A very overdue post.
I've been putting this off because it's felt like writing this post would be "final", but with Father's Day coming up and making me feel crappier by the second, I figure now's the time to make the announcement here, same as I have done on Twitter and Facebook.
Hi my LJ/DW buddies. I'm sorry I haven't been around or interacting on here lately (or at all, to be honest, not even to archive fic), and the reason is pretty simple.
On February 5th, my dad died.
It was very sudden. He suffered no pain, he hadn't even struggled to call for help or to stand. He just went to the bathroom and didn't come back. He was 66. It was at home. He hadn't been ill, his heart just stopped, and that was it. The funeral was pretty awesome, as far as funerals go, and it was the send-off he would have wanted. He died my dad, not a shadow of him, as clever and funny and ridiculous as the day I first realised he was clever and funny and ridiculous, and not a day goes by I don't miss him, and not a day goes by I'm not thankful for having known him.
I've not been up to much more than Tumblr and Twitter lately on account because I'm still working my way up to being able to have "proper" conversations with people again, but I'm getting there. My family have been beyond amazing, and my mum has been more than a soldier, she's been a battleship. She's been an entire naval fleet. My sister has been doing well, especially at work, and my little brother has been struggling a bit but coping as well as anyone could all things considered he's still at university.
I figured any of you who hadn't heard via Twitter or Facebook deserve to know, and I'm sorry again for the long absence.
I'll be following up this post shortly with a happier one about the fandom that has been keeping me sane throughout all this, as it deserves pimping.
*hugs to all*
Hi my LJ/DW buddies. I'm sorry I haven't been around or interacting on here lately (or at all, to be honest, not even to archive fic), and the reason is pretty simple.
On February 5th, my dad died.
It was very sudden. He suffered no pain, he hadn't even struggled to call for help or to stand. He just went to the bathroom and didn't come back. He was 66. It was at home. He hadn't been ill, his heart just stopped, and that was it. The funeral was pretty awesome, as far as funerals go, and it was the send-off he would have wanted. He died my dad, not a shadow of him, as clever and funny and ridiculous as the day I first realised he was clever and funny and ridiculous, and not a day goes by I don't miss him, and not a day goes by I'm not thankful for having known him.
I've not been up to much more than Tumblr and Twitter lately on account because I'm still working my way up to being able to have "proper" conversations with people again, but I'm getting there. My family have been beyond amazing, and my mum has been more than a soldier, she's been a battleship. She's been an entire naval fleet. My sister has been doing well, especially at work, and my little brother has been struggling a bit but coping as well as anyone could all things considered he's still at university.
I figured any of you who hadn't heard via Twitter or Facebook deserve to know, and I'm sorry again for the long absence.
I'll be following up this post shortly with a happier one about the fandom that has been keeping me sane throughout all this, as it deserves pimping.
*hugs to all*