[UPDATE] Time for the "hurry up and wait" part... · 3:33am Aug 16th, 2021
So I hate when life up and says, "Jump," 'cause we're all kinda in Life's playground and gotta do what Life says. 
So my daughter turned 13 this year, which was already going to trigger a re-do of the Parenting Plan and Child Support Calculation that happens when two divorced people share a kid. But my ex decided to add some vindictiveness for flavor, recited a bunch of already settled issues as "evidence" of abuse (for those who've been following my personal saga for a while; yes, again) and trying to remove parental rights from me and get me to pay more child support. Joke's on her, 'cause within 5 weeks of that...loveliness landing in my inbox, I got a notification that the non-profit that I've been working for since 2019 as part of the arrangement for my room-and-board is shutting down the housing program. So I don't have the "second job" that gave me a house anymore, so I have to find a new place to live...in the middle of the economic aftermath of a global pandemic.
So I've kinda put ALL non-housing and family legal stuff on hold (including my emergency fund, which has been liquidated for use in getting ready to move).
That said, the paperwork for the courts has been submitted (which, if things go well, will mean the entire situation with my ex will be turned on its head and we'll be on 100% equal footing for the first time since we moved to Arizona) and I've contracted an agent to find me a place to live, which means I have to wait until they get me a place to live. Soonest I'll be able to move into my own place? Mid- to late-September. 
It'll take a little time to decompress mentally from the torture chamber that was the child-support/parenting-plan documentation, but once I've done that I'll be getting back to writing. I'll probably split the time between my entry into A Band of Misfit Losers Hunts the Undead (of course, a prequel to the universe-hopping chapter in Music Box Blues) tentatively titled "On the Subject of Bughorses and Friendship Lessons" and the next chapter of My Empire of Dirt.
Of note, I finally got a chance to present to my daughter a fanfic starring her around the "Into the Spider-verse" movie. I've only got chapter 1 written, but she's SUPER hype and I may have to put some time into that one too before too long. 
(I have not published this and probably will hold off on doing so until I can change names to protect my daughter's privacy)
On a related note, once the move is complete I'm going to focus on getting my writing from the "extremely time-consuming hobby" to the "people actually pay me for this?!" stage. I've begun pondering turning "My Empire of Dirt" into a published book (similar to how Wanderer D published Gunsmoke) and have had some ideas on setting up "sponsored" works. More on that later. If you're on Medium, you'll probably want to follow me there, I'll be migrating to my WordPress site as my primary blogging platform soon (honestly, I should have done that years ago, but Tumblr is just so easy to use and I spent most of my writing time here on FiMFiction anyway...), and I'll be moving more of my fics to AO3 and Wattpad soon.
I'll be straight with you, offer to sell me a book, and I will buy a book. Books are important.