Its All Over.

Hello everyone
      It's all over now, the home has closed its doors and my final shift has ended. It was quite sad, the last resident left with tears in her eyes and so did I. Although I moaned about it, after ten years the place had become a second home, better in a lot of ways than my own.
      I now have to find another job (easier said than done) as well as somewhere else to live. My paperwork has finally been processed by the council after five weeks and I can now bid on two bedroom properties, great, or so I thought, except that when I went on their website, there weren't any. Plenty of over 55's and three bed properties but no two's.
      If I were honest, I'd rather have a one bedroom flat, just me and my cats. My home life is awful, I'm stuck with a 32 year old bad tempered, moody, sulky (let's throw all the adjectives in there) son who hasn't spoken to me for days (God knows why) The atmosphere is horrendous; I'd rather pass into the next life than live like this and believe me, that thought is never far from my mind.
      However, I am in the perfect frame of mind to work on my novel and while I was on nights last week, managed to get a lot done. My main character is 14 year old Janet who has been bullied and tormented for most of her life. Just lately I have felt a strong connection with her; I can empathize. Her home life is horrible, she has no friends, she is an outcast and a loner, but to me she has become a friend and is more like me than I care to admit.
      Maybe this will be the one to launch my career, maybe it won't; I don't know, but in this made up character I have found a friend.