So, so sorry to hear about your dog! My close friends have been having pets for the first time over the past couple years, and I've really been able to see how important they are. Sending lots of love your way! ::hugs::
I love living near my family so much! But my dad is retired and my mom is retiring in a few years, and they're really like to move elsewhere... I am secretly giving serious thought to just following them.
Building a tomato house yourself sounds like something they'd do in DASH Village! Very cool.
Again, so great to hear from you!! <3333 I'm totally overwhelming on twitter so I definitely understand why some people might not be into it. (Not to make you feel more old but my dad recently emailed me an article about how people his age are on facebook much more than twitter and he was like "they're right, I don't get it :(" so I told him it's only really good if there's already interesting people that you want to follow on it - I got sucked in by the winter Olympics, because so many athletes were there, but otherwise it's hard to just sign up out of nowhere!)
Thank you very much for your consolation! A dog has such a huge impact on your life (all the arrangements you have to make in terms of who has time to go out with the dog at what time, where you go on holidays that will accept dogs, etc.) that it feels really empty without her right now. :( Especially since this is the first time in my whole life that I have been without a pet. (Though a friend of mine just wrote to me recently, looking for a good home for a widowed guinea-pig... so it looks like I might be having guinea-pigs again at some point in the future.)
And yes, I've really noticed just how much I missed my family while I was away! Never would have thought, especially since I didn't have that problem when I was living in England... but then I lived with a family there, and my mom (who's single) was still younger then. If your family moves somewhere interesting, why not follow them? I could imagine doing that.
I'm kind of easily overwhelmed by too much information at a time? At least, I profoundly dislike having to deal with it. I had a time during my Arashi-fangirl-phase, in which I felt the obligation to follow every thread and read every story and watch every show, and after a while, it started feeling like a chore, rather than something I did because I liked it. That was the time when I fell out of fandom and fannish interest on the whole; and I'd rather not repeat that, especially now that I have so much to do (I work around 10 to 11 hours a day) and free time is somewhat spare. Twitter is thankfully short-messaged, so I could imagine following that; but since I don't get to go online a lot during the day, I'd probably have to read everything in the evening, which would probably make it feel like a whole lot again. (Though there's certainly people I'd follow on Twitter, like Stephen Fry.)
My sister's cat is around 10 and she's so worried about what she'll do when he passes away. She doesn't want to just replace him, but she's worried about that sudden emptiness. :/
Sadly, there are a bunch of reasons why it'll probably be very difficult for me to follow my parents. One is that I don't drive, so NYC is one of the best places for me to live. Another is that they'll be moving to a place that's good for retired people, so odds are that it'll be difficult for me to find a job there. We'll see, though! They're a pretty big part of my social life - in fact, I'm visiting them right now - so it'll definitely leave a huge hole.
Oh my god, I've been working 10-12 hours days very occasionally and it's so exhausting! So kudos to you!! And yeah, I kind of know how you feel - when I first get into a fandom, I'm pretty good about having the energy to pursue everything, but pretty soon I want it to be easy to enjoy and find the good stuff, and not to have to feel like I'm constantly falling behind. And yeah, if you follow a lot of people, twitter is definitely hard to keep up with. I can check it all the time at work, but if I don't then I basically have to just skip the entire day and then I really feel like I'm missing stuff.
I love living near my family so much! But my dad is retired and my mom is retiring in a few years, and they're really like to move elsewhere... I am secretly giving serious thought to just following them.
Building a tomato house yourself sounds like something they'd do in DASH Village! Very cool.
Again, so great to hear from you!! <3333 I'm totally overwhelming on twitter so I definitely understand why some people might not be into it. (Not to make you feel more old but my dad recently emailed me an article about how people his age are on facebook much more than twitter and he was like "they're right, I don't get it :(" so I told him it's only really good if there's already interesting people that you want to follow on it - I got sucked in by the winter Olympics, because so many athletes were there, but otherwise it's hard to just sign up out of nowhere!)
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And yes, I've really noticed just how much I missed my family while I was away! Never would have thought, especially since I didn't have that problem when I was living in England... but then I lived with a family there, and my mom (who's single) was still younger then. If your family moves somewhere interesting, why not follow them? I could imagine doing that.
I'm kind of easily overwhelmed by too much information at a time? At least, I profoundly dislike having to deal with it. I had a time during my Arashi-fangirl-phase, in which I felt the obligation to follow every thread and read every story and watch every show, and after a while, it started feeling like a chore, rather than something I did because I liked it. That was the time when I fell out of fandom and fannish interest on the whole; and I'd rather not repeat that, especially now that I have so much to do (I work around 10 to 11 hours a day) and free time is somewhat spare. Twitter is thankfully short-messaged, so I could imagine following that; but since I don't get to go online a lot during the day, I'd probably have to read everything in the evening, which would probably make it feel like a whole lot again. (Though there's certainly people I'd follow on Twitter, like Stephen Fry.)
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Sadly, there are a bunch of reasons why it'll probably be very difficult for me to follow my parents. One is that I don't drive, so NYC is one of the best places for me to live. Another is that they'll be moving to a place that's good for retired people, so odds are that it'll be difficult for me to find a job there. We'll see, though! They're a pretty big part of my social life - in fact, I'm visiting them right now - so it'll definitely leave a huge hole.
Oh my god, I've been working 10-12 hours days very occasionally and it's so exhausting! So kudos to you!! And yeah, I kind of know how you feel - when I first get into a fandom, I'm pretty good about having the energy to pursue everything, but pretty soon I want it to be easy to enjoy and find the good stuff, and not to have to feel like I'm constantly falling behind. And yeah, if you follow a lot of people, twitter is definitely hard to keep up with. I can check it all the time at work, but if I don't then I basically have to just skip the entire day and then I really feel like I'm missing stuff.
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