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Is this thing on? Or functional? Ha! So Im gunna make a huge massive PUBLIC post and I don't even care. I don't think anyone outside of my Bakery Sister is gunna read this anyway (hi Maria ILYSM). :D
Today is my 20 year anniversary on Livejournal. 20 years of LJ. Man, the way this place both kept and drove me insane at the VERY same time.
My first post here was all about my then-5 month old baby. You know, the one who decided to walk the dog alone one morning while we were all supposed to be napping? You guys know that kid right? So lets start with that.
Uhhhh, SJ/Kei isn't 5 months old anymore. In fact, Kei now has a 1 month old of their own - well, tomorrow she will be 1 month old anyway. She wasn't even DUE until tomorrow, so she's still pretty fresh. Her adjusted age is still -1 day. I haven't gotten to meet her yet, though I will TONIGHT, when I land at Syracuse airport. Land?, you ask. Yes, land, cuz I gotta fly up there from Florida. I had tickets purchased to head up and support momma through birth as she requested, but pre-eclampsia made things move faster than expected and an emergency c-section the day of he 35w appointment took care of that. Still. So, Kei has a heckspawn of their own, making me have a Grandheckspawn. OMG.
LJs Infamous Lizziey is a whole ass grandmother now. WHAT. Help.
Kei and Freyja
So, her name was originally slated to be Freyja Eir LastName, but Kei surprised me the night she was born with the announcement that they'd decided to change her middle name to reflect a connection to me after I joked that they were giving her a name that was going to make her a difficult child, and the only way they could have made her worse was to name her after me. So they did. She is Freyja Eireli.
IDK, man. I kinda THIIIIINK if he's naming his kid after me, I did alright with that one? Eh. I can't wait to get my paws on her tonight. Sniff her little head. OMG.
So then came Topher. Who has somehow TURNED 18, and had the audacity to graduate high school this summer. I'm sorry, WHAT? Seriously, as the words go across my screen, I can see my mortality dripping down the monitor. Good lord. He's still just as autistic as ever. And doing absolutely great. He's very very very like me. More about that link later, lol.
Speaking of links, here, have this video of Topher from last year before he graduated.
Click to viewMannnnnn, does he look like his father, eh? Ooph. Yeah. LOL.
And lastly, there was Annika! She had her Sweet 16 this month. WHAT?? W H A T?? Yeah. The baby born OTI is now 16. LMAO. I literally cannot even. I am over here in my office surrounded by dolls and stuffed animals (and a couple unstuffed ones) and I'm talking about two grown adult children and a 16 year old, and a grandchild. Literally, what is this life? Oh right, I dissociated most of it away. More on that later too. There's a lot I haven't put on FB either about that part. Back to Anni. She swims. She runs track. She loves animals, just like me. She takes engineering courses at school already, even making it into engineering competitions. She's smart and fast as a whip. She looks a LOT like me.
Seriously. I can't. And yes, that's all you guys are getting on the kids. I've grown, not gone totally stupid. ;)
So, update about me/me-related news I guess.
In 2016, I finally got my shit together, and i went to college. I'd lost a nephew to Neuroblastoma, and he made me promise to "help his friends". So my childhood dream of becoming a Pediatric Oncologist was back on. Sadly, I did not accomplish that goal (fuck you bronchitis + OChem), so instead of graduating pre-med, I double dipped on my tuition and got degrees in Biology and Psychology instead. I also performed with a vocal ensemble all throughout my time in university. We did pretty cool things. We opened the 150th Anniversary Gala for the Dana School of Music, even. Not the Dana Chorale, the gem in their crown. No, they wanted Voices of YSU to do it. DAMN RIGHT. :D Also, if I ever have to perform that 8 minute song and dance, in Tamil, again, I will kms. :) Anyway.
Naturally, I am doing nothing with those degrees, instead I am an assistant manager at a Dog Daycare/boarding and dog park. I still do some animal rescue work as well, but now only when needed. Through uni, though, I helped run (and am still the admin on the page to deal with business) Campus Cats TNR @ YSU, using my skills with Neonates to do what I could. I've also had a few bottle babies in the two years since graduating...down here in FL.
In August of 2021, I got remarried. My wife, Nicole, was already living down here, though we met in Watertown NY in 2008. So I moved down here too. I love Florida. I had Floridians. Their dogs are ok though, so I handle the dogs. :D
My sweet old lady kitty that you knew, Terri Anne, crossed the bridge last month. I touch her urn and her pawprint every single day. 19 years of her in my life, the only stable entity ever, and she had to go. I think she needed to be incorporeal to better keep an eye on her boy's baby. His heart broke along with mine because we so wanted a picture of her with Freyja. He is getting her pawprint tattood on him, with some of her ashes mixed in. I think its sweet.
So lets see, what else what else....oh right. That autism and dissociation thing I mentioned earlier.
So, you know how I've always known I had ADHD, in a severe form. Well years ago as part of The Case, my own childhood medical records and psych records became available to me. My records from the Social Security coverage i had as a child too. And apparently I was never just ADHD having - Autism was all up in there too. Just no one ever told ME. Story of my life. Anyway, yeah, that would certainly explain where Topher's came from for sure.
Now, dissociation, you ask? Whooo boy.
OK STRAP IN MOFOS!
Yall remember The Case right? That whole thing about my mom and brother that, when drama was lean in the Anons, would get dragged out and I would be told how much of a liar I was? That the Theresa Provost and Thomas Moriarty Jr that I provided links to news articles about (like this one that used to have my name listed as Elizabeth Moriarty and I finally got someone at the NYT to listen to me and at least change it to "Elizabeth" only on the archive online version even though they state they never ever make changes) were not related to me at all, and I was just using some other family's tragedy for attention? Whoooooo boy so lemme tell ya.
Well, no. I can't do THAT part publicly. Friends, check the next post. I will post more there. :D But what I can say is that the case is officially reopened, and its going SPLENDIDLY. :D
Anyway - yeah. Twenty years ago this LJ was made. And for the first 8 or 9 years, this place was my home.
I gotta say, I miss it. No other place that wasn't the same format was ever as good as this place in her heyday.
I miss yall.