One thing that I have difficulty with is accepting that both everything has changed and nothing has changed at the same time. When I recite what happened to me, a sense of surrealness comes over me. How could that have happened and I’m still standing to talk about it? Once again, walking (non-COVID-related) pneumonia, leading… Continue Reading
I don’t do holidays in general and especially not New Year’s. I did resolutions for a few years, but then realized that I was just setting myself up to fail. I don’t do well with goals. Erm. That’s not entirely true. I do well with some goals. Such as when I tried to lose weight… Continue Reading
My mom sent me a video of an American neurosurgeon who got encephalitis and was in a coma for two months. He emerged from it with no knowledge of this world, but quickly regained it over the next few days. In the video, he describes how he was in a dark place and then there… Continue Reading
I love indie games. I could leave that as the whole post, but I won’t. I like me some Triple A games, obviously, as Dark Souls III is my favorite game of all time, but overall, I like indies better. There are Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall), Hades (Supergiant Games), Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)… Continue Reading
Happy 2022, y’all! Man, 2021 was a weird year. Wild and wooly, I’ve called it. It started out terrible with the pandemic still raging on. Then, vaccines! That brought some hope. I got fully vaxxed and cautiously opened up my life a bit. I went from being a hermit, not going anywhere but the… Continue Reading
As I’m writing this, It is the day of NYE. I’ve been mixing up my days for the last few, but I think today is the last day of 2022? *Checks clock*. Yup. It’s December 31st, 2022. I have told both Kathleen and Ian that 2022 was a placeholder for better years. 2021 was a… Continue Reading
2021 sucked and I cannot see the backend of it soon enough. Now, to be fair, I came back from the dead twice–which is a good thing. The fact that I’m going to see 2022 is a plus in and of itself. I made this observation soon after exiting the hospital. Before my medical trauma,… Continue Reading
As 2021 comes to a close, I can’t stop thinking again about how I should not be alive. I died–twice–and came back to life–twice! So much happened to me that I can’t remember and perhaps my favorite exchange of the year is one that was told to me in retrospect. It was when I saw… Continue Reading
So. More on my family because it’s heavy on my mind. I wrote about it at length in the last post and I want to continue with it now. I’ve written at length about what a jerk my father is. I’ve written less, however, about the betrayal of my mother, probably because it hurts more.… Continue Reading
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions because I find the end of the year to be an artificial marker of time, but in this case, I’m making an exception. Why? Because I died twice this year. If that’s not a reason to be glad to see the back side of this year, I don’t know… Continue Reading