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So, where to now?
9 years ago
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So, yeah, been a while since we've spoke here, huh guys?
Yeah, lot's went on and I've been pretty darn quiet on here and honestly, I'm not sure what to say at this point as these hiatuses on my online life become longer and longer
I guess rush update?
Jeri's birthday was at the end of last month, like just a week less than a full month ago, lord does this make me feel even worse how long I've been avoiding being on here?
But, yeah, Jeri's birthday, we went and saw a local Wrestling match, WWE this was not, and I think the crew involved were a little too heavy into 'being extreme', but there were some laughs and one or two really good performers, sadly don't know who these guys were as it was one of those tribute groups who probably want to keep hush so they don't get sued, so all I can say is Pseudo-Undertaker was really into character and managed to handle most of Takers signature stuff, while a Pseudo-Matt Hardy (Is Matt Hardy well known enough to still be a 'classic' wrestler? I have no idea) pulled off an amazing set of acrobatics that I honestly had to check if it wasn't the original trying to relive glory days
Wish I could say something more about it, like, one of my crutches being used as a weapon by one of the wrestlers, lol, but no such luck, we went on home and I still have another present to give her depending on when that arrives soon
I managed to ditch the neck collar as well, so no more Cone of Shame, although I feel like creatively I missed a chance not to use that somewhere and maybe actually y'know, draw something for once
Leg's still laid up, I had a setback or two, but back to crutching like a pro and getting around alright, just got my groove back there I guess
And finally saw Finding Dory by the by! Movies of late I've not had much to shout home over here, I'm honestly trying to think now of what was the last really good movie I'd seen and kind of drawing blanks that I'll likely kick myself over later, but really, Zootopia and Civil War have sealed my year so far on fave movies
Dory doesn't even come close, but it was still an adorable movie and any doubt I'd had over whether or not they could have Dory take mainstage and not become a lame joke by third act was wiped out by the halfway mark
I did love it - and maybe digging too deep a little - especially at what seemed like a subtle message of positivity to kids and viewers who struggle with mental health about finding coping mechanisms and learning to live with a part of yourself as best you can, I won't spoil endings, but, I will say there's a quite muted tone at the end that just capped the movie perfectly and left me feeling pretty darn happy when I left
Too bad the feeling didn't last long, what I'd planned as a burst of inspiration just ended up with me crawling back home into bed afterward
I guess, maybe for a start I should say I've not been getting enough sleep, my biological clock is already whacked by graveyard shifts at the paper, but lately I - or at least Jeri - find I toss and turn, sometimes waking up having yanked all the sheets off the mattress and then end up can't get back to sleep without getting out of bed and sorting the sheet out as best I can, or Jeri'll get up for work and she shifts and it wakes me up and so on... TLDR? I've been getting 5-6 hours sleep at night and I just think I'm starting to run on fumes
Let's switch the emotional whiplash a second, just because I don't think I know where I'm going with this journal, but I'll keep at it... Comic-wise? Squirrel Girl is either really going to make me very happy or just burn me up by the end of whatever's going on?
You guys remember a while back a few months ago I got all giddy that I thought maybe Doreen and her roommate might be a couple now?
WELL.
In a three parter that all starts with Doreen realising that her crush has his own girlfriend and trying to find romance herself - several poor dates later - she accidentally winds up getting the idea in Mole Man's head that she's in love with him for just being a half-decent person to him
He takes all of the world's monuments in exchange for her to have a date with him, at which point Nancy storms in and tries to make him realise what the hell kind of stunt he's pulling, when Mole Man just comes out of left field with THIS doozy of a comment.
http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-cont.....33-600x489.jpg
Nancy's eyes, dear me, what kind of emotion they show off in one panel is unbelievable, Nancy doesn't snap back with a 'what are you saying' or anything else, hell, she doesn't even joke about it later, there's something about this that's just left hanging now over everything and I'm kind of wondering if what I saw a while back might be actually sparking to life
Orrrrrrr if it's all wishful thinking, Mole Man needs to get out more and Nancy just didn't want to dignify it
Gahhhhh, I've tried to avoid this kind of shipping my whole life, but, damnit I would love to see this work out
So, yeah, between this and the feels-fest that's been More Than Meets the Eye hitting its big season 2 finale, damnit, do I ever learn?
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10971130/
Oh, not to mention that IDW totally messed with Alopex with me, and I swear if they do mean things to her I'm totally going to write them an angry letter/e-mail/tweet/whatever is approrpiately used to inappropriately express anger these days XP
Tangent complete, and I guess time for some more whiplash, and back to the whole thing of what's really been bugging me of late I guess
If nothing else, I can now finally confirm an end to the shenanigans at the Big Brother/Sister program, mostly because I flaked out
Ever since Liz's new guardian complained to the folks at the program about my influence on Liz, I've been effectively shelved and told that I couldn't be assigned to help any more kids whilst I was under investigation, I guess I kind of left out the part over the last while how it ballooned, massively, how the lady went and raised a mob of like minded PTA people who were concerned about the program handing off kids from broken homes to molesters and deviants waiting to prey upon the precious kiddies brains
Gears spun and nothing was going anywhere, and finally I bit the bullet and decided that the only way to fix this was to leave, the program made it clear enough they weren't going to put time or effort into taking my corner, being more concerned about keeping this quiet, and certainly the lawyer folk involved definitely weren't going to speed anything up and the damage it was doing to the program, and the kids who needed the program just kind of started to hurt me more and more
So I signed out, and Liz's guardian released her whole machievalian grip on the mob pestering the program in exchange for a signature from me confirming I would make no attempt to contact Liz under any circumstances and a full restraining order, with a statement from the program that I had been let go and that they would continue to be vigilant with their choices of big brothers and sisters to ensure no situation like this would happen again
The good news is it got buried, like a lot of stories the program probably doesn't want on controversy like this, even my own paper didn't publish anything, although its hard to feel the silence around me there some days, makes me gladder when I get those graveyard shifts and I'm by myself at least
So, yeah, genie out of the bottle, I'm not on any register or anything, but it's definitely going to take a long, long time for people in this town to think I didn't do something horrible to Liz
But at the same time, the worst part? Is I think I really did do something horrible to Liz by not fighting this, that maybe she thinks I gave up on her or abandoned her, or that her Aunt's going to walk in all wicked Stepmother and rub the signature in her face that I'm never going to speak to her again
Or maybe it's when I ask myself over, where do I go next with this? And the only answer I have is that I really don't know where?
EDIT: Didn't mean to disable comments, so, sorry if that looked worrying, it says I can't enable them for like a day now @_@
Maybe for better, I don't wanna wallow here
Yeah, lot's went on and I've been pretty darn quiet on here and honestly, I'm not sure what to say at this point as these hiatuses on my online life become longer and longer
I guess rush update?
Jeri's birthday was at the end of last month, like just a week less than a full month ago, lord does this make me feel even worse how long I've been avoiding being on here?
But, yeah, Jeri's birthday, we went and saw a local Wrestling match, WWE this was not, and I think the crew involved were a little too heavy into 'being extreme', but there were some laughs and one or two really good performers, sadly don't know who these guys were as it was one of those tribute groups who probably want to keep hush so they don't get sued, so all I can say is Pseudo-Undertaker was really into character and managed to handle most of Takers signature stuff, while a Pseudo-Matt Hardy (Is Matt Hardy well known enough to still be a 'classic' wrestler? I have no idea) pulled off an amazing set of acrobatics that I honestly had to check if it wasn't the original trying to relive glory days
Wish I could say something more about it, like, one of my crutches being used as a weapon by one of the wrestlers, lol, but no such luck, we went on home and I still have another present to give her depending on when that arrives soon
I managed to ditch the neck collar as well, so no more Cone of Shame, although I feel like creatively I missed a chance not to use that somewhere and maybe actually y'know, draw something for once
Leg's still laid up, I had a setback or two, but back to crutching like a pro and getting around alright, just got my groove back there I guess
And finally saw Finding Dory by the by! Movies of late I've not had much to shout home over here, I'm honestly trying to think now of what was the last really good movie I'd seen and kind of drawing blanks that I'll likely kick myself over later, but really, Zootopia and Civil War have sealed my year so far on fave movies
Dory doesn't even come close, but it was still an adorable movie and any doubt I'd had over whether or not they could have Dory take mainstage and not become a lame joke by third act was wiped out by the halfway mark
I did love it - and maybe digging too deep a little - especially at what seemed like a subtle message of positivity to kids and viewers who struggle with mental health about finding coping mechanisms and learning to live with a part of yourself as best you can, I won't spoil endings, but, I will say there's a quite muted tone at the end that just capped the movie perfectly and left me feeling pretty darn happy when I left
Too bad the feeling didn't last long, what I'd planned as a burst of inspiration just ended up with me crawling back home into bed afterward
I guess, maybe for a start I should say I've not been getting enough sleep, my biological clock is already whacked by graveyard shifts at the paper, but lately I - or at least Jeri - find I toss and turn, sometimes waking up having yanked all the sheets off the mattress and then end up can't get back to sleep without getting out of bed and sorting the sheet out as best I can, or Jeri'll get up for work and she shifts and it wakes me up and so on... TLDR? I've been getting 5-6 hours sleep at night and I just think I'm starting to run on fumes
Let's switch the emotional whiplash a second, just because I don't think I know where I'm going with this journal, but I'll keep at it... Comic-wise? Squirrel Girl is either really going to make me very happy or just burn me up by the end of whatever's going on?
You guys remember a while back a few months ago I got all giddy that I thought maybe Doreen and her roommate might be a couple now?
WELL.
In a three parter that all starts with Doreen realising that her crush has his own girlfriend and trying to find romance herself - several poor dates later - she accidentally winds up getting the idea in Mole Man's head that she's in love with him for just being a half-decent person to him
He takes all of the world's monuments in exchange for her to have a date with him, at which point Nancy storms in and tries to make him realise what the hell kind of stunt he's pulling, when Mole Man just comes out of left field with THIS doozy of a comment.
http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-cont.....33-600x489.jpg
Nancy's eyes, dear me, what kind of emotion they show off in one panel is unbelievable, Nancy doesn't snap back with a 'what are you saying' or anything else, hell, she doesn't even joke about it later, there's something about this that's just left hanging now over everything and I'm kind of wondering if what I saw a while back might be actually sparking to life
Orrrrrrr if it's all wishful thinking, Mole Man needs to get out more and Nancy just didn't want to dignify it
Gahhhhh, I've tried to avoid this kind of shipping my whole life, but, damnit I would love to see this work out
So, yeah, between this and the feels-fest that's been More Than Meets the Eye hitting its big season 2 finale, damnit, do I ever learn?
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10971130/
Oh, not to mention that IDW totally messed with Alopex with me, and I swear if they do mean things to her I'm totally going to write them an angry letter/e-mail/tweet/whatever is approrpiately used to inappropriately express anger these days XP
Tangent complete, and I guess time for some more whiplash, and back to the whole thing of what's really been bugging me of late I guess
If nothing else, I can now finally confirm an end to the shenanigans at the Big Brother/Sister program, mostly because I flaked out
Ever since Liz's new guardian complained to the folks at the program about my influence on Liz, I've been effectively shelved and told that I couldn't be assigned to help any more kids whilst I was under investigation, I guess I kind of left out the part over the last while how it ballooned, massively, how the lady went and raised a mob of like minded PTA people who were concerned about the program handing off kids from broken homes to molesters and deviants waiting to prey upon the precious kiddies brains
Gears spun and nothing was going anywhere, and finally I bit the bullet and decided that the only way to fix this was to leave, the program made it clear enough they weren't going to put time or effort into taking my corner, being more concerned about keeping this quiet, and certainly the lawyer folk involved definitely weren't going to speed anything up and the damage it was doing to the program, and the kids who needed the program just kind of started to hurt me more and more
So I signed out, and Liz's guardian released her whole machievalian grip on the mob pestering the program in exchange for a signature from me confirming I would make no attempt to contact Liz under any circumstances and a full restraining order, with a statement from the program that I had been let go and that they would continue to be vigilant with their choices of big brothers and sisters to ensure no situation like this would happen again
The good news is it got buried, like a lot of stories the program probably doesn't want on controversy like this, even my own paper didn't publish anything, although its hard to feel the silence around me there some days, makes me gladder when I get those graveyard shifts and I'm by myself at least
So, yeah, genie out of the bottle, I'm not on any register or anything, but it's definitely going to take a long, long time for people in this town to think I didn't do something horrible to Liz
But at the same time, the worst part? Is I think I really did do something horrible to Liz by not fighting this, that maybe she thinks I gave up on her or abandoned her, or that her Aunt's going to walk in all wicked Stepmother and rub the signature in her face that I'm never going to speak to her again
Or maybe it's when I ask myself over, where do I go next with this? And the only answer I have is that I really don't know where?
EDIT: Didn't mean to disable comments, so, sorry if that looked worrying, it says I can't enable them for like a day now @_@
Maybe for better, I don't wanna wallow here
But, yeah, this really did bite big time, putting it at most mildly, but I'll be cautiously optimistic, even just now just trying to get back in line, see how things go from here and whatnot
I appreciate the offer as well, it helps to know I've still got folks in my corner