Hello Friends,
It's been a minute. From your guys perspective I haven't posted since March of last year. In my draft I have a few drafts dating around October last year. So your probably thinking what happened? 2023 happened the effects of which are still affecting me this year.
Seriously, this was be heading into 2024.
So beginning of that year I had a slight insomnia spell... upside I think during this time I finished campaign 2 of Critical Role. Then my elder dog Ranger passed. That was anxiety inducing. Then in April Fangirl and me were gonna go see the Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie one day, but had to postpone cause my insomnia came back to the point I was up almost four whole days till I just had to go to the hospital. Then Fangirl and I saw the movie and I learned her Dad had died.
The morning of Captain's 39th Birthday the ambulance went up to my grandparents. This had been happening since a few days before Thanksgiving 2022, because my Grandpa started passing out, most likely due to his heart valve issue, but sadly this was not the case, my Grandpa had died in his sleep.
I can't complain he lived to be 88, and compare to the luck I had with my other two Grandads, I got lucky to have him in my life till I was 39. Then my grandpa's brother passed in November of that year, plus a second cousin I never met.
In October my Dad started sleeping a lot, we thought it was a reaction to the Iron Pills the Doctor gave him, cause he was "anemic", then in November my Dad started having fever and staggering, then the Monday before Thanksgiving he had his second fall, so we called the ambulance come take him to the hospital. A few hours later we learned he was not anemic, nor had a kidney infection as my Mom's kidney doctor believed, it was a rare type of kidney cancer. My father would lose his battle thirteen days later on December 3rd.
This was a devastating blow to our already grieving family. We are in the 11th Month since his passing. We're fixing to have our first Thanksgiving without him. The last of our first holidays with out him.
2024 has brought more deaths, my Grandpa's third cousin and sister-in-law, and three friends of the family.
In September Western North Carolina was visited by the worst visitor Helene, we fared pretty well, but the storm was scary to listen to. I mean we've had tropical storms before, but still scary. Our community had damage I've only seen on TV.
Monday Nov 4th my cat accidentally scratched my face bad and now our lovely election where we've been condemned to the 9 circles of hell..... 2025 may not be so hot either.
So yeah this is why I haven't posted in forever it's been crap for the last couple years!
Hopefully, not promising, gonna try to post more here. Well I'm gonna hone my sword skills to prepare for our dystopian future. Hope all is well everyone, be strong, and have a Magical Whimsical Day!
Your nerd.
*Thrifty Geek*
