o’ sat back the other way, but I didn’t.

He said he didn’t mind it, so I guess ever’thing is okay, an’ we talked about how things are between us and having to think things through. Them’s Merritts words about thinking, but I know what he means.

I ain’t saying we are cows, but when you put a bull and a cow in a pen… But cows can’t manage themselves. Just because he’s right there ain’t reason by itself to not think about things.

I need to think about getting work, too. I’ll start out on that tomorrow after I get my room set up. An’ ‘course Merritt's coming right over to help just as soon as he gets done looking at his email for work on his laptop.

‘Much as I like my iPhone, I reckon… I s’pose I need to get a laptop, too. Merritt thought ever’body might like to see all our stories in one place an’ he made an Internet page for that. I put a link to it in my bio. If I get a laptop, I can help keep it up.

Well, that’s all for now. Thanks for reading my story, an’ if you have any advice about me and Merritt, let me know!