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[ishte]

I'm just stopping by here.  Honestly, I feel like hardly any of my friends are using livejournal any more. Photobucket totally destroyed all my beautiful themes that I worked so hard on.  It's been so long that I don't really remember how to make them again and I don't want to waste time making new ones... or learning how to adapt my old ones... OR taking the time to find a new place to serve the images from.  So I'm back to boring default layouts.  At some point I did apparently move my cute little cloud mood icons over to LiveJournal Proper.

So I'd love if anyone is still here, to get a comment so I know you're still around. I know there seemed to be a mass migration to a basically duplicated service, but I don't remember what it was called, and since I haven't been LiveJournaling with any regularity, I don't know if it's still that active either.  FxcxBook has pretty much ruined everything.  I hate it so much, but but that's how I stay in touch with family and friends so....

Since I've been writing again, having finally figured out WHY I haven't been writing, I've made some changes to my setup. No longer using my office for writing.  It's not comfortable. It's fine for stuff I need an office for, but I needed my swing arm and couch setup back. So I've been writing a lot more recently. Chasing the Trail FMA fanfiction has two new chapters and a third underway. I've been working on Gaia's Song some too.

October this year was extremely unkind to me, so I'm still in recovery from that.  The stress got me pretty sick for a while, but Docs and meds seem to have me on the right track for recovery from that, and my stress level has started to decrease now that I'm starting to feel better physically.  It kind of sucks when you're sick because you're so stressed out but being sick is the thing that has put you over the top of your stress tolerance.

Anyway, I'll leave it there. Give me a shout out and i'll try to check back and see how things are going.

PS if you have a photo sharing site you use to serve pictures, let me know what you're using and I'll check it out.  I told Photobucket to kiss my ass.  I took everything off of it and uploaded one 'artwork' that basically said "Goodbye Photobucket! You suck now" lol

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[ishte.livejournal.com]

I alluded to the fact that October had been extremely unkind to me. I hurt my foot in late September, and was off work for several days. Then just when that was starting to get better, my only brother passed very suddenly and unexpectedly on the 8th. He left work at his usual time in a good mood, feeling fine, and looking forward to a hunting vacation he was planning on in the next few days. It looks like he got home, and pretty much dropped dead as soon as he stepped into his house and shut the door behind him. He hadn't even closed his garage door. Over the years Mom has called me many times to pass on that someone had died. It's always been prefaced with the words "I have some sad news". Her sister used the same phrase to tell me that my dad had passed after a long illness. This time, when Mom called me, she said "I have TERRIBLE news". It was such a shock when she told me what happened. Aside from the obvious grief, the shock of it did very unkind things to my body, and I'm only just starting to feel like a "normal" human with some reasonable consistency again.

For a while, writing was like a respite I could escape into for a few hours when I wasn't too miserable with my guts to even do that. It was a temporary de-stress activity for me though. I'm thankful for that.