a little b/g info

Well, I guess I'll give anyone interested a little background info on where I'm coming from so my future posts make a little more sense. I am 18 years old, just quit my day job after writing a business plan and securing a loan so I can get a studio space and sell on etsy full time. I'm currently waiting to hear from the other people who work in the studio, to find out when I get the space. I recently underwent surgery to have a cyst removed form my ovary. I live with my boyfriend and my baby (our cat, alfredo) in a teeny-weeny run down apartment with a great clawfoot bathtub and a kitchen that I can hide by closing the cupboards. My dream is to make enough off of etsy in the next few years for a downpayment on a nice little house, where I can cook and do laundry and alfredo can have a garden to mutilate, and my love can collect as many cars as he pleases. As is, we have nowhere to put the ten thousand (okay, 4) extra cars we have and are playing cars musical chairs in order to get rid of some of them and make rent.
I've been sewing as long as I can remember, my grnmother had me making my barbie clothes as soon as I was big enough to reach the sewing machine pedal. I took as many sewing classes as i possibly could in high school, and graduated a semester early because there weren't going to be any sewing classes in the second semester, and lit was cancelled so high school had nothing left to offer me other than misery and alcoholism, so I up and moved to Kelowna to... well get away I guess. I had just had a difficult break up, and wanted a fresh start. Wound up working at a Safeway in Kelowna for like $8.50/hour for about 5 months, decided I hated it there, and came back to nelson for the graduation ceremonies and to live with my mother again. Wound up working a zillion dead end minimum wage jobs, living in an apartment with 5 people and ONE yes you read that right, ONE bedroom... sigh. Never again will I have roommates. But, I did fall in love with one of them, and here I am - in an apt. a floor above the old one, with no roomates, and happy as a clam.