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Breaking radio silence...
Dec. 13th, 2005 11:58 pmIt's been a while since my last post; there's been a lot of things going on and I've simply not managed to find time/energy to update much. But I know some folks worry, so I'll try to bring things up to speed here.
The 'holiday season', specifically the buildup to Christmas, is proving to be difficult this year. Losing my grandmother to cancer kicked one of the foundation stones out from under me; I... simply can't seem to wrap my brain around a world without her. Mom and I have been in fairly constant contact; neither of us are handling this real well, to be honest, but we're both pushing on. I'm doing my best to keep moving... I suspect that's about all I have to give.
Four weekends of pushing myself on contractor jobs managed to net me enough money to buy gifts for my three nieces and one nephew. Everyone else is getting hugs (virtual or real, depending on location); there just wasn't enough to go around. Hopefully things will be a bit smoother next year.
Megan's dating. Finally. Now if she'd just quit being so fscking neurotic and trying to use me as a sounding board for her lovelife, things would be much happier here. I did my damnedest to give her a reasonable, rational breakdown of why it made me so twitchy, in hopes she'd get a clue and sod off already. Should that fail, I'll be pressed into resorting to ÜberBitch mode and letting the years of frustration lay it out a bit more bluntly. I'm happy she's found someone, but I can't deal with her hovering over me every five minutes asking me to check her email again because she's too sodding lazy to clean her room so her computer can get hooked back up to the LAN. If it doesn't happen by the end of this weekend, I'm borrowing a set of 10bT crimpers and making a long cord to hook it up from where it sits in the living room... and locking down everything in here with passwords. Tired of it, I am. Besides, the Athlon's going with me when I go off to house-sit. It's my download workhorse, and it needs to be where I am.
I could be truly mean and shut the LAN down here while I'm gone. But I think that'd be a bit too mean. :p
A new passion has been added to my game list... and everyone else can go play (FREE!) at http://www.albatross18.com :) Yes, I know it's golf. Yes, I know it sounds like it's terminally stupid and boring. The truth is that it's amazingly cute and more than a little fun. All the fun bits of Gaia without the angst! :) Many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rowandoll for clueing me in on the fun. :) Now go sign up and join us.
And now it's time for ( QuizMania.... )
I think that's all of it. More later. I think.
No, that's not all of it. I very nearly forgot one of the things that'd prodded me to make a post in the first place. As my cleaning and sorting continues, every now and again I find little gems among the sawdust... as was the case Monday morning. Found in my old briefcase (of all places) were two volumes of Purple Pens stories. Finding them was a delight; I'd feared they'd all been destroyed or lost in the house. I thought I had four... but only these two have surfaced. But I wanted to give a special hug to the lovely writer that gifted me with them, and let her know she's still thought about even if I'm rarely around nowadays. *HugsAnEm*
And now I'll hush.
The 'holiday season', specifically the buildup to Christmas, is proving to be difficult this year. Losing my grandmother to cancer kicked one of the foundation stones out from under me; I... simply can't seem to wrap my brain around a world without her. Mom and I have been in fairly constant contact; neither of us are handling this real well, to be honest, but we're both pushing on. I'm doing my best to keep moving... I suspect that's about all I have to give.
Four weekends of pushing myself on contractor jobs managed to net me enough money to buy gifts for my three nieces and one nephew. Everyone else is getting hugs (virtual or real, depending on location); there just wasn't enough to go around. Hopefully things will be a bit smoother next year.
Megan's dating. Finally. Now if she'd just quit being so fscking neurotic and trying to use me as a sounding board for her lovelife, things would be much happier here. I did my damnedest to give her a reasonable, rational breakdown of why it made me so twitchy, in hopes she'd get a clue and sod off already. Should that fail, I'll be pressed into resorting to ÜberBitch mode and letting the years of frustration lay it out a bit more bluntly. I'm happy she's found someone, but I can't deal with her hovering over me every five minutes asking me to check her email again because she's too sodding lazy to clean her room so her computer can get hooked back up to the LAN. If it doesn't happen by the end of this weekend, I'm borrowing a set of 10bT crimpers and making a long cord to hook it up from where it sits in the living room... and locking down everything in here with passwords. Tired of it, I am. Besides, the Athlon's going with me when I go off to house-sit. It's my download workhorse, and it needs to be where I am.
I could be truly mean and shut the LAN down here while I'm gone. But I think that'd be a bit too mean. :p
A new passion has been added to my game list... and everyone else can go play (FREE!) at http://www.albatross18.com :) Yes, I know it's golf. Yes, I know it sounds like it's terminally stupid and boring. The truth is that it's amazingly cute and more than a little fun. All the fun bits of Gaia without the angst! :) Many thanks to
rowandoll for clueing me in on the fun. :) Now go sign up and join us.And now it's time for ( QuizMania.... )
I think that's all of it. More later. I think.
No, that's not all of it. I very nearly forgot one of the things that'd prodded me to make a post in the first place. As my cleaning and sorting continues, every now and again I find little gems among the sawdust... as was the case Monday morning. Found in my old briefcase (of all places) were two volumes of Purple Pens stories. Finding them was a delight; I'd feared they'd all been destroyed or lost in the house. I thought I had four... but only these two have surfaced. But I wanted to give a special hug to the lovely writer that gifted me with them, and let her know she's still thought about even if I'm rarely around nowadays. *HugsAnEm*
And now I'll hush.
