I apologize for another "I'm still alive" journal but...its still true! I've been going through some rough times lately - financially and emotionally, so I've been rather scarce around the 'nets. Not going to go into major details, but I am feeling better and slowly trying to get back to myself. I will say it did not help that my childhood pet, Tippy - a beagle/basest mix dog, was hit by a car and died about a week ago. She's been at home with my parents since I moved out of the house - they have 11 aces of woods...I live in the middle of a city with almost no backyard and she was an outdoor dog - Not hard to figure out where she'd be happiest. She was getting up there in years (13), but her being taken so suddenly was not the way I'd wanted to say goodbye. On the other hand, I also wouldn't have wanted to see her waste away or be in pain from the arthritis and joint problems she was already suffering from. Anyway, I'm just getting to the point that I can talk/write about it without losing it, so I just wanted to make sure I put her memory out there: RIP Tippy, you will be missed.

Although it doesn't seem like it from the previous paragraph, I promise I have been feeling better I've also been a little off on the Furry thing as of late. This isn't one of the "dam it, i"m so fed up, screw the fandom!" type of journals, but I've been concentrating much more on real life as opposed to online life as of late, my furry side and interests have kind of taken a backseat. Don't think for a minute that means the friends I've made in the fandom are less important than the ones I have here, but unfortunately its much harder to get together and talk with people from the 'net then the ones that can show up at my door to drag me out and do things. I'll try to be a little more active, but for those of you who have my other contact info, please feel free to poke me if you feel like talking. I'm always up for it, but sometimes you have to get my attention. I tend to get tunnel vision when stressed or focused, and I don't go out of my way to talk to or do anything that isn't in my immediate line of site. A bit of a character flaw if you will. If you don't have my contact info and would like it, PM me and I can pass it along.

Rew is in no way going away permanently, but I still may be scarce around FA and the like for a while. Who knows though, just writing this journal might kick my butt back into furry mode. I can't figure myself out most of the time :-P