Winds of Change.
Wow. It's been quite a while since I've done a selfie just for shits and giggles. Not sure what brought on the urge today, but maybe I'm subconsciously trying to grab onto something familiar at the moment.
There has been a lot going on in my world over the past few months, not the least of which being the tragic and gut-wrenching loss of my sweet kitty, Samson. He was my baby for ten and a half years. At the end of February, he was diagnosed with cancer. He underwent surgery to remove a tumor, and went through one round of chemotherapy, with the hopes of giving him a shot at good quality of life for possibly up to another year. But in the end, the cancer was just too aggressive. I was forced to say goodbye to my baby one month after the diagnosis. I'm still coming to grips with the loss. Whoever described grief as being like the ocean and going from calm one moment to suddenly stormy and overwhelmingly thrashing with waves - spot on. I think about him every day and still constantly feel the gaping hole where he's supposed to be.
I guess that loss may have primed me a bit for our next bit of change. We're in the process of moving to Des Moines, Iowa. I'm looking forward to the new adventure, but I'm understandably anxious about moving to a city I've never set foot in before. But because of everything that's happened here in the last year, I feel ready for a fresh start. I think I just need to go somewhere without so many memories and build some new happiness, you know?
Anyway, hi there. Not sure I'm a fan of the new flickr. Not wholly opposed - still trying to adjust. I kind of like some of the new features, but overall, the homepage just kind of feels like flickr is screaming at me every time I log on. Turn off your caps lock, flickr. We're not all part of the ADHD generation. Sometimes simpler is better.
So yeah. There's a whole lot more fairly heavy crap that I've been dealing with as well, but while I sometimes miss the daily outlet here, I'm also pretty comfortable with keeping some of my world limited to existing...well, in the real world. Offline. That doesn't mean I don't miss a whole hell of a lot of you guys. Hope everybody is hanging in there and doing amazing things.
Winds of Change.
Wow. It's been quite a while since I've done a selfie just for shits and giggles. Not sure what brought on the urge today, but maybe I'm subconsciously trying to grab onto something familiar at the moment.
There has been a lot going on in my world over the past few months, not the least of which being the tragic and gut-wrenching loss of my sweet kitty, Samson. He was my baby for ten and a half years. At the end of February, he was diagnosed with cancer. He underwent surgery to remove a tumor, and went through one round of chemotherapy, with the hopes of giving him a shot at good quality of life for possibly up to another year. But in the end, the cancer was just too aggressive. I was forced to say goodbye to my baby one month after the diagnosis. I'm still coming to grips with the loss. Whoever described grief as being like the ocean and going from calm one moment to suddenly stormy and overwhelmingly thrashing with waves - spot on. I think about him every day and still constantly feel the gaping hole where he's supposed to be.
I guess that loss may have primed me a bit for our next bit of change. We're in the process of moving to Des Moines, Iowa. I'm looking forward to the new adventure, but I'm understandably anxious about moving to a city I've never set foot in before. But because of everything that's happened here in the last year, I feel ready for a fresh start. I think I just need to go somewhere without so many memories and build some new happiness, you know?
Anyway, hi there. Not sure I'm a fan of the new flickr. Not wholly opposed - still trying to adjust. I kind of like some of the new features, but overall, the homepage just kind of feels like flickr is screaming at me every time I log on. Turn off your caps lock, flickr. We're not all part of the ADHD generation. Sometimes simpler is better.
So yeah. There's a whole lot more fairly heavy crap that I've been dealing with as well, but while I sometimes miss the daily outlet here, I'm also pretty comfortable with keeping some of my world limited to existing...well, in the real world. Offline. That doesn't mean I don't miss a whole hell of a lot of you guys. Hope everybody is hanging in there and doing amazing things.