Power Back on for the Moment
Posted a day agoOver 4 and a half days later we finally have power back on.
Will it stay on? Dunno.
How much food did we lose despite using ice blocks and coolers? Dunno.
How much damage was done to the house? Dunno.
All I do know is I am sick, exhausted, and want to rest and so far the world refuses to let that happen.
Will update if anything changes. Take care and thanks for caring.
Will it stay on? Dunno.
How much food did we lose despite using ice blocks and coolers? Dunno.
How much damage was done to the house? Dunno.
All I do know is I am sick, exhausted, and want to rest and so far the world refuses to let that happen.
Will update if anything changes. Take care and thanks for caring.
BIG UPDATE: Things Bad but Still Alive
Posted 4 days agoHey everybody, been an interesting 40+ hours here.
For those of you who haven’t heard (and considering I’ve only have very limited access to news so that might be most of you for all I know) Houston Texas got FUCKED OVER by a storm Thursday afternoon… but lets rewind a lil since bad news never happens alone for me.
Thursday morning I started to do my errands and to drive to get breakfast… aaaaand the battery alert goes off in my car followed by it trying to die. Long story short 2 hours, a new battery, and lots of money later we find out it’s a lot more than just the battery that’s gone bad and we need a new actuator (I think that’s what it’s called) system among other things. All to a tune of $2000 dollars baring our car guy managing to get some deals for us… so I came home down one car and stressing over the cost. We’d been warned we’d get bad weather that afternoon buuuut we’d been warned before so we weren’t too worried…
Then a bit after 5 or we got multiple emergency alerts all at once and got to worry about it… as the sky opened up. We lost power by 6 and it has stayed out… along with the power pretty much everywhere in the immediate area. Turns out we got hurricane force winds tearing through… emphasis on tearing. Stoplights torn off their lines, trees down, power line poles snapped, power towers crumbled… long story short Houston is wrecked. We got lucky (we hope, still trying to gauge the damage) and only lost two section of fence, several chunks of siding, and we’ve got a big chunk of tree resting on our garage… our neighbors up and down the block had entire trees come down and more than a few hit their houses.
Either way the storm is passed and we’re back up to 90+ degrees (100+ if you factor in the humidity)… with no power. Worse? We only have mom’s car which we can’t get dad into so we can’t even try to flee.
And to really cap it off? Every time we’ve lost power like this? It takes, on average, two weeks before they’ll bother to get around to us to fix it… lord knows it’ll be delayed longer this time since the fucking first thing they did with half a million in the dark and downtown literally being swamped in broke glass? Try to make sure their baseball game went off without issue…
Yeah… my confidence getting this fixed anytime soon is low. Posting this from the only WiFi spot I could find (a long ways from the house) and can’t be on long either.
Anyway that’s the news and the news is bad, wish us the best of luck and take care.
For those of you who haven’t heard (and considering I’ve only have very limited access to news so that might be most of you for all I know) Houston Texas got FUCKED OVER by a storm Thursday afternoon… but lets rewind a lil since bad news never happens alone for me.
Thursday morning I started to do my errands and to drive to get breakfast… aaaaand the battery alert goes off in my car followed by it trying to die. Long story short 2 hours, a new battery, and lots of money later we find out it’s a lot more than just the battery that’s gone bad and we need a new actuator (I think that’s what it’s called) system among other things. All to a tune of $2000 dollars baring our car guy managing to get some deals for us… so I came home down one car and stressing over the cost. We’d been warned we’d get bad weather that afternoon buuuut we’d been warned before so we weren’t too worried…
Then a bit after 5 or we got multiple emergency alerts all at once and got to worry about it… as the sky opened up. We lost power by 6 and it has stayed out… along with the power pretty much everywhere in the immediate area. Turns out we got hurricane force winds tearing through… emphasis on tearing. Stoplights torn off their lines, trees down, power line poles snapped, power towers crumbled… long story short Houston is wrecked. We got lucky (we hope, still trying to gauge the damage) and only lost two section of fence, several chunks of siding, and we’ve got a big chunk of tree resting on our garage… our neighbors up and down the block had entire trees come down and more than a few hit their houses.
Either way the storm is passed and we’re back up to 90+ degrees (100+ if you factor in the humidity)… with no power. Worse? We only have mom’s car which we can’t get dad into so we can’t even try to flee.
And to really cap it off? Every time we’ve lost power like this? It takes, on average, two weeks before they’ll bother to get around to us to fix it… lord knows it’ll be delayed longer this time since the fucking first thing they did with half a million in the dark and downtown literally being swamped in broke glass? Try to make sure their baseball game went off without issue…
Yeah… my confidence getting this fixed anytime soon is low. Posting this from the only WiFi spot I could find (a long ways from the house) and can’t be on long either.
Anyway that’s the news and the news is bad, wish us the best of luck and take care.
Once More the Time has Come... Happy Birthday
Posted 12 days agoHappy Birthday to me, the 34th year of the suffering that is life…
Aaaaand enough bad poetry for the moment. Minor update for everybody. The past month has been heck with multiple shows and trips, lots of problems inbetween, and just zero time to rest and recover (and if I was given time to do that you can be damn sure it gets yanked away before it does any good). Cause of that my art and stories are pretty dead. Anything I start I lose the will to finish before it’s even near completion… more so than normal anyway. Hope that changes in the near future but we’ll see..
Anyway on to other news. For my birthday I plan to (weather permitting) get an ass kicking… aka I’m going to go to a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament which, with how rarely I play, should go poorly for me but hey. Should still be fun. Gonna be playing Purrely for anyone in the know on the game and curious.
Thanks for reading, take care, and I hope you have a good day -hugs-
Aaaaand enough bad poetry for the moment. Minor update for everybody. The past month has been heck with multiple shows and trips, lots of problems inbetween, and just zero time to rest and recover (and if I was given time to do that you can be damn sure it gets yanked away before it does any good). Cause of that my art and stories are pretty dead. Anything I start I lose the will to finish before it’s even near completion… more so than normal anyway. Hope that changes in the near future but we’ll see..
Anyway on to other news. For my birthday I plan to (weather permitting) get an ass kicking… aka I’m going to go to a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament which, with how rarely I play, should go poorly for me but hey. Should still be fun. Gonna be playing Purrely for anyone in the know on the game and curious.
Thanks for reading, take care, and I hope you have a good day -hugs-
Back & Happy Easter
Posted a month agoHappy Easter everybody and we’re finally back home here…
Since I sadly lack anything cute bunny or egg related to offer I’ll get down to brass tacks.
The trip was successful in that we got there and got back in all in one piece… what the trip decidedly was NOT however was easy. The chief issue (among many) was that dad made a little oopsy when he booked the motel room we’d be stopping at for the halfway point coming and going. What was supposed to happen was it would be somewhere along the quickest route roughly in the middle so that it’d divide the trip into two days with 6 and a half to 7 hours of driving a day…
What he actually did was book a motel that divided it into 5 and a half hours one day… and 9 (verging on 10) hours the next. And since I don’t think I mentioned this and it’s rather relevant… I find driving to be extremely stressfull.
So yeah… finally back home to try and rest… since I have to try and fix all the (metaphorical thankfully) fires that started while we were away from home tomorrow… which will be fuuuuun… oh and tomorrow is also April Fools Day… so really fuuuuuuun…
Anyway I hope all of you are having a Happy Easter and thanks for reading.
Since I sadly lack anything cute bunny or egg related to offer I’ll get down to brass tacks.
The trip was successful in that we got there and got back in all in one piece… what the trip decidedly was NOT however was easy. The chief issue (among many) was that dad made a little oopsy when he booked the motel room we’d be stopping at for the halfway point coming and going. What was supposed to happen was it would be somewhere along the quickest route roughly in the middle so that it’d divide the trip into two days with 6 and a half to 7 hours of driving a day…
What he actually did was book a motel that divided it into 5 and a half hours one day… and 9 (verging on 10) hours the next. And since I don’t think I mentioned this and it’s rather relevant… I find driving to be extremely stressfull.
So yeah… finally back home to try and rest… since I have to try and fix all the (metaphorical thankfully) fires that started while we were away from home tomorrow… which will be fuuuuun… oh and tomorrow is also April Fools Day… so really fuuuuuuun…
Anyway I hope all of you are having a Happy Easter and thanks for reading.
Update & Going on a Trip
Posted 2 months agoHey folks, finally got an update for you here.
For starters things have been stressful enough here the few art based projects I've tried to start just dried up only half done... hope to get something post-worthy done soon but the focus and motivation just isn't there with how things are going.
Speaking of real life stresses...
Dad has his once a year show this week which means I will be driving him to St. Louis again... a roughly 13 hour trip. We leave tomorrow, drive 6 and a half hours, stay at a motel, then drive the rest of the way Wednesday. We repeat the journey in reverse Saturday and arrive sometime Sunday.
Long story short it's gonna be long and stressful for multiple reasons so please wish us luck on it... lord knows the roads haven't gotten any safer as of late, heck I passed more than one active burning car on the side of the freeway (complete with fire grew working to put it out) just today... so any well wishes are appreciated.
Take care, hope all of you are staying safe, and thank you for reading.
For starters things have been stressful enough here the few art based projects I've tried to start just dried up only half done... hope to get something post-worthy done soon but the focus and motivation just isn't there with how things are going.
Speaking of real life stresses...
Dad has his once a year show this week which means I will be driving him to St. Louis again... a roughly 13 hour trip. We leave tomorrow, drive 6 and a half hours, stay at a motel, then drive the rest of the way Wednesday. We repeat the journey in reverse Saturday and arrive sometime Sunday.
Long story short it's gonna be long and stressful for multiple reasons so please wish us luck on it... lord knows the roads haven't gotten any safer as of late, heck I passed more than one active burning car on the side of the freeway (complete with fire grew working to put it out) just today... so any well wishes are appreciated.
Take care, hope all of you are staying safe, and thank you for reading.
Happy New Year!
Posted 4 months agoHappy New Year everybody!
And here’s to a hopefully better 2024… really, REALLY hope it’s better… things have been bad and stressful here riiiiight up until the end >,<
Anyway hope all of you are having a happy New Year and plan on trying to post up some actual art tomorrow to celebrate so hope you’re looking forward to that~
Take care, thanks for reading, and see you all in the new year~!
And here’s to a hopefully better 2024… really, REALLY hope it’s better… things have been bad and stressful here riiiiight up until the end >,<
Anyway hope all of you are having a happy New Year and plan on trying to post up some actual art tomorrow to celebrate so hope you’re looking forward to that~
Take care, thanks for reading, and see you all in the new year~!
Twas the Update Before Christmas
Posted 5 months agoMerry Christmas and all other winter Holidays everybody, behold I bring you tidings of… well… not good and not cheer admittedly.
To abridge and remove details from a story involving family issues dad messed up a money/house/car related issue and it spiraled badly due a string of other mess-ups on his part (he insists he handle this and has refused to let anybody else touch it… this is the latest and worst of his… issues handling it and he’s now finally admitting he might not be able to do it anymore… which is a minor miracle at least) Christmas was functionally canceled here… or at least EXTREMELY curtailed. Been doing the best with what I could to get into the festive spirit but…
Between health issues, other family issues, business issues, and issues upon issues… things have been an utter wash so I’ve had to cancel a lot of things including the Christmas art/story I was hoping to do… will try again on those next year when I hopefully have more energy/focus for it…
Gonna still try and do a project based on the New Years (not telling which one though) even if it’ll probably be late so wish me the best of luck there.
Anyway beyond the griping I thank all of you for reading, hope your season is merry and bright, and wish all of you a Happy Holidays!
Take care.
To abridge and remove details from a story involving family issues dad messed up a money/house/car related issue and it spiraled badly due a string of other mess-ups on his part (he insists he handle this and has refused to let anybody else touch it… this is the latest and worst of his… issues handling it and he’s now finally admitting he might not be able to do it anymore… which is a minor miracle at least) Christmas was functionally canceled here… or at least EXTREMELY curtailed. Been doing the best with what I could to get into the festive spirit but…
Between health issues, other family issues, business issues, and issues upon issues… things have been an utter wash so I’ve had to cancel a lot of things including the Christmas art/story I was hoping to do… will try again on those next year when I hopefully have more energy/focus for it…
Gonna still try and do a project based on the New Years (not telling which one though) even if it’ll probably be late so wish me the best of luck there.
Anyway beyond the griping I thank all of you for reading, hope your season is merry and bright, and wish all of you a Happy Holidays!
Take care.
Minor Update & Happy Halloween!
Posted 7 months agoHappy Halloween everybody!
Not gonna be doing much to celebrate it here sadly… but do have some good news.
I managed to get my Halloween Story for this year finished and will be posting it up a little later! Hope you all enjoy it if you take the time to read it.
Past that… things not good here. Lots of stress, lots of problems, lots of things going wrong, very little in ways to resolve any of it, and very little chance to rest or recover. Could go into details but rather not at this point.
Just gonna thank all of you for reading and hope you have a happy All Hollows Eve…
With any luck I’ll figure out something to do in time to have some Christmas art ready in December… here’s hoping.
Take care.
Not gonna be doing much to celebrate it here sadly… but do have some good news.
I managed to get my Halloween Story for this year finished and will be posting it up a little later! Hope you all enjoy it if you take the time to read it.
Past that… things not good here. Lots of stress, lots of problems, lots of things going wrong, very little in ways to resolve any of it, and very little chance to rest or recover. Could go into details but rather not at this point.
Just gonna thank all of you for reading and hope you have a happy All Hollows Eve…
With any luck I’ll figure out something to do in time to have some Christmas art ready in December… here’s hoping.
Take care.
Long Winded Update
Posted 9 months agoHey everybody, it’s been a while.
Sorry for not updating more but just haven’t felt the energy to do so for a while due to multiple reasons… along with the fact no individual “Thing” felt worthy of posting an update on… buuuut pile them up and you eventually get a crushing force that squashes me flat if I may poorly misuse and analogy.
One big issue right now is our internet is going back on the fritz (via the form of infuriating amounts of slowdown and lag) without any obvious reason why (we’ve check the normal reasons as much as we can to no results) to the point that it’s virtually unusable for long and random portions of the day. The fact I can’t really feel confident leaving dad alone for long periods as of late hasn’t helped either since it means I can’t just run to a place with free wi-fi to use it there without any number of issues cropping up.
Next, and if you’re in certain parts of America you probably already know about this, is that the heat is killing… well… just killing. Plants, people, roads, wills to live… having to spend most of the days with a fan on me as as many lights out as possible in the house and I’m still getting sick from the heat. Times when I have to run out in it to do work or because dad demands something and won’t be talked out of it just being worse.
These two things have essentially combined together to insure any ability to produce postable art or writing I might have had is just… dead. Hope when something changes (for the better I’m praying) this’ll change to but at the moment I sit down to try and get any of the stuff I want to do done and… nothing happens. For people hoping for more work from me I am sincerely sorry for this.
Anyway onto more topical things… as of last week dad has a horrible toothache in one of his teeth he KNOWS is bad so his decision was to call the dentist to set up an appointment to get it looked a-HA! Nope. He decided he’d refuse to do this and try to self medicate with old pain killers from when he’d had his kidney stones for… reasons. Just reasons. He wouldn’t get the dentist to look at it to see if it was gonna have to be pulled, he wouldn’t call his doctor to find out how long he needed to be off his medicines before it could be pulled, and he wouldn’t do ANYTHING because he hurt too bad to focus and he was sure the old medicine for something completely different would fix it when it wouldn’t…
He finally gave up on that, very very begrudgingly (he’s still trying to mess with his medicines cause “I know wha I’m doin DON’T FUSS AT ME” to quote him if we don’t watch him) and we’ve gotten the needed double checks to bring in in Wednesday for the extraction so hopefully that’ll go well. The big issue is we have a show this weekend and as usual dad’s police is “I do EVERYTHING minor and unimportant first cause I like that stuff better and then leave all the stuff that is hard but VITAL to the show for the end because I don’t want to do that and I assume I’ll have plenty of time and nothing will go wrong”… well things have gone wrong and he’s now entered in the “Blame everybody else for me not doing what I was supposed to do sooner” stage… with me being his favorite person to shift blame to. For the record? If I tell him to do something his reaction usually amounts to “I’m going to wait longer to do it now just cause you fussed at me” so I’ve given up on that for the most part… it’s all his own damn fault and he doesn’t like it when I let him know one bit.
Anyway this slightly more heated than intended rant is better cut short than let run on so gonna call it here. The short of it is the rest of this week is going to be heck and for the foreseeable future my ability to get online dependably will be sporadic and slow at best. I am sorry.
Thanks for reading, hope all of you have good days, and take care.
Sorry for not updating more but just haven’t felt the energy to do so for a while due to multiple reasons… along with the fact no individual “Thing” felt worthy of posting an update on… buuuut pile them up and you eventually get a crushing force that squashes me flat if I may poorly misuse and analogy.
One big issue right now is our internet is going back on the fritz (via the form of infuriating amounts of slowdown and lag) without any obvious reason why (we’ve check the normal reasons as much as we can to no results) to the point that it’s virtually unusable for long and random portions of the day. The fact I can’t really feel confident leaving dad alone for long periods as of late hasn’t helped either since it means I can’t just run to a place with free wi-fi to use it there without any number of issues cropping up.
Next, and if you’re in certain parts of America you probably already know about this, is that the heat is killing… well… just killing. Plants, people, roads, wills to live… having to spend most of the days with a fan on me as as many lights out as possible in the house and I’m still getting sick from the heat. Times when I have to run out in it to do work or because dad demands something and won’t be talked out of it just being worse.
These two things have essentially combined together to insure any ability to produce postable art or writing I might have had is just… dead. Hope when something changes (for the better I’m praying) this’ll change to but at the moment I sit down to try and get any of the stuff I want to do done and… nothing happens. For people hoping for more work from me I am sincerely sorry for this.
Anyway onto more topical things… as of last week dad has a horrible toothache in one of his teeth he KNOWS is bad so his decision was to call the dentist to set up an appointment to get it looked a-HA! Nope. He decided he’d refuse to do this and try to self medicate with old pain killers from when he’d had his kidney stones for… reasons. Just reasons. He wouldn’t get the dentist to look at it to see if it was gonna have to be pulled, he wouldn’t call his doctor to find out how long he needed to be off his medicines before it could be pulled, and he wouldn’t do ANYTHING because he hurt too bad to focus and he was sure the old medicine for something completely different would fix it when it wouldn’t…
He finally gave up on that, very very begrudgingly (he’s still trying to mess with his medicines cause “I know wha I’m doin DON’T FUSS AT ME” to quote him if we don’t watch him) and we’ve gotten the needed double checks to bring in in Wednesday for the extraction so hopefully that’ll go well. The big issue is we have a show this weekend and as usual dad’s police is “I do EVERYTHING minor and unimportant first cause I like that stuff better and then leave all the stuff that is hard but VITAL to the show for the end because I don’t want to do that and I assume I’ll have plenty of time and nothing will go wrong”… well things have gone wrong and he’s now entered in the “Blame everybody else for me not doing what I was supposed to do sooner” stage… with me being his favorite person to shift blame to. For the record? If I tell him to do something his reaction usually amounts to “I’m going to wait longer to do it now just cause you fussed at me” so I’ve given up on that for the most part… it’s all his own damn fault and he doesn’t like it when I let him know one bit.
Anyway this slightly more heated than intended rant is better cut short than let run on so gonna call it here. The short of it is the rest of this week is going to be heck and for the foreseeable future my ability to get online dependably will be sporadic and slow at best. I am sorry.
Thanks for reading, hope all of you have good days, and take care.
Not Leaving & Updates
Posted a year agoHey folks… been meaning to make a journal but for multiple reason I haven’t felt up to it…
For starters? I’m not leaving… I don’t think my work breaks any of the new guidelines, I’ve been too stressed to really read them, and I don’t have any back-up places but I’m not leaving since I’m fairly entrenched in FA as it is…
Probably gonna try to back-up as much work as I can before the new rules go into effect all the same just in case…
Next up… I’d meant to post up more stuff in May but things went pear shaped including dad letting himself get hacked, again, and us having to deal with the fallout from it. He’s backslid to admitting he can make mistakes and mess-up now yeah… but it’s not HIS fault when he does it so we can’t be angry at him and he doesn’t have to give up any control of the family accounts to us -_- fortunately it was just his own email he f*cked over rather than the bank accounts this time…
But yeah… sick, stressed, and just flat utterly exhausted here so dunno when I’ll be able to post more even though I’ve got stuff in the works… I apologize and appreciate your patience.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
For starters? I’m not leaving… I don’t think my work breaks any of the new guidelines, I’ve been too stressed to really read them, and I don’t have any back-up places but I’m not leaving since I’m fairly entrenched in FA as it is…
Probably gonna try to back-up as much work as I can before the new rules go into effect all the same just in case…
Next up… I’d meant to post up more stuff in May but things went pear shaped including dad letting himself get hacked, again, and us having to deal with the fallout from it. He’s backslid to admitting he can make mistakes and mess-up now yeah… but it’s not HIS fault when he does it so we can’t be angry at him and he doesn’t have to give up any control of the family accounts to us -_- fortunately it was just his own email he f*cked over rather than the bank accounts this time…
But yeah… sick, stressed, and just flat utterly exhausted here so dunno when I’ll be able to post more even though I’ve got stuff in the works… I apologize and appreciate your patience.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
Update on Mom - Good News for Once
Posted a year agoHey folks, mom and I are finally back home to try and rest after the day.
Long story short is everything looked good... or specifically "No worse than was expected given her age and condition"... good enough they opted to just use a chemical stint rather than surgery which is always welcome.
Either way she'll be recovery for at least a week and having to take it easy (meaning I'll be fielding all of dad's demands till then... yaaaaaay) so here's hoping that goes well.
Now if anybody needs me I've been up for a long time and I'm gonna go pass out.
Thanks for reading, have a nice day, and take care.
Long story short is everything looked good... or specifically "No worse than was expected given her age and condition"... good enough they opted to just use a chemical stint rather than surgery which is always welcome.
Either way she'll be recovery for at least a week and having to take it easy (meaning I'll be fielding all of dad's demands till then... yaaaaaay) so here's hoping that goes well.
Now if anybody needs me I've been up for a long time and I'm gonna go pass out.
Thanks for reading, have a nice day, and take care.
Happy Mother's Day & Updates
Posted a year agoHey folks, this journals really late due to bad weather messing with the internet here but first off...
Happy Mother's Day everybody!
Next... to the updates.
I'll start with the Tax stuff I mentioned in the birthday journal. Despite dad not doing his due diligence (or letting us do it) it's not on him in this case... we've confirmed the problem lies with the post office failing to deliver it once and then just... keeping it. So we have to find out where it ended up and get it from them. Wish us luck there.
Second I'll share some slightly more uplifting news... yesterday I attended my first Yu-Gi-Oh tournament in over five years (and I mean at all, haven't played the game in over that long) at one of the few places around who host them. I went in expecting to lose and ooooooh-ho-ho boy did I. Got my butt kicked left, right, front, and center... but I mostly went to get a feel for the game and to learn how to play my deck (which was a little more complex than I was used to) so that was fine. The fact that all the other people with no wins dropped out lead me to end the tournament with two byes instead of proper matches was a downer but what are you gonna do. Oh! For those curious? I was playing Purrely~ Had been collecting them over time cause they're adorable and decided to take them for a spin~
And last, and more relevant, update for today relates to mom...
The appointment Wednesday went well since it turned out to just be drawing blood and paperwork... but I need to get her down by 6 in the morning on Wednesday for surgery and might have to just stay with her... meaning we have to somehow set it up so dad can be by himself for most of the day (which is a tall order since he can't get his own food, drink, or other stuff anymore, he just can't carry it). And that's only cause we, after great effort, managed to talk him out of coming with us (which would have caused a lot of trouble) like he wanted to. We're still working on it but one way or another I get to worry about dad and mom at the same time...
Since this is a check up of her heart and last time they did this they found something seriously wrong just unexpectedly forcing emergency surgery (serious surgery rather than just check-up) on the spot and they kept her overnight. Praying there isn't a repeat of that and one way or another will be very stressed and busy come Wednesday...
Wish us the best of luck and any prayers/well-wishes are welcome.
Thanks for reading and have a great day.
Happy Mother's Day everybody!
Next... to the updates.
I'll start with the Tax stuff I mentioned in the birthday journal. Despite dad not doing his due diligence (or letting us do it) it's not on him in this case... we've confirmed the problem lies with the post office failing to deliver it once and then just... keeping it. So we have to find out where it ended up and get it from them. Wish us luck there.
Second I'll share some slightly more uplifting news... yesterday I attended my first Yu-Gi-Oh tournament in over five years (and I mean at all, haven't played the game in over that long) at one of the few places around who host them. I went in expecting to lose and ooooooh-ho-ho boy did I. Got my butt kicked left, right, front, and center... but I mostly went to get a feel for the game and to learn how to play my deck (which was a little more complex than I was used to) so that was fine. The fact that all the other people with no wins dropped out lead me to end the tournament with two byes instead of proper matches was a downer but what are you gonna do. Oh! For those curious? I was playing Purrely~ Had been collecting them over time cause they're adorable and decided to take them for a spin~
And last, and more relevant, update for today relates to mom...
The appointment Wednesday went well since it turned out to just be drawing blood and paperwork... but I need to get her down by 6 in the morning on Wednesday for surgery and might have to just stay with her... meaning we have to somehow set it up so dad can be by himself for most of the day (which is a tall order since he can't get his own food, drink, or other stuff anymore, he just can't carry it). And that's only cause we, after great effort, managed to talk him out of coming with us (which would have caused a lot of trouble) like he wanted to. We're still working on it but one way or another I get to worry about dad and mom at the same time...
Since this is a check up of her heart and last time they did this they found something seriously wrong just unexpectedly forcing emergency surgery (serious surgery rather than just check-up) on the spot and they kept her overnight. Praying there isn't a repeat of that and one way or another will be very stressed and busy come Wednesday...
Wish us the best of luck and any prayers/well-wishes are welcome.
Thanks for reading and have a great day.
'nother Year... 'nother Birthday... 'nother Disaster
Posted a year agoHappy Birthday… oh Happy Birthday…
Hey folks, the date is now May 11th also know as my Birthday and, as per yearly tradition, it’s currently a clusterf*ck if you’ll pardon my language.
My original plan had been to, on the way back from the order I had to deliver, pick up pizza and enjoy it before opening my gift to myself (a box of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, my biggest vice and something I can knowingly get myself and still feel surprise as I open each pack to see what I get like a gambling addict futilely trying for a jackpot) and otherwise relax…
Here’s how that’s not panning out.
For starters the weather has been utterly foul this week with constant downpours and thunderstorms. There hasn’t been any flooding (for us anyway) but due to most drivers in Houston reacting to rain via utterly losing their minds the roads have been nothing but crazy drivers, wrecks, and wrecks involving crazy drivers… fortunately it is SUPPOSED to clear up till the weekend here…
Unfortunately the same can’t be said about the two wonder little surprises courtesy of dear old dad…
First off the solar panels he insisted we get and are installed and working (aka WAY past the point of no return)? Due to him misreading (via looking at it, reading it, and then deciding what it said irregardless of what it ACTUALLY said) we’re going to be on the hook for a pretty penny we aren’t going to be able to get deducted like he thought… which is going to be a problem. To the point the solar panel people are cheerfully suggesting ideas that would likely put our ability to keep the house in danger as options to pay it off… though we do have other options we just have to explore them first.
Secondly we found out that the guy who handles our Taxes… never got them so hasn’t started on them so we’re in serious trouble. Specifically what happened was I did my part to get the stuff together at which point dad finishes it, gets it in an envelope, and I mail it off with a tracking number. Well I got it ready… and dad kept putting off finishing it because whatever HE wanted to do had more priority than it. He kept delaying till we were late then when we FINALLY managed to get it mailed off? He never bothered to follow up with the tax guy about whether he got it… or… ANYTHING really. He also filed away the info so neither I nor mom could check on it (which to be fair we didn’t think of doing since all his other sh*t kept us busy… the best we could do was ask him about and have him brush us off) and didn’t check on it either… or at least i have no reason to believe his claims he did check up on it since the first time he checks up on it with me watching to make SURE he checks up on it? The tax guy gets back to us to let us know he doesn’t have it and we’re in big, big trouble.
The ONLY silver lining in all this mess is that Dad has finally, finally, FINALLY accepted that he has a problem. The stroke did a lot of things to him but the worst thing it did was make his existing stubborn streak MASSIVELY worse. Up till now any mention that he’s making a mistake, or needs to let me handle something, or is making the wrong choice would be met with either being ignored, stubborn insistence that he’s right, or outright petulant anger from him as he refused to even consider that he might have a problem even after thing after thing blew up in his face (to the point i’ve been having to halfway police his emails and phone calls so he doesn’t give some other scammer control of our bank accounts AGAIN)…
Now? Now after literally reading a contract, deciding it said something completely different, and rereading it to flatly find out that no he had been wrong and there was NO excuse to cover it he FINALLY admits he has problems. It remains to be seen if this will finally translate to him no longer hoarding the family’s information and vital tasks (like taxes and bills) to himself and actually letting me take care of them or at least help… but it’s a first step.
Anyway onto the last and most worrying (yes, I know, more worrying that financial issues and the tax man cometh) problem to land on the week of my birthday…
Last Friday I took mom to get a check-up. It was a brief check-up and everything seemed to be alright. This Thursday we got a call from the doctor… I’m taking her back in for more “tests” on Friday to prepare her for “surgery” on the coming Wednesday… aaaand that’s it. No details, no why, we literally know NOTHING save that Mom might be having surgery on Wednesday…
So gonna kindly ask you postpone Birthday wishes today and simply send well wishes to my family in general at the moment, I think we might need that more here.
Anyway thanks for reading, sorry for the long and depressing rant, your cake slices and Eeyore (seem fitting all things considered) theme goodie bags are by the door, and take care on your way home ^,^
Hey folks, the date is now May 11th also know as my Birthday and, as per yearly tradition, it’s currently a clusterf*ck if you’ll pardon my language.
My original plan had been to, on the way back from the order I had to deliver, pick up pizza and enjoy it before opening my gift to myself (a box of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, my biggest vice and something I can knowingly get myself and still feel surprise as I open each pack to see what I get like a gambling addict futilely trying for a jackpot) and otherwise relax…
Here’s how that’s not panning out.
For starters the weather has been utterly foul this week with constant downpours and thunderstorms. There hasn’t been any flooding (for us anyway) but due to most drivers in Houston reacting to rain via utterly losing their minds the roads have been nothing but crazy drivers, wrecks, and wrecks involving crazy drivers… fortunately it is SUPPOSED to clear up till the weekend here…
Unfortunately the same can’t be said about the two wonder little surprises courtesy of dear old dad…
First off the solar panels he insisted we get and are installed and working (aka WAY past the point of no return)? Due to him misreading (via looking at it, reading it, and then deciding what it said irregardless of what it ACTUALLY said) we’re going to be on the hook for a pretty penny we aren’t going to be able to get deducted like he thought… which is going to be a problem. To the point the solar panel people are cheerfully suggesting ideas that would likely put our ability to keep the house in danger as options to pay it off… though we do have other options we just have to explore them first.
Secondly we found out that the guy who handles our Taxes… never got them so hasn’t started on them so we’re in serious trouble. Specifically what happened was I did my part to get the stuff together at which point dad finishes it, gets it in an envelope, and I mail it off with a tracking number. Well I got it ready… and dad kept putting off finishing it because whatever HE wanted to do had more priority than it. He kept delaying till we were late then when we FINALLY managed to get it mailed off? He never bothered to follow up with the tax guy about whether he got it… or… ANYTHING really. He also filed away the info so neither I nor mom could check on it (which to be fair we didn’t think of doing since all his other sh*t kept us busy… the best we could do was ask him about and have him brush us off) and didn’t check on it either… or at least i have no reason to believe his claims he did check up on it since the first time he checks up on it with me watching to make SURE he checks up on it? The tax guy gets back to us to let us know he doesn’t have it and we’re in big, big trouble.
The ONLY silver lining in all this mess is that Dad has finally, finally, FINALLY accepted that he has a problem. The stroke did a lot of things to him but the worst thing it did was make his existing stubborn streak MASSIVELY worse. Up till now any mention that he’s making a mistake, or needs to let me handle something, or is making the wrong choice would be met with either being ignored, stubborn insistence that he’s right, or outright petulant anger from him as he refused to even consider that he might have a problem even after thing after thing blew up in his face (to the point i’ve been having to halfway police his emails and phone calls so he doesn’t give some other scammer control of our bank accounts AGAIN)…
Now? Now after literally reading a contract, deciding it said something completely different, and rereading it to flatly find out that no he had been wrong and there was NO excuse to cover it he FINALLY admits he has problems. It remains to be seen if this will finally translate to him no longer hoarding the family’s information and vital tasks (like taxes and bills) to himself and actually letting me take care of them or at least help… but it’s a first step.
Anyway onto the last and most worrying (yes, I know, more worrying that financial issues and the tax man cometh) problem to land on the week of my birthday…
Last Friday I took mom to get a check-up. It was a brief check-up and everything seemed to be alright. This Thursday we got a call from the doctor… I’m taking her back in for more “tests” on Friday to prepare her for “surgery” on the coming Wednesday… aaaand that’s it. No details, no why, we literally know NOTHING save that Mom might be having surgery on Wednesday…
So gonna kindly ask you postpone Birthday wishes today and simply send well wishes to my family in general at the moment, I think we might need that more here.
Anyway thanks for reading, sorry for the long and depressing rant, your cake slices and Eeyore (seem fitting all things considered) theme goodie bags are by the door, and take care on your way home ^,^
Even MORE Annoying Internet Update
Posted a year agoHey folks, you might remember last time I mentioned the technician blamed a tree for the outage?
Well what it looks like is the neighbors tree, which has grown to hang over part of our house at this point, disrupts our internet connection whenever it moves and just keeps disrupting it forcing it into a constant cycle of trying to reconnect with the satellite that basically kills our home internet.
The short of it is we have home internet unless the wind is blowing enough to move the branches of the neighbors tree... and we live in Houston TX so...
We dun got home internet.
Posting this at the bookstore cafe again. We're looking into trying to get a tree trimming service to come out as soon as possible without losing our shirts in the process...
So yeah, wish us luck.
Thanks for reading and take care.
Well what it looks like is the neighbors tree, which has grown to hang over part of our house at this point, disrupts our internet connection whenever it moves and just keeps disrupting it forcing it into a constant cycle of trying to reconnect with the satellite that basically kills our home internet.
The short of it is we have home internet unless the wind is blowing enough to move the branches of the neighbors tree... and we live in Houston TX so...
We dun got home internet.
Posting this at the bookstore cafe again. We're looking into trying to get a tree trimming service to come out as soon as possible without losing our shirts in the process...
So yeah, wish us luck.
Thanks for reading and take care.
Annoying Internet Update ALSO Aunt Update
Posted a year agoUpdate from yesterday... Internet is back.
Why?
Dunno, just decided to work again.
Why did it stop working in the first place?
The technician just shrugged his shoulders, made a bunch of guesses, and blamed a tree so... damn you trees I guess?
End result?
We have internet back but no guarantee it won't just throw a fit and stop for over 12 hours in the near future again making us having to redo this whole debacle...
On a more serious and somber note my aunt does indeed have cancer. We were privy to the details (we don't even know which biopsy came back with it really) and while the term "Early Stages" was floated we know next to nothing about it beyond that my aunt and uncle will be seeing a general practitioner Monday who will tell them more. So all we know is it's cancer and we know nothing. At the moment aunt is too sick/tired for use to visit them (not that that's surprising) so the visit is canceled for now.
Prayers and well wishes are welcome at this point, too drained and stressed to properly freak or panic as it is... just hit the "F*ck I'm Tired" plateau it seems...
Anyway thanks for reading and have a nice day.
Why?
Dunno, just decided to work again.
Why did it stop working in the first place?
The technician just shrugged his shoulders, made a bunch of guesses, and blamed a tree so... damn you trees I guess?
End result?
We have internet back but no guarantee it won't just throw a fit and stop for over 12 hours in the near future again making us having to redo this whole debacle...
On a more serious and somber note my aunt does indeed have cancer. We were privy to the details (we don't even know which biopsy came back with it really) and while the term "Early Stages" was floated we know next to nothing about it beyond that my aunt and uncle will be seeing a general practitioner Monday who will tell them more. So all we know is it's cancer and we know nothing. At the moment aunt is too sick/tired for use to visit them (not that that's surprising) so the visit is canceled for now.
Prayers and well wishes are welcome at this point, too drained and stressed to properly freak or panic as it is... just hit the "F*ck I'm Tired" plateau it seems...
Anyway thanks for reading and have a nice day.
Home Internet is Out
Posted a year agoHey folks, hoped to not have another journal for a while... but you know about hopes... they're made to be smashed into itty bitty little pieces.
The modem (I think that's the term for it but not very tech literate on things like this) that provides our home internet has gone out and gone out hard. We have a technician coming out sometime tomorrow morning to see what they can do and hopefully we should have it fixed or replaced by tomorrow afternoon... buuuut see my first sentence about hopes.
Currently at the local bookstore/cafe using their free wifi to post this as it is.
Anyway thanks for reading, take care, and hope you're all doing well (or at least better than me).
The modem (I think that's the term for it but not very tech literate on things like this) that provides our home internet has gone out and gone out hard. We have a technician coming out sometime tomorrow morning to see what they can do and hopefully we should have it fixed or replaced by tomorrow afternoon... buuuut see my first sentence about hopes.
Currently at the local bookstore/cafe using their free wifi to post this as it is.
Anyway thanks for reading, take care, and hope you're all doing well (or at least better than me).
Update on Aunt (Hopefully the Last for Now)
Posted a year agohey everybody, meant to do this journal Sunday but didn’t have the energy. Whole family seems to slowly getting sick (either due to stress, sinuses, or any combination of the two) and drained here… anyway time for an update.
My aunt and uncle are back home right now. They apparently found “A Mass”, that’s just how they described it “A Mass”, near her throat so before they could let her leave they had to investigate it… fortunately despite initial worries it was, and I quote, “Smaller than expected” and shouldn’t affect important things like her breathing, speaking, or eating… they just dunno what it is so they took a biopsy of it before they sent her home.
So that’s two biopsies we’re waiting for the results on (a week minimum) before we know if there’s something worse wrong with her… oh and apparently in 12 weeks or so she has to have an operation on her pancreas… I genuinely dunno if it’s related to this or not but it’s more to worry about.
We plan to try and visit them this Friday just to make sure they’re alright and to try and wish them well.
Anyway thank you all for your concern, thank you for reading, and have a nice day.
My aunt and uncle are back home right now. They apparently found “A Mass”, that’s just how they described it “A Mass”, near her throat so before they could let her leave they had to investigate it… fortunately despite initial worries it was, and I quote, “Smaller than expected” and shouldn’t affect important things like her breathing, speaking, or eating… they just dunno what it is so they took a biopsy of it before they sent her home.
So that’s two biopsies we’re waiting for the results on (a week minimum) before we know if there’s something worse wrong with her… oh and apparently in 12 weeks or so she has to have an operation on her pancreas… I genuinely dunno if it’s related to this or not but it’s more to worry about.
We plan to try and visit them this Friday just to make sure they’re alright and to try and wish them well.
Anyway thank you all for your concern, thank you for reading, and have a nice day.
Update on Aunt
Posted a year agoHey folks, this'll be brief due to lack of information.
They operated on my aunt today and put a stent in her to deal with the blockage, she's currently in recovery.
More importantly they think it's cancer... but until the biopsy comes back in a couple days we're left not knowing for sure and getting to worry about it.
Thank you for your well wishes and feel free to keep them coming if you'd like.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
They operated on my aunt today and put a stent in her to deal with the blockage, she's currently in recovery.
More importantly they think it's cancer... but until the biopsy comes back in a couple days we're left not knowing for sure and getting to worry about it.
Thank you for your well wishes and feel free to keep them coming if you'd like.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
Update & Aunt in the Hospital
Posted a year agoHey folks, got back yesterday. The show itself was stressful and exhausting (I and motel rooms do not get along) but it went well enough and we got back before noon Monday which was pretty good for us...
So naturally reality couldn't let the good times role.
Turns out my aunt, specifically the local-ish one my mother's younger sister, spend all day in the ER room yesterday before being moved to a emergency specialty clinic in Galveston yesterday night. She literally woke up having turned yellow so there's something wrong with her bile... it's just a matter of figuring out what and how to fix it.
Which leaves us where we are now. They apparently ran a butt load of tests today to do exactly that and they plan to operate sometime tomorrow... though more details are not forthcoming such as what the problem is, how serious the operation will be, etc. My uncle is currently with her and trying to keep us up to date on it.
Any well wishes are welcome.
Thanks for reading and have a good day.
So naturally reality couldn't let the good times role.
Turns out my aunt, specifically the local-ish one my mother's younger sister, spend all day in the ER room yesterday before being moved to a emergency specialty clinic in Galveston yesterday night. She literally woke up having turned yellow so there's something wrong with her bile... it's just a matter of figuring out what and how to fix it.
Which leaves us where we are now. They apparently ran a butt load of tests today to do exactly that and they plan to operate sometime tomorrow... though more details are not forthcoming such as what the problem is, how serious the operation will be, etc. My uncle is currently with her and trying to keep us up to date on it.
Any well wishes are welcome.
Thanks for reading and have a good day.
Gone this Weekend
Posted a year agoHey folks, more news and not of the good kind.
That 2nd show in April? The one dad had quoted me we'd be leaving on the 21st on? Turns out he'd gotten the date wrong and never bothered to let me know about it. So we're leaving today for it... something I wasn't told till Wednesday. It, fortunately, is just a 2 and a half to 3 hour drive and we'll only be there for the weekend (coming home Monday) but still not something I'm gonna enjoy...
Especially since I've not only yet to recover from the previous trip but I'm actively sick from all the stress and problems this has caused... and I admit having to be around dad is making it worse since part of that "actively sick" is a roaring headache that runs my temper about as short as it can get and makes anything be it unwelcome noise, unwelcome smells, or an old man who assumes "I don't want to talk, please leave me alone" means somebody else makes the pain worse...
Anyway wish me luck, I am going to need it.
Thanks for reading and take care
That 2nd show in April? The one dad had quoted me we'd be leaving on the 21st on? Turns out he'd gotten the date wrong and never bothered to let me know about it. So we're leaving today for it... something I wasn't told till Wednesday. It, fortunately, is just a 2 and a half to 3 hour drive and we'll only be there for the weekend (coming home Monday) but still not something I'm gonna enjoy...
Especially since I've not only yet to recover from the previous trip but I'm actively sick from all the stress and problems this has caused... and I admit having to be around dad is making it worse since part of that "actively sick" is a roaring headache that runs my temper about as short as it can get and makes anything be it unwelcome noise, unwelcome smells, or an old man who assumes "I don't want to talk, please leave me alone" means somebody else makes the pain worse...
Anyway wish me luck, I am going to need it.
Thanks for reading and take care
Back from St. Louis
Posted a year agoHey folks, as I mentioned in my last journal I spent almost all of last week in St. Louis Missouri helping my father with his show...
Finally got home yesterday.
Was a bit worse than I expected what with all kinds of problems trying to pack up and actually get down there and me ending up horribly sick the first two days (I don't know what it was but something about St. Louis left me with a agonizing headache) but it got better-ish on the way back if nothing else...
Also had an unusual and amusing pokemon related encounter while there (and is really the only reason I'm making this journal if I'm honest).
The last shiny pokemon I ever caught, not counting Legends Arceus, was either a Tentacruel or a Golbat in I believe Alpha Saphire... until now~
I was climbing one of the Watchtowers in Scarlet to go shake a gimmeghoul down for its lunch money when I had a "Waaaaait a minute... that rapidly fleeing Falinks doesn't look right..." cue the most panicked slow climb down a ladder you ever did see followed by chasing down a bunch of mini spartans~
I'm now the proud owner of a bunch of bronze medalists (look up shiny falinks, it's pretty darn nice looking)~
Anyway have some time to rest till next week when I have to take dad out of town for just the weekend... of course naturally everything is going wrong here but that's what it means to be back home at this point.
Hope you enjoyed this little stream-of-consciousness journal, thank you for reading, and have a nice day
Finally got home yesterday.
Was a bit worse than I expected what with all kinds of problems trying to pack up and actually get down there and me ending up horribly sick the first two days (I don't know what it was but something about St. Louis left me with a agonizing headache) but it got better-ish on the way back if nothing else...
Also had an unusual and amusing pokemon related encounter while there (and is really the only reason I'm making this journal if I'm honest).
The last shiny pokemon I ever caught, not counting Legends Arceus, was either a Tentacruel or a Golbat in I believe Alpha Saphire... until now~
I was climbing one of the Watchtowers in Scarlet to go shake a gimmeghoul down for its lunch money when I had a "Waaaaait a minute... that rapidly fleeing Falinks doesn't look right..." cue the most panicked slow climb down a ladder you ever did see followed by chasing down a bunch of mini spartans~
I'm now the proud owner of a bunch of bronze medalists (look up shiny falinks, it's pretty darn nice looking)~
Anyway have some time to rest till next week when I have to take dad out of town for just the weekend... of course naturally everything is going wrong here but that's what it means to be back home at this point.
Hope you enjoyed this little stream-of-consciousness journal, thank you for reading, and have a nice day
Hey, Looooon Belated Update (also Screw April Fools Day)
Posted a year agoHey there folks, been meaning to do a journal for a while but… for reasons I’ll go into… it just didn’t pan out.
Buuuuut due to my intense burning hatred of April Fools Day I refuse to post this up on that so it’s happening NOW.
To make a long story short the past three months have been… unpleasant. Problems with money, health, the vehicles, the house, and just everything in general that either only resolved after straining our finances more OR didn’t resolve and just petered out instead being stressful the entire way through. Thanks to all this virtually everything I started in that time frame was interrupted by something and by the time I was free to get back to it? All my creative drive was just dead so I couldn’t… it was utterly exhausting on multiple levels.
Anyway the big reason I wanted to post this journal is April is my heck month. Specifically there are two out of town shows I have to drive dad to with the first being the longest and further we travel for this. On April 4th we leave for St. Louis Missouri for dad’s once a year big show. We’ll drive 6 hours, stay at a motel, then drive the rest of the way to arrive sometime Wednesday. On Saturday we repeat the process to come back with 6 hours, stop for the night, then driving the rest of the way to get back home on the 9th. I’m the one handling the driving (along with the prepping, the packing, and making sure dad does what work he is still doing) so it’s going to be a fairly stressful time all around…
Then on the… 21st if I recall the date right we go to his weekend out of town show and come back that Monday on the 24th (because I have terrible night vision and if we tried to come back on Sunday when the show ends we’d be driving in the dark down some… unpleasant stretches of road).
So yeah… gonna be constantly dealing with all of this and getting him in, out, and about everywhere safely while he does his best to routinely ignore me or brush off my concerns till something goes wrong then he whines for me to help… fun -,-
Wish me luck with it all.
Anyway I hope all of you are doing okay, thanks for reading, and have a nice day ^,^
Buuuuut due to my intense burning hatred of April Fools Day I refuse to post this up on that so it’s happening NOW.
To make a long story short the past three months have been… unpleasant. Problems with money, health, the vehicles, the house, and just everything in general that either only resolved after straining our finances more OR didn’t resolve and just petered out instead being stressful the entire way through. Thanks to all this virtually everything I started in that time frame was interrupted by something and by the time I was free to get back to it? All my creative drive was just dead so I couldn’t… it was utterly exhausting on multiple levels.
Anyway the big reason I wanted to post this journal is April is my heck month. Specifically there are two out of town shows I have to drive dad to with the first being the longest and further we travel for this. On April 4th we leave for St. Louis Missouri for dad’s once a year big show. We’ll drive 6 hours, stay at a motel, then drive the rest of the way to arrive sometime Wednesday. On Saturday we repeat the process to come back with 6 hours, stop for the night, then driving the rest of the way to get back home on the 9th. I’m the one handling the driving (along with the prepping, the packing, and making sure dad does what work he is still doing) so it’s going to be a fairly stressful time all around…
Then on the… 21st if I recall the date right we go to his weekend out of town show and come back that Monday on the 24th (because I have terrible night vision and if we tried to come back on Sunday when the show ends we’d be driving in the dark down some… unpleasant stretches of road).
So yeah… gonna be constantly dealing with all of this and getting him in, out, and about everywhere safely while he does his best to routinely ignore me or brush off my concerns till something goes wrong then he whines for me to help… fun -,-
Wish me luck with it all.
Anyway I hope all of you are doing okay, thanks for reading, and have a nice day ^,^
Happy New Years... or Something...
Posted a year agoHey everybody, it's still over three hours away here but...
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!
I wish... long story short I'm sick, stressed, and exhausted here for several reasons but dad is currently being the biggest one.
Specifically against all logic and warnings (many many warnings given by both me AND mom) he decided that he had to, I repeat HAD TO, do a show on New Years weekend. So I've been having to set up and run it for him (after a week of problems with him over it) as he is just in disbelief that nobody is coming in and we're not selling anything. Long story short we've been having fights about it and other issues he's causing and he's convinced he's the innocent, abused victim in all of it...
Because of that the 3rd Chapter (aka the finale) of my Christmas story has stalled out HARD... but gonna try and work on it to get it done before the end of the first week of the new year. Wish me luck there.
In the meantime I think I'm gonna call it a bed early here and pray that the whole "No Fireworks in the City" rule they have keeps the BOOMs to a minimum (going by what I'm hearing already... not likely)...
See you all in the New Year and here's hoping it'll be a better one.
Take care and thanks for reading
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!
I wish... long story short I'm sick, stressed, and exhausted here for several reasons but dad is currently being the biggest one.
Specifically against all logic and warnings (many many warnings given by both me AND mom) he decided that he had to, I repeat HAD TO, do a show on New Years weekend. So I've been having to set up and run it for him (after a week of problems with him over it) as he is just in disbelief that nobody is coming in and we're not selling anything. Long story short we've been having fights about it and other issues he's causing and he's convinced he's the innocent, abused victim in all of it...
Because of that the 3rd Chapter (aka the finale) of my Christmas story has stalled out HARD... but gonna try and work on it to get it done before the end of the first week of the new year. Wish me luck there.
In the meantime I think I'm gonna call it a bed early here and pray that the whole "No Fireworks in the City" rule they have keeps the BOOMs to a minimum (going by what I'm hearing already... not likely)...
See you all in the New Year and here's hoping it'll be a better one.
Take care and thanks for reading
Update the Two Nights Before Christmas
Posted a year agoHey everybody, haven't been feeling up to using FA much due to real life stress and issues here but wanted to share a small update.
Dunno about Hell but Houston has sure frozen over. Like a lot of the country (or so I've heard) we're experiencing a nasty cold snap here and currently sit at 17 degrees with nasty wind. Fortunately there's no rain to turn to snow or ice and MORE fortunately power and water have stayed on this time... if the forecast hold then we might get almost above freezing in time for Christmas... yay?
Either way gonna be hunkering down in the house till then, praying I don't have to leave, and just hoping things don't get worse if they don't get better.
Anyway on other news I do have a Christmas story in the works... thaaat will likely not come out till after Christmas since the idea finally came to me way, way late. With luck I'll at least be able to get the first chapter posted on Christmas Day. Hope you look forward to that.
Anyway thanks for reading, stay warm, have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and so forth, stay warm, and take care ^,^
Dunno about Hell but Houston has sure frozen over. Like a lot of the country (or so I've heard) we're experiencing a nasty cold snap here and currently sit at 17 degrees with nasty wind. Fortunately there's no rain to turn to snow or ice and MORE fortunately power and water have stayed on this time... if the forecast hold then we might get almost above freezing in time for Christmas... yay?
Either way gonna be hunkering down in the house till then, praying I don't have to leave, and just hoping things don't get worse if they don't get better.
Anyway on other news I do have a Christmas story in the works... thaaat will likely not come out till after Christmas since the idea finally came to me way, way late. With luck I'll at least be able to get the first chapter posted on Christmas Day. Hope you look forward to that.
Anyway thanks for reading, stay warm, have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and so forth, stay warm, and take care ^,^
Happy Halloween & Update (mostly Update)
Posted a year agoHAPPY HALLOWEEN… but more on that later.
Sorry I’ve been very quiet here folks. Things went from stressful to very stressful and I didn’t feel up to answering notes or much of anything. Long story short I’ve been constantly running to both tend to dad’s every whim (read: demand), get him to his doctors appointments, take care of the numerous problems were’s still having with the bank, keep the business going, and having to fight dad at most turns since his memory is getting spotty and he is in denial about it and will fight you rather than admit he’s wrong…
Long story short it’s been a hell of a month…
In other news I decided to burn a good chunk of the points I’d saved in Gamestop to get myself Splatoon 3 (I have more than enough saved for the new Pokemon games of course) since, while having never played, I always loved their world setting and design. This led to a few discoveries… in no particular order…
- I am remarkably bad[/i[ at shooter style games… this isn’t too much of a surprise since I never really played them buuuuuut…
- My internet is too shitty to actually let me [i]play the game at home, I have to go somewhere else and use their wifi if I wanna play against other people (which is 75% of the game or so it seems) which had been a wonderful handicap to getting better…
- My hand-eye coordination is still awful which has made progress through the single player campaign difficult…
- I really like Tableturf even if getting more cards is painfully slow.
- I’m enjoying the game despite this and all my many frustrations with it.
- Little Buddy is the best and I love him forever and ever.
With all that out of the way lets get back to Halloween…
Near the start of the month I ended up, almost accidentally, embarking on a big endeavor… the idea was 5 short spooky stories, 3 ghost stories with 1 assorted spooky story inbetween each, featuring some of the PCA tiny teens… I got some progress made then ran face first into the brick wall that is real life. Aka all the stuff I had to deal with stopped my progress dead…
But I am working hard to finish them up to try and get all 5 up and posted before midnight (so it’s technically still on Halloween)… wish me luck and I hope you enjoy them when I manage to get them up.
If you’ve managed to read this far thank you very much, I hope you have a Happy Halloween, and take care ^_^ Oh and, since it is only tradition, I have one last thing…
BOO
Sorry I’ve been very quiet here folks. Things went from stressful to very stressful and I didn’t feel up to answering notes or much of anything. Long story short I’ve been constantly running to both tend to dad’s every whim (read: demand), get him to his doctors appointments, take care of the numerous problems were’s still having with the bank, keep the business going, and having to fight dad at most turns since his memory is getting spotty and he is in denial about it and will fight you rather than admit he’s wrong…
Long story short it’s been a hell of a month…
In other news I decided to burn a good chunk of the points I’d saved in Gamestop to get myself Splatoon 3 (I have more than enough saved for the new Pokemon games of course) since, while having never played, I always loved their world setting and design. This led to a few discoveries… in no particular order…
- I am remarkably bad[/i[ at shooter style games… this isn’t too much of a surprise since I never really played them buuuuuut…
- My internet is too shitty to actually let me [i]play the game at home, I have to go somewhere else and use their wifi if I wanna play against other people (which is 75% of the game or so it seems) which had been a wonderful handicap to getting better…
- My hand-eye coordination is still awful which has made progress through the single player campaign difficult…
- I really like Tableturf even if getting more cards is painfully slow.
- I’m enjoying the game despite this and all my many frustrations with it.
- Little Buddy is the best and I love him forever and ever.
With all that out of the way lets get back to Halloween…
Near the start of the month I ended up, almost accidentally, embarking on a big endeavor… the idea was 5 short spooky stories, 3 ghost stories with 1 assorted spooky story inbetween each, featuring some of the PCA tiny teens… I got some progress made then ran face first into the brick wall that is real life. Aka all the stuff I had to deal with stopped my progress dead…
But I am working hard to finish them up to try and get all 5 up and posted before midnight (so it’s technically still on Halloween)… wish me luck and I hope you enjoy them when I manage to get them up.
If you’ve managed to read this far thank you very much, I hope you have a Happy Halloween, and take care ^_^ Oh and, since it is only tradition, I have one last thing…
BOO