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Long overdue report
14 years ago
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Sorry for the extended absence...life has been challenging to say the least. Here is what has been going on in this tired blue wolf's life since our last installment:
1.) I was able to secure myself new employment out of the place where I was working for the past 6 years or so. They had decided to outsource to IBM a lot of the IT functions and my department was one that they had concluded was worthy of cutting. I am now the Desktop Architect at a tech consulting firm in Boston and getting used to the new environment.
Changing jobs has faced me with a bunch of new challenges that I have not had to deal with in a long time. I am fighting through them as best I can and some days I'm good others...not so much.
2.) I got to go to Fur Fright with some REALLY fancy tap dancing and last minute maneuvering. One of the best parts? I surprised Dobie by showing up a night earlier than expected and know he appreciated the effort. This was the longest both Arinmal and I have gone without seeing him and it was a heartfelt reunion to be sure.
3.) SOOOOOOOOOOOO many good times at FF and to try to list them all would do someone injustice and I would hate that. From hanging and having drinks with my fellow New Englander at heart Twitch to having an amazing time hanging with Shortwave and his *wonderful* packmates I had an amazing time. As I get further entrenched in this fandom and more and more people get to know me, I have so much more fun when we are all together at our conventions. ^.^
4.) I am battling some serious emotionality/depression these days and if I did not have my folf at my side I would be in a very very bad place. There has been a TON of changes in the past few months and I am having issues grappling with the sheer enormity of it all. Between moving, helping Dobie transition into a new living situation, a new job with some crazy high expectations, family shit, worrying about how to keep the folf in the states, and a whole host of other shit I'd rather not detail...there has been a ton on my plate. I find myself completely worn out mentally and am doing my best to stay afloat on a day in and day out basis. Arinimal does and amazing job of keeping me focused and on the straight and narrow and Dobie helps where he can when we can interface with each other (our schedules are not conducive to great communication patterns these days...yet we stay committed and fight through it).
5.) I will be visiting Dobie up in Canada in early December and lam really looking forward to some downtime with the pup. I then get to welcome Dobie down to my place in the states in between Christmas and New Years. Looking forward to a warm and loving holiday season with my boys.
6.) Arinmal is keeping me sane. I cannot say enough about him keeping me afloat. To attempt to put my appreciation and depth of feeling into words would not do him justice. To say the least I am still kicking because he puts up with the emo wolf. You are amazing folf. Enough cannot be said on this...
7.) Miss all of you tremendously. I do not find myself with a lot of time to jump online at all and miss chatting with all of my friends. I hope you are all well and look forward to finding time to get back in touch with all of you soon.
That's all I can think of right now off the top of my head. Be good fuzzies and woof yah soon.
*hugs*
-Bash
1.) I was able to secure myself new employment out of the place where I was working for the past 6 years or so. They had decided to outsource to IBM a lot of the IT functions and my department was one that they had concluded was worthy of cutting. I am now the Desktop Architect at a tech consulting firm in Boston and getting used to the new environment.
Changing jobs has faced me with a bunch of new challenges that I have not had to deal with in a long time. I am fighting through them as best I can and some days I'm good others...not so much.
2.) I got to go to Fur Fright with some REALLY fancy tap dancing and last minute maneuvering. One of the best parts? I surprised Dobie by showing up a night earlier than expected and know he appreciated the effort. This was the longest both Arinmal and I have gone without seeing him and it was a heartfelt reunion to be sure.
3.) SOOOOOOOOOOOO many good times at FF and to try to list them all would do someone injustice and I would hate that. From hanging and having drinks with my fellow New Englander at heart Twitch to having an amazing time hanging with Shortwave and his *wonderful* packmates I had an amazing time. As I get further entrenched in this fandom and more and more people get to know me, I have so much more fun when we are all together at our conventions. ^.^
4.) I am battling some serious emotionality/depression these days and if I did not have my folf at my side I would be in a very very bad place. There has been a TON of changes in the past few months and I am having issues grappling with the sheer enormity of it all. Between moving, helping Dobie transition into a new living situation, a new job with some crazy high expectations, family shit, worrying about how to keep the folf in the states, and a whole host of other shit I'd rather not detail...there has been a ton on my plate. I find myself completely worn out mentally and am doing my best to stay afloat on a day in and day out basis. Arinimal does and amazing job of keeping me focused and on the straight and narrow and Dobie helps where he can when we can interface with each other (our schedules are not conducive to great communication patterns these days...yet we stay committed and fight through it).
5.) I will be visiting Dobie up in Canada in early December and lam really looking forward to some downtime with the pup. I then get to welcome Dobie down to my place in the states in between Christmas and New Years. Looking forward to a warm and loving holiday season with my boys.
6.) Arinmal is keeping me sane. I cannot say enough about him keeping me afloat. To attempt to put my appreciation and depth of feeling into words would not do him justice. To say the least I am still kicking because he puts up with the emo wolf. You are amazing folf. Enough cannot be said on this...
7.) Miss all of you tremendously. I do not find myself with a lot of time to jump online at all and miss chatting with all of my friends. I hope you are all well and look forward to finding time to get back in touch with all of you soon.
That's all I can think of right now off the top of my head. Be good fuzzies and woof yah soon.
*hugs*
-Bash
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Gaia bless and if you guys are here dec 17th we having the FE xmas party if ya wants to attend send me a note ;).
Pakesh_De
Chaircritter for Furnal Equinox
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