Well That Was Fun

I've been gone for more than a year, and here are some of the personal reasons why. Read, if you want. It's therapy time.

My dog Serra died last April and it absolutely ruined me. It was the worst day of my life and I cried like a baby. I made the call to have her euthanized because she had cancer and had gone blind among other issues and we didn't want her suffering anymore. I believe that sometimes death can be a kindness to relieve pain. I stand by that, but its not an easy thing to do. I made the decision to end her life, I told those people to kill her, and it haunts me. I will never erase the look on her face as she passed. It was the first time I had a pet die in my arms and it messed me up for months. And aside from losing my best friend, I had lost the one thing that helped de-stress me. Serra would always be there when I came home from work and hugging her would help me get over my frustrations. Which makes all the other events I'm about to list worse, since my normal coping mechanism was gone.

My brother and his wife bought their first house after months of struggling with the housing market and it was immediately broken into. Some @ssholes ripped out all the copper they even moved in, like literally on the first day it was theirs. Then less than a moth later some idiot crashed their car into their garage. He nearly lost his home owners insurance immediately because of all this, so I've been kinda stressed out on their behalf.

After that we had an election here in the U.S. and it... let's just say it was frustrating. It has also made my workplace very uncomfortable since there are some very strong supporters of the winner here. That's all I'll say about that.

Then my father had to have serious heart surgery twice. He could have died from the initial condition, the internal bleeding after the first surgery or the blood clots after the second. He's recovering, but he has a filter in him that has a non-zero chance to malfunction and kill him, which isn't very reassuring.

We've also been dealing with this girl my brother used to date who has been leeching on my mother's kindness for 10 years. I don't want to get into details, but she's an idiot, her family is made up of selfish idiots, her boyfriend is an idiot, her baby-daddy is a CONVICTED criminal who has been trying to turn their three innocent children into criminals when he has UNSUPERVISED TIME ALONE with them during which he doesn't feed them because he has no money and lets them play GTA on the Xbox or Playstation he stole from me. Thanks local courts for that, by the way. You guys are doing a great job safeguarding the children. Anyway, this girl is now homeless and job-less and her problems end up affecting my mom since she cares a great deal for the 3 children. And all that stuff affects me too because I'm living with mom. (No, I don't' live in the basement and I do a lots of housework and pay rent.)

And lastly I found my favorite cat laying dead in the backyard with no explanation so I'm not having a good year. Among all that sh*tty stuff, World of Warcraft: Legion came out and I've been spending most of my free time playing that. So I haven't been writing. But I'm back on track now!

Anyway, here's a surprise:

Should be ready by the 4th. ;)