surprise!!

miriiiii omg i was just thinking about you the other day

tokiiii my lady my love I was going through my desk and the huge pile of cards and such I keep because I'm a sentimental dweeb and was thinking of you too

long time no see stranger

lmao abby is this why your twitter lays fallow

for real, I have somehow survived All That and crawl back into this strange scrollspace <3

...let's pretend all those tenses line up properly

o hi

<33

celesticidal: SURE IS, STILL HERE

I'd say I can't believe it but also I can totally believe it

HI GUYS IT'S BEEN A WHILE

don't worry plurk is regularly shaming us reminding us when we've been here 10+ years

AHHH

I have done ........... basically nothing with my life, but now I am a glasses alchemist and I have a pension so I might be approaching More or Less Adult?

LMAO god, at least I have a year and a half to go on this account before I get the Decade Shame

I hope you all are doing super well despite Everything

why is my name yellow, ew

despite Everything is the asterisk mark of life right now lmao

isn't it just lol

I spent quite a bit of 2020 feeling bad that I wasn't getting as heavily destroyed as it sounded like I was supposed to be

i got a new fluff child last winter tho

oh my god baby

what a beautiful reverse shrimp

I lost two of mine in 2020 >: that was the garbage part

oh no ;; i lost a kitty too

I mean, it's what happens when your cats are Old but also they were our first grown-up pets

Mr Cat went in early february and Tanku went on Christmas eve

oh no toki I'm so sorry >:

that was probably the worst part for me too tbh (social isolation and mental health whatever but) -- ahhh that's still hard miri

I'm such a homebody that it was more like everyone else being recommended to live life as I do normally .... though this is montana so ofc erryone was like fuck the gubmint gimme my horror virus

drags hands down face

whatever, the people here I love are all dosed up on the good stuff so I can relax some

YEAH my life didn't change toooo much fff. oh god yeah, my parents just got their second dose so i'm just waiting on me and my wife now

happy you guys are all set!!

my husband's grandparents were so miffed at us not coming over every weekend but I spend 9 hours a day locked in a lab room with lots of air blowing down and 4 dudes who think that cloth touching chin = masked up

YEAH I got the j&j uhhh back at the end of march? kind of a surprise when DH called from the grocery store and asked if I was interested but hey the whole fat kid who had cancer thing finally worked out for me lol

it knocked me on my ass and i'd do it again in a heartbeat lol

aldjaldj

how are things going for you and your lady??

we're great! outside of the waiting game, her birthday is in two weeks so i'm planning a picnic for her c: she got her dream job earlier this year and i'm part time massage therapist part time housewife lol

sounds like you two are living the dream omg

I'm so delighted for you

aaah ty. our nine year anniversary is this year (4 married) so i'm just about it lol

I remember ... I can't believe it's been so long

i knoooow, i can't either. how are you and dh?

we're doing good! paid off the house this last year, paid off all our debt ... but now his car is blowing a head gasket because there's Always Something right?

sixteen years in may

omgggg

Oh man, two familiar faces turning up on my timeline today? HI. HELLO.

what is it about today, I wonder? honestly I was just going through my compromised password list on google, lol

HELLO CANADIAN TWIN I hope life is going wonderfully for you <33

I have also had a surprisingly OK 2020, so I def. get the vague guilt about things not being as hard.

I'm glad to hear it <3 with so many terrible things happening, I will take any goodness for my friends that comes

Still waiting for my vaccine, but that's mostly because of the major event of 2021: I'm on mat leave, because we have formed one (1) babby. Otherwise, my lab's considered essential services so I'd have been stabbed by now.

We did have to say goodbye to the Tori-cat in November, because renal failure, but she made it to 17 and she was my guard-cat all through my fatigue naps. The kiddo got to learn all about what cat purrs sound like before he even arrived.

oh my god I am so delighted for this essential development? Congratulations! And condolences - she had a good run, but time does what it does, I suppose. I'm glad the bab got to experience the most perfect sound in the world in utero, at least!

and good luck with the vaccination, when you can do it!

He'll be 6 weeks old on Wednesday, so my RP capacity is understandably a bit compromised, but we're starting to figure out a few baby hacks, which helps.

The fuzzy sons are also ensuring he continues to hear lots of purring, although they flee if he cries.

ahh that heavy head ... what a cutie! and I think you're doing fine; my rp capacity has been compromised for the last [checks notes] 3 years so you are g o l d e n

Ahahah, there is that.

they look like a pair of guys that would flee at a proper howl, yes

still, standing good guard though

my old girl would remove herself to a spot under the bed and never return should I dare bring a child into the mix

Aww, poor girl.

I'm actually super impressed at the Michael-cat being as brave as he is, because he's our timid tabby usually.

she's a lot more outgoing now that the other two are no longer around to outshadow her, but she's off and on about whether or not she's got the guts to tell the dog to fuck off or not

with great change comes opportunity for growth!

On the RP front, I am hoping that once the small human has a little more autonomy that I can use a llittle of the mat leave to actually assemble the game idea I've been poking at off and on for 5 years.

oh my gosh, good luck with it!! I am eternally in awe of folks who can put together a game and I bet yours would be amazing!

The day to day running after that won't be too bad, it's the work of writing up everything and getting it all organized, and then somehow making it all pretty to look at. But should your RP mojo wander back, I will fling ads at you.

I would love that <3 I've kind of let the squirrel brain win the battle against my writing angst and have made a point to stop trying to force it/beat myself up about it, but should I ever manage to get my shit together I would love to play in your sandbox

Basic concept is an ocean world out on the galactic rim that's not so much a lost colony as a colony that's persisted after the corporation that settled it pulled out a few centuries back.

So, marginal world still being terraformed, lost technology to recover, serious solarpunk vibes, and a lingering air of party planet shaping the culture.

oh my god I'm in love with it already

I really really hope you get a chance to work on it

I'm thinking a mix of slice of life with little adventures for those who want plot. And I would absolutely encourage people to shape the world, because coming up with lost tech and not having anyone try to poke at it would make me sad.

I have a lot down in notes already, so it should be doable!

I aaaalso got a diagnosis of ADHD at the sprightly age of 37, in other developments of the past year, which made a lot of my brain squirrels make sudden sense. And does mean that I have options for wrangling them that I didn't before, should I need them.

vibrates intensely

I'd bet a year's salary that an eval would give me the same diagnosis, but my gp wouldn't refer me when I asked, the closest adhd guy is a hundred miles away, and my insurance is more 'you won't go bankrupt if something catastrophic happens' vs 'this is useful for general human maintenance' so I hit a bit of a wall there

I'm still considering trying to seek out some other options because squirrel brain has really boned me my entire adult life and it would be super cool to get my shit together at SOME point, but I also just scraped my way out of 20 years of debt a month or two ago and I'm not super pumped to crawl back in that hole

I really hope that you manage to get to where you want to be on that front!

Yeah, psychiatric services are noooot cheap. My own insurance only covers $1500 per year and diagnostics came in around $1800, so the psych office did me a solid and split the sessions between 2020 and 2021.

So definitely not worth going into debt for if you're coping well-ish enough, but maybe after some time to save up?

Because man, even though I haven't felt the need to pursue more active interventions yet, just having the diagnosis was like a weight being pulled off my shoulders that I hadn't realized I was carrying. For decades.

yeah - at least I've got an HSA to help out; I should see what my insurance actually covers on the MH front :|a

I do recommend making sure whoever you (hopefully, someday) end up seeing is versed in how ADHD presents in women.

this is good advice, thank you <3

hey friend, good to see you again

Good to see you still out there kicking too, GG <3

yeah we're doing pretty ok over here! only pain in the butt we're dealing with is our water heater started leaking the day I got my first vaccine shot (hubby got his the same weekend), so we gotta wait a few weeks with no hot water until we're both fully vaccinated

high risk woes haha

miriii omg hello, I was just thinking about you recently

Oh wow great minds think alike! I just came back from my age-long plurk hiatus as well ahaha o/\o