here's where we're at · 5:37pm May 12th, 2021
So! Life hasn't been so good these past couple months for two reasons and I've been too stressed out to write anything. Pretty much exactly after I uploaded the last chapter of SSME two things started to happen;
1. My Dad died -- it was not covid, if anything it was the opposite of covid that did it, ie. fastidious shielding and cancer medication that piles on the pounds, but either way he died unable to breathe regardless. RIP my man
2. Work turned to shit -- we got sold by the old company to some complete idiot who ran everything into the ground inside of a couple of months. RIP my shop
The former can't be helped, it's just one of those things that sucks, and as for the latter, I did manage to claw most of my wages back after we weren't paid for April... on the upside, I got a new job, but I'm gonna be pretty busy since it's full-time (being a shop assistant was part-time but I did a lot of extra hours for absences). That being said, after one day's training on it I'm looking to the future and I'm much less stressed now than I was since mid-March, which I've found matters much more to my output than how occupied with other stuff I am -- being in a good mood makes me more inclined to make the time. Please don't think I've abandoned my fanfiction, I haven't! Bad things happened, that's all. Please bear with me while I keep on trucking with slowly, slowly inching two MLP figures closer together until they kiss.
Heck, call the ETA on the next chapter... end of the month? I'll try my best to hit that target. If not mid-June for sure but I'd rather pump something fun out before then!
I’m sorry about your loss.
I’m sorry for your lost, my condolences to your family keep your head up my friend.
Sorry to hear about those.
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Thanks, guys. These things happen, though one on its own is bad enough on its own both happening at the same time is worse! Pretty sure I'm out of the woods personally though, although having a prolonged anxiety attack a couple weekends back was extremely not fun. Dad was cremated on Monday and of course I'll miss him a lot, but at least he kept his financial affairs in order; my mother isn't exactly going to starve. As for the shop, the guy who really got screwed by its demise was my old line manager who I need to check in with! Hopefully he got the job he was angling for and who knows, maybe some sort of legal recourse should happen? We were not in a union and I don't really know how that works 😕
Sorry to hear about your father passing.