The Life Updates Thread!

[Ogyshi]

Jaft

Good thing you found your... balls. *SNERK* biggrin

lol. I know, eh? I felt so ashamed that I lost them. razz  

[Slim95]

Well, I just finished my first quarter of college with straight A's. Then again, the homework load was very light, so it wasn't particularly challenging for me. I quite like lecture-based learning.

I'm still working at Gamestop, though 15 hours a week for minimum wage isn't exactly cutting it for me. I have many things to pay for now, after all... So, I've been pondering being a waitress. I think I'd enjoy all the zipping about and the social interractions, and tips sound veeeeeery lovely.

Speaking of money and such... I got my license a lil while ago. Gas and insurance are emptying my pockets. But I love the liberty~.

Ummum, I picked up Golden Sun: Dark Dawn yesterday. And I aced my philosophy final this morning. Tonight, I've got a date with a very lovely fella~. Gonna get thai food and watch Tangled, methinks. (I bought him flowers. 4laugh ) We're takin' things slow, so I'm still technically single. 3nodding But he's swell.

Annnnnd... Oh. I was reminiscing on the ol' "Bitter Old Maids Club" in here... And it gave me the idea to make a risque ATG calendar. (Well, there were many men in dresses back then, and the mind tends to wander) So... I'm having a laugh over those doodles.  

[Elcia]

I guess I'll update you all on my life too.

I finished undergrad and had a job offer pop up unexpectedly; to teach art at my brother's high school.
And of course I took it on the spot practically, o.o it'd be stupid not to.
But high schoolers (no offense to any here) can be a serious pain to deal with. Plus not having any experience is not making my life any easier either.
I'll get used to it and maybe even like it eventually. I love the location, my classroom is good and my coworkers are great.
So that's what has been consuming all my time.
 

[Surazal Dloc]

Slim95

(I bought him flowers. 4laugh )

Slim, that is just win xD  

[Kerrigan_dragon]

Life. It has certainly turned interesting. I'm not sure I like who I'm becoming, to be completely honest. But, I've been quite depressed lately, so... that might have something to do with it.

Let's see. I think I'll go back a ways, because I don't know who knows what about my life. In January, one of the most awesome things ever happened. I travelled to Portland, Oregon, and met aretoo, Kusa, Lin, and Mr. Jimmy in real life. surprised It was far too short, only a weekend, and I was all sorts of exhausted and out of sorts, but it was immensely fun. I spent $100 on books and found a copy of the first book my favourite author wrote, which I'd been looking for for years. I ate aretoo's cooking, and snuggled Kusa, witnessed how very freakishly fast Linny can type and ate a delicious and adorable caramel apple penguin that he hand made for me, and was witness and subject to the lovely sarcasm of Jimmy. We went on a cruise on the ship aretoo works on, saw someone we were fairly certain was a porn star, were going to go on a hike and went shoe shopping for me (cause mine weren't good for water or hiking) but didn't end up going hiking after all as the weather was too bad. I ate real Mexican food for the first time, too. It was GREEN in JANUARY, which still surprises me. All in all I had a great deal of fun.

I got home, and found I was out of a job. Was unemployed and harassed by my parents until March, where I did a one-day Market Research contract at a mall. Harassed some more. Then in April I got together with Roland, and got another few Market Research contracts (almost at the same time), and was working that super stressful job until... May or June? I'm not sure, I just know I miss the paychecks. I started working part time as a secretary at a church on top of that. Then when the Market Research stopped, I started working at a post office. In August I went down to New Mexico and visited Roland for a couple weeks. It was amazing. I got home and my parents insisted we go to Banff, and... confusion. But to keep it short, I lost my job at the post office, but it wasn't because of Banff, the letter of termination of employment had been written about halfway through my visit with Roland. So, I didn't get two weeks notice. I also hadn't been allowed breaks while working there, which is completely illegal. But I really don't even care anymore, I was constantly afraid of being fired while working there, and I don't like the constant feeling of fear. I'm free of that now.

So in September I started attending the University of Calgary, my major being Anthropology. I started with 4 courses, and dropped one in October because I couldn't understand the professor. I dropped another course about a week ago because I mentally shut down for a month and haven't been functioning well enough to even put clothes away let alone study, and I was going to fail. I'm going to try to take three courses next semester, though. This fall has been full of various mental breakdowns for me, for a variety of reasons.

I went to the doctor recently, got a physical, and he says I have an extreme vitamin D deficiency, and the most common effect of that is depression. Also, my knees are literally wearing themselves away as I walk. The kneecap is catching on the cartilage behind it and wearing away slowly. I can get physiotherapy exercises to do to help, though. It's winter, and I have Seasonal Affective Disorder (fancy term for "you get depressed in the winter). That and not taking medications, with extra stress studiously and personally, it's not really a surprise that I've been feeling so lousy.

So, yeah. Not really a light-hearted post, sorry. I'm just not really having a good time of things lately.  

[Surazal Dloc]

Hang in the there Kerri. We all heart you ^.^ I'll be sure to give you an extra big huggle when I visit Canada in April :3  

[Pnytenshi]

Today, I got to really see my baby for the first time!!! I saw the heart beating and it was wiggling around in mah belleh!! I almost cried! We, my husband and I, got to see him/her little hands moving and waving... I was so amazed to see the heart beating so fast... It was truly an amazing thing to see...

Even with my diabetes, the baby's heart has developed very health-ily... I only wish i could feel him/her inside me... I think that'd be awesome... I'm so excited! I also found out that the due date had changed from July 21st to July 13th... now that i'm later than i was before, they determined the baby to be 10 weeks old also from the length from the top of the crown (head) to the rump (bootay)...

I will post a picture later... My husband and i want to give the ultrasound pictures to the grandmas and grandpas first for christmas...  

[God-Raped-Me]

Apparently GTR and I are breaking up. So ya there's an update for everyone.  

[Kerrigan_dragon]

You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive,
to those lows when you wish you were dead.
And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are,
that changes,
too.

That really sucks, GRM. sad

My doctor accidentally poisoned me. Went back to him today after two weeks of hysterical depression, anxiety, not feeling emotion, excessive bleeding, not sleeping correctly, not feeling hunger, dehydration... and he looked at my prescription and was like "Oh, oops, starting at that dose actually poisons you. Heheh. My bad."

Because who you are is not permanent.

 

[Chexley]

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
There they are a'standing in a row!

@Kals: Yes. We individuals of the single persuasion will stick together.

I'm still in college (taking 6 classes next semester), still working (I'm did get promoted but am now demoting myself because I can't take the stress of my department any longer) and... that's about it. Oh. I cut my hair. A foot of it was donated to Locks of Love.

EDIT: The lady doctor found two good sized lumps in my left breast. I had the ultrasound for it today and will know the results some time next week (hopefully). I also had a pap smear and was told that I need to go in for a biospy. Yay! gonk

@Lobo: I won't know whether or not I passed my classes this semester for at least another two weeks. I think the teachers have to have their grades in by the 23rd or something.

"Give them a twist, a flick of the wrist!"
That's what the showman said!

 

[Lobo-chan]

Seriously, Kerri? That's... Wow.

Awww, that sucks, GRM sad

I have good news in the midst of all the horrible. I passed my finals!  

[Shram]

I started a blog and stuff and have had a few mental breakdowns.
http://wirelesspillow.wordpress.com/
but all is good! as its soon xmas.

That sucks GRM...  

[God-Raped-Me]

Ok, so GTR and I have come to a few conclusions, we're going to go to couples counseling as well as individual counseling for each of us because we're both ******** in the heads. We're going to move out as soon as possible as we were happiest when we were on our own.

Neither one of us want a broken family for the children, we're hoping that we'll make it through all this, but if it comes down to it we both understand, not necessarily like the idea, that separation may be the only solution. I hate emotional roller coasters and thank god we're going to my moms for a week! We're going to get away from this hell hole we have to call home.... or at least shelter.  

[Jafthasleftthebuilding]

That's great news! I wish you both the best. Rock on!  

[Xikrai the Risen]

It's not officially official yet, but I am graduated with my BS ins Computer Engineering Technology and a Minor in Computer Science. Best of all I am now an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Sign the paperwork Thursday and it will finally be on paper! I'm done with school! At least for four months.