I'm so bad at telling my lovely viewers what's happening. I'll try to be better.

So here's what's happening. Earlier this year, we had come to learn that the basement apartment, where I've been staying had a ton of black mold. It's been there for years but we didn't think it was as bad as it was, nor did we have the funds to fix it at the time. We have now been dealing with this problem for several months now.

What does that mean?

It means that I spend all of summer packing up my life in plastic containers, throwing out anything that had black mold on it. This included clothes, shoes, and some furniture, including my whole bedroom set with box-spring and mattress.

Everything I packed has been in storage since late summer. I have also been staying at my older brother's apartment since late September, making streaming very difficult. Not that he won't let me, just that I do not wish to bother him. I'm already sleeping on his couch and hogging his living room so I don't wish to inconvenience him anymore then I already am. (Mind you, we get along great and it's fun hanging out with him. Plus he has a 3D printer and it's fun to see the stuff he makes)

So clean up and renovations have been happening since late September. We had come to learn that the mold and water damage that was happening was because the sub-pump couldn't handle the amount of water we have now been getting as of late. They have installed two, powerful sub-pumps, one at each end of the basement (two because water was still getting in at one side of the building so a second one was needed to cover it)

As of right now, the sub floors are down, the walls are up and mostly painted, and all the plumbing and electrical has been done. When the Holiday season is over in January, they will finish paint, putting down the main floors and putting up the drop ceiling, along with finishing the staircase and all the finals trims and touches.

We are hoping that by the end of January, I will be moving back in. As this will be a major move, it will take some time to get everything in and set up. The floor plan has been changed around so it's not like I can put everything back where it was.

I am happy with the new floor plan. They took square footage from my overly large bedroom and put it into the living area. I have plans to make use of this new space with an open office space. I've ordered a big, new desk (my old one was small and falling apart) and I plan to order a nice room divider to help enclose the area and to add privacy from the living room.

As for updates to my streaming set up, I am highly considering a FACE-CAM. Dun Dun Duuuuuunnnnn.
I got one this year, it's just having the courage to use it. It makes me nervous, but if I want to grow this community we have, it's something I have to highly consider. I know I've been avoiding it for years, and part of it was because of my social anxiety. It's much easier for me to chat and interact when I feel everyone is more so looking at the game and listening to my voice instead of looking at me. But maybe having a face-cam will improve my social anxiety and confidence.

As for the first game I'll stream with this face-cam, it's totally going to be Baldur's Gate 3. I've been dying to play it long before it came out, and been holding off because of both the renovations and wanting to stream it with you all. I love D&D and this game is taking games like Dragon Age and putting it into a D&D setting! (Yes, I know about Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, but those have a totally different style and game mechanics.)

I'm been trying very hard to say away from game spoilers and watching play-throughs. It's so hard!!!!! It's been MONTHS!!!! I want to sip up all the content!!!!

I have plans for not just my first playthrough (which I'm totally playing in Tactician/Hard difficulty), but also some more playthrough and challenge runs. Honour mode will happen. Also a Perma-death challenge were if anyone in my party dies, they are dead dead. Oh, and two more challenges that I've come up with. Basically, I'll be playing the shit out of this game.

I will play other games on the side. I plan to have one day in the week when I play a game that isn't my focus game at the time.

I'm also working on learning to edit, so that I can edit and upload past streams from over the years onto Youtube and making playlists for easy watching. Emotes are also something I plan to work on. I already have plans for a 'Tweasure' emote, and possibly a 'Murder' emote. I'm also going to look into how to do the discord server thing. I have one, but I'm so clueless to running a discord server that I don't know what to do with it.

Mind you, I'm also working on becoming an author, taking care of my health, and some other things so I'm going to try and schedule and balance everything. It's a balancing act I've been trying to figure out for years but I believe that if I just make a proper schedule and stick to it, everything will work out.

I think that's everything.... Oh wait, kitty update.

Ruby is health and happy. Since she is also staying with me at my brother's apartment, she gets to spend lots of time with her kitty cousin, Sumi. They play a lot, share each other's food and toys, but they don't like napping together. I know Ruby missing sleeping with me at night, as there is no room on the couch for the both of us (I move around a lot in my sleep) but she has a whole armchair to herself in the same room, and she now likes to lay on my lap while I'm on my PC. She falls off sometimes, or at least tries. l tend to catch her in time. haha.

So that's everything, I think. Wishing you all a lovely holiday and see you all in the New Years~! <3