i moved to windsor in 2013 and it started what became the most productive and happy period of my life, from 2013-2019. the period from 2006-2013 was unstable but broadly happy and positive but i lost my studio for a few months from 2011-2013 and it was a wakeup call that i'd better get to work, and i did. the period from 2002-2006 was a low point, for me, and mostly full of experiences and people that i'd rather forget. the period from 1996-2002 was very productive, coming out of a period of instability from 1993-1996.
i lost 2020, 2021 and 2022 to the pandemic. some people found the pandemic useful; the social restrictions that my governments put in place completely ruined my social life, and i experienced no upside to it whatsoever. i got almost nothing done, in terms of art. i was fighting legal battles and focusing on my health. i won two small settlements and used it to buy some gear, but i didn't have the time to use it. the pointless and non-scientific based and mostly superstitious restrictions, which i refused to follow, generated massive problems for me that wasted huge amounts of my time, they didn't give me more time. in the long run, i gained resources to use to create with, but i lost massive amounts of my time, which was wasted in fighting the social order created by the restrictions, which i could not live with, and could not comply by.
things were set to turn over in 2023, but i realized my new landlords were parasitic investor-class rentier pieces of shit and gay drug addicts that lived a terrible lifestyle that they wanted to enforce on me but that i didn't have the finances to be able to move anywhere and would have to lock myself inside the place to both avoid getting evicted and avoid them and their lifestyle until the market improved, which happened in mid 2025, slightly after i got evicted due to the lies that they told the court. i lost all of 2023, all of 2024 and the start of 2025 fighting them off, and got absolutely nothing worthwhile done at all while i was doing so. i couldn't leave my place or i would have been evicted when i was gone and lost everything nd i didn't have time to get any work done.
after a challenging turn of events in the spring of 2025, i got lucky and landed on my feet, but the place i moved to was full of filthy pothead losers that insisted on smoking inside or directly under my window and i lost the summer again because i had to focus on getting out of there instead of on existing.
at the very end of the summer, the situation started to clear up. i first got a settlement from my new landlords, i then signed a new lease, i got approved for the cohb, i got approved for the cdb, i opened an rdsp and i'm still fighting off the landlords that evicted me, with the expectation of getting compensated for the costs i incurred as a result of this mess. i am financially stable, moving forwards; i will be ok, even if i need to find a new apartment again in the near future.
i expect to be able to get back to my normal lifestyle by the spring. i just need to finish a few things off, first.
first productive phase: 1996-2003
first bottoming out: 2003-2006
second productive phase: 2006-2019
second bottoming out: 2020-2025
third productive phase: 2026-2040