(I'm pretty crappy when it comes to frequently updating this dusty journal.)

Hello and good day to whoever is concerns to read this journal!

I figured it would be ideal to break the silence on my profile here as life obviously got in the way to do so to update my FA promptly.

It's been about a solid 3 months since I moved back home to Southern California and things for myself have been improving for the better. Within a month off, I've been able to secure a pretty well paying job at a sheet metal shop in LA that specializes in manufacturing parts for major aircraft companies. It's been a lot of hours working, but it's been doing me a lot of good for myself despite from working the shitty food service jobs that I've been working for when I was living in Georgia for the past 5 years. The move for sure did me a lot of good so far, yet I find it difficult still to find a solid set of friends from the ones I developed living back in the South. All in good time. But the pro of working the long hours is the ability to acuminate a solid savings in case shit ever hits the fan. So it's nice to have that kind of security for once.

With the extra income. you might expect a bit more content on my FA over time. But the main goal is shooting down the debt from the past 5 years in hopes for a more solid score and use that as a advantage to get a place of my own out here in California.

A lot has been crossing my mind. the 5 years living out on my own has done me a lot of good for myself as a person. Yet I still this numbness from the mistakes I have done while out on my own. But I'm doing my overall best to leave what is in the past in the past and look forward to get myself a much more secure future for myself.

for the record. Things have been well. But there is always room for them to get better. No point in rushing things, it will only cause a lot more damage than I have done for the duration of my time in the south. It's a new chapter, and I prefer not to make too many mistakes doing so.

To those from Atlanta reading this. I'll come back for FWA

Be honest I miss you all. And I look forward to coming back.

Be easy and take care of yourselves.

With love

- SoCal Shepherd