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Hello from Arizona and a much needed break
13 years ago
Hello folks.
Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts and words over the last few weeks. It still hurts. My cousin Mike was one of the few people I knew for their entire life. He was super cool and was the cousin who in my mind never would look a day over 13. Well of course until he moved to colorado to pursue his taxidermy career and when he came back, yep he was a grown man, hunting cougars and elk, fishing big freshwater fish.
Damn, 23 years old. I am so grateful that my family is so close. I am so grateful I saw Mike a bunch of times every year. If you are not close to your families, maybe mine in an anomaly... but I can name everyone of my cousins and their children, I see the massive hoard of 45 people just on my mom's side every christmas and most of them every thanksgiving. I guess it helps that though I live in chicagoland, they all live around the same part of wisconsin.
Wedding planning is going well, we officially have a date September 28th, 2013, a church, and a reception venue! Wooohoooo. It's time to start putting together a guest list and I am only now realizing how much smaller and detached my fiance's family is... and it is just so very sad. When Mike died there were people that came all the way from Colorado and Canada for him, there was not a single person from my family that was missing including the great aunts and uncles I have seen only a few times.... If someone died in my fiance's family, how many blood relatives would show, would they move mountains to come together and heal? The reason I wonder is when planning this wedding there are a number of relatives that shouldn't come and a number that wouldn't come. It's such a bizarre thought for me to have relatives you don't want to see and to have relatives that don't really care about each other. My soon to be in laws went to the east coast for an event and thought to visit some relatives. They tried to get some of them to join them for dinner and well... yeah they just don't care for each other quite like my family. It's weird, it's something I will need to get used to, and at least my family have adopted my fiance's parents whole heartedly.
Back to a better topic. I AM IN ARIZONA AND IT'S SUMMER!!!!!! OMG you have no idea how much healing some 110 F temps can do for this dragon. My heart is filled with joy, I have escaped the worst allergy attack I have had in almost a decade (thanks to record breaking high mold counts), and I am finally getting my tan on! the heat feels soooooo goooooooood! Sure it's been a hot summer in Chicago record breaking, but for this dragon, I am happiest at 100+ degree temps with a nice little breeze. Admittedly I have no interest in living here, it's amazing to visit some true summer, and it would get old eventually, but ahhhhhhhh this is so relaxing and calming and rejuvinating after one hell of a last month filled with tragedy, loss, and disappointingly pathetic sales at shows (where I was hoping to find an ego boost).
I'm on break from conventions until Tinley in October, followed by Fur Fright (if I get an artist ally table), followed by Sewerfest November, and MFF of course.
Then 2013 is going to be interesting (of course if the mayans weren't right about doomsday and all). I will be planning a wedding, standing in the wedding of one of my bestest of buds, and then having my own wedding (YIKES) So one thing is for sure Anthrocon is on the table (I need that money to pay for the wedding) MFF would be dumb not to do also. But I guess I should finish this con season first before planning the next huh?
Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts and words over the last few weeks. It still hurts. My cousin Mike was one of the few people I knew for their entire life. He was super cool and was the cousin who in my mind never would look a day over 13. Well of course until he moved to colorado to pursue his taxidermy career and when he came back, yep he was a grown man, hunting cougars and elk, fishing big freshwater fish.
Damn, 23 years old. I am so grateful that my family is so close. I am so grateful I saw Mike a bunch of times every year. If you are not close to your families, maybe mine in an anomaly... but I can name everyone of my cousins and their children, I see the massive hoard of 45 people just on my mom's side every christmas and most of them every thanksgiving. I guess it helps that though I live in chicagoland, they all live around the same part of wisconsin.
Wedding planning is going well, we officially have a date September 28th, 2013, a church, and a reception venue! Wooohoooo. It's time to start putting together a guest list and I am only now realizing how much smaller and detached my fiance's family is... and it is just so very sad. When Mike died there were people that came all the way from Colorado and Canada for him, there was not a single person from my family that was missing including the great aunts and uncles I have seen only a few times.... If someone died in my fiance's family, how many blood relatives would show, would they move mountains to come together and heal? The reason I wonder is when planning this wedding there are a number of relatives that shouldn't come and a number that wouldn't come. It's such a bizarre thought for me to have relatives you don't want to see and to have relatives that don't really care about each other. My soon to be in laws went to the east coast for an event and thought to visit some relatives. They tried to get some of them to join them for dinner and well... yeah they just don't care for each other quite like my family. It's weird, it's something I will need to get used to, and at least my family have adopted my fiance's parents whole heartedly.
Back to a better topic. I AM IN ARIZONA AND IT'S SUMMER!!!!!! OMG you have no idea how much healing some 110 F temps can do for this dragon. My heart is filled with joy, I have escaped the worst allergy attack I have had in almost a decade (thanks to record breaking high mold counts), and I am finally getting my tan on! the heat feels soooooo goooooooood! Sure it's been a hot summer in Chicago record breaking, but for this dragon, I am happiest at 100+ degree temps with a nice little breeze. Admittedly I have no interest in living here, it's amazing to visit some true summer, and it would get old eventually, but ahhhhhhhh this is so relaxing and calming and rejuvinating after one hell of a last month filled with tragedy, loss, and disappointingly pathetic sales at shows (where I was hoping to find an ego boost).
I'm on break from conventions until Tinley in October, followed by Fur Fright (if I get an artist ally table), followed by Sewerfest November, and MFF of course.
Then 2013 is going to be interesting (of course if the mayans weren't right about doomsday and all). I will be planning a wedding, standing in the wedding of one of my bestest of buds, and then having my own wedding (YIKES) So one thing is for sure Anthrocon is on the table (I need that money to pay for the wedding) MFF would be dumb not to do also. But I guess I should finish this con season first before planning the next huh?
Born here, raised here, have lived here all my life---I don't want to live here the rest of my life.