The Life Updates Thread!

[Taeryyn]

A 15-hour drive sounds brutal. sweatdrop But yayy for places to live.  

[124-C]

I'm still awesome.  

[RoseneathScythe]

The people are all gone crying

Anywho! I have recently invented a folding bike that fits down to 6"x12"x25", making it the most portable folding bike on the market with the largest wheels (10" so they aren't big, but hey it's portable wink ) so I'll start getting money for that as soon as they're on the market. Unfortunately, that's all I can share at the time but I'll return with more news when it's updated! smile
(The measurements are approximately 15cm x 30cm x 63.5 for you metric system users)

So there's that. I might be able to afford the first few years at college with cash so that's amazing. Not to show boat, it's just pretty exciting to me x3

Besides that, I have grown a strange kind of boner for Freeline Skates. I have broken a few bones the past few years because of them but I've earned some money in Freeline competitions too. All and all, things have gotten pretty good while I've been away from ATG. I wish I didn't have to leave all those years ago but you know... life.

However, there is also a little thing of my crush of 6 years who left me for a senior is getting married this summer so it hasn't been perfect. Yet again, just life so I'm rolling with the punches. It'd just be easier if I wasn't her husband's best man... awkward.

So, that's my update and might be the last. It seems to be similar to many of the people on ATG. It's sad to see this guild go but I fear that's what is happening considering the last post was 36 hours ago from now. I guess that's an update too.

All and all, I really just came here for a formal goodbye. I'll still be lurking and exploring new things but the days of middle school and roleplaying on this site are over. I can't not work on my homework and I have a bunch of legal s**t with my bike. So life is kicking my a** into working mode. I do have to say before concluding... my 11 year old self was damn adorable. So many emoticons and exclamations! I must have been very proud of myself for typing :3

Well, I'm all updated and lamented up. That's all I gotta say about that! Thanks Kals, Slim, Jaft, Omni and Sanzo for the past years in ATG. I don't think Slim, Omni, or Sanzo are here any longer but Kals, keep being Canadian and Jaft, keep pleasuring PacMan in 8bit! blaugh  

[aretoo]

Congrats, Hermie! biggrin

And it's not quite dead, to borrow a line from Monty Python; it's just sleeping. wink "Fine plumage, the Norwegian Blue..."  

[Reiku Alche]

xxxI've been pretty busy for the last while, but I think I'm finally making a longterm-ish return to Gaia, so here I am posting in my favorite guild. :3

xxxI've been busy doing a lot of growing up, dropping out of high school, getting my GED, and getting into college. I'm currently finishing up my second semester at college and things have been pretty hectic. Other than school stuff, I've been getting into Magic: the Gathering, playing a lot of WoW, and enjoying the EDM scene.

xxxI hope you guys still remember me... >:  

[Xikrai the Risen]

In P-Cola! And here's where I pretty much fall off the face of the internet because I will be studying so much.  

[Pnytenshi]

Here's a new Life Update from Pnytenshi...

I gave birth to my son Saturday April 30th, 2011. I gave birth to him when i was 28 weeks and 4 days pregnant. It was an emergency C-section.

My contractions started at 4:30 in the morning, so thinking it was nothing, I turned over and tried to go back to sleep. By 7:00 AM, I called my health insurance's nurse 24/7 hotline and told me that i had symptoms of pre-term labor and that i should called my OBGYN and my doctor should call me back. I did, and he did call me back telling me that i should go to my hospital right away so that they could check me out. I arrived about 8:00 AM I was 3 centimeters dilated. They checked the baby on the ultrasound and found that he was in position for me to give birth. There also wasn't enough amniotic fluid for him to pass through safely without him being stuck... So it was decided that I was going to give birth to him that day. because the hospital that i was at didn't have the equipment to handle a baby that tiny, i was transferred to a hospital across town via emergency vehicle, lights, sirens and all... It was rather cool...

I arrived at the new hospital at around 11:00 AM and my contractions were about 1 minute apart. I went into the OR about noon and in recovery about 12:45... My husband arrived in the OR with me right before they cut me open and right before they put me under... I could feel every cut.... and it hurt like a b***h even though i was under anesthetics...

I didn't get to see my baby until Sunday cause i wanted to feel better enough to see him... He's so tiny! but he's been doing really well... Born at 12:11 PM PST on April 30, 2011 weighing at almost 3 pounds and 37 inches long, Robert Danilo Perez Miller was born. And he's such a handsome devil too! I can't seem to post any pics but I'll try later...

I'm getting tired so good night all...  

[Taeryyn]

Congratulations on the birth of your son! smile That's great that's he's doing well, even though he was early. Happy early Mother's Day, too.  

[Pnytenshi]

Thank you Tae! Today i went in to see him with my sister and he had the hiccups and on a respirator that lets him breathe on his own now... I get to take him home in 10 weeks so i'm excited about that too! if he gets healthier earlier than that, i could possibly take him home early...  

[Taeryyn]

My friend's little girl was born 3 months early (not sure where that is, in terms of weeks) and she was soooo teeny tiny. It was hard to believe she was real. o__O I was a month early myself (my brother and I) but that's not uncommon with twins, or so I am told.  

[Lobo-chan]

Wow, everyone's lives are just... Wow eek
I remember when I first joined the ATG... Made lots of great friends here. Hermie, I'm going to have to try to add you on Skype or something because I think I had your contact info once upon a time but now... Don't.

Well, while everyone else is having babies and growing up and being awesome... Lobo is finishing high school. Today I took the AP Spanish exam, which was extremely long and... like any other standardized, proctored exam. I find out my results in July, which is a few weeks after I go to orientation and sign up for my college classes. I'll talk to my adviser and figure out what's up with all of that since I won't know what college credit I'm getting automatically until after I sign up for Spanish... Whatever, I'll get it figured out.

At this point, it's not really what I have been doing as it is what I'm going to do. This summer I'll be signing up for college classes, working for my dad's business (as usual xp ), and spending time with the friends I've been away from most of the time for two years now. College is just going to make us all further apart and it's going to be... kind of weird, kind of depressing. Oh well, that's life?
Projects to look forward to this summer: write a Hedwig/Mrs. Norris fanfiction and post it on FF.net just for the fun of it, start a comic with one of my friends back home (it's going to be fabulous), and get hard core working on at least one of these many stories I have living inside my head. Maybe I'll actually get a story finished and be able to see about going about the whole mysterious process of publishing ^.^ Remember; if Stephanie Meyer can do it, so can you.  

[xDarkPisces]

♪ After silence,
That which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible
is music. ♪

Wow, updates... Umumum... Here. We'll start with the biggest up-and-coming thing.

In a little over a week I'll be leaving on deployment for a solid five months. My ship will be gone longer, but for me the deployment is shorter because I was chosen for some special maintenance prep team thing, yadda yadda Navy Navy blah. Right. So as of next week I'll be signing off for nearly half a year. Here's hoping things don't change all that much, eh? : I'm not really ready for it, but I'm ready for it to be over. So... let's get this over with.

In other important news, mine and Yunie's wedding is still unplanned, though we know we want to have it after deployment. That's about as far as we've gotten. I want to arrange to have as many ATGers there as possible, which will require a great deal of planning, money, and brain-pawnching. I'll keep you posted on the details... Still, though, it's at -very- least five months out.

I'm planning on taking some college courses when I return to shore. I want to gain some other-than-Navy knowledge about things, specifically concerning computers and music. I'm not really sure where to start, though, so any help or advice would be appreciated.

WHILE I'M GONE: If any of you want to email me at all, you can do so at spitlerm@cvn77.navy.mil Be sure to include a name/screen name with your email so I know it's you. I'd love to hear from all of you while I'm away. It'll make my floaty time more enjoyable. I'll be emailing Emma with my official at-sea mailing address too, so if any of you awesome people want to send me a letter or something you can do that as well. I don't expect I'll be getting much mail at sea, but... one can always hope?

So yeah. Those are the big-ticket items for Pisces. As for what I've been doing recently? Nothing really. I spent the last two weeks on leave lovin' on mah YunieCookie. It's been very relaxing. Hopefully it's charged me up enough for the task ahead.

Anyway... biggrin Pisces.

 

[La La Leprosy]

i think for the sake of time i'm gonna condense this lol.
since i was last on here, i've:

- got accepted into college (Frostburg~)
- basically wrapped up my last year in high school
- placed 2nd in FBLA States biggrin
- qualified & am going to FBLA Nationals in July to compete :3
- finally found a job at Best Buy
- ah! also fell in love then hate then acceptance and now love again with C++ and Java. took the AP Java exam yesterday and basically failed, though lol. teacher didn't get far enough in the course :/ still learned a lot, and i'm definitely excited to pursue this computer science major!

and thats essentially anything interesting that's happened neutral
at least, all i can think of.

i miss you guys and i wish i could be as active as i used to be sad  

[Jafthasleftthebuilding]

I will always be pleasuring Pac-Man.

Update: I hate Gaia, but I love you people. I don't know why Gaia tries so very, very hard to make me not want to sign in, but that is what happened.

D:<

BAD GAIA!  

[Xikrai the Risen]

@Pny: Congrats on the baby boy!

@DP: Hope the deployment goes by fast for you so you can get to your wedding and such. I know those things can be brutal. My dad was enlisted in the Navy for 20 years.

@Spiif: Congrats on getting into college. Good times are ahead of you!

@Jaft: Dude, I feel the same way. This is the only thing that keeps me on this site at all really. And beyond that, this thread. I like to see where you guys are at considering how we all started in this guild.

As for me, I am now finally active-duty in the Navy. Just started flight school. Getting some of the pre-flying stuff out of the way before I get to learn to fly. Medical stuff and paperwork. But I should be really rolling a week from now with the actual schooling part.