I've been sitting on this for about a week not because I didn't want to do it but simply because the timing never seemed to work out.


So last week was Rainfurrest. Obsidian came to visit again for it along with a dragon fox whom I don't know their FA name, the latter of which is living in our basement for at least the short term. RF was fun though there wasn't a lot of 'Wow' this year; one of the few being that this year's charity was Cougar Mountain Zoo, which I interviewed with back when I moved up here in 2010, and so they had a few educational panels. No real complaints though this year either so I figure it all averages out to more good than meh. I was talked into going out to Midwest Furfest in December by Shoal-ennth and Furian so it should be fun, though there won't be an opportunity to revisit where I lived west of Joliet for a year.


There wasn't as much downtime this year at RF but I managed to get another page done on the story I started last year that is acts as a "sequel" to The Unicorn's 2nd Mate. It had been so long since I'd worked on it I had to reread the 8 pages already done for it. I would have liked to have gotten more written but it was slow going through writer's block in a scene that leads up to m/f unicorn x dragon nookie. Maybe in a worse case scenario I'll get the rough draft done when I fly down to Texas in February.


Part of why I picked up the story again is the last couple months have been interesting spiritually. Last summer I had reconnected again with the herdbrother and sister that have been mentioned several times over the past few years. To make a long story short I let things drift throughout June due to unintential inattentativeness and then we had a rather large phone IM fight on the 4th of July that pretty much saw no contact until about 5 weeks ago. Things tenatively improved but less than a week later conflict broke out yet again and this time it appears things have been cleaved for good. I'd meant to send them a firm "goodbye" the next day but never got around to it. As that bond weakened and dissolved over the summer I have come to find my therian aspect returned (or a possible accurate word feels like 'purged') to the unicorn I was back years ago, though perhaps a little older and, hopefully, wiser. Not kirin; I mean unicorn.


Over the past year I have had someone, whom has been a good friend to me, help me a lot in what was more or less exploring this anthro bee plant aspect that was spiritually joined/implanted with me but in the past month or so has come unhinged from the unicorn to basically become something of a fursona; not unlike the anthro kirin form I spend so much time in and is typically the form I use in my socialization with friends and within the furry fandom (because honestly it has always been really dang hard to hang out with a bunch of anthros or bipeds when you're a sentient nonmorphic/quad creature- that was why I started using an anthro form years ago in the first place). Maybe the wolf is and has always been more of a spirit guide or maybe it's just been an aspect- similar to how other people use a different form.


Beyond that things in life are decent- I got a little raise this year at work and I really should start laying down plans to change my employment next year to one in a field of interest for a career; household finances have picked up a bit with my other housemate finally finding a job after a year and half; some time in the next year or two I'm going to have to decide what to do about shoal-ennthicon: Shoal-ennth and whether to come out as bi to my family and friends back in Texas if we stay together; and I think I've improved my relationship with my housemates and many of my friends online, even if some of them I still talk to too infrequently. I'm relatively happy which is not something I'm sure I could have honestly said earlier this year.