*taps mike* Is this thing on?
Hello kids,
So, it's no secret that I have been a lousy livejournaller. While I plan on leaving this journal up indefinitely, I doubt I'll be posting here anymore. I've reached a point in my life where fannish pursuits are no longer a priority for me. I still read fanfic, but I don't really write it anymore. This journal will remain up, because I have so many fond memories of it, and I want to be able to go back and revisit my fic and some of my more entertaining entries (buttsex tag, anyone?)
I am not leaving the world of livejournal forever, however; I am just moving into a different direction. A few weeks before Christmas, my awesome fiance QB complained of back pain. He went to a walk-in clinic and got diagnosed with muscle strain, but a few more days went by and he kept feeling worse and worse. I made him go to the ER when he complained of chest pains, and they admitted him immediately. It turned out he had full-blown pneumonia and hemolytic anemia. He spent 8 days in the hospital, 5 of them in ICU, and we nearly lost him. He's had a long road of recovery for the past month; he didn't return to work until week before last, and he has to go in for weekly blood tests to monitor his hemoglobin levels and platelet counts until they determine whether the hemolytic anemia was a freak occurence, or if it is a sign of an underlying autoimmune disorder (they have ruled out lymphoma and leukemia, thank God.)
So, obviously, this was a big scary wake up call for the both of us. I have committed to spend less time at work and less time online, and more time with him, and he has resolved to cut out all of his bad habits. He had already quit smoking 2 months before he has hospitalized, but now he has quit drinking too (I mostly quit a year and a half ago when I developed a sudden sensitivity to alcohol) and has resolved to eat healthy and as organically as possible. In order to keep us on track, I have started a new livejournal for both of us to document our recipes and adventures in healthy eating. It is pretty bare bones right now while we get it started, but I hope to see some of you folks over there if you're interested. You can find us at foodhole, because we are classy like that.
I can't really express how much this journal has meant to me. I've been through so much in my life since I started it, lo these many years ago. I've gone from a waitress living with a guy I barely knew in a tiny one-bedroom apartment with no furniture, to a bookstore manager engaged to the most bitchin' dude in the world in the house that we bought together with more furniture than we know what do with. (We have two beds now! For our first year together we slept on a mattress on the floor!) This journal got me through many tough times, and the people who I've met on here helped me to build my confidence so I could achieve my potential in the "real world", and cheered me up when I went through really bad times. Like I said, I'll be around still, under a different name, and I hope to reconnect with people over in the new journal. But even if I don't, know that all this meant a lot to me, and there are some people who I used to talk to every day that I really will consider friends for life, even if we don't spend the time together that we used to.
I have never really been good at endings. So I guess I will just say thank you with all my heart, and I wish all of you the best. And seriously, if anyone's interested in food and/or the occasional random story about my cats (we are elderly and lame, and we just hang out with our cats all day now), come visit us over at foodhole.
So, it's no secret that I have been a lousy livejournaller. While I plan on leaving this journal up indefinitely, I doubt I'll be posting here anymore. I've reached a point in my life where fannish pursuits are no longer a priority for me. I still read fanfic, but I don't really write it anymore. This journal will remain up, because I have so many fond memories of it, and I want to be able to go back and revisit my fic and some of my more entertaining entries (buttsex tag, anyone?)
I am not leaving the world of livejournal forever, however; I am just moving into a different direction. A few weeks before Christmas, my awesome fiance QB complained of back pain. He went to a walk-in clinic and got diagnosed with muscle strain, but a few more days went by and he kept feeling worse and worse. I made him go to the ER when he complained of chest pains, and they admitted him immediately. It turned out he had full-blown pneumonia and hemolytic anemia. He spent 8 days in the hospital, 5 of them in ICU, and we nearly lost him. He's had a long road of recovery for the past month; he didn't return to work until week before last, and he has to go in for weekly blood tests to monitor his hemoglobin levels and platelet counts until they determine whether the hemolytic anemia was a freak occurence, or if it is a sign of an underlying autoimmune disorder (they have ruled out lymphoma and leukemia, thank God.)
So, obviously, this was a big scary wake up call for the both of us. I have committed to spend less time at work and less time online, and more time with him, and he has resolved to cut out all of his bad habits. He had already quit smoking 2 months before he has hospitalized, but now he has quit drinking too (I mostly quit a year and a half ago when I developed a sudden sensitivity to alcohol) and has resolved to eat healthy and as organically as possible. In order to keep us on track, I have started a new livejournal for both of us to document our recipes and adventures in healthy eating. It is pretty bare bones right now while we get it started, but I hope to see some of you folks over there if you're interested. You can find us at foodhole, because we are classy like that.
I can't really express how much this journal has meant to me. I've been through so much in my life since I started it, lo these many years ago. I've gone from a waitress living with a guy I barely knew in a tiny one-bedroom apartment with no furniture, to a bookstore manager engaged to the most bitchin' dude in the world in the house that we bought together with more furniture than we know what do with. (We have two beds now! For our first year together we slept on a mattress on the floor!) This journal got me through many tough times, and the people who I've met on here helped me to build my confidence so I could achieve my potential in the "real world", and cheered me up when I went through really bad times. Like I said, I'll be around still, under a different name, and I hope to reconnect with people over in the new journal. But even if I don't, know that all this meant a lot to me, and there are some people who I used to talk to every day that I really will consider friends for life, even if we don't spend the time together that we used to.
I have never really been good at endings. So I guess I will just say thank you with all my heart, and I wish all of you the best. And seriously, if anyone's interested in food and/or the occasional random story about my cats (we are elderly and lame, and we just hang out with our cats all day now), come visit us over at foodhole.